The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-08

win Cooper, of Beat l. was here
DIR. Ruel May, OF Jackson, was here
Monday afternoon.
Miss Annie Henry is on the sick
list this week.
Mayes Cooper, of Greenwood, was
here this week.
Berry Slade came down from North
Rankin Monday on business.
VIII White, deputy sheriff, was out
this week serving legal papers.
Roy Fox is back after short
visit to his old home at Louisville.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Brown and chill
dren are spending today at Fannin.
Thos ]. Gates, ONE of the solid mem
of Johns, is here today ON business.
Mrs. DR.. StingIily, of Pelahatchfe, is +,
the guest of her father, l.. 0. Gaydem
john Cole his up after a short con-
finement with a slight attack of fever.
Messrs. Baker and Lawrence, of !,
of Pisgah, represented that neigh
borhood here Monday.
George Owen, Pelahatchie's hust-
ling marshal, attended the meeting of /
the county legislature Monday.
Marion Martin, now of Birmingham,
from which city comes good reports
of his business capacity, is visiting
his father.
Mrs. Rosa May and so1I, Russell.
passed through here Tuesday to Dob
SON. after a trip down the G. and S.!
l. railroad.
Mr.. and Mrs Dewitt G. Enochs, of
Mendenhall, have been the guests of
MIR. Enochs' mother Mrs. Fannie
Enochs, the past week.
Governor Lowry continues to- inn
prove and every day receives nu-
merous old friends who call to chat
of old times and war experiences
Mrs d. M. Calhoun, of Hattiesburg,
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. A. +.
Miller. Mrs. w. l.. Mcpherson, on
Tlckfaw, La, another sister, is eX-
pected to also be her guest in few,
days.
Mesdames Herbert Cooke, of Amt
lers, Okla, and Eugene Jackson, OF
Parchman, Miss, who have been Wis
iting their parents, Mr.. and Mrs G.
| J.. Martini, left for their respective
homes today.
Mrs. Sylvester McLaurin and son,
| Sylvester, With Miss Fannie Jack
after a ten days visit to their sister,
Miss Pearl Jack, left this morning
via New Orleans for Houston and
other points in Hattiesburg
News, July 2.
Shaw Enochs, who lives down at
Fort Myer, Fla, where the tourist
congregate to catch the Tarpon and
, enjoy the sea breeZes, lis at home
for few weeks stay to get the
benefit of even the healthier air OF
Brandon
Bob MCGOWAN, driver fer the Kinds
county prison farm, came over last
night and captured the notorious
chicken thief, Jim Culley, who es-
capped last Christmas day from that
institution kept for the benefit of
such as Culley. He returned with hill
this morning.
Mrs John B. Lawrence and chill
dren. of Alexandria, La, passed
through here Saturday afternoon for
GocIhen Springs to visit Mrs. l. B.
Lawrence and family Mr.. Lawrence
could not accompany them as he was
too busy with his work. The people
eff Rankin are proud of this gifted son
who is one of the strongest men in
the Baptist ministery in the South.
This has been very satisfactory
week, so far, for Brandon. The
weather has been good for farming
the city and Justice courts have made
examples of some persistent law
breakers, the city council has takem
an important step in road improve
ment, by voting bonds, and Louis
Washburn's sale has brought people
as far off as Smith county to attend
the biggest mercantile function that
the public has been invited to in
many years.
While the crowds of anxious buyers
taking advantage of L. e. Washbu11ns
big sale are large, the immense stock
I'm the Hands of the Law" lis too
great to be sold at retail i'm a few days
and the ipubliic is assured that lit will
continue until all is sold. The goods
are conveniently displayed that shop
ping can be quickly done. Every
detail was arranged by Mr.. Green!
manager CT the America Sales Co,
of Atlanta, and the perfect system of
exhibiting and selling has been found
to work we'll. Come in for the bar
ga1ns-they are there.
Marshal Ccttrell has been directed
h1y tho roouor oD,d ok 10 rool1a