The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-12
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=. -. TlOyu Will soon be IN his
new home.
Miss Gussie May has been sick
since Friday.
Little Myrtle Boteler is very
sick with pneumonia.
}. c. Williams was selling cot
ton in Vicksburg Tuesday.
Miss Sudie Bullock left Sunday
for an extended visit to relatives
at Bolton.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Grain, Of
Dobson, visited Jim Dickson's
family Sunday.
Mrs. A. E. Harper and Miss
Essie, of Thomasville, visited
relatives here one day last week.
Rev. w. w. Morse filled his
regular appointment Sunday.
He was accompanied by Mrs.
Morse.
Rev. Bryan Simmons, of Bran
don, visited the school last week
instead Of Supt. Myers, who has
been unable to travel.
The grip has held sway in this
community for some two weeks.
A number are being kept out
OF school on account of it.
Benjamin Boteler was buried
here Friday. He leaves one son,
t. j. Boteler, and number of
other relatives. We extend our
heartfelt sympathy.
The boys of the literary So
ciety gave a public debate last
Friday afternoon, and entertain
ed us for an hour and a half.
The question discussed was, re-
solved, that Italian labor would
be more desirable for Mississippi
than negro labor John Hasty,
Albert Taylor and Clarence Bull
lock were on the affirmative,
while the negative side was cared
for by Clarence Smith, Henry
Bullock and Wallace Williams.
The judges were Prof. ]. B.
Canada, of Dry Creek School, DR..
Todd, of Thomasville, and Mrs.
Edna billiard, of the Steens Creek
school. The negative side won
the question. To say that we were
pleased with the way the boys
handled the subject is putting it
lightly. We are proud of them,
and feel that we have right to
be. The house was filled to over
flowing with patrons and others,
and they all expressed them
selves as being surprised at the
ability shown by boys of their
lagos.
Some sixty years ago, during
those troublous days before Sc
cession, there was born near
this place a child. 1t was
tenderly nursed by it's parents
who loved it as only parents can
love. 1t grew in size and
strength until it became strong
and stalwart. BY and by when
the south severed her relations
with the Union, and the call was
made for men, it had sons of its
own as brave as ever shouldereC
a musket in defense of principle.
1t gladly gave them. They
fought the battles of the con-
federacy some of them in the
famous 9th Miss. When the wal
was ended those who were spared
returned and found their beloved
parents ready to welcome them
home. They exchanged their
guns for ploWs and hoes and re.
paired their fortunes, never fol-
once forgetting the tenderness
with which their parents hao
/ fondled them in their younger
days. But these sons have rear
ed sons of their own. They too,
have become men, and being alb.
sorbed in their own affairs.
neglected their aged grand par.
ent. It went begging from door
! to door; but no one would take il
in. And while it stood thus beg.
ging in the streets, it's grand
sons whom it loved dearly, triec
to shirk the responsibility of its
care. They sent it from one t6
another; but each time it was tolo
| the same old story the trouble
was too great, the remunerative
too small. 1t gave up in despair
and while the stalwart grand
sons slept, an enemy stabbed il
and it died. It is mourned by
many, but some claimed that il
had served it's day, that it must
pivn wav To new ideas and