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The Washington times., 1908-08-15
TOday'S Vital Records.
Births.

Richard F. and Hattie Wainwright; girl
Clarence ". and Cora l. Talbert; girl.
Henry and Marie UnsChuld Edls JsaZardi
girl.
James w. and Maggie Kerr; girl.
BARTLETT r. and Lois NJ. Harper; girl.
Ambrose + and Mary A. Higdon boy.
Walter and Beulah HOltzscheiter; girl
Samuel r. and Gertrude NJ Dove; boy.
Felix J. and Clara Il. Borlick; boy
John ". and Mary +. Bowen; boy.
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MEETS HIS DEATH
EVADING CARFARE
Chased by Subway Ticket Collector
Runs Onto Tracks-Is In
stantly Killed.

NEW YORK. Aug. 15-Edward J..
Maher, IT., Of 275 Tillary street, Brook
I'm, was killed today near the Worth
street station of the subway, because, the
police say, he tried to escape putting a
C-cent fare IN the collectors box
Joseph Devine, a ticket taker, who
chased Maher on the tracks. was ar
rested on a charge OF homicide.
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WELCOMES
COOL BREEZES

NEW YORK. Aug. 15.-Cool breezes
today brought some relief TO New York.
after twenty-four hours OF torrid heat
which killed four persons and crowded
every hospital in the city with victims
OF the sun. Thousands slept last night
on fire-escapes ana roofs, and the
beaches were crowded with heat suffer-
ers.
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BOY BITTEN BY DOG
SENT TO HIS HOME

Ollie Rigney, the colored lad who was
bitten on the left leg by a dog yester-
day, has been sent to his home from
the Children's Hospital. where he was
treated. Rigney was PLAYING az Four
teenth and " streets when the dog
snapped him, It IS not believed that the
dog had rabies
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AS USUAL.

whats that" exclaimed the eminent
statesman in a tone expressive of min
gled disgust and incTedulity. You don I
been made for admitting me here?"
St. Peter frOWned.
That's exactly what l do say" he
sternly replied.
There was a moments silence.
Loeb is to blame for this" the
statesman muttered as he turned away.
Exchange.
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The Government departments are now
at the high tide Of the vacation season.
Nearly all the officials down 10 The sec
ond or third degree are out OF he city.
and fully % per cent of the clerks and
other employees have joined the great
vacation thTOng. There has been a
greater exodus to the summer resorts
and the country this year than custom
airy, especially for a Presidential year.
when many Of the male clerks are wont
10 preserve their leave tor election pur-
poses. The warm weather is thought
10 have been largely responsible for this
large number taking vacations at this
season. Those who got away irst are
returning Drowned and more vigorous,
and look ready for a good winter s
work.
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In nemOriam.

COLE-In loving remembrance Of our rs
loved friend, SAMUEL J. COLE, who died
one year ago today, august Is. 1901.
A precious one from US has gone,
voice we love IS stiIled
A place Is vacant IN our home
Which neE sr can be filed.
God in His wisdom has recalled
The boon HIS love has given
And though his body sIuuber here
His soul - safe 81 Heaven
BY His Friend, Mrs. n. II. Lucsn and
Children u
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Marriage Licenses.

Abe Rosenthal. Norfolk. Va. and Hes
ter Dick, Washington, D. c. The Rev.
NJ. Becker
Frederick p. Nash, Richmond, Va, and
Irene BAN, Petersburg, va. The Rev.
Thomas z. McGuigan
James l. Day and Eta 3. Quigley. The
Rev. James NJ. O'BrIen.
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Arrangements have been completed at
the Postonice Department TO employ a
force of temporary craftsmen to bring
up TO date the work on post route maps
or the States and Territories In addi-
tiOn To these maps, post route maps or
counties having complete rural delivery
service, and blue prints showing one or
more routes emanating from a single
postOfice, may now be obtained at a
nominal cost Some time ago Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General DeGraw
recommended that the department be
authorized 10 sell these maps TO TIE
public and the authority was granite I
by Congress at the last session.
The county maps are marked of IN
numbered sections OF townships and
ranges, and show all roads. whether
covered by rural routes OF not, and all
railroads, streams, churches. and
schools. Residences are indicated by
dots, so that a stranger in a cOmmun-
ity can easily drive TO any portion OF a
county by the aid OF the map alone. =
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BALTIMORE, Nd, Aug. 15.-Marriage
licenses were issued to the following
Washingtonians today: Walter Y.
Holmes, 332 Eighth street northeast, and
Bessie +. Hutton. Harry Z. Snyder and
Marie WissusheCk.
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Arranges With His Creditors.

Thomas pleaded not guilty. The
plunger's debts jumped Immediately,
with the rush of creditors who pre-
sented their claims, to nearly S5,000,0O0,
or about twice the figure at which SGey
had been formerly estimated. 1t was
found that he had also been involved
10 a big ice deal.
Finally after Thomas had been Ousted
from numerous boards of directors and
after months OF negotiation and con-
ferences, during the course of which
the picturesque plunger is supposed TO
have given confidential information TO
District Attorney Jerome concerning
Charles ". MOrse's financial doings,
Thomas, on June Is, pledged 10000
yeEr 10 his creditors To pay on the
Claims Of nineteen individuals and cor
porations. He turned over his property.
his mother turned over 100000 and his
wife mOrtgaged her home.
He was allowed by his creditors $5O,-
COO a year 10 live on. Nearly all the
creditors are banking concerns. The
failure of Robert MaClay s. Co. OF Il
broadway, with which house Thomas
was Intimately associated, involved an
Indebtedness. it was said. Of nearly ST.
0pl 90
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Known In Paris.

For years there has been no more
picturesque and daring man among the
gilded youth Of New York than Edward
4. Thomas. His spectacular career has
attracted attention in Parls as well as
IN America.
HIS pluuges on the turf as well as in
Wall street, have generally proved dis
astrous-to his bank account.
AS an auto scorcher. he left A tragic
trail both at home and in Europe. At
the same time Ee has contributed as
much as any other member Of the
Automobile Club Of America to the pro-
motion and the protection of automo-
billing and automObilists.
By coincidence II was only this
morning that Schuster.. the man who
drove the Thomas car iTSO Paris "a vic
tor in the New York TO Paris auto
race Just completed. arrived Oh Ia Lor-
EainA
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Interstate Commercial Institute
Special Notices.
StockhoIders, Meetinq-


NOTICE is hereby given to all stock
holders OF the Washington, Alexandria
and Mt. Vernon Railway Company that
pursuant 10 a call 10 that effect by the
Board of Directors, a meeting OF the
stockholders Of said Company will be
held at the Companys office at Mt
Vernon, Virginia, on Tuesday, the 18th
day Of August 1905 at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon. for the purpose. among other
things, OF considering and taking the
action essential and proper to so amend
the Company's charter as TO obtain as
a part thereof all the powers which,
under the general Incorporation laws Of
the Commonwealth OF Virginia. may be
obtained by railroad corporations or
JOHN W. PITTOCK, Secretary.
aul0-16t
DO YoU WANT refreshing summer
Imported directly from our vinysrds; soc az
naSk- SAEl. i4os . sL Phone n 54l2-
tei-m. th.sa-sOt
KEEP COOL Here's Block Ice Cream,
s. . per gallon; special prices for recep-
lions. parties, etc. JOHN s. DENNIB
& BRO. 62S ~ 81 sw. mylS-W, a.m-sG
AT 18th AND Il We have market ana
laundry wagons. also surreya and run
aboutg harness. wheels, and paTts OK
same; cheap for cash. GEYER's.
ap2-m. y. ss-sot
CASE CHOICE LAGER BEER. Soc; ISc
rebate on empties- Gal, ehotce Claret.
Port. or Sherry. 75c- T. r BEAVERS,
42s IA st. sw. Phone n. 51s2 au2-tf
DAIRY LUNCH-Quick service. whois-
some food; pool & billiards: ID door from
baseball park. everything strictly up-to-
date. HARRY GENTNERs 9Th q Fla. ave.
jyi7-s0t
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MEDICAL

HOME for ladies during confinement; terms
TO suit: come and be convinced; nurse. 4O4
N. Paea St. Baltimore. Nd. ty2s-30t
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LONG BRANCH, y. J., Aug. 15.-At
hour. the 13O-horsepower Hotchtiss car
for the Vanderbilt Cup races, belonging
to z. r. Thomas, the turfman, crashed
inro a light two-hoTse trap in which
were seated Mrs. Hyman Cohen and
daughter, Of New York yesterday even
ing. Neither OF the women were hurt.
That Thomas and his companion and
the two women and their COachman
were not killed IS miraculous.
The horses were both killed instantly
the trap demolished, and Mr.. Thomas
and Mrs. Hymen's COachman painfully
but not seriously injured Thomas left
knee was dislOcated, and Donneily, the
cOachman, was badly bruised, and SUI
fered a fracture OF the coilar-bone.
Will Arrest Turfman.
Mr.. Thomas was taken TO tie hos
pital. where his injuries and those OF
the coachman were dressed. II is said
that the police Will take immediate
steps 10 procure a warrant for the ar
rest of the turfman.
a peculiar feature OF the accident was
that Thomas would have come out IN
scathed even after the machine had de-
mOlished the trap had the brakes
worked. Unable TO stop the large car,
It carried one Of the dead horses and
the tongue Of the trap thlrty-nVe yards
10 a 6LanuDlpe, WnCIE the 4Dl4E BDlE " as
forced against Thomas knee.
Thomas declares that he will never
take his $20O00 Hotchkiss 13U-horsepower
car on the road again
First AutOist To Kill Child.
Edward r. Thomas. son Of the late
Gen. Sam Thomas. as plunger in stocks,
bonds. life insurance, automobiles. race
tracks. Journalism. balloons. and tho
midnight life OF the White Light dis
trict, has figured large Of late years
in New York. AS an automObiiist he
was the first man TO earn the nOtOriety
" killing a child in this city.
On February y last he was twice i'll
dicted by the grand jury, charged with
violating section 80 Of the insurance
code, which prohibits a director from
borrowing the funds Of his company
or taking any pecuniary interest in any
loans IL makes. Violation OF the section
Is 3 nisdemeanOr punishable with q fine
up TO $500. or a years imprisonment, or
both. The indictments were the out
growth of an investigation by the grand
jury Of the manner in which Edward
r. Thomas and Orlando F. Thomas,
who is not a relative OF l.. r., had
handled funds of the pOlicyhOlders OF
The Provident Savings Lie Assurance
Society.
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SANITAEuUA for ladies' during confinement;
best care and attention; infants cared for;
nurse. ss2 y. Howard ST. Baltimore. Nd.
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W. 7. Baldus, ID. D., Pm. d. German Special
lat on Diseases OF the Brain. Nervous system
Heart. Kidneys, Stomach. aTs4 3ther Diseases
Doctors services and Tae6iei-s. 81 Tel NJ
ISIS Hours. - 70 / 70 3. So cor eth s = nv.
Ss2e-H
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NATIONAL
UNIVERSITY
LAW SCHOOL

EVENING SESSIONS EXCLUSIVELY.
OPEN OCTOBER 1st, 1908
Practical three years course leading 20 de-
gree OF MasteT-Of-laTs; the degree og Bschs
eloF-of-laws can be secured at end of second
year.
For catalog, application blanks. etc, sp-
ply IN person or BY mail 10 the Dean. 1891 3
Street y. " Telephons n. 64T3. auI2-tf
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KEEP COOLl Here's Block Ice Cream,
s. % per gallon; special prices for reoep-
lions. parties, etc. JOHN S. DENNIE
& BRO. 62S ~ ST. sw- my15-w, sa.m-Sot
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DO YOU WANT a refreshing summer
drink7 Buy the Original Chiantf' WIna;
imported directly from our yinyards: soc az
naSk- SARI. i4os y sL Phone n s4i1.
te1-m. tn sa-s0t
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DIR. SHADE, SPECIALIST.

rs 18th ST.; 81 years practice curing nervous
chronic and special diseases; stomach liver
kidney. bladder. structure. DISCHARGES skin,
blood and private ailments cured quickly
free my2O-tf
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-12-03
King.
INTENDED for last week.)

INTENDED for last weekly
We are enjoying some springlike
weather.
Dock Byrd and Mesdames Com
pere and Bordeaux, are on the sick
list this week.
Fred Dyes and sister Miss Rannie
of Pearl, visited relatives here
Sunday.
Mrs. Crawley spent Sunday with
homefolks at Star.
Thanksgiving service will be held
here Thursday, Rev. Jeffrey, of
Clinton, will conduct it.
Roy Barron and Miss Lena Tay-
tor, of Harrlsville, spent Saturday
night and Sunday with relatives
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Lawson, of
Rexford, spent Monday at E. H.
Lairds.
Miss Ida Bordeaux has returned
home after an extended visit to
relatives at Crystal Springs.
Mrs. Boothe and daughter Miss
Lula, visited Sam LaWson's family
at Rexford Saturday.
Rev. D. w. Mcleod and wife,
have returned from Texas, and will
make Mississippi their future home.
They visited relatives here last
week.
The cane crops in this commune
twas fine, j. P. Clarke made
4Ilh gallons on his mill and there
are eight other mills in the settle
ment that made quite number of
gallons.
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Clear Branch.

We are having lots of dry cloudy
weather, but it-doesn't rain much.
School is getting along nicely
under the management of Prof. j
S. Williams, Misses Bertha Sum-
mers and Virgie Cooper.
Our Sunday school and prayer
meeting IS getting along nicely.
Bro. Tuition was with US Sunday
as it was the fifth Sunday.
Henry Grantham and family, Of
Crystal Springs, were the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry White Sun
day.
Bro. Tuition flied his regular APP
pointment here last fourth Sunday
morning and preached at Mr.. Muir
ply fuckers in the afternoon for
the benefit of the Invalid, Mrs.
Tucker, Whosis blind and confined
to her bed with rheumatism.
Prof. Williams made business
trip to Brandon Saturday and paid
a visit home before returning sun
day.
Oscar Barlow started to Poplar
Springs to Sunday school Sunday
afternoon, but from some attraction
on the way, he failed to get there.
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Hebron.
(Intended for last week

L
Mr.. and Mrs Stuart are on The
sick list this week.
Mr.. Crook is still improving tt
the delight of his many friends.
Several from here ATTENDED
preaching at Forest Hill Sunday.
Mrs. Sarah lrby arrived Satur.
day to spend the winter witt
children, she has been staying with
children at Weathersby, and other
points on the Gulf & Ship Island
Road.
Miss Marguerite Graham, oil
Pelahatchie, came down Saturday
evening and made an elegant
speech here Saturday night on
School Improvement, although the
crowd went out expecting to learn
something. they learned more than
they expected. Her friendly ways,
moral character. and teaching
liabilities enables her to do great
work wherever she goes. Her
speech was so much enjoyed that
we feel we can't say too much for
her.
T. B. lrby weat down to Florence
Friday to see his brother R. L..
lrby, who is in business there. He
returned home Saturday afternoon.
Miss Allie Robinson, of Dobson,
came up to the speaking Saturday
night and spent the night with her
friend Miss Eva Mckay.
Hemby May and Jim Grain were
in our neighborhood one night last
week O'possum hunting, two fine
ones were caught which they car
rled to Brandon.
Fins Pope, of Southeast Renkin,
spent Sunday night with Joe Wynn
and family, he was on his way to
the court house.
we had nice rain Saturday night.
Both our Sunday and everyday
schools are progressing nicely.
Foot Hughes and family have
moved on Mrs. Robinson's place,
we are glad to have them with us.
The negro race is getting fear
full; our white women need shot
guns more SO than do the men, if
they had the nerve to use them.
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Rankin.
INTENDED for last week.

INTENDED for last week.
Thursday is Thanksgiving, so
Be thankful you're living and
make life pleasure.
Be thankful you've enough, for
enough is good measure.
Miss Mary Wilson spent Sunday
in Pelahatchie with her sister Miss
Lucille.
Miss Lila Darnall, of Brandon,
is visiting homefolks here this
week.
= Mrs. Glen Adams spent Sunday
at Pelahatcllie.
Mrs. Linton Harvey and little
son, of Scott county, visited rela-
tives here last week.
Little Leila Speer, who is attend
ing school at Pelahatchie, spent a
few days with her parents this
week.
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Pickett.

Jerry McLain and family visit
ed at D. A. ellis Saturday night.
C. L. Polk and wife visited at
P. P. Folks Sunday night and
Monday.
Mrs. Rena Purvis is on the
sick list this week.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. w. O.
Miley fine baby girl last Thurs
day.
The school. at this place accom-
panied by the teachers, enjoyed
a hay ride to the Thanksgiving
entertainment at Joe.
Tallie Mize made a business
trip to D'Lo Mondao.
Will McLain was in D'Lo one
day last week.
Dr.. ]. L. Warren and wife of
Galilee, visited their son at this
place Sunday night.
G. w. Polk and family visited
relatives at Joe Saturday.
Mrs. S. Mize celebrated her 81
birthday with her daughter,
Mrs. P P. Polk last Monday.
Miss Eva Purvis attended
church at Galilee Sunday.
Master Ellis Purvis visited his
sister at Mayton last week.
P. P. Polk and wife visited the
Purvis family Sunday.
B. A. Clark and family, OF
Cato, visited Lee OVERLY and
family last week.
Melvin Russell has returned
from Louisiana, and reports
everything gloomy where he has
been.
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Rosa Longmire is improving
slowly.
Mrs. Mid Longmire, of Nesho-
ba, who has been visiting rela-,
tlves here returned no me Satur-
day.
Miss Maud Mashburn visited
her sister Mrs. Joiner, in Forest,
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. TAYLOR
and little daugater, Alberta.
visited relatives il Morton Sun
day.
Miss Annie Rigby visited
homefolks at Beach Sunday.
Miss Graham visited Harper
vile frienes Saturday and Sun
day.
Rob't Gilbert, of Beech Spr ingg
Neshoba county, was welcome
visitor in our town last week.
Miss Lula Ward is in jackson.
today.
The dining last Sunday at the.
home of DR.. Clarke was much
enjoyed by all present.
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Star.
Just twenty-five days to Christ

Just twenty-five days to Christ
mas.
We are having some heavy
rains now, which were very bad
ly needed in this section Of the
county.
Farmers are about done gath
ering. Cotton crops are short.
There has been a little sickness
in our town, but all are improy-
ing at this writing.
Walter Didlake, spent a few
days at home last week from A.
& M. college.
Rev. Bryan Simmons, Of Bran
don, was in town Monday.
Miss Lola Ainsworth, of Whit
worth college, spent Thanksgiv-
ing at home.
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Oeary.

Health of the community is
very good.
Farmers are about through
gathering and ginning.
We had a shooting scrapa here
Sunday : morning, John Smith
shot and killed Jiles Mays, both
were negroes. Mays daughter
was said to have been the cause
Percy Black and family, OF
Madison, moved in our neighbor-
hood the past week. Rev. Nor
ris and wife, of jackson, were.
transacting business here the.
past week.
Miss Maggie and Allie Smith
visited their sister Mrs. George
and Miss Bessie Hemphill return
ing Saturday.
We the travelling public hoped
We would have had a bridge and
the road fixed so we could have
gone to and from jackson with
out danger, but it seems we have
to wait until the local conditions
settle themselves. Can't the
board use its own judgment and
do what it thinks best for al
parties and not wait to see what
/ may or may not like or think
about the matter, that what we
think they are for.
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Barker Prairie.
(lntended for last week. }
Dry times in this old town.

Dry times in this old town.
Farmers here are through har-
vesting their crops.
Rev. Waller, of Flora, Miss, is
moving to our community. We
extend him hearty welcome.
On account Of destruction by fire
of our school building, there will be
no school at this place for the time
being.
The business men should rally to
the support of our county paper, in
boosting the many advantages of
old Rankin to the immigration.
Fellow citizens! let's petition the
county legislators to enact measures
prohibiting the destruction by gun
or trap, OF Bob White, for the next
five years to come. He is said to
be an enemy to the boil weevil, We
are going to need 'em boys. Let's
hear from everybody interested in
protectingthe enemies of the Weevil.
Route one of the United States
mail fservica, out of Pelahatchie,
Miss. sports one of the most eff
Gent and painstaking officials in
that line of service, that could be
wished, in the person of Jeff Bar
rer. Jeff's good sure.
Sam Williams, living just across
the line in Scott County from here,
had his ear bitten off by a horse
last week.
R. G. King and wife. visited their
son-in-laW G. D. Measles last week.
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at full blast, over one hundred bale:
OF cotton ginned in the past few
weeks.
Claim Agent from Shreveport
was here Wednesday.
Pearson has gotten to be quite q
shipping point for lumber, car loads
shipped every week, and also stove
wood Tor Jackson, by the hustline
Roell Bros.
h. D. Mendum, went to Bolton
on business Thursday.
Miss Gladys Fisher, who attends
Draughon business college at Jack
son, IS getting along fine with her
bookkeeping course.
The new Baptist church building
is beginning to make quite show in
our little town. Ii is supposed to
be ready for services by Christmas.
The new road is quite a conve-
nlence for our travelling public.
With a little more cooperation
among our citizens and gates thrown
open, would be quite an improve
ment over the old road.
A. A. Smallwood went to Bran
don Monday to attend court. He
was one of the jurors
Mrs. Jenny Pearson, of Jackson,
was a visitor in our town Monday.
Thomas Morgan, of Mt. Olive,
is here having tomb stone erected
over his wife's grave.
Miss Mary Puckettreturned h ONE
Saturday from Byron.
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Pe(dhatCiie.

The much needed and highly
appreciated rain is falling.
Our town was made sad on
Thanksgiving Day by the death
of Jas. Ferguson. We extend
coincidence to the bereaved.
We are glad to note that Miss
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-12-03
For Nurses:

The Thanksgiving entertainment
given at the school hall was en-
joyed by large attendance. The
play consisting of an old time husk-
ing bee, given by the primary
students, was simply fine.
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Pearson.
INTENDED for last week.

(lntended for last week.
Allen Bridges, Of RAYMOND, was
here Tuesday on business trip.
Fire burned several Of the old
prison buildings Wednesday on the
state farm.
The cotton gin here is working
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1908-01-03
He HAS VALUABLE VIOLIN
COL. THOMPSON MAY HAVE A
GENUINE "STRAD.n
Inscription on Inside Leads to This
Belief Will Be Sent to Balti-
more For Inspection.

Col James +. Thompson is the
lucky possessor of what is believed
to be a genuine Stradivarious violin,
of the make of 1921, and he has al
ready begun to investigate the mat
ter with a view of ascertaining the
genuine of the inscription on the in
strument and it probable value. The
discovery of the make of the violin
was made accidentally Thursday even
ing, while guest at the home of Col
and Mrs. Thompson was handling it.
The instrument was purchased more
than 80 years ago by the father of
Mrs. Thompson, Mr.. John r. Ray, OF
jefferson county, from an old Ger
man, and has been in the possession
of Mrs. Thompson ever since. Local
violinists, to whom 1t has been shown
pronounce it of unusual beauty Of
tone and perfect model of contour
and workmanship. Inside it bears the
inscription, "stradivarious Cremonsis.
Faciebat Ammo 1921"
Colonel Thompson will send the in
strument to Baltimore to submit 1t tc
experts in this line. violins of this
make, when they are known to be
genuine, have sold as high as $12,-
coo.