The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-29

dickens as has been her custom. Her
Infant was sent along also, ais twas
too young to leave behind. ALI are
negroes.
MIR. ]. G.. Bruce. deputy chaneery
clerk, vial be SO years old next De-
cember, lis able to do a good days
work, does not wear glasses, has all
his teeth except three-never had the
toOtharhe i'm his nfe-never drank
whisky or gambled, but chews tobac-
co, and lis a strict member OF the
Baptist church.
Fred McRae leaves Friday fer st.
Louis to take a position with the
Carleton Dry Goods Co. as travelling
salesman, and will have. Arkansas,
Louisiana and Mississippi as his ter
rttory. He is one of the best of Bran
dom boys, who has succeeded we'll
SO far, and those who know him we'll,
predict the splendid success THAT
comes to the deserving.
Aunt Dilla Hobson died Saturday
IuIR3uNI Ouf LIN may PActNO, Ouk ~NAAA
balo, and was buried Sunday after
noon. She was over 80 years of age.
Always polite, energetic and kind,
and worked up to last week DIM the
field. She was valuable as slave,
amid respected by white and black all
her life. Her descendants are a-
mong THE best of her race in this
county.
The average Brandonite loves to
go to Jackson and il our people were
properly approached by Clintonites
we might assist them I'm building
an electric road from that nice little
Village through Jackson to Brandon,
where health giving mineral waters
cam be- had and the purest air I'M
Mississippi always makes life pleas
amt
Three wagons conveying dissatis
fled people, and camping outfits,
passed through here yesterday from
WaMahatchie, Texas, ON their way to
north Alabama, declaring they could
no longer make a living farming ON
$125 am acre land, when the drought
would last for IL months, and they
could nok raise enough to buy wa
ter, which was the only way they
COULD get amy.
The prospects for am electric hight
plant i'm Brandom are very good and
will materialize if sufficient num-
Der will indicate a willingness to ex-
change the time4honorcd flame of the
PINE knot and the lightning bug for
the incandescent globe. Mr.. w. F.
Owen, one of the promoters of the
new enterprise, spent day or two at
Bolton this week, inspecting the
plant at that place, which has BEEN
i'm operation about eighteen months.
Reports have reached here that FO-
Sey Manglim, a SAFFRON colored negro
woman about 25 years old, who was
BORN and reared i'm this county, lis i'm
SERIOUS trouble in New Orleans and
will probably hang. Several years
ago she attacked a white man who
had to shoot her to prevent posi-
bly, fatal injuries and she got into
trouble here, having ito run away to
escape severe punishment. 1t lis re-
ported here that she killed a man lin
the Crescent City an1.robbed. his. body
of $500 She ought to have been
hung when a potato vine would have
done lit.
Misses Clara and Nettie Horne en-
tertained a few nights since i'm hon.
or of their g1Ie9ts, Miss Josephine
Martin, of Brandon, and Miss Ora
EN;r,Io1y Cf EIt0e3 Y1Io y16
and music was char mingIy rendered
by Tile three talented Logue brothers.
Delicious FRUITS were served. The
guests We're Mr.. Uilen Logue, Mas
tiers Joseph and Augustus Logue,
Miss Josephine Martin, Miss Ora Fin
ley, Mr. J. A. Phillips, Mr.. J. T. Ed
wards, Mr. c. G. Horne, Miss Ola
Owens, Miss Verna Owens, and Mrs.
Bird, sister of the charming hIost-
esses.-CIariom Ledger of the 28th.,
On Wednesday evening of last
week Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Whitfield
entertained complimentary to their
granddaughters, Misses Catherine
Carr, of Clarksdale, and Kate Butler,
of Lyons, with a lawn parity. The
lawn was prettily illuminated by the
moon, assisted by Japanese lanterns,
which threw a soft glow en- the many
bright faces that were scattered over
the lawn Delicious refreshments
were served. Those present we're:
Miss Irene Atkins with James Buchr
anans Miss Merle Gaydem with Allen
Atkins, Miss Margile Maxey with Will
White, Miss Lucy Conely with Mr. r.
Fox, Miss Georgia Conely with Mar
ion Wilson, Miss Mabel Gayden with
Horace McLaurin, Miss Ruth White
with Maxey Burney, Miss Margaret
Foulks with Cole Burns, Miss Gra-
ham Bur'ney with Lambuhh Robinson,
Miss Nam Mayors with DeBerTy Ca
portion, Miss Nell Gayden with Hem
ry Busick, Miss Mary Perry with A.
G. Mayors, Miss Atwood Thornton
with Forest Stubblefield, Misses Jen-
nette and Anna Buchanan with Geo.
Martin, Jim Loveless. Those pres
ent seemed to enjoy it immensely
and pronounced the entertainment a
grand success.
Go to n. A. Busick Co. and buy