The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-13
PeIahatChie.

John Jones has returned from a
visit to Gulfport, where he has
some investments in real estate.
He isn't as confident regar ding his
investments there as some people
we know. After all, the invest
ments we know at home are safer
than those we don't know away
from home.
1t is matter of news that there
are now two vacant houses in
Pelahatchie, one not quite COM
pleted, and the other ready for oc-
cupancy. Neither will be vacant
more than a few days. We need
more houses still.
Cotton seed and fertilizer are
moving rapidly, high price for
seed having been reached. Pela-
hatchie, for seed, as it is for cot
ton, is one of the best markets in
the country.
Moore's Mill, Lockwood Lumber
Company's planners are steadily
running now. The new lumber
manufacturers, Adams Bros. Lum-
Der Co., which has been reorgan-
lied and made financially stronger,
will start their three mills near
here soon. These mills, together
with Lockwood Lumber Company's
several small mills and their big
mill Immediately in town, will
make Pelahatchie quite an import
ant lumber shipping point. Had it
not been for the panic, which hap
PLY is rapidly passing, Pelahatchie
would have been in the midst of
the most prosperous days of her
history. We believe that during
the times of depression the best op-
portunities have been offered for
investments. Intelligent real es-
tate investments have always, and
will always be the safest of them
all. The demand constantly in.
creases, while the supply remains
stationary.
Gayden Sheppard says he has
solved his own labor problem. He
could not get the labor, so he got
another horse, and for the past five
years he has made it rule to pillow
his land one inch deeper each year.
Meantime he gradually increased
the amount of fertilizer used from
one hundred to three hundred
pounds. AS a result last year,
counting the increase in his live
stock values, he made from his in
dividual work over $4,000 worth
of farm products, to say nothing of
the impr ovements made on his
land. Mr.. Sheppard is a prosper
Gus young farmer, and his methods
are worth investigating.
The recent heavy rains again
pond the water right in the middle
of the roads, and of course the
roads cannot help getting Doggy
and almost impossible. The usual
result is 10 trips to town to get in
10 bales of cotton when it ought to
be brought with three trips, loss
of seven days, which at two dollars
per day is loss of $14.Oo, to say
nothing of the many other trips
during the year getting in other
produce, and out fertilizer and
other supplies. If the money
wasted in Rankin county each
year on account of bad roads were
put to use by trained road builder
on our roads, they would become
in few years at least good enough
for all practical purposes, if not
fancy drive ways. The road ques-
ton is the m ost important one our
board of supervisors will have to
handle for a long time.
Our doctors have been busy on
account of the prevalence of infld-
enZa.
Mesdames |. w. Shields and R.
| V. Shields have each a new girl,
the one being born Friday night
and the other Thursday night.
On Monday afternoon Feb. 8,
arboy day was observed in our
school. A programme consisting
of songs, readings, essays, quota
tons, etc. was rendered in the
chapel hall, after which the pupils,
teachers and visitors passed to the
grounds, and each grade planted a
tree. The girls then played basket
ball which was very much enjoyed
by all present Work on the new
fence is progressing, and when fin
ished the grounds will be given
prompt attention by the School I'm
provement Club. The names of
the following pupils were placed on
the roll of honor, after mid-term
examination, their general average
lshaino above ninety ner cent.