The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-05

to be published in this week,
issue.
Geo. D. w. Traxler was here
last week wanting to trade fol
kicking or other badly behaved
animals that refuse to work. He
says he can cure any of that kline
and can be found at Cato ready
for business.
w. w. Ward, manager of Corr.
| Williams Tobacco Co. Jackson,
OF which R. H. Green, a Brandon
boy is president, was over last
week visiting our merchants or
business and giving away sample
packages of Cremo cigars.
The News is requested to state
| that Mesdames VIM. Walker and
| Will Owen will endeavor to re-
juvenate the Brandon w. G. T..
U. Due notice of the meeting to
reorganize the last of this month,
will be published in The News.
/ G. w. Girdlestone, who has
been for the past eight years
chief detective of the Alabama &
| Vicksburg and the Vicksburg,
| Shreveport & Pacific Railways,
has severed his connection with
those roads and will practice law
| at Brandon.
| Many farmers are hauling out
feed stuff over roads in bad con-
dition, which only emphasizes
two things the roads should be
made better by being ditched on
| the sides and raised in the
middle, and the feed stuff ought
to be raised at home.
The friends of Mrs. Earl Rodg-
ers, nee Miss Hattie White, will
| be sorry to hear of her critical
illness in Texas. Meridian Star.
| Mr.. Rodgers was manager for a
short time of the Brandon Drug
Co., and left here on account of
his wife's health, which his
friends of this place are grieved
to hear is worse.
The News is informed that H..
w. Bradshaw, State Lecturer of
the Farmers Union, accompanied
by a state organizer, will visit
Brandon next Saturday the 7th
March for the purpose of Or
ganizing a local union at the
court house at 3 p. m. Let
everyone who wishes to become
a member attend.
Hon. Henry L. Whitfield, presi-
dent of the Industrial Institute
and College at Columbus, visited
here Tuesday and was warmly
greeted by old friends who have
watched his upward career from
his early days to his present
, charge of the states highest in
J stitution for girls-a position
/ awarded him for his fitness fo1
the place not from political in
fluences.
P. E. Williams, chief owner of
the new town of Tishomingo
City, northeast Mississippi,
stopped off here on his way home
from Jackson, yesterday. He
learned newspaper work here on
; the old Brandon Republican AND
afterwards made success OF
the Lumberton Headblock. He
sold out his possessions there and
T opened up the new town Of
Tishomingo City, where he has
succeeded we'll. He is popular
and one of the best men in the
state.
Commander J. L. Jayne, of the
United States Navy, his wife anc
little son, John, of Washington
; City, visited Mrs. VIM. Walker
last week. Mr.. Jayne is a for.
mer Brandon boy, and his ole
friends here were glad to see
{ him. He has just returned from
a foreign cruise. While he was
in command of the Ell Cano, she
took the second best record ir
, all the navy, (the Maryland tax
! ing first, for small arms
, craftsmanship. He was in com
: mand of the Rainbow, the flag
ship of Manila station, when hi
!. took Secretary Taft's party up tx
Nagasaki. While going through
!, Formosa strait and at Vladivos
tok, in some trying situations
Mr.. Jayne exhibited very supe
rior seamanship, for which hi
r was highly complimented Or
' his return, he was wanted fol
S four details by three admirals
' and the War college at Newport
He decided to accept the one