The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-12-24

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Robbins received the $50 prize
offered by the A. &. V. Railroad
for the best section on that road
and his good wife the $50 prize
for the best kept section house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Randall Cash
man have returned to their
home in Vicksburg, after spend
ing the holidays, with Mrs. Cash
mans mother, Mrs. Bette Will
son.
Misses Merle Gayden, Emma
Buchanan, and Maggie Belle
McRae, students of the |. I. and
C. at Columbus, spent the Christ
mas vacation with their parents
here.
Miss Sarah Enochs, who is
teaching at Greenwood, and
Dewitt Enochs, a rising young
lawyer of Mendenhall, spent
Christmas with their mother,
Mrs. F. S. Enochs.
John Cole a prominent mer-
chant, of Jackson, and DR.. Cliff
Cole, now attending the final
lectures of his Medical course at
Tulane, had their Christmas
dinner in the old home.
Ford Childs was over yesterday
looking after State Revenue af-
fairs. Rankin people are not
forgetful when it comes to CIV
ing in loans, and derelicts will be
few, but jewelry owners have
bad memories.
H. E. Carr, of st. Louis,
Michigan, arrived yesterday for
a stay in this town, where every
body is glad is see him, until the
wintry blasts in bleak Michigan
have ceased, that life may be
worth living.
Rev, E. C. Comfort preached
at Mt. Carmel Friday and at
Johns Saturday, and Sunday
morning and evening at the
Presbyterian church here. On
Sunday afternoon he held SER
vices at Dry Creek.
The young people Of Brandon
were entertained Christmas night
by Miss Mary White at the hos
pitable White home on College
street. Appropriate games were
played and a delightful course
luncheon was served.
Mrs. J. C. White of Memphis,
came down to visit her father,
J. G. Foulkes and family, Christ
mas. She was accompanied by
her sisters, Misses Annie Mar
garet Fonlks who are attending
school in that city.
Dir. C. F. Emery, of Brandon,
was in the city yesterday even
ing. The conference has sent
him back to Brandon for the
fourth time, which is just and
proper recognition of his ability
and popularity. Clarion Ledge.
Christmas passed off quietly in
Brandon, with little or no drunk
enness, though many people were
here trading, and without any
fightf or killings, though out in
the country one negro was killed
in a crap game, with several
other minor disturbances.
ST Todd and Dick Brown, young
negro men, engaged in a shoot
ing scrape in the Hog creek
neighborhood on Saturday morn
ing the 10th, with the result that
Brown is dead and Todd is in jail
charged with the killing-A crap
CRANE dispute was the cause.
The Brandon Banks both dis
tributed beautiful calenders to
their customers and friends just
before Christmas, but then every
body knows that when it comes
to doing the right thing in the
best style our financial institu-
tons can always be counted on.
Henry Cofer, who has been
living in Louisiana for some
time, was a pleasant caller last
week at The News Office and his
friends here will be glad to learn
that he has been elected assist
ant cashier of the Peoples
Saving Bank, of Natchez, and
will enter upon the duties jan
uary 1st.
Among the college boys home
for Christmas are Sidney Nc
Laurin and Vernon Loveless from
University Training School at
Oxford, Horace McLaurin and
Colo R11roc Miccicci,oni Co1lnon