The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-22

Salt water has made it's way to
THE rice canals of Acadia, La. The
prospects are for a bull market
i'm rice and a. new brand of break
fast food to be called: Saline Ce-
real
Eight Plaquemine, La, persons
have complained to the grand jury
that timber has been STOLEN off their
lands In these days of wholesale
grabbing of the Other fellows goods.
they should be thankful the lands are
still there.
The police jury of Madison parrish,
La, hes resolved that, whereas, the
boil weevil-and, therefore, the as
sessments should be reduced by ONE
third. Next.
The State Secretary of the Farm
made charges against his fellow
members that Will be ventilated
later on Later ON seems the rule
of the day i'm the Farmers Union
A broom factory will be estab-
Iished at Nacchez to use $50 acres of
straw planted in Concordia parrish,
La. The Louisiana Levee Board for
THE upper district meets in Vicks-
burg. There seems a tendency to
make Natchez and Vicksburg joint
capitals for the river districts of
the Pelican State.
Word comes from Biloxi that There
is no lack of shrimp. The Ohande-
leur Island catch will be larger than
ever. If that story about the 1900
eggs from each female be true, we
should investigate the possibilities of
shrimp caviar.
E. NJ. Barber, of Biloxi. is the
sixth candidate to enter the race for
Judge of the Second district. The
poverty of candidates noticed lin
Louisiana is q sorry contrast with
Mississippi where there are at least
a. half dozen eligibles for every po-
IItfcal job and the votes, net the
men in the polls, do the electing.
A request for a copy of a picture
of Lincoln, supposed to have been
sent the Department of Archives and
History Of the State of mississippi,
brings out the information that the
papers cried down the acceptance
of theLmcOln picture and about the
same time raised a successful howl
against letting tue likeness of nhos-
B. Reed be hung This foolishness was
made the more .ludicrOus by The
fact that the Reed in question: was
not Gar Reed, the Thomas Brack-
EFT. of Maine, but a Mississippian
whom everyone seemed to have for
gotten
After listening patiently to an I'LL
urstrated lecture On the general pull
chritude and desirability of the game
commission, the district farmers
gathered at Denham Springs, La,
rose UP and declared the commission
worse than useless. The experts
should have fntefspersed their plct-
ures with a few motion films and
phonograph to grind out appropriate
music.
Tamgipahoa, La, is getting worried
over the expense of keeping crlml-
mails in. the New Orleans jail A
move is on to buil1 a steel cage.
The trouble about a steel cage is
that the festive woodsmen might
take a nIcticm to send few bullets
Through the apestures at the occu--
pant. for the sudden elimination OF
unJdesirab.es is a custom of the par
;lsh and custom dies hard.
A hard rain fell in the rice Fields
of Louisiana from the Sabine river
to Crowley. 1t drove the salt out OF
the streams, fresheIsd the crop tenn
porarily discontinued positions to
congressman to have the oil wells
plugged and the Mermentau dam re-
built. Aforesaid congressman may
now quote the words of the lmmor-
tai Shakespeare (take your
choace): For this relief, nnllcn
thanks. TITS bitter cold and ann sick
at heart. Correction: For Ills BIZ
ter cold" read: The folks are get
ting hot and don't know where
stand
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