The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-10-21

at Millsaps College, came and
preached for him Sunday at IL a.
m. and p. m. The sermons Rev.
Browns delivered here were Of a high
ORDER Our people were delighted
with his preaching a young
man, about 20 years of age, his man.
ner i'm the pulpit was free from the
least ostentation. He was plain,
practical and clearly instructive. His
address on the character a young
man should have, was delivered with
out display i'm the smooth, easy
flowing conversational style of a
divine of 40 years of experience in
the ministery. The following is what
am elderly, intelligent and popular
citizen of the town says of Rev.
Brown: 81 can say, unreServedly,
that his Sermon Sunday night was
the best that / have heard for many
a-day. First, the Ego was buried
Second, love was manifested in ey-
cry word and sentence and DIN the
very tone of voice. Third, he handled
his theme fearlissly and truthfully,
as one sure of the divinity of his
message, and with a burning desire
to do the Masters will. Purity"
treated i'm style more chaSte and
impressive than / had ever heard be-
fore. The message was deliver ed
as I Imagine Jesus spoke when
addressing "The twelve i'm the upper
chamber" God be thanked that he
has some men today like Paul, who
I.n1ir ix, yiu7Rr
and drawing way to make a deep and
lasting impression upon the consci-
ence and the immortal soul. This
brings us forward to- say that we
are proud of Millsaps College. That
grand institution is surely planting
good seed i'm the ministerial and lit
hrary grounds, and this hard cold
world will be the better by it.
Every one In and about Florence
who has heard the sad news sincerity
sympathi1e with Capt. P. B. Berry
ON account of the demise of his
grandson's beloved young wife,
the other day at Newton, The
young couple had BEEN maIulied only
about ten months. The husband, p.
B. Bridges, Jr., was in some business
at Newton.
Tie Stems Greek High school
at this place now has risen from
131 ON roll of pupils the first day of
This session, to It's at the present
day. This is 20 ahead of the enroll
ment of last session of this time. Z
The roll is divided, as follows: High
schol, so; gTbmmar school, 81; in+
termediate, 81; primary, 81. Every
thing lis working along smoothly and
i'm complete harmony. A happier set
of youngsters cannot be found any
where else than here attending this
fine school, nor more pleased and
prouder set of teachers to have con-
trOl.
A letter from Joe Flowers, the lateI
editor and publisher of "The Flor
ence Weekly"-now defunct,- and
who is working in the Greenwood
Enterprise office, Indicates that he
dis doing nicely there and is we'll
pleased with the entire office force,
and is growing in popularity with the
people. Who says Rankin productions
can't win their manly way every
where they go?
A tennis club has BEEN organized
here at the school grounds, also
the basket ball games are being re-
vived with girls to each of two teams |
Prof. Taylor is umpire. The boys
yet have their games of base ball
ON the gridiron, and lots of fun
have they. The professor gets into |
the games very often and he is often
knocked out. All these tend to de-
velop muscular activity and strength. |
Jack Lowther, the public cotton
weigher, gives the following figures,
towit: Bales weighed to date for |
1909, 1897, against 1857 up to same
date hast Year. Bales ginned here to i
date, 667, against about 1900 to
same date in 1908.
Mr.. Afford, manager of the ginnery,
now has the grist mill i'm fine shape |
and ground 40 bushels of corn last
Saturday. One bushel of soft corn
was ground In three minutes. He
says his average rate is easily 4 or 8 J
minutes of time to- the bushel. |
Bring up your grist folks. Bring
we'll selected CORN to the mill, and
YOU will Obtain anterPellegra meal
for your table The grinding is done
ON Saturdays only.
dwelling of Monument by the Flor
ence w. o. w, Sunday, the 18th
Of October, at Wesley Anna
Church in Rankin County,