The Brandon news., 1907-05-30
PRESS MEETING
WAS A SUCCESS
JACKSON DID HERSELF PROUD
IN ENTERTAINING EDITORS.
LARGE NUMBER FAILED
Only II Out of 237 Applicants for
Medical License Passed-Minnesota
Monument Dedicated-Other Items
of Interest.
Large Number Failed.

Members of the Mississippi state
board of health attribute the unusual
ly large percentage of failures of med
ical applicants at the recent examlna-
ton to the fact that large majority
Of the medical students now attending
colleges in the South and elsewhere
do not obtain the NECESSARY education
a. p,plns4t -efore taking up the
~tld- Jf the profession.
This explanation is dobutless we'll
founded in view of the fact that only
II of the 237 applicants succeeded in
obtaining license and several OF these
managed to get through by a very
small percentage.
Casual examination of the papers
submitted shows that woeful lack OF
education existed among tthe young
medicos. Many of the number could
not even claim completion of the or
dniary common school course, and not
exceeding 10 per cent had taken col
legiate degree.
The addresses made at the monu-
ment were all good ones and were
greatly enjoyed by the crowd OF sew
eral hundred who gatehered around
the handsome obel;sk to witness the
dedication ceremonies.
Blind Iastiture.
The closing exercises at the Missis-
sippi institution for the blind at jack
son took place in the chapel in the
presence OIL large assembly, and an
interesting programme was rendered,
at the conclusion of which diplomas
were presented to six graduates, Cor
della Pulley, Frank Lee, Albert Flem-
ing, Willett Duke, Sidney Whistenat
and George Odle.
Not Invalid.
Attorney General R. V. Fletcher has
rendered an official opinion to the
assessor of Adams county that the
omission of one of the blank lines
from the current assessment rolls for
the current year would not validate
the assessment, and advising that the
work of compilation be continued
with the rolls now in use.
Press Convention.
While there have been conventions
of all sorts in Jackson of late weeks,
each with it's distinctive feature or
individuality, and all regarded with a
greater or less degree of interest ac-
cording to the individual viewpoint,
it seems quite certain that the con-
Vention of the Mississippi Press Asso-
citation and it's aggregation of talent
and sagacity as we'll as womanly
charm and manly grace, has led in
interest. The men of the press have
had the entree everywhere, AMI been
given the glad hand on all sides, and
the ordinary round and routine at
tending city affairs has taken secon-
dary place with all.
The election resulted as follows:
Pre- NQt-B. T. Hobbs, Brook
ha err,
First ice President-C. E. Cum
ningham, Newton Record.
Second Vice President-R. F.. Bird
sail, Yazoo City Sentinel
Treasurer-P. K. Mayors, Pasca-
goula Democrat Star, reelected for
the twenty-first time
secretary-J. G. Mcclure, Yazoo
Herald.
Executive Committeeman National
Editorial Associations L. Bellenger
Jackson News.
Chaplain DR.. 7. T. Bailey,
Jackson Baptist.
Orator-Joseph E. Norwood, Mag
nolia Gazette.
Essayists-Miss Annie Caulield,
Gloster Record; E. A. Fitzgerald,
Vicksburg Herald.
Delegates to the National Editorial
Association-J. G. eastman, vicks-
burg Post; H. T. Crosby, Greenville
Times; j. r. Oliphant, Poplarvil1e
Free Press; ]. L. Gillespie, Green
wood Commoner; w. N. Hawkins, Ha-
zlehurst Courier; Fl. E. Blakeslee,
jackson, unattached; F. s. Kaughlin,
Quitman Globe
Thanks were voted the railroads,
the Jackson Board of Trade and vari-
GUS citizens of jackson for courttesies
and the convention adjourned with
an old-fashioned love feast.
Many Of the editors and their wives
Three Lives Were Lost and Many
Homes Demolished.
Wills Point, Tex.-A cyclone struck