The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-01
TOWNSVILLE.

Commercial travellers are frequently
in our town these days.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Berry. of Brax-
ton, visited relatives here Saturday
and Sunday.
Our merchants arc getting In their
spring goods.
Mrs, Leonard Berry, OF .Pinola. and
Mrs. Luther Boyd. Of Louin, are Wis
iting their mother, Mrs.. John McNair
and family.
School was suspended two days
last week, the principal, Prof. Tyree,
being confined to his room with cold.
Professor resumed HRS work In the
school room Wednesday morning with
his usual vigor and courage.
The farmers are still following the
time honored industry-raising cotton
and while several carloads of comme.<
cial fertilizer has been hauled out
from the depot within the past four
weeks, yet it does not indicate that
we are raising cotton exclusively; as
the wholesome influence eminat-
ing from the farmers union has caus-1
ed the people to recognize the impor-
lance of combining other crops with
cotton which is essential to their sue.
cess.
AS a result of the excessive rains
recently the Operations of farming
have been somewhat retarded, but if
nothing uncommon occurs in the
weather conditions the prospects are
that the crops will be planted in due
time.
Our Telephone Co. organized about
three years ago under the charter
name of: Mutual Telephone Com
pany, has made splendid success, hav-
ing 80 phones connected with the ex-
change.
| Not boasting, but we take pride in
saying probably no place has high
er standard of citizenry than our
part of the commonwealth. Notwith-
standing the fact that the volume of
official business in the magistrates
office and court room has steadily in
creased within the past II months.
1t is only due to the increase
of our population, and the tendency
of the people to apply and enforce
more rigidly the tecnicalities of the
! law.
Our cemetery is badly in. need of
work, and the writer would suggest
that as early as practicable, that we
appoint day and have a public work
ing, and arrange the time far enough
in advance that everybody who is
interested may know of and plan ac-
cordingly. The place where some
! day, possibly, will be our haunts.
Are we negligent as regards our duty
to the dead?
The place where lies the mortal
remains of our loved ones, resting
silently and peacefully under the soft
4 whispers of Father Time, and the
melodious chanting of the nightin-
gale, waiting, yes, waiting for the
1 coming of the archangel who shall
swoop down and announce the glad
summons: "Burstforth the lid of
your coffin, depart from the bosom
of mother earth, and bid farewell TO
Father Time: Join the mighty hosts
who are taking passage for that hap
Ply! happy land, On whose's shores
awaits the grandest of all grand re-
fceptions that were ever witnessed by
man. When the trials and snares of
life are no more, and King Emanuel
bids and commands: Join yea your
comrades who have gone on before.
| We shall not have a horror for, and
dread, but resign our bodies to the
city of the dead, knowing that our
relatives and friends will ever cherish
in their memory worthy lives we
! have led. While the dear ones are
waiting for their home on high, we
should not permit their mounds to be
f, hidden from the passer-by.
While we might pay homage sepa-
rately to the noble lives and examples
of our ancestors, kindred and friends,
who have only taken refuge behind
the veil of death, but the famil-
arity with the history of their lives,
on the part of the writer forbids; yes
brief reflection over the sweet com
partnership with those who have paid
the debt from which none can escape
and are now at rest, should be Suffi-
cient to stimulate within us a still
warmer feeling for that lonely enclos-
ure, the keeping of which passes not
into insignificance in comparison with
other duties of our material life
! We entreat you in behalf of those
! who cannot speak for themselves, let
US no longer give access and freeplay
| to the grass, weeds and other things
foreign. In conclusion, may this mat
| ter have the serious attention it so
richly deserves.