The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28

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a critical illness
Mrs. o. E. Martin is back from trip
to Texas where she visited relatives
o. ]. Mcintyre after being quite i'll
here for ten days has returned to his home
near Braxton.
The Clarion-Ledger chronicles Mr. E.
E. Jackson Oh Parchman and this city as
visitor to the capital city Monday
| Mrs. Alma Carver and Miss Annie
May Carver, of "Andrew Chapel" neigh
borhood were in town Tuesday on shop
ping tour.
Mrs. John Gayden is to return this
week from Memphis, where she has been
on visit to her daughter, Mrs. ]. M.
Smoot
Boil weevils are preying on the cotton.
Mosquitoes are singing and every one is
praying that they will quit preying on
their anatomies.
Mrs Ben Ferguson and daughter passed
hrough town Tuesday en-route home. They
: ave been on visit to relatives and
| friends in north Rankin.
A. @. Thornton and c. E. Martin are
camping on Pearl river this week for a
few days outing, and adapting themselves
to Isaac Walton's" sport.
George Martin came home last week,
very ILL., Owing to his serious illness, he
was accompanied home by his brother
FINS, who returned to New Orleans a
day or two later.
Messrs. Robert Turcott, of Waveland,
Miss, and George Turcott, of Mt. Vernon,
Ala, have returned to their homes after
"a very pleasant visit to w. H. Turcott
and other relatives at this place.
Mrs Ida McMaster and daughter, Mrs.
Crenshaw, of Memphis, were guests of
Mrs. r. F. Brown yesterday. They are
spending some time with relatives at
| Fannin.
Mr.. o. R. Stuart has resigned his po-
sition with the Brandon Mercantile Co.,
and left today for Jackson, where he
will be connected with the Downing
Locke Co. in the future.
The Rankin County Medical Society
will meet at Brandon next Monday, the
| first day of August. A full attendance is
desired, as matters of interest to the pro-
fessicn will be discussed.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Worthington and
| little daughter, Eunice, arrived Sunday
and have apartments at the Darnall Hotel
Mr. Worthington's many friends are glad
to know that he is recovering from his
recent spell of illness.
! DR.. c. r. Garraway reports case OF
Pellagra in the person of negro woman
living two miles south of here. The
patient is greatly improved at present
but the >rognosis in this new disease is
always serious.
Mr.. D. S. Harmon, representing Me-
rldian Colleges, is Brandon visitor
today Meridian Woman's College and
Conservatory of Music is said to be the
/ largest private college in the south, and
many Of its patrons say 'It's the best all
round college for girls in the land"
A Mrs. Dunn who was seamstress
in Brandon some three or four years
back is now incarcerated in the Tallulah
La, Jail pending trial for an attempt
to poison her husband. Mrs. Dunn will
be remembered here as a fine looking
blonde.
DR. S. F. Carr, an old Brandonits who
is now serving Coahoma county as chan
Gerry clerk, spent day or two here this
week with friends and relatives. He has
been in very poor health for some time,
being on his way home from Stafford
Springs, where he has been for few
weeks in hope cf regaining his health.
The County Sunday School convention,
which was held at Shiloh, last Thurs
day, was well attended and great in
terest manifested in the proceedings Prof
! ]. |. Covington was elected president and
Miss Pope secretary and treasurer The
next meeting will be held at Pelahatchie
in July 1911.
Andy Standifer, negro living on
Nicely Mays place, east of town, was
brought in yesterday and tried On a writ
of lunacy. The jury was confident that
the negro was insane and rendered YER
dict accordingly, he being locked up in
the county jail until he can be transftred
to the state insane asylum at Jackson.
Rev. c. E. Comfort left yesterday af-
ternoon for Alabama where lie has been
stationed by the Presbytery. Mr.. Com
fort has served the Brandon Presbyterian
church as pastor for the past three years
and has made many friends here who re-
! greet very much to see him leave.
IF is pothinu uncommon these DAVIS to
see planters, farmers and amateurs COM
ing into town with tightly corked bottle,
and telling of the dire distress in their
neighborhood. 1t looks as if this city
would not be good post for Bugologist
and to establish branch for some mi
croscope house. Don't ask us for rem
edy.
The Great Sacrificing Price Sale will
open up at the H. A. Busick Co. Sat-