The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-28
Dentist.
LOCAL NEWS.

at the depot.
Dunk Easterling, of Jackson, was
visitor yesterday.
DR.. w. M. Flowers was a promi-
nent visitor from Florence yester-
day.
Louis HalIam, of jackson, at.
tended to legal business here yes.
terday.
Lamar Easterling, prominent
young attorney of the Jackson bar,
had business in the circuit court
this week.
Rev. George Gates has just
closed very successful meeting
among the mullet eating sinners OF
Scranton.
H. c. (Bud) Wall and Robert
E. Lee, two long term gun men,
escaped Monday from the Rankin
prison farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Williams, of
Birmingham, has arrived on visit
to Mrs. Williams mother, Mrs.
Bette Wilson.
John Summers, of Lynwood, was
in town Monday with load OF
fine bronze turkeys, for which he
received fancy prices.
Rev. c. F. Emery has been at
tending the meeting in Meridian
conducted by DR.. J. D. Newsom,
the Kentucky evangelist.
j. C. Harris, from Flora, Miss,
is now with F. B. Walrod. He is
a good blacksmith and your work
will be we'll done if carried to him.
Miss Dora Horne is still confined
to her bed with a sprained foot
which was hurt 10 days ago, by
stepping on brick that turned
over.
@. w. Horne, of Lake Como,
Jasper county, is visiting Lou
Horne and his other relations in
this county. This is his first visit
to Brandon in 50 years.
T.W. Odom, from Florence, who
is witness in a circuit court case
here for the first time in his life,
says that town is fast building up,
and that prosperity is down there
even if money is scarce.
Hopewell and Andrew Chapel
churches will have joint services
on Thanksgiving day and Rev. w.
w. Kersh has accepted an in.
vitation to deliver the sermon.
Hon. H. IA. Quin, Grand Keep
er of Records and Seal, Mississippi
Domain, Knights of Py,hias, spent
Monday afternoon in town and de-
livered a lecture to the local lodge
at night.
Mrs. j. H. Glass had her sisters,
Mesdames Hoy and Cammack, her
brothers, Edgar S. and R. E. Will
son to dinner with her on Sunday
last, in celebration of their mother,
Mrs. Ellen Lewis 74th birthday.
Rev. A. r. Watkins, the pre-
siding elder of this district, preach
ed here Sunday night. After the
services the 4th quarterly con-
ference for the year was held and
reports all showed the work of the
church was we'll up.
R. C. Selvidge, until lately
assistant cashier Rankin County
Bank, writes The News to send his
paper to Tampa, Fla, but that he
is on his way to Illinois to join
parties in that state in opening a
private bank.
Hon. Geo. T. Todd, OF Jefferson,
Tex, is here on a visit to relatives
and to also be with the old soldiers
tomorrow in the unwilling cere-
monies. Like all old veterans he
takes a pardonable pride in every
thing pertaining to the confederacy.
Today's issue contains an adj
dress delivered before the Rankin
County Teachers Association. II
is good reading for every one, but
especially for parents, who cannot
do too much in assisting teachers
by carefully training their children
at home.
Philip Hart, aged rs years, dice
Sunday in Jackson. He was q
native of Baden Germany, ani
known to all the older people Of
this county who did business in
Jackson. His heath has not beer
good for years. He leaves widow
and one daughter comfortably fixed
in this worlds goods.
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