The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-10-22

Senator A. J. McLaurin and
Geo. G. 'Sprague, Rankin's
largest timber land dealer spent
several days in Smith county
this week.
The many friends Of Bowers
Bros. Of Jackson, will be glad to
learn that that firm has made
arrangements and their store is
again open.
The ladies of st. Lukes' Epis-
copal church will give a Hal
loween party at the residence of
j. A. Morris, Of which a more
extensive notice will appear next
week.
J. Klumb, one of the owners
of the Finkbine Lumber Co., of
Virgins, and large holders of
fine timbered lands in this county
was here yesterday.
Late kilograms state that Judge
R. z. Taylor escaped from Ten
nessee night riders, who hung
his partner Capt. Quentin
Rankin, and is we'll. 1t was an
outrage that the world hopes
will be punished.
There will be services at the
PRESBYTERIAN church as usual on
next Sunday morning, but there
will be no service at night. The
News has been requested by the
pastor, Rev. E. c. Comfort to
make the above announcement.
Mrs. Ellen Wilson, who has
been for some time with her
daughter, Mrs. j. H. Glass, left
yesterday to visit her sons,
United States Marshal Edgar S.
Wilson and Hon. R. E. Wilson, of
Jackson.
If you have given the dollar to
Bryan Campaign fund and an
other to the Battleship fund,
you have done well; but don't
forget The Brandon News needs
your dollar, and if you are in
arrears, please send it in.
Prof. G. Ham and daughter
Miss Stella, have charge of the
school at Fannin. Prof. Ham
has spent the greater portion of
his life in teaching and will no
doubt succeed in building a
splendid school at Fannin.
The firm of J. A. Taylor &
Son, of Pelahatchie, will be dis
solved and all parties owing said
firm are requested to go in and
settle up. We do not know if
the business of the firm of j. A.
Taylor & Son will be continued
by G. w. Taylor or not but if ii
is not, Pelahatchie as we'll as all
of East Rankin will greatly miss
them.
An error was made last week
| in publishing chancery court
proceedings in the matter of
Mrs. JOHNNY Mckay Smith VS. Ed
Smith. The decree was that de-
PENDANT Ed Smith, pay Mrs.
JOHNNY Mckay Smith complain
ant, twenty-five dollars to prose.
cute said suit, and the same tc
be paid within twenty days from
date of decree.
| The roads are now in splendid
condition, and will remain so I'M
til the winter rains set in. The
swamp through Richland creek
on the Brandon and Florence
road is the best piece of road
that has been built in this county
in years and it is hoped that
other stretches through almost
impossible sWamps, at certain
seasons, will be given the same
treatment, which if expensive at
first, is decidedly the cheapest in
the long run.
J. w. Mcpherson, an old time
resident Of this county, died at
his home at Port Gibson, on
September IL, 1908, after an
illness Of several months. AT
the time of his death, Mr.. Nc
Pherson was in his 91st year,
andup until a few months ago
was well and hearty, and hardly
knew what it was to be sick. He
is survived by several children,
Mrs. H. L. Myers, of this place,
being among the number.
Henry Harper, of Newton
town, won the first prize in the
Boys Corn Growing Contest in
Newton county, with a yield of
149 bushels to the acre. He
used u ton fertilizer. S. H.
Exynraff nf n1ao+,,,. xry0~> $1,000 y