The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-01
Mrs. Garaway and baby boy have
Joined DR.. q. X. Garaway here and
have rooms at the Darnall Hotel.

Mrs. w. ]. Altman returned to her
home at Gulfport yesterday after
spending the week with relatives and
friends at Brandon.
Brandon ought to have an ice
factory, with a cold storage room
for eggs and other products. Brandon
needs an electric light plant
Miss Eunice Washburn Is expecting
her. Milliner, Miss Lula Hover, TO
arrive the early part of next week,
who will be glad to serve her friends
and patrons as before.
Miss Irene Platt, of Lake, Miss,
was here Sunday to see her sister,
Miss Ella, who was successfully ope-
rated on at the sanitarium, the lat
ter returning home yesterday.
Sim Harris, son of John Harris,
keeper of the capital, was instantly
killed in Jackson Monday by coming
in contact with a live wire on an
electric light pole he was climbing
Mesdames S. L. McLaurin and Will
Owen represented the Brandon Won
ans Home Mission Society at the
State meeting in Vickshurg last week.
Downing Locke Co., Jackson, Miss,
in today's issue, invites their Ran
kin friends to inspect their superb
display of Easter goods at their
Store in the Lime Light"
Rankin camp confederate veterans
will meet next Saturday at IL o'clock
a. m. at the court house. All mem
bers are urgently requested to be
present as there are matters of i'm
portance to be attended to.
Will Walker left Tuesday for Wash
ington for an extended visit to his
uncle, Commander ]. l.. Jayne, U.
S. NJ While there he will attend
college and his many friends expect
good reports of his progress.
DR.. Harry Watson, who is enter
prising as well as public spirited, has
had a concrete walk laid in front of
his new building, which he built speci
ally for his jewelry business and has
also had water works put in.
Mrs. Mary Mayors Green, of Me-
ridian, stopped over for a day this
week with relatives, on her return
from Vicksburg, where she attended
the State meeting of the Woman's
Hcme Mission Society.
The News regrets to chronicle the
names of Master Sidney Stapleton,
Cap. Buchanan and others being de-
tanned from school this week on ac-
count of illness. We hope them a
speedy recovery and their presence
back in school soon.
Sam P. McRae; one of Jackson's
best merchants, was over Sunday to
see his parents, and was driving a
high class animal raised in Rankin
county, which is another evidence
that first class stock can be grown
in this section.
DR.. t. A. Chapman's professional
card will be found in this issue in
the proper column. He is a graduate
of the Vanderbilt Dental College and
is highly recommended as a skilled
dentist by those for whom he has
done dental work. He will be found
in the office formerly occupied by DR..
May. whose outfit and business he
recently purchased.
w. D. Ragland having farming OPP
erations on land he recently purch-
ased from w Waddell under good
Roadway left yesterday afternoon for
Thomasville where he will join Mott
Myers, Luther and Charlie Grain, Tom
and Holly Cook, Hardin Meyers and
others and proceed to Dabbs Creek
where several days will be spent fish
ing during daylight and playing the
fiddle at night Good sport is. eX-
pected and there will be PLENTY to eat
for they will carry supply along.
Mrs. Clyde Peacher Watson, who
shot young man in Columbus, Miss,
and then turned the pistol upon her
self inflicting wound that will pos
sib1y result in her death, is not ma
tive of Brandon, and it is strange
that such a report should get out, as
specials to daily papers sent out
from Columbus, stated that she had
been married to a grocery merchant
of that city for 10 years, the mother
of three children, was a brunette OF
small size and was native of that
county.
The basket ball team of the Grad
ed High School here played the Flor
ence team Saturday at that place, win
ming by a score of II to 8. Several
from here went down to see the gam
and they, as well as the players,
speak highly Of the hospitality OF
the good town of Florence. Each
team has now won game from the
other and the basket ball enthusiasts
are trying to arrange another to de-
eide the championship. Both teams
are excellent players.
Uncle Billy" Moore, for many
wears one of the most prominent and
most beloved citizens of the Fannin
neighborhood in Rankin county, is
spending a few days in Jackson on a
visit to his daughter, Mrs. Jno. Shields
on North President street. Mr.. Moore
is now SO years of age and badly Grip
pied up because of falls in which he
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