The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-06-25

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visited their mother, Mrs. E. E.
| Wilson, at the home of J. H.
Glass.
! The large engine and boiler for
the Planters Gin-Compress and
Warehouse Company have ar
rived and other machinery is
enroute.
Conrad McRae has returned
from Birmingham where he
completed the course of teleg-
raphy in a business college in
that city.
Mrs. L. S. May left for Gulf
port yesterday where she will
visit Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wad-
dell, who are summering at that
Gulf resort.
Miss Prichard Afford left Tues
day for Birmingham, Ala, where
she will take a business course,
after which she will have posi-
ton in a railroad office.
Contractor L. B. Mckay and
Foreman Powell, Of Pelahatchie,
arrived Tuesday to commence
extensive additions and repairs
to M. S. Hobson's hotel.
Jim Alexander, a Rankin
county negro who was sentenced
to the penitentiary for life in
1901 for rape, was pardoned
Monday by Governor Noel.
All county roads lead to Bran
don on July 4th and if they are
not good get after your overseer
and your supervisor to try some
plan that will make them good.
A. G. Mayors returned yester-
day after a weeks hunt with his
cousin, Miss Sara T. Mcdowell,
of near Fannin-during which
three squirrels and nearly 100
snakes were killed.
Miss Fannie Montague, Of
Little Rock, who has been visit
ing relatives at Hattiesburg and
Gulfport, is spending a while
with friends in this section, the
home of her childhood.
The fddlers of the county are
earnestly requested by their
friends to attend the barbecue
here on July 4th, and play some
tunes all are familiar with and
love so we'll. Brothers Pearce
and Grain, we want you.
R. F. Brown, county registrar,
finished up Tuesday his tour of
the county registering voters at
their home precincts. The books
are now at the circuit clerk S
Office in the court house where
those who have not done so can
register at any time.
Mrs. Minnie Buchanan Wilson
arrived Thursday from Hatties-
burg, after a successful school
term, as principal of the Court
Street High School of that city,
and will spend the summer with
her father, J. L. Buchanan, and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Dantzler
and children, Fran and Mayors.
left Moss Point Monday for New
York, from which city they will
sail on the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Gross for a trip of four months
through England and the CONT
nent.
Miss Leila Cox has returned
home from Braxton where she
went to attend the marriage of
her uncle, J. P. Cox, stopping off
at Jackson for a few days to visit
her cousin, Miss Hattie Cox.
| Misses Marie and Mary Cox &C
companied her home.
Senator A. J. McLaurin is in
Hattiesburg, where he is engaged
in the defense of Capt. j. P.
Carter, in a suit brought by
Chas. HI. Schuch, for alleged
| injuries sustained in an elevator
accident in a building owned by
Capt. Carter and in which plain
tiff claims he was damaged $780,
900. q
:. The escaping Of two more
TRUSTEES from the Rankin farm
only emphasizes the fact that the
system is wrong and should be
changed. Convicts are sent to
the penitentiary for punishment
and all should be treated alike
but humanity. The trusty holding
a gun over another has an easier
), time than the one holding the