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Times-promoter., 1908-10-23
ELECTION OFFICERS APPOINTED
Commissioners Hold Meeting Tuesday and
Prepared for November Third.

Commissioners Wilson and Harrison
of the election board for this county,
met here last Tuesday to complete
arrangements for holding the general
election ON Nov. 8. The following
officers were appointed to serve at
their respective precincts on that
date:
Olive Branch-J. w. Duty, R. P.
McCargo, M. Blocker, Managers; w.
P. Harris, Bailiff.
Miller-R. R. Foster, T. A. Alex
ander, Stephen Finn, Managers; M.
w. Finn, Bailiff.
Lewisburg B. F. Ross, J. E. Bir-
minghan, T. G. Collins, Managers; !;
R. F. Coward, Bailiff.
Ingrams Mill-H. FL. Hays, J. M.
Edwards, G. s.. Mills, Managers; r.
s. Ingram, Bailiff.
| Cockrum-J. G. Langston, W. B.
Duncan, w. A. Kerr, Managers;
Chester Cochran, Bailiff.
Alphaba-R. G. Morgan, w. T. Mil
Ter, W. @. Greer, Managers; Bascum
Miller, Bailiff.
Pleasant Hill-B. T. Tarver, R. s.
Payne, J. @. Williamson, Managers;
Haze Robinson, Bailiff
Horn Lake-German Baker, Walter
White, w. r. Halbert, Managers; Sid
Campbell, Bailiff.
Stewart-Charles Shepherd, s. A.
Hughey, J. B. Wallace, Managers;
W. II. Williamson, Bailiff.
Lake Cormorant-M. S. Thomas, J.
B. Eddins, Russell Buford, Managers;
Ben Coward, Bailiff.
Oak Grove-Geo. Nail, T. P. jan
ney, Simon Walton, Managers; Hen
ry Harris, Bailiff.
Eudora-Mark Craven, s. B. Dean,
E. B. Turner, Managers; J. 0. White,
Bailiff.
Nesbit-J. G. Davie, K. Ingram, J.
M. Humphrey, Managers; HI. G. FL
more, Bailiff.
Brights-Homer Chamberlain, j. M.
Crawfor, w. L. Glenn, Managers;
Bowen Lauderdale, Bailiff.
Loves-J. T. Gaines, e. J. Mum,
Joe Solomon, Managers; j. B. Solo
mon, Bailiff.
Hernando-Will Solomon, Addison
Whitley, Walton E. Lee, Managers;
w. L. Gore, Bailiff.
Times-promoter., 1908-10-23

of the prettiest young ladies in the
country in the buggy. The squire
was all smiles.
Listen boys, the time drawing near
when some of those who have hogs
will turn them out to scrap up the
peas after the corn is gathered. Now
if you want to keep on good terms
with your neighbors and have no
trouble, keep your hogs in the pen.
You know when they are turned out
they will get in your neighbours field.
I had rather have the good will of
my neighbor than to have all the hogs
my neighbors own.
OLD HUGHEY.
Times-promoter., 1908-10-23
Contributors;
LAKE VIEW ITEMS

Mrs. Jas. Terrell was sick several
days last week, but glad to note she
is up again.
Mrs. Stella Baker and Jim Channell
were visitors Of Mrs. Dick Welch Sun
day.
Esq. J. HI. MCGOWAN and wife were
the guests Of Mrs. Oliver Gill last
Wednesday.
Cotton picking is all the go nova
days. The farmers are getting out
Times-promoter., 1908-10-23

If anybody tells you that there will
be panic if the democrats win, you
tell them there is only one class of
people who would be in panic-that
there would be panic among those
who have their hands in other peo-
ple's pockets, and the panic will con-
tinue until they take their hands out.
From one Mr.. Bryan's speeches.
Times-promoter., 1908-10-23

Kodol will without doubt, make
your stomach strong and will almost
instantly relieve you of all the symp-
toms of indigestion. Get bottle of
it To-Day. 1t is sold here by fernando
Drug Store.
Times-promoter., 1908-10-23

Seest thou man WISE in his own
conceit? There Is more hope OF
fool shan of him-Proverbs.
Times-promoter., 1908-10-23

Beef, pork and fish at McIngvale's.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03
Notice of the Purpose of the
Town of Pelahatchie to Issue
Bonds.

Be it ordained by the board of Mayor
and Aldermen of the town of Pelahatchie
that notice be published in the Brandon
News, newspaper having generaleircu-
lation in Said town, for three weeks, of
the purpose of the board to issue the bonds
of the town to the amount of six thousands
dollars, said bonds to bear interest at 6
per cent. per annum, payable semi an
neatly. This bond issue is for the pnr-
pose OF replacing the bond issue ofHoo4,
ISSUED for the purpose of building the
public school building, and for paving for
the annex which has been built thereto.
This issue will be the entire bonded i'm
debtedness of the town to date, and it,
together with all the other Indebtedness OF
the town, will not exceed seven per.
centum OF the assessed value of the town.
Notice is hereby given that, unless twenty
per centum of the adult tax payers of the.
town of Pelahatchie shall petition this
board against said bond issue, it will, al
its next regular meeting, issue the bonds
of the municipality in the said sum of six
thousand dollars. For cause, that this
ordinance be in force from and after. its
passage. Passed at regular meeting
August a, 1908.
J. A. SPANN,. jr.. Town Clerk.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03
Trees by the Roadside.

Mot only should brush and weeds
be removed from the roadside, but
grass should be sown, trees plant
ed, and side path or walk be pre-
pared for the use of pedestrians,
especially women and children,
going to and from church, school,
and places of business and amuse.
ment.
Fruit trees are planted along the
roadsides in Germany and Swi ger
land, while mulberry trees may be
seen along the roads in France,
serving the two-fold purpose OF
food for silkworms and shade. II
trees are planted alongside the road
they should be far enough back to
admit the wind and sun.
If some Of our many varietieS1ei
useful, fruitful. and beautiful trees
were planted along the roads in
this country, and if some means
could be devised for protecting the
product, enough revenue could be
derived therefrom to pay for main
tenance of the road along which
they throw their grateful shade
Maurice O. Eldridge.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03

], ID. Nj. Quinn, trustee under the pro-
visions of and by virtue of the authority
conferred on me in a deed of trust made
by +. r.. Adams and @. E. Adams to the
Security Trust & Banking Company on
the 5tln day of March, 1907, to secure
certain indebtedness to said Security
Trust * Banking Company, and which
said deed of trust is recorded in book No.
I, page IS, in the chancery clerks Office
of Rankin County, Mississippi, | will on
the 5th day of September, 1908, offer for
sale,. and will sell at public auction for
cash to'the highest and best bidder, in front
of the court house door at Brandon, during
legal hours, the following described
property situated in Rankin County,
Mississippi: East half (eH) of the north
west quarter (nw4) section three f3),
township five 81 north range four (4)
east. containing eighty acres (So) more
or less. H. M. QUINN, Trustee.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03

the glowing love of forty years
thrills thru my heart till tears come.
Tho this form be bowed, God i'm.
parts eternal life within. Let the
ear be deaf, the eye blind, the hind
palsied, the limbs withered, the
brain, eloaded, yet the heart-the
true heart-may hold such wealth
of love that all flowers of death and
the victorious grave SHALL not be
able to put out this quenchlesS
fame"
AS we meandered home we could
but think what heaven upon earth
this would be if such devotion ex-
lstedl between all who had taken
the marriage vow. To such a cou-
pie the mellow rays of life's sunset
are the most beautiful of any of the
long journey from the cradle to the.
grave.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03
States Cotton Crop.

Col. w. A. Montgomery, of Ed
wards, chairman of the board of
trustees of the state penitentiary,
who was in the city last night on
his way to the Sunffower state farm
at Parchman, is discouraged with
the present condition of the states
cotton crop, which he declares has
deteriorated from 20 to 50 per cent
in the last thirty days.
The state convicts make annu-
ally about 5000 bales of cotton on
the four farms located at Parchman,
Sunflower, Tchula, Holmes, Oak
ley, Kinds and Rankin counties and
the genial colonel fears that, not
withstanding Supt Neyland planted
this year for bumper crop, the
production will not be what was
expected of it.
The chief cause of the deteriora-
ton is attributed to heavy shedding
caused by the recent rains, follow
ed by q few very warm days, but
there is also some complaint yet
from the ravages of the boil worm.
These reports reach here from
all over the state, which indicates
that the state crop is not the only
one that is suffering from the trou-
bles complained of, but that the en-
tire section is in the same condi-
ton.
A month ago, in his formal re-
port to the board, Col. Montgomery
was highly pleased with the crop
conditions on all the state farms,
and with the single exception of the
Rankin farm, which is but a drop
in the bucket, the condition was set
down as being almost ideal. At
Rankin the crop has not recovered
from the effects of the early rains,
and the consequent overfloWs on
portions of the land in cultivation.
jackson News.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03
When Rural Highways Compete
With the Railroads.

America lays as good roads as
any country on which the sun
shines; but, having laid them, is
apparently of the belief that the
work is we'll and finally done. Not
SO in France! That county has
better roads, not because they are
put down better but because they
are cared for better. The marve-
lous financial vitality of that eoun-
try rests fairly and squarely on her
Incompatible system of perfect
highways. They are rivals of the
railroads and by the far-reaching
plans Of maintenance employed
they keep the railroad lines in check
and prevent the Inauguration of ex-
cessive freight rates. Office of
Public Roads, u. S. Department OF
Agriculture.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03
Greed More Than Carelessness.

"The match and the mouse"
"cross electric wires," "spontane-
Gus combustion" and other causes
of mysterious fires, were placed
under the light recently by Chief
}. H. Canterbury, of Minneapolis,
at the convention of the National
Firemen'S Association, in session
here.
eve are burning up property at
the rate of $500, 900 worth day."
said the Chief. "Why do so many
fires start? Is it carelessness, Gull
pable negligence or avarice? The
nature of the business and the in
surance policy usually tell the
story, not perhaps SO that it can
be given to the public, but in such
a way that the men who honestly
investigate can tell the why and
wherefore. Over-insurance is one
of the crimes of the century. The
agent is honest, but he must make
living. He does not know what
he insures, and does not care so
long as the premiums are paid.
"The lure of money and our
present-day civilization have inten-
sified the commercial struggle to
such All extent that some men will
not stop at anything to help them
selves along. This is not a chair
table view. but our experience in
specting fires, for which mice and
matches were held responsible, has
hardened US. We know the motive
of the mouse, but what was the
motive that put the match where
the mouse could get it? You will
find it in the figures of the insurance
policy You may not be able to
prove it, but it can be prevented. -
Mem York Evening Post.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03
An Aged Couple.

We recently spent a pleasant
evening with an aged couple, and
what added to that pleasantness,
was the fact that altho the couple
was basking in the sunset ofta WE'LL
spent life, they were as devoted to
each other as when the "honey-
moon" first showed in their path.
way. We could not but compliment
our friend upon his devotion to his
aged companion, and in. reply he
said to US, "You mistake me if YOU
think age has blotted out my heart.
Tho silver hair falls over a brow all
furroWed, yet | am a lover still, !
love all nature, and love yon aged
dame. Look at her. Her face is
scareworn, but it has ever held a
smile for me. Often have | shared
the same bitter cup with her, and
SO shared, it seems almost sweet.
Years of sickness have stoten the
freshness of life, but like the faded
rose, the perfume of her love is
richer than when in the full bloom
of youth and maturity. Together
we have Wept over graves. Thru
sunshine and storm we have chung
together, and now she sits with her
knitting, her cap quantity frilled,
the old style kercllief crossed white
and prim above the heart that beat
so long and true for me; the dim
blue eyes that shrinkingly front the
glad day; the sunlight throwing
parting farewell. kisses her brow
and leaves upon 1t faint tracing of
wrinkles angelic radiance. see,
tho no one else can, the bright, glad
young face that won me first, and
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03

Unless trade conditions maintain
the existing depression, cotton
ought to hold up to 10 cents a
pound, average, regardless of the
size of the crop. But trade re-
lations in regard to this great staple
have been SO much disturbed by
state legislation and the manipu-
lation of various organizations, that
a feeling of unrest exists among
millers and merchants that it is not
favorable or promising. Aberdeen
Examiner.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03
How Good Roads Help farm

Bad roads constitute the greatest
draw back to rural life, and for the
lack OF good roads the farmers
suffer more than any other class.
Those localities where good
roads have been built are becoming
richer, more prosperous, and more
thickly settled; those which do not
possess these advantages in trans
.portation are either at a standstill
or are becoming poorer and more
sparsely settled.
Life on farm often becomes. as
a result OF 'sbottomIess roads," iso-
lated and barren of social enioy-
ments and pleasures, and country
people in some communities suffer
such great disadvantage that am
bition is checked, energy weaken
ed, and industry paralized.
Good roads economic time and
force in transportation of products,
reduce wear and tear on horses,
harness and vehicles, and enhance
the market value of real estate.
Good roads raise the value Of
farm lands and farm products and
tend to beautify the country through
which they pass, they facilitate
rural mail delivery and are po-
tent aid to education, religion, and
sociability.
Good roads have a money valLe
to farmers as we'll as political and
social value, and leaving out con-
venience, comfort, social and re-
fined influences which good roads
always enhance, and looking at
them only from the almighty dol
lar side, they are found to pay
handsome dividends each year.
The bestroad for the farmer, all
things being considered, is a solid,
Well-bui't stone road, so narrow as
to be only single track, but
having firm earth road on one or
both sides.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03
Freight Rates Should be Reduced
on the Country Roads.

The transportation problem for
the southern farmer is not solved
by the opening of new lines of
railway in his territory. twill not
be solved by deepening rivers and
harbors, nor by inland waterways,
nor by the Panama Canal. Nor
will it be solved by the establish
ment of lower freight and passen-
ger rates on our great railway
lines. Helpful as all these things
are or will be to the southern farm
II, they serve only to accentuate
his real problem by laying an in
calculable increase of traffic upon
his own already over-burdened
lines of transportation, namely: the
country roads. These are the
farmers own lines and it is upon
these that he needs reduction of
freight and passenger rates.
If the amount of freight hauled
every year by steamship and rail-
way were computed and stated in
pounds, the total would stagger our
powers of belief. Yet of this vast
tonnage, it is estimated that 90 per-
cent must be carried by wagons
over highway. To carry a ton
one mile by sea costs one-tenth Of
a cent; by railroad one cent. A
ton may be hauled over good roads
for seven cents a mile; over ordi-
nary country road for % cents a
mile. Mudtax and hill climbing
tolls, therefore, amount to IS cents
a mile. 1t is appalling to con-
template! Gazette readers, don't
pay it! Demand a reduction of
freight and passenger rates on your
own lines. Grade, drag, drain,
use clay and gravel, macadamize-
abolish the mud tax and reduce
your freight rates.
1t is business proposition. Can
you think of one that is more i'm
portant to your An improved
system of country roads means
millions saved annually to southern
agriculture. Southern Farm Ga
Zette.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03
His Land Deal.

Frank Ruoh, the keeper of the
buffalo herd, in the national forest
of Oklahoma, is credited with this
says the Kansas City Star: "Once
Kansas farmer met on the hot,
dusty road, homesteader, pushing
on excitedly to the Cherokee strip.
."Whar you bound?" said the far
mer. "Fer hundred and sixty
acres of free land in the strip" was
the reply. And the man vanished
in the glitter of dust and sunshine.
A month or two went by and on the
same dusty road the Kansas farmer
met the homesteader returning.
Hello, he said, what ye done with
them hundred and sixty acres1'
The homesteader pointed his whip
proudly toward his mule team. ,eSee
them mules?" said he wall.
traded eighty acres of.my claim for
'em.
9 What did you do with the rest?'
Don't gimme away was the re-
ply, but the other fellow was a
tenderfoot, an | run in the other
eighty acres on him without his
knowing it.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03

Il understand that you farmers
are going to get most of the profits
from crops this year.
$50 | hear, answered Farmer
Corntossel. But we've got to be
mighty keerful. If we ever get to
payin' dividends reg'lar some
captain Of finance will get hold Of
US an we'll be organized, syndi-
Gated and merged, till there won't
be no profit fur nobody except a
few fellers with little office some-
where in Jersey City."-Ex.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03
NotiCe of trustees Sale.

Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills relieve pain
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03
How a Merchant Keeps Eggs.

Dear Aunt Mary: Having seen
an inquiry in your paper lately
about keeping eggs, ! will give your
readers simple plan which | have
tested and adopted in general
merchandise store after trying all
other known plans with varying
degrees of vexation and loss:
Take two dry clean wood boxes,
put them in dry, ventilated place
and Change the eggs from one box
to the other every other day.
GENERAL STORE,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03
Citation Notice.

State of Mississippi. To Charlie Nor
gan, the defendants You are commanded
10 appear before the chancery Court of the
county OF Rankla, in said state, on the
4tn monday OF September, A. D. 1908, to
oeiend the suit In said court of Sarah
Morgan, wherein you are a defendant.
ms 9th day OF August, A. d. 1908.
JNO. A. GAYDEN, Clerk.
BY J. G. Bruce, D. c.
A. J. McLaurln, jr., Sol. for Com.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-03

Neuralgia Stop those sharp. shootins.
Agonizing neuralgia pains vita DR. Nile:
Anti Pain Pilla Is doses * cents
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1908-12-11
Queer English Laws.

"No statute law Of England ever car
be obsolete" a legal journal says
"0nce enacted, 1t continues In binding
force until repealed"
IL such be really the case, there
ought to be some lively times ahead
for several classes of the community.
For instance, what will builders have
to say to the act which penalties any
person who erects a house without at
taching to It at least four acres of
land? This was one Of "good Queen
Bess' laws, and II has most certainly
never been repealed.
BY another unrepealed statute, which
dates back to the first year OF King
James l., it is enacted that not more
than a penny may be charged for a
quart Of the best old ale nor more than
a halfpenny for like quantity Of
small beer The penalty for each I'm
fraction of the act is 20 shllllngs, so
that II It were rigidly enforced It
would not need. apparently, a licensing
bill to ruin the brewers. Then, again,
a Catholic owning horse Is still legal
~ obliged to sell It for f5 to anybody
who chooses to offer that sum for it,
London Graphic.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1908-12-11
CAurCh Notices.

Trinity NJ E. Church, South, l. s. Patterson,
Pastor. Services Sunday at II q. M and $50 o. m.
Junior Epworth League. 500 p. m. Senior Ep-
worth League, 400 o. m All membars requested
b attend. The public and strangers specially in
vited % worship with Us.
Presbyterian Church. Rev. VIM. H. Zlegler, Pas
tor.--ReRular services at II O'Clock a. m. and at
1:30 O'Clock D. m. Sabbath school a. $50 a. m.
Midweak services on Wednesday evening at 100
2. m.
First Baptist Church. Rev. J. q. Pruett, Pastor.
school 9.t6 q. m: Junior b. ~ r. "a o'clock D. m +;
Senior B. Y. p. u, Friday az $50 D. m Prayer and
Praise servics Wednesday evening at 7;30 p: m.
Everybody welcome.
ST. Johns Epiaeopal Church: Rev. Samuel Mo
ram Rector. Early eelebration--Sunday and Holy
Days, $50 3. m. Morning prayer and sermon II
8. m, Evening prayer and sermon, $50 p. IA. FRI
day evening 7;30 evening prayer and lecture. Re
hearual Of choir Friday night after service. Sun
day school at 10 a. NJ.
Christian Science.-Services are held every Sun
day az II O'Clock a m. and Wednesday evening &c
o'clock D. m, In the front room second story. Of
the building cast Of the po8tOfdce. This room h
also used as . Christian Science reading room.
and ID open daily except Sundays and Friday
afternoons between the hours Of 10 and u o'clock
q. m. and and O'Clock y. m All are cordially
invited. The Sunday school is held Sunday morn
ing from 10 70 l0:45.
Catholic Church--Rsv. Fathers Brssuahnn and
Buckley priests in charge Services every Sun
day at 10 q m. Mass during the week az oiS a m.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1908-12-11
The FIRST Mourning PAPER.


The Oldest known letter written on
black edged note paper as a sign OF
mourning appears to be one dated Jan.
8. 1854 10 Addison's comedy Of ''The
Drummer" 1715. reference is made to
the fashion IN the words, "My lady's
mourning paper that Is blaeked at the
edges" A few years later Allan Ram.
say, who died In 175S, speaks in one
Of his poems OF 4the sable bordered
sheet as q messenger Of sorrow.
Mann, writing from Italy to Horace
Walpole In 1915, says that It was uni
versally used IN Florence at that time.
The superior elegance Of this Italian
note paper, with its narrow margin Of
black, explains It's ready acceptance in
this country. where It superseded the
Quarto sheet with a black border some
times a quarter Of an inch wide. In
this way It probably gave an impetus
to the fashion But II ls a mistake TO
suppose, as some have done, that the
fashion was introduced from Italy
London Answers.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1908-12-11

Sun cooking roasting and boiling by
sunlight lnstead OF coal or gas-has
been going ON for 800 years There
are sun stoves that roast q sirlOin o.
boil soup to perfection They are
only used, however. by scientists. a
sun stove consists mainly Of q mirror
q spherical mirror on a joint There
IS also a reflector. The place for pot
or plate Is so situated fhat the mirrors
rays can be focused on Il accurately
A German. Baron TcherDhausen, was
the iirst sun cook. He began 10 1857
to boil water, and Ia l686 he bad very
good success at baking eGss. Sir John
Herschel and Button are other "a.
nous names associated with sun cook.
Ing. In California various sun cooks
have boiled a gallon OF water 10 TWEEN
y minutes, roasted meat Ia two hours
and poached eggs IN fifteen minutes
quite as good time as the ordinary Gre
makes. An odd thing about meat
roasted by sun rays Is that Il has an
unpleasant taste. This Is avoided by
the insertion Of plate Of yellow glass
between meat and mirror. Ia all solar
stoves the sheet Of yellow glass ng.
ures.-Cincinnad Enquirer