The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-18

Maj. Pat Henry requested the News
to state that the ladies', and all 9TH
ers interested In organizing the GENE
terry association are requested to
meet at the court house tomorrow
Friday afternoon, at o'clock.
The News is glad to state that M.
M. Jayne who has been at the Bran
don Sanitarium Is able to be on
our streets again and that Mr.. Lutte
Lawrence,of Fannin, is strong enough
to be around the building and can
soon return home.
Mr.. Frank Emery, Jr, OF Louisia-
Ina, is out on visit to his parents,
and while here had DR.. Ruel May
perform an operation for an impacted
| third molar, which requires skill in
oral surgery and which was success
fully done,
l. F. Terrell, of Meridian, but late
ly engaged in telephone work in Jack
son, has taken charge of the Cum
berland Telephone office here, sue
eeeding Mr.. Stanley. Mrs. Terrell
and baby have Joined Mr.. Terrell
here and will make Brandon their
home.
Chas. Runge and family, and sis
ter-in-law, left Monday for EudOra,
Arkansas, where they will reside in|
the future. Brandon commends them
to the people of their new home and
wishes for them happiness and pros
perity.
B. F. Able while working at Cor
ley's saw mill. several miles South of
town, last Thursday got his leg
caught under a log he was turning,
MASKING it very badly He is an in
dustrious young man and his friends
sympathize with him in his misfor-
tune.
The date, 3rd of March, as pub
lished in last weeks issue of the
News, as the time for Rankin camp
No. 265. u. c. ", to meet in the
court house at Brandon to select de-
legates and alternates to the reunion
at Memphis, was typographical err
ror and should have been the 3rd of
April. Veterans will please be on
hand on April the Srd.
G. w. Arender, of Smith county,
sent this week to Chancery Clerk,
John A. Gayden, the foot of a large
bold eagle he caught in steel trap,
which he had set to catch owls he
thought were killing his geese. The
monster bird measured feet and
| 10 inches from tip to tip of wings
and his claws stretched out s inches.
Mrs. Nora Bruce Jones has at her
home on College street an orange
tree two and one half feet tall that
is now in full bloom and at the
same time has hanging on its branch
es twelve oranges. Her lemon tree
| is in bearing, the largest specimen
of this seasons fruit measuring
thirteen inches in diameter.
Natchez, Gulfport and Pascagoula
are each asking to be selected as the
port where the battleship Mississippi
is to receive the silver service and
so far as the News is concerned can
settle it among themselves, as the
Rankin board of Supervisors has
permitted to SO many bridges to be
built over Tarrapin Skin that the
vessel cannot reach Brandon.
Gayden Sheppard, who lives East
of Brandon, made year before last,
with his own small own family 81 300
worth of farm products and last. year
made $1,100. He had SOC bushels of
corn to sell this season and at the
prevailing prices found it first class
money crop Deep blowing and thor
Ough cultivation was the secret of his
success.
With plenty of power from gaso-
line engine, driving planer, buzz saw
and other machines turning out door
and window frames, dressing lumber,
etc, Walrods shop is a busy place
these days, and while the buzz of the
saw and the whirr of the planer may
keep one or two from daylight maps,
The noise has the hum of progress
and is welcomed.
At the Methodist church next Sun
day at II O'Clock Rev. C. F. Emery
will preach a sermon with special
reference to the movement contem-
templated by 1.-The Law Enforcement
League" His subject will be San
ballat, Tobiah & Company" Those
who are curious to know more fully
about this ancient firm are invited
to read the Book of Nehemiah in the
interim. The public is cordially in
vited to be present. Preaching also
at 1880 p. m.