The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-04-14


with MIR. Crooks parents few miles
south of town. They were accompanied
to the country by Miss Eva Myers
"The Cid Dairy Homestead" rural
comedy in three acts, was presented in
a most pleasing and entertaining manner,
TO a large crowd at johnson Hall last
Friday night by local talent The pro-
cecds amounted to amount $40, which
will go towards liquidating tire muonemnt
debt
Rev. Bryan Simmons, accompanied by
his little daughter, Muriel, will leave
this morning for Columbia. After a short
STAY there they will go On to Long Beach
where MIR. Simmons will be engaged in
series OF meetings with Rev. Webb Brame,
formerly chaplain Of the state penitentiary
Mr.. Simmons VIII be absent about two
weeks.
Central Mississippi Presbytery will corr
venc in the Brandon Presbyterian church
at o'clock Tuesday evening, April the
roth There will be about forty delegates
in attendance This Presbytery includes
such towns as Jackson, Yaoo City, Vicks-
burg Greenwood. Grcenville, Kosciusko,
and Canton. The first session TUESDAY
night), will consist Of the opening sermon
by the retiring Moderator, Rev. w. H.
Irvine, and the election of a new moderator
The sessions will last through Wednesday
and Thursday Everybody is invited to
attend all the sessions.
Supt. eff Education S. R. Myers, brought
in Saturday a sample of his patch of rye
and hairy vetch-therye measuring feet
and the vetch feet. His farm is the
fertile Sunny Brook" place two and one
half miles south of town and while the
name suggests brand of good whiskey
and the stalks Of full headed rye indicate
that the soil would produce sufficiently to
supply a fair sized distillery that would
turn out liquor the equal to any, oar head
of the school system of this good county
is a prohi and raises the green feed to
Craze his celebrated herd of registered
berkshires and is demonstrating that meat
can be raised cheap and easy with little
trouble.
Admiration alone will not run a news
pepper. Sooner or later such admirers will
find that the object of their affections has
become welded to other ways that they do
not admire-in other words, newspaper
is compelled, in order to live, to seek
the friendship of those who are not so
platonic IN their love, but unite their
practical esteem with sentiment that binds
mutual admiration in other professions
There are too many men who expect an
editor to slave in defense cf their pet no
tions and hobbies, advocate their views
against the strongest opposition, and coolly
withhold the business support by which
alone small newspaper can live.
Not every boy can be rich man or
a great man, but every boy can be a
gentleman. A boy with gentlemanly
manners, who IS trusty and honest and does
his very best every day, will gain the at
tention and confidence of men and will
be given paying and responsible positions
as soon as he is old enough to fill them.
Boys like to have fun and good time.
1t is right they should. They will never
be boys but once, but tc have fun is to
altogether what they are made for. Boys
are of value chiefly to make men, good
TOR something in the world. Character,
like a house, must have the right kind
CT foundation. The foundation stones
Of good character are reverence for God,
respect and obedience to parents, Difference
for old people
Who wouldn't be a farmer? There is
just one trouble, only the farmers know
how to farm. There are thousands who
would like to quit the towns and cities.
and enigrate to the country, and possess
themselves of broad fertile fields, ard pro-
coed to make two blades of this, that or
the ether of grass grow where enc or
none grew before, but this proposition
presents, that it takes from two to twenty
years to learn how to farm (some folks
never learn), and within such period
bankruptcy might occur several times over.
But if all of US cannot be farmers, all can
admire the horny-handed sons of toll and
rejoice with him in this present great
prosperity. He is the bulwark of the ma
ton and the salt of the earth.
A News representative had occasion to
examine the personal assessment roll and
found very few assessments comparatively
speaking containing jewelry or gold or
silver plate Certainly man wouldn't
perjure himself for the little pittance of
taxes saved, although there is no other
conclusion to arrive at, as both items are
prominent on list the tax payer makes
out and also oath which he signs con-
tanning the following: That the list of
property that you are to make, shall be
lust and true account of all property
you are required to render subject to tax
alton in your own right, or that OF any
other for whom you ought to give in
taxable property, and the law makes It
his duty to give in taxable property OF
his wife and children so the perjury would
catch him there