The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-01

234-236 E. Capitol st. Jackson
of practice on the Standard machsne
as taught by the Mergenthaler school
His splendid mechanical ideas, togeth
err with rapid movement, and his
steady habits will give him high
in the ranks of best opera
tors.
P. Rnkin, Braandon's black cobbler
and also most persistent town drunk,
ard, had reformed for some time from
falling out of 3-story windows and off
two story galleries and breaking his,
legs, but had not sobered down,
enough to keep from rails
ing rough house. Sunday
he INDUCED too freely, be-
cause it was convenient, and proceed
ed to raise cain with tongue that
was SO thick with the oil of joy that
that it had passed the smoothest,
period to profanity. His Honor, the
Mayor, gave him all told, ON two
charges, $500 in fines, with costs to-
be added and 90 days on the. farm,
where the hot sun will boil the liquor
out and while close to nature hoeing
cotton will be far from red-eye.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. l.. McLaurin en-
tertained at delightful al fresco
luncheon on Wednesday last, in honor
of Mrs. T. r. Pettway (nee Miss
Renie Henry of Austin, Texas. The,
occasion was one of unalloyed pleas
ure, bringing together old friends
bounded by the closest ties of friend
ship and love. The handsome old
Southern home was thrown open, and
the spacious lawn echoed to the
laughter of joyous, happy voices.
Those enjoying the gracious hospital
ity of Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin were,
Major and Mrs. Pat Henry, Miss Am
ME Henry and Edmond T. Henry,
Mrs. Herbert Cooke and little daugh-
ter, Josephine, of Antlers, Ind. Ter;
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Spann of Pela-
hatchie, Mrs. Aura PurneN, Miss
Mittie Johnson, Master Eugene Jack
son, Mrs. T. r. Pettway and two sons
Richard and Patrick Henry, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Maxey, Misses Virginia
and Margie Maxey.
Arthur Collum, manager of the CouE-'
ty Farm, left town yesterday after
noon in charge of two we'll known
negroes-P Rankin, who was always
drunk when possible to get the liquor.
verse to honest toll, but usually man.
aged to be somewhat of a dusky swell
OH a very small visible income.
Rankin was carried out to pay for a
spree and it's consequences; Don
aldson to hit steady lick, when
watched, in the field for stealing.
afternoon a female member
of some society was buried here with
all the honors due a departed sister
and Donaldson was one of the pail
bearers. While acting in such ca
pacity he of course had access to the
house where lay the remains, and
while the other mourners we're in
dulging in a lunch, he annexed one
Georgiana Mumford's purse contain
ing $3.05 wrapped up in 5 cent
handkerchief However, he played
no favorites in the annexing line and
while cash was of course the best to
have, he quietly showed the laying
nen and pocketed three eggs. The
hen cackled, but her cry did not
rouse the grief-stricken to investigate
nor the lunchers to take notice, but
when GeorgiaIa, from Jackson, miss
ed her purse, which lacked over $500
If being trash, she raised a cry that
she had been robbed. Investigation
fastened suspicion on the dude pail
bearer and the testimony in the trial
COURT yesterday morning his guilt was
proven conclusively, and he was fined
S25 and cost and ninety days for
stealing the money and SIS and cost
for breaking up the hen nest and
taking the IA of a dozen eggs. County
farm sentences for stealing win do
much to break up the practice and It
looks now as If something was being
done to stamp It out. Cases recent
" tried and the thieves sent to the