The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-02

lner thursday evening in honor OF
Miss Graham Burney. Those en-
Toying Miss Whites hospitality
were: Harris Collier and Miss Lee
McLaurine, Forest StubblefieId and
Miss Graham Burney, A. g. Mayors
and LeWise McLaurine, Cole Burns
and Miss Margaret Folks. The
dining-room was beautifully deco
rated with the christmas colors-
red and greenland the color
scheme was carried out in the din
ner.
| Fed kersh, a prominent citizen
OF Pelahatchie neighborhood, while
out in the swamp few days ago
saw something he thought at first
was a fox, but on closer investi-
cation proved to be mink, which
run off on seeing him, dropping a
large chicken snake it had in its
mouth. Noticing swelling in the
snakes middle, he pressed upon it
until he secured a large white china
egg. The snake must have been
drunk to not have known the
difference between china and real
eggs. Mr.. Kersh carried the egg
home with him.
The Sunday schools united and
had Christmas tree at the graded
school building on Christmas Eve:
Every child received at least one
present and the good ladies who
worked SO hard to make it a
success, deserve the thanks of
everyone. The tree was ladened
with presents, the decorations were
pretty, and the only thing to mar
the pleasure of the evening was
the talking of old and young that
made it necessary for the dis
tributor to request better order that
the names could be heard when
called out. Brandon audiences on
such occasions are not as we'll be-
haved as they should be.
Misses Atwood Thornton, at
tending St. Patricks' School, Be-
livar, Tenn, Nell Gayden, Sullens
College, Bristol, Tenn, Ruby
Enochs and Mary Berry, Whit
worth College, Brookhaven; Graham
Burney, Judson Institute, Marion,
Ala, jeanette Buchanan, Bel
haven, Jackson; Emma Buchanan,
Marie Dickson, Merle Gayden,
Minnie Watson and Maggie Belle
McRae, of the |. |. & c. Col
Iumbus, came home for the holi-
days. Will White, University,
of Miss, Forest Stubblefield, Harris
Collier, Earl McGilvra and Ellis
Baker, of the Agricultural College,
were with their homefolk Christ
mas, week.
Henry Martin, of South Hero,
vt, who has been visiting his
brother c. L. Martin, of this place,
for the past four weeks left Sunday
for Illinois. These boys who have
not seen each other before in thirty
years, have enjoyed each others
company and, no doubt, talked
over "reminiscences of the past.
Thirty years is a long time to be
separated, nearly generation,
and great events have happened in
those years, not only to them but
to the wonderful changes that have
taken place in the world. Mr..
Martin thinks the south under
stands how to deal with the
"nigger" and thinks it was a
stupendous blunder in giving the
franchise to the negro.
The usual Christmas dance was
given at the pavilion at Busick's
Well Thursday night, chaperoned
| by Mines. H. A. Busick and Ed
Glass. The couples who danced
were: Miss Bessie McCaskill apd
Robert Maxey; Miss Fannie Harris,
of Jackson, and Henry Busick;
Miss Eva Harris, of Jackson, and
Mr.. Howard, of Meridian; Miss
Irene Petway, of Austin, Texas,
and E. T. Henry; Miss Nell
Gayden and Mr.. McDermit; Miss
Margie Maxey and Albert Hobson,
Miss Virgie Maxey and n. L.
McCaskill, Miss Mary Busick and
Mr.. Reid, of North Carolina; Miss
Susie Busick and Mr.. Law; Graham
Burney and Forest Stubblefeld;
Miss Mary White and Vernon
Loveless; Mrs. Annie Weathersby
and Albert Gayden and Messrs
Cox, Jones, White, Maxey and
Watson.