The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-08-05

Miss Alma MILLER, of Meridian, is
the guest of relatives here.
Mrs. o. J. Ragland and sen Elston,
were Brandon visitors Friday.
A fine girl baby was BORN to- Mr..
and Mrs. A. L. Hughes Sunday.
Jack Miller, of Louisville, visited
his friend, Roy Fox, here last week.
Miss Bertlee Johnson returned Mon
day from pleasant visit to Durant
Judge Will Thomas, of Thomas
willie, was among our visitors Nom
day
Mr.. Scott Garner and his mother,
of New Orleans, are guests of Gay
dem Hotel.
Miss Gertrude May has returned
from a pleasant visit to relatives at
Florence.
Mrs. Carrie Turcctt and childrefH,
of Magee, ere tie guests OF K. W.
Wynn and family.
Miss lSiddie Boyd, of Jackson, was
the guest of her sister, Mrs. A. G..
Thornton, Tuesday.
R. E. Gayden brought last Monday
to the News office the first open boil
of cotton seen DIM this town.
MIR. and Mrs. Randall eastman,
41oA0e IAcNcfcy OFF
Cashman's mother, Mrs. Bette VIII
son.
Washington dispatches give the
information that j. E. Fisher has
been appointed postmaster at Pear
som.
Didlake Kersh, who lis working on
the, McHenry News, is spending a
few days with homefolhs at this
place.
w. G. Runges commodious resi-
dence. and the new office building
at the Sanitarium, are fast nearing
completion.
General Lowry continues to i'm
ETOVG dIHu is W OC SlCCA ONO1J uNNJ
i'm the hotel gallery, enjoying the
air this town is noted for
The rains have brought better
spirits to farmers and gardeners
whose crops were we'll nigh burnt
UP by the long continued drought
A. A. WeiI'Ia, of Vicksburg, was
I, oc+ NTnn1oUy T6iOH1f
as his mother was quite sick. The
News lis glad to state that she is
much better.
Griff Weathersby killed another
negro named Tilhs, on Ed Martins
place, near Thomasville, Monday of
last week, cause unknown and the
slayer gone.
w. H. Barnes Joined party OF
friends at Florence Wednesday to
spend few days fighting mosquit-
oes and think he was fishing on
Pearl river.
Miss Lucille Lynch, a talented elo-
cutionist of Osyka, will give reci-
tai at the Graded school hall Wed
nesday evening. 11th of August.
Every enc invited.
Mrs.P. B. Bridges, of Jackson, lis
the guest of relatives here, where as
Miss Willie Berry, a school girl, and
afterwards as a bride, she was admir-
ed and loved by all who knew her.
Work on the plant of the Bran
dom Machinery & Lumber Co., lis pro-
crossing we'll, and when ready for
business the town will benefit great
ly from the enterprise the hustling
owners have launched.
Hon. H. L. Whitfield, president of
the Industrial Institute and College,
is here minghng with friends who
are always glad to see this former
Rank lite, who has achieved great
success in the educational field.
J. H. May, who has BEEN i'm New
Orleans for the past six weeks, tax
ing a course on the Standard Limo
type, is expected home Sunday, for
a short visit before his departure for
the west.
Eight crap shooters borrowed from
Jackson until they can work out their
fines for playing the bones this side
of the river Sunday were carried
out Tuesday to assist i'm making
Rankin highways better.
john Russell, a fine specimen of
the physical man that Rankin grows,
lis here this week ON visit to rel
atives. His home is in Alexandria,
La, and his friendA are glad to know
of his deserved success.
Miss Robbie Griffin, of Mayfield,
KY, and Miss Velma Griffin, who
has been the guest of relatives at
Greenwood, Miss, arrived Tuesday
afternoon en- a visit to their moth
err, Mrs. John Simmons.
Judge w. M. Corley has scholar
ship of the Meridian Male College
to- give to some worthy boy, the pres
ident having requested him to make
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