The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-23
War ON House FLY
TO Prevent Disease
The Fly, not Heat, is Respon-
sible for Colera Infantum
ANOTHER AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL
Ice Plant Established. Preparations
For Crystal Springs Chautauqua.
Wesson Real Estate Being
Valued. Textbook Changes.

critically Ill at Natchez.
The State immigration conference
met in Jackson, Tuesday.
C. H. Ramsey defeated two com
petitors for mayor of Collins.
Many licenses for near-beer deal
ers are being issued in Vicksburg.
Insurance and state revenue off,
GERS at Jackson, are after interinsur-
ancers.
The eighth annual session of the
Mississippi Epworth League was held
at Natchez.
The Seashore District Conference,
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
met at Virgins.
Ohio Mitchell, negro, was lynch
ed at Durant for attempting to kill
three white men.
B H Grimes, of Meridian, was
elected president of the Mississippi
Fire Underwriters Association.
The attorney general of Mississip-
pi gave a ruling on. the distinction
between a peddler and merchant.
A Woodmen of the World barbe-
cue at which political leaders will
speak, will be held at Meridian, June
80.
The Methodist Conference of the
Greenville District, in session at
Tunica, declared in favor of church
control of Vanderbilt University
J. A. Jones and G.. B. Dantzler,
with party of six, left Gulfport
Tuesday in two automobiles for
Buffalo, N. Y.
J. r. Fornea and. Major James
Wheat were arrested at Poplarville
on the charge of killing a negro
woman.
The Doherty Operating Company,
of New York, formally took over the
properties of the Meridian Light and
Railway Company.
Link Marsh, negro arrested at
the time NJ. F. Byrd was assassinat-
ed, was shot five times from ambush
at Roxie.
The Natchez Chamber of Com
merce has a deficit of $500, due to
the expense of entertaining President
Taft.
Two negro boys confessed at Jack
son to robbing the postoffice at
Montgomery, near Brookhaven, at
the direction of an older negro.
Elmo Curl, negro, who shot w.
P. Miller, planter at Mastodon,
and wrote an insulting letter to d
young lady, was taken from a train
at MCGEE and lynched.
The Woodmen of the World held
their annual memorial exercises at
the Natchez cemetery last Sunday
afternoon. Two monuments were un-
yelled.
The Southern Express Company's
Office and the store of Eagle & Wise
at Newton were burglarized. Four
quarts of whiskey were taken from
the express Office.
1t is thought Prof. D. G. Hull of
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege, will likely be selected president
of Millsaps College, to succeed Bishop
w. B .Murrah, resigned.
Harry c. Foxworth, charged with
forging warrants while deputy chan
Gerry clerk of Marion County five
years ago, came from Seattle, Wash,
to Hattiesburg to stand trial.
Lyceum Course for Female College.
President Hawkins of Port Gibson
Female College, has announced for
his school and town next session a
Lyceum Entertainment Course to
consist of the following five attrac-
tions: Roney Boys of Chicago; Luz
Their Manship; DeKoven Male Quar-
tette; Ralph Bingham, Gmperson-
ator) and DR.. M. w. Swartz. The
last mentioned will give literary
lecture on Virgil and the Middle
Age"
Another County Agricultural School.
The Board of Trustees of the
Pearl River County Agricultural
High School has begun preparations
for the erection of another $1,000
brick school building, containing a
large auditorium and recitation
rooms. Bright prospects confront
the opening of the second session in
September.
New Ice Plant Installed.
At Lucedale a new ice plant is in
operation, and the company is man
ufacturing ice for the local trade,
and shipments to nearby towns. The