The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-10-01
ITEMS or INTEREST FROM THE
FOREST REGISTER.

The local cotton market has
improved little since last week.
Forest merchants are paying 9 1-8
today (Tuesday.)
| A saw mill two miles north Of
Lake belonging to Jas. Crosby
was completely destroyed by fire
on last Friday night.
The difference between an air
ship and the price of food COM
modities in Forest is that the
latter has not come down fast
enough to hurt anybody.
Cotton seed buyers have been
forced to the conclusion that the
cotton holding movement also
includes the cotton seed crop and
the Forest buyers have advanced
the price within the past week
from SIP to $13 per ton.
On October LIST it will be un-
lawful for cattle to run at large
in the town of Forest. All stock
outside of owners premises af-
ter that date will be taken up by
the marshall and damages will
accrue.
The current issue of the Ray
mond Gazette notes the arrival
last week of a>sWeet little baby
girl at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. E. Stovall, at that place. The
mother will be remembered by
her many Forest friends as Miss
Mamie Fairchild. They extend
congratulations and best wishes
to the happy parents.
Fashion has decreed that hips
will not be in good taste for ladies
during the coming winter season,
but they should be comforted to
know that they may still wear
ribs, feet, elbows, fingers with
rings, arms with bracelets, an
entire pair of eyes and false hair.
You should not hold your cot
ton without paying your account
at the store, says the Hickory
Reporter-Inde Merchants have
debts to pay the same as other
people, though some of the coun-
try people think all the money is
| in the towns.
7 One of the largest poplar trees
ever seen in this section was
brought to Forest Saturday from
the Shuckalo swamp by Jno. w.
Williams, who is shipping poplar
logs from this place to New Or
leans for export. The tree meas
ured Ga lineal feet and SO inches
at the small end. The butt was
a fraction over five feet.
The weather in this vicinity
took a tumble early Monday
morning which made heavy cloth
ing and fires comfortable. Dis
patches in the daily press report
ed a snow storm in Montana last
Saturday which possibly has
something to do with the present
low temperature in Mississippi.
"A bashful young man. at New
ton went to see his best girl the
other night. It began to rain,
and it rained and rained and rain
ed. She told him it would be a
,, pity for him to go home in the
rain, and asked him to stay all
night. He hated to refuse, SO he
said all right, and she told him
she would go and prepare his
bed. 1t required some little time,
and when she came back, mag
inc her surprise at finding him
dripping with rain. She asked
him where he had been, and he
told her he went home to get his
night-shirt.
! o. According to the estimate of
the best posted citizens the dete-
ration of the cotton crops in
Scott county since the third week
in July will be about Is per cent.
This is due chiefly to the heavy
rains which over1oWed the bot
tom lands in August. The rava-
ges of the boil weevil has done
some damage to the crops on the
hill lands. The boil weevil was
first discovered in this county
about the middle of September
on the farm of J. L. McCrory, a
few miles east of Morton,
Chattanooga cane mills and
evaporators, no better made.
| w. G.. Barnes.
Charter Oak cook stoves and
heaters for school houses. w.
G. Barnes.