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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30
amin.

Will Moss, wife and little ones, also
Mlss Mary Moss, are visiting in the home
of Mrs. Jessie McLaurin.
The picnic given by Mrs. H. G. Ellis
complimentary to Miss Martha Rice, was
a perfect success and each one express
themselves as wishing speedy return of
the day.
Carl Cranberry and Rufe RatliG spent
Sunday night in Fannin, en- route to Bran
don on business of Importance.
Protracted meeting will begin at the
Baptist church next Sunday. The pastor
of Canton church will assist Brother
Harmon. We trust great good may re-
suit from their efforts.
Mrs. Bessie Ellis is>Wsiting friends at
Madison Station.
We see reports from different counties,
that nave secured the Agricultural High
School. What is the matter with Rankin
and why can't Fannin come TO the front!
Mr.. Armstrong is having considerable
repairing done on his mill and gin sheas,
getting ready for the fall crop of cotton.
For some reason, the items that were
written for the Fannin news last week
were scattered over the paper.
Quite crowd from, Fannin expect to
attend the picnic to be given by the
Moodmen at Pisgah next Saturday.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30
MAKES MOL ASSES PAY.
Canaed and Marketed Eighteen
fiandred Gallons From five
Acres.

w. B. MERCER, of Centerville,
Wilkinson county, spent the day
in Jackson, comforting with COM
missioner of Agriculture Blakeslee.
Mr.. MERCER is. one of the pioneers
in the manufacture of molasses
for market in this state, and has
found it very profitable crop, as
have several of his neighbors. He
states that last year his individual
crop was five acres of Louisiana
cane, from which he made and had
sold 800 gallons of fine syrup
the pure juice of the cane boiled
down to the proper consistency.
This syrup was sealed in tin cans
holding quart, half gallon and
one gailon-the latter size being
found to be the best seller.
Other parties about Centerville
have engaged in the manufacture
of molasSes, so that more than
10000 gallons was manufactured
there last season. 1t found ready
sale at 90 to- 60 cents per gallon,
which means at least $3.50 per acre,
and in some instances as much as
$500 per acre.
There is not an acre Of cotton in
the State that makes such a return
to the farmer, and yet the great
majority of them continue to plant,
and to market the great staple
instead of diversifying so as to
have some of everything to sell.
Mr.. MERCER states that his pros
pect this year is for still better
yield than last, his stand being
decidedly better, and more ferte-
lizer used. He would seem good
for 400 gallons per acre, or $780,
Clarion Ledger.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

you raised money to paint your
school house, or how you get your
school garden worked; tell US how
you introduced manual training into
your school and various things of
interest to all.
If you have found something that
IS helpful to you, tell US all about it;
if you want us to help you, ask US
and you will find US always ready.
Let this be a real Help-One-An-
other Club.
| request each teacher, and | am
almost persuaded to say require
each teacher, to organize an I'm
provement Association in your
school as soon as it is opened; if
you cannot get your patrons as
members, take your pupils and 60
to work.
After September 9TH will be
ready to receive articles for this
column and want a good one to
begin with, so send them to me at
Pelahatchie, Miss.
My whole soul is in this work
and we must succeed.
Yours for education,
MARGARET GRAHAM,
Pres't. S. |. A. of Rankin Co.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30
trustees Sale.

Under trust deed executed bv L.
Srame, jr., May IS, 1907, to secure Mary
w. Short, trustee, which trust deed is
recorded in the office of the chancerv
clerk at Brandon, Rankin County, Miss
lsslrpi, and also in the office of the chan
Gerry clerk at Jackson, /, the undersigned
trustee, will, within legal hours, on
August 9TH, 1908, at the east Fdoor of the
court house in the city of jackson, pro-
coed to sell at public outcry to the highest
bidder, for cash, certain land in Rankin
county, to-wit: West = of sw4, section
~; eA of sea, section II; VIZ of nwH
Cess 251z acres off the south end) of
section IT; nwA of ne 4, section rs, and
e& of neA, Cess 25% off the south end
of section 2S)' all in township 5, range 2.
east, containing 3Io.o8 acres. Also part
of 5 acres, lot 6, north, in the citv of
Jackson, Kinds County, Mississippi. lust
south of the Buck lot, fronting east on
Jefferson street 40 feet and running back
west loo feet, purchased by l.. Brame,
IT,, from d. q. Patton as shown by deeds
recorded in book Al, page All and book
A, page 245, also part Of lots | and 2,
block b, West End, first district of Kinds
county, a survey of which is recorded in
surveyors record book A, page 27o in
the office of the ehancery clerk at Jack
son, said lot fronting on Sligo street 100
feet and running back the same width
24o feet more or less to the western line
Of lot2, being the lot conveyed by Sarah
Z. Gotten to L. Brame, jr., by deed re-
corded in book AZ, page 533. Said proper
ty. or a sufflciency thereof will be sold to
satisfy said indebtedness secured by said
trust deed as to which default has been
made. July 7, 1908.
O. j. WAITE, Trustee.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30
from. Iowa.

Storm Lake, Iowa, July 26, 1908.
Editor News. Dear oir:-As prom
ised to let you hear from me, will write a
short letter of our trip and condition of the
crops along the route.
We left Jackson, July % at $3.50 p. m.
arrived in Chicago over the |. &. road al
1890 a. IN. on the 24rh. From Jackson
to Cairo we saw nothing in the way of
crops but cotton with few small patches
of corn, and probably once In a hundred
miles, a stack of hay. | think the cotton
in Mississippi is as good as any saw
along the route, but not as good as~usual
at this season of the yenr. After leaving
Cairo, we Saw very little cotton, but plen-
ty of corn and hay and farther north sew
eral oat fields. that had been cut and some
Of them standing in the shock. The corn
was rather short or small stalk and look
ed to be rather late.
Friday night at 10 O'Clock my wife left
over the l.. S.. &, M. S. road for her old
home in Ohio and left over the |. c..
road for Storm Lake, Iowa, where arriv-
ed in good shape and took breakfast with
my brother, G. M. Walrod, who is the
leading veterinary of this place, neat
little city of about 25oo people, Gall white. J
Inc crops through lliiHOIS dliu IOWd aIc
good, a large crop Of fine hay has already
been made, the oats are of an average
quality and being harvested as fast as help
can be procured to do the work. in fact a
great many of the farmers do OF stop for
Sunday, as there has been SC mlch rain
in this section that they are badly crowded
with their work, and help is rather Scarce.
Some are offering as high as three dollars
per day for common laborers.
The corn crop is very late in Iowa and
Il fear may be damaged by the early frost.
But if the frost will hold off till Septem-
Der they will make large crop, for In
nearly every field there is splendid stand
and Of good healthy color.
The fifth annual session Of the Storm
Lake Chautauqua is open now and have
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30
For Rankin County School I'm
prOvemPnt.

Dear teachers: the editor has
been kind enough to give a column
of his valuable paper to US for
educational purposes, and | hope
that we will show our appreciation
of this kindness by using this COL
umn for the betterment of the
schools of the county.
AS you all know we organized
School Improvement Association
last year, but our work was limited.
| have been reappointed president
of Rankin county and with your
help | want us to do something
that will live throughout the ages.
We must make the condition of the
rural schools better.
There will be prize offered to
the school making greatest i'm
provement during the next year; to
the school making the best exhibit
in drawing, manual training and
Iother school work; there will be
prizes offered for the best grades
made in different subjects, and also
for the best school garden.
A list of these prizes will be
published later in this column, but
Just now ! wish to tell you Of this
column.
want each teacher in the county
to write at least one article for this
fcolumn and send it to me; | will
See to its publication.
Tell US about your school, the
NEEDED, what you are
doing, etc. Tell US how you
placed library in your school Cat
lany time in the past); tell US how
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30
Real Estate Transfers.

TIE following real estate has
changed hands since July Ist:
Joel F. Johnson, ST., to Joel
F. Johnson, jr., l,112 acres
of land; consideration 81, liz 90
Jack Finch and wife to S. L.
McLaurin, certain lots in
townof Brandon; consider
alton Observation-Disclosures o. co
R. v. Shields to b. F. Null
hollan, certain lands near
Pelahatchie; consideration 1916. 60
j. H. McGilvra and wife to
w. E. Darnall, house and
lot in Brandon; considera-
tion----------------s 800. co
Mrs. Caroline M. Childers
and Mrs. M. w. Hawkins
to Mrs Lucy A. Wertz, s5
acres; consideration 365 90
E. IA. and Bette Odom to
j. M. Ross, 100 acres; con-
sideration $50.
B. +. Berry deed OF transfer
to T. @. James, trust
5 lands in south Rankin;
consideration 100
@. B. Hilton, trustee, to Jas.
R. Mcdowell certain lands
in south Rankin sold under
deed of MISREPRESENTATION 800. 90
B. E. Therrell, ST., and wife
to T. P. Stevens, q acres
near Florence; considera-
ton 200. 90
John S. Mangum, Martin IA.
Mangum to Robert L. Man.
gum, 90 acres in south
Rankin; consideration. 24o 90
John Hin to Chas. Hill, 80
acres; no consideration
named
Miss Sallie Fitzhugh to Will
Washington, 55 acreas; con-
sideration 400 90
A. H. and Hattie Walters to
j. N. Goforth, lot in Pela-
hatchie; consideration 80. 90
Carl Stingily for Pelahatchie
Brick Co. to w. w. Co.
forth, s-acre tract; con-
Sideration 100 90
Jas R. Mcdowell to E. M.
Odom, 100 acres in south
Rankin; consideration 900. 90
j. A. Spann, jr., to c. r.
StingiIy, lots in Psla-
hatchie; consideration 10000
J. A. Spann, jr., to Carl
Stingily, town property in
Pelahatchie; considera-
ton ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Oo0. 90
O. c. Thornton and Alice
Thornton to G. G. Mckay,
1-2 acre in Pelahatchie;
consideration ----- 100. 90
w. T. Carver to H. b. Par
ker, 40 acres in Sec. 80,
I. s, R. 4, east; considera,x
ton -------------- ago. co.
A. D. Mckay and Eta Nc
Kay to w. F. Wiley, a
house and lot in Pela-
hatchie, consideration -, $4,000
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30
Democratic Executive Committee

A meeting of the Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee, of Rankin
County, composed OF the following
members, to-Wit:
Beat IL. w. Taylor, J. D.
Sandifer, c. w. Auiston.
Beat IL. S. May, J. j. Dan
iels, d. M. Mayors.
Beat 81. c. Robinson, w. F.
Davis, J. J. Wilmington.
Beat Carl Ssingily, c. K.
Jones, R. A. Warwick.
Beat 5.-E. N. Ross, w. D..
Thomas and Tom Brinson.
Is hereby called to meet at the
court house in Brandon at IL o'clock
on August the 4th Tuesday, for
the transaction of such business as
may properly come before it.
L. 5. MAY, d. M. MAYERS,
Secretary. Chairman.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30
Agricultural High School.

HE ldSC legislature enacted a
law giving, under certain con-
ditions, 81, 900 per annum to each
county in the state to assist in
establishing and maintaining a
school in which high school
studies are taught, with practi-
cal and theoretical agriculture
made prominent feature. The
benefit to the county will be
great and lasting. Pupils who
have finished the grammar school
grades will have an opportunity
of taking the high school studies
at actual cost of board and lodg-
ing.
After graduating at the coun-
ty high school they will be fully
prepared to enter the freshman
class at either the A. & M. or |.
|. & c., but should they not be
able, or desire to do so, they will
be fairly we'll prepared for LIES
struggles so far as an education
is concerned,
Besides teaching agriculture
to the boys in a practical way,
and giving the girls much valu-
able training in housekeeping and
other useful arts so necessary to
the wives Of the future, it will
provide a needed school for many
who are not able to bear the ex-
pense of attending a college.
Universities and Colleges are
essential to higher education and
must be sustained by state aid
that Mississippians in the future
will be the equals of citizens of
other states. Our school system
is improving each year, but the
gap between the six months term
of free school and the college has
been too wide-with the result
that if not well fixed financially
the boy or girls education too
often ends with the free school
advantages, poor as they are.
The agricultural high school to
a very large degree fills this gap,
and the more one studies the
question the more convinced that
every county should accept the
states offer of 81, 900 per annum
and have one.
The levy of sufficient taxes to
carry on an agricultural high
school will not be a burden on
any one and this county will be
sleeping on its rights If one is
not. established. Next Monday
the school board will in all prob
ability establish one; the board
of supervisors will make the levy
no doubt, and in two or three
weeks the school board will ask
for a bid from each place in the
county that wishes it located in
its midst. It will afford advan-
tages to pupils of this county
they could not otherwise have,
and the resultant good will many
times repay the cost that will be
paid by a tax on property whose
value will be increased by such a
school in the county, yet be so
small to each that it will scarcely
hn fnlt
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

The Columbus Commercial
says, THE fact is, we do not
care to carry the advertisements
of firms who never saw any
good in advertising, as they be-
long to the class who have shelf
worn goods and never will see
any good in it." Rankin county
merchants are wide-aWake bust
ness men who know the value of
printers ink and use it freely,
because it pays them to do so.
The News is literally patronized
by many of the leading houses in
Jackson for the same reason
it pays them Telling the
trade of the bargains offered
reaches many more buyers each
issue Of The News than does 10, :
900 circulars, or large posters,
even when they, are delivered as
intended, but many times they
are nailed up on posts or chucked
under sidewalks or bridges, do
ing no good at all. Successful
advertising is based on calling at
tention to low prices and then
having the articles as repre-
scented
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

been enjoying myself with my brother
and his family in their big red automobile,
riding around the grounds in the park and
around the picturesque little lake from
which the town gets its name.
Please send me copy of your next issue
to Wall Lake, Iowa, which is another
pleasure resort, which intend to visit in
about week. Possibly may write you
again from there. Hoping you and the
big press are getting along O. K.
Eremain vour friend,
F. B. WALROD.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30
Executors Notice.

Executors notice to creditors of the
estate of j. R. Enoehs, deceased: Letters
testamentary having been granted on the
9Th day of July, 1908, by the ch4ncery
court of Rankin County, Miss, to the
undersigned upon the estate of j. R.
Enochs, deceased, notice is hereby given
to all persons having claims against said
estate to present the same to the clerk of
said court for probate and registration
according to law within one year from
this date, or they will be forever barred.
his 9th day of July, 1908.
d. c. ENOCHS, Executor.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30
An Alibi.
while attending

While attending court in
New Hampshire on one oc-
casion, /" says a prominent mem
her, of the Boston bar, II was
greatly amused by the evidence
Of a woman who was striving to
prove an alibi for a boy in a
horse-stealing case.
A witness testified that he had
seen the boy at the village on
that day; Whereupon the woman
sprang from her chair and ex-
claimed:
He want out, neither!
His pants was ahanging on the
clothes line all day. .
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

A straw hat was found Tues
day in Vicksburg, in possession
of an old negro, having Il.
Brame, Jr.' written in ink on the
sweat band in what is said to be
Brame's handwriting. A Mrs.
Culkins found the hat just after
Brame's disappearance last Au-
gust, but did not associate the
hat, at all, with Blame's disap-
pearance and gave It to an old
negro, in whose hands it had
been ever since. 1t has rent
in the back Of it which looks as
if it was made by a blow. A
human jaw bone has also been
found, but whose it was, is not
known. The mystery may yet
be cleared.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30
Assessors Notice.

The undersigned hereby gives notice
tnat the personal assessment roll for 1908
has been filed in the office of the clerk of
the board OF supervisors of Rankin Coun-
ty, Mississippi, as required by law; that
the said board of supervisors will meet on
the first Monday In August, 1908, and con-
slider the same, and that ali persons have
from this date until the said first Monday
IN August, 1908, to examine and file OBJ
JectIons 70 said assessment. This sixth
day Of July, 1908.
dc. ATKINS Aeeessor.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

Hon. J. B. Stirling is an appli-
cant for the vacancy soon to
occur on the supreme bench.
He is a polished gentleman, COM
fortably we'll fixed in this
worlds goods, has been promi-
nent in politics, without ever
holding any office except that of
Referee in Bankruptcy, and is
connected with, and related to,
many prominent familiessof this
state, being a cousin of the late
Col. Jones Hamilton. The only
argument that is being used
against him is his age.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

Mrs. A. @. May, nee Miss
Matte Scott, died at q health
resort in Michigan, Tuesday,
where she had been carried
some weeks Rago to place her
under the care of a skilled
specialist, Eight years ago
she was married to Hon. A.
@. May, then state treasurer.
She was a high type of refined,
Christian womanhood and to her
devoted husband goes out the
sympathy of many friends in
this great sorrow.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

At the stockholders meeting
of the Florence Farmers Uuion
Warehouse Company, of Flor
ence, July 18th, the following
officers and directors were
elected: ]. O. Parkinson, presi-
dent; |. S. Dear, vice-preident;
w. L. Lane, treasurer; w. I.
Crimson, secretary; T. P. Steph-
ems, ]. w. Byrd and J. H.
Meyer. Arrangements are be-
ing perfected for the construction
Of warehouse for the coming
crop. Union Advocate.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

The United States Circuit
Court reversed Judge Lands de-
cision in the Standard Oil Com
pany's- case in which he assessed
fines of 500, 000,O for accepting
rebates from the railroads. Pres
ident Roosevelt has ordered
Attorney General Bonaparte to
carry the case to the United
States Supreme Court.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

The St. Louis girl who per-
formed the feat of swimming
26 miles down the Mississippi
river in less than six hours,
would tire in sixteen minutes,
sweeping the house or cooking.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

In the run off in the second
primary for city officers last
Saturday, R. w. Walker, former
ly Of Rankin, was nominated for
alderman and j. w. Langley,
who once lived over here won the
asSessorShip.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

On last Thursday, six troopers
were killed and forty others in
jured by lightning at the en-
campment of the National Guard
of Pennsylvania on the battle
field Of Gettysburg.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30
The announcement of the u. s.

The announcement of the u. S.
Postal Department that the
horses used in the mail service
will be given an annual vacation
has attracted wide attention and
favorable comment. Dumb beasts
who daily do hard work are en-.
titled to rest, and aside from the
humane feelings that prompted
the order, it is good business
judgement, for the animals will
last longer for such deserved
kind treatment.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

The Baptist Record, a well
edited UNCONVENTIONAL paper,
with a large circulation, of great
influence, shows much artistic
skill in its makeup and typo
graphical neatness.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

"Malefactors of great wealth.,
a variety SO common with polit-
ical writer's of today, do not
reside in Brandon.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

America won a larger number
of prizes in the Olympian con-
tests in London than any other
country.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-30

T. B. Doxey, merchant, tailor,
steam cleaning and dye works. -
Jackson, Miss.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-16
Republicans Are Awake.

Whatever else the Hearst-Bryan-
Haskell-Roosevelt controversy may
have accomplished, it certainly had
tne effect of enlivening the political
situation. From now until election
day there will be no dearth of inter-
est in national politics. Both parties
are wide awake. Neither will sleep
until the votes are counted. The re-
sulting situation is eminently salts
factory to the republicans.
The only danger to republican sue
cess this year was over-confidence
and the apathy coming from a con-
giction that Taft ana Sherman were
bound to win anyway. There was a
danger, slight but none the less real,
that the republican party might be
caught mapping, and the democrats
might regain power, not because the
voters wanted to try the democratic
plan of running things again, but be-
cause too many republican voters
confident of the result, might stay at
home November 8. The controversy
has obviated all danger of this cat
astrophe. The republicans all over
the country are thoroughly awake.
They are attending the party rallies.
They are contributing to the cam
paign fund. They will be on hand
when the ballotting begins, and they
will all share in the joys that vic
tory brings. From now on there
will be no faltering, no wavering
no Indifference. And with those
drawbacks eliminated, the republi.
can party has never failed to win a
victory A berdeen News
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-16
Public Land Sale.

Department of the Interior. RAPID
City Land Office, 8. D.. August 14th.
1908. 4 p :
Notice is hereby given that as d.
rected by the Commissioner Of the
General Land Office, under the pro
visions of the Act Of Congress an
proved June 9th. 1906 (34 Stat.
al7) we will offer at public sale to
the highest bidder. at s. o'clock 4.
M. on the goth day Of October next.
at this office, the following tract 81
land--serial 0656. Wig:
North half Of northeast quarter
of Section &c. township north
range east, b. HI. M.
Any person claiming adversary
the above Described lands are adye--.
lt.sed TO nle claims or objections On,
e. before the time designated for the
John ., Burke. Register
iyron Wtlis.s. Receiver
s.s.ss
y: r'tic.sn Trowbridze's M
ssys son 3 psrfscs Al = spsctacles.