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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-01-13
GENERAL FUND.

GENERAL FUND.
T. T. Cottrell, labor employed on
streets, Dec. 1909. S 34.25
T. T. Cottrell, self and team work
Dec. 1909. :. =. :. :. ;. :. 1925
w. C. Palmer, blacksmith work
from Dec. 1908 to date. - 1s.45
Brandon News, printing ordinances
and last half year printing 2S.7s
w. @. Barnes, lumber. :. :. :. sos
A. NJ. Shields, nails and pillow
points and trowel for streets AT
A. M. Shields, auditor for 1909. 1900
SCHOOL FUND.
w. H. Turcott, putting up desks at
school. :. :. :. -. $50
A. NJ. Shields, sundry supplies for
school. 5.4s
A. H. Andrews Co., desks, black
boards, maps, etc. for school. II4.S4
Jack Finch, Sr., 10 days and ga
hours work on water works 2I.ss
Ed Bell, II days and hours work
on waterworks !. 49,. $3.50
Brandon Water Co., freight and
drayage and pipe for water
works. - $3.50
Crane and Co., soil pipe, lavatories
and closets and plumbing sun
dries. :. 2o5.o9
STREET IMPROVEMENT FUND.
J. A. Morris, teams and driver on
streets. -. 1910
w. E. Darnall, teams and driver on
streets. :. 1850
J. E. Martin, teams. and driver on
streets :. :. :. -. :. 49,. $500
Jno. Franklin, teams and driver on
depot road. :. ;. -. 1890
Lionel Jones, teams and driver on
depot road. :. :. :. :. 1850
Will Davis, self, labor. :. :. :. $50
Lionel Franklin, self, labor - :. Go
Wess Franklin, self, labor. >. :. 6.Io
Ed Bell, self, labor. :. -. ). Ats
F. B. Whlrod, work on roller. IS
Loveless and Loveless, teams on
depot road. =. ;. $3.50
Will Davis, labor on depot road ). 800
NJ. S. Hobson, labor on depot road 22.oo
Wess Franklin, labor on depot road 800
Lionel Franklin, labor on depot road 800
Jno. Franklin, team on depot road 900
L. S. May, treasurer, presented his re-
ports for October, November and Deem
Der, 1909, same was placed in the hands
of the finance committee, and having
been examined and approved by the fin
ance committee, were ordered spread upon
the minutes.
TREASURES REPORT, OCT. 1909.
General Fund.
To bal. as shown by Sept. 1909 re-
port :. $52S.45
To pay certificate No. sS4 $Is.4s,
No. sSs $4,000. :. ss.4s|
By warrant :. -. $soS.o6
October-By credit general
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-01-13

How would you like to be the mail car
rier?
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-01-13

The family Of Presiding Elder T. J.
O'Neil has the sympathy Of the community
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-01-13

Regulation of coal cars by the Interstate
Cofmerce Commission was upheld by the
United States Supreme court.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-01-13

Total ). :. J. $I,9oa.49
$1,0o2.49
To bal due St. Imp. fund :. :. I,as4.S7
There being no further business, on
motion the board adjourned
PAT HENRY, Mayor.
A. M. SHIELDS, Clerk.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-01-13

BY warrants and balance down
due school fund. $347.ssl
$s47.ssI
To bal. down due school fund. -. s4.91
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-30
Change in Football Rules

Six preaching changes in the
game of football were decided upon
Saturday by the intercollegiate
Football Rules Committee at the
close CT two days session in New
York city:
/. Removal of the requirement
that the player who receives the
ball from snapback runs five yards
to either side before advancing.
2. A requirement that seven men
be maintained by the offense on the
line of scrimmage.
3. Prohibition of the flying tackle.
4. Division of the game into four
periods of fifteen minutes each.
5. No pushing or pulling of the
runner to be allowed.
6. A requirement that the ball, in
the case of an onside kick mus,
strike the ground at least twenty
yards beyond the line of scrimmage,
failing which the members of the
team kicking the ball are offside.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-30
University of Virginia to Teach
Road Making

Good road construction is the sub
iect of special course to be offered
by the University of Virginia this
spring, in which free scholarships
will be offered to citizens of the
State seriously interested in high.
way making. Recognizing the
growing interest in good roads in
Virginia and the immense economic
Importance Of such roads in all parts
of the State, the University has de-
cided to give such a course follow
ing out the idea pursued so success
fully at the University of Wiscon-
sin, which has aided in a tremend-
ousiy practical way in this reform.
The course began on March 2Sth
and will continue nine weeks. Ad-
mission is fle to any regular STU
dent in the department of engineer
ing. A limited number OF free
scholarships will be offered TO well
prepared men, citizens of the State
provided they present in addition to
the usual credentials of character
and scholarship, a written recon-
mendatiOn from the county Board OF
Supervisors of their respective
counties, certifying that the appli-
cant needs the aid of the scholar
ship and expects to accept employ
ment on highway work in Virginia
Fifty-seven lectures and twenty
seven practical exercises make up
the course. The theoretical part
will be made as plain as possible.
Arithmetic and the solution of a
Observation-Disclosures will be all the
preparatiol necessary. The courses
will be divided into these subjects
Construction of county roads; con-
struction of streets and pavements
plane surveying and leveling; topo-
graphical drawing; county road
bridges; illustrated lectures on
road material and construction.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-30
The Enormous Expense of College
Baseball

To the old-timer who played base
ball in college thirty-fve years ago
one of the most striking differences
of the baseball OF to-day is to be
found in its enormous cost as com
pared with the cost then. Like
football, baseball has come to be
conducted 10 the larger institutions
as business. The young fellow
who plays upon a team, instead of
buying his own suit, as we did a
generation ago, and chipping in a
certain modest sum to purchase
bats and balls, finds everything
bought for him. Boys who have
come from modest homes suddenly
find themselves living at a rate
which they never before imagined.
From the ample receipts of the ath.
letic committee. expensive suits and
sweaters are furnished in profusion.
The nine is carried about the coun-
y
of the college athletic association
and lead life as college athletes so
far beyond their means in luxury
and in expense as to prove thor
oughly demoralizing to many.
How widespread the demoraliza-
ton is which comes from the use of
these large sums, few fathers real
ize unless their attention is called
especially to the matter. In this
respect the military schools-for ex-
ample, West Point-have set a
better example. 1t allows no gate
receipts. 1t takes its students off
on no expensive trips, and runs it's
athletic expenses on a modest scale
From The Evolution of College
Baseball" by Pres. Henry s.
Pritchett, in the April Scribner.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-30
STILL DETERMINED
TO UNSEAT CANNON
Insurgents Will Renew Warfare
Against Speaker

Washington, d. c., March 26-
Many OF the insurgens Republicans
OF the House. who last Saturday
voted TO retain Speaker Cannon in
the chair, are hearing from home"
according TO reports in circulat
about the Capitol. These advices
are said TO be not at all reassuring.
Following close upon this infor-
nation come statements from sever
a. that the war against Cannonism is
to go on to the extent of ultimately
causing the dethronemeuto of Speaker
Cannon, the election of his successor
and the complete reformation of the
rules OF the House. The overthrow
of the Speaker and the taking away
from the speakership of all power to
Influence legislation unduly are
aimed at. Some of the Insurgents
discussed these subjects freely to-
dav.
A proposition to remove Speaker
Cannon by means Of the combined
vote of Democrats and Insurgents
and substitute in his place Asher
Kinds, the parliamen'arian of the
House, is one of the plans which
several Insurgents advocated today.
The idea Of placing in the Speakers
chair pure parliamentarian. not
member of the House. who wou.d be
entirely uninfluenced by considera-
ton of partisan advantage was
pointed out by Representative Pom
dexter, of Washington, and others
as the logical and proper course.
Under the Constitution the House
may choose a Speaker who is not
member of the body.
Representative POindexter. who is
a prominent member Of the Insur-
gent body said:
When the House adopted the
Norris resolution the other day it
was a vote of no confidence in
Speaker Cannon, and he should have
resigned. AS he did not do so, we
should depose him. With that &C
complished think we should elect
Mr.. Kinds. I believe a majority Of
the House would vote for it,
/ 1t is certain thata certain number
Of Insurgents have in mind at least
two things-the deposition of Speak
er Cannon unless be voluntarily re-
tires; second, the establishment of a
committee on committees.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-30
Maryland Democrats to Eliminate
Negro Vote

The Democrats in the Maryland
Legislature in caucus last Friday
night decided to ignore the Fifteenth
Federal Amendment by refusing
negroes the right to register and
thereby eliminating them from the
voting population. This plan has
been under consideration for some
time, various amendments to the
Constitution b lving failed to deprive
them OF their rights.
Leading lawyers, who have had
the proposition under consideration
attendedFriday nights caucus by in
vitation and explained thata as Mary
land had been one of the States
which refused to ratify the Fifteenth
Amendment, it need not be bound
by its provisions, and thus Mary
land follows the example of South
Carolina seventy years ago, when it
adopted the notification act.
Following the enactment of this
law, there will be submitted a con-
stitutional amendment which dis
franchises the negro and with this
law in force it is expected TO pass.
This amendment also repeats the
Wilson ballot laws, and provides
for uniform and fair elections
throughout the State.
The act applies only to State and
municipal elections, and becomes eff
fective 1912. At national elections
a different set of books is to be used,
the negroes being allowed TO regis
ter. As the Democrats have three
tifths majority in both branches, the
amendment will undoubtedly pass.
The vote Friday night was unani-
nous.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-30
Mr.. Flood Erecting Fine Residence

Congressman H. D. Flood of the
Tenth district, is just completing a
handsome colon al residence on his
estate three miles from Appomattox,
which will equal any other country
home in central Virginia for beauty
and probably eclipse almost any
other for convenience, says a dis
patch from Lynchburg. The house
has twenty rooms and all of them
are finished in hard wood, the dwell
ling alone costing $500
Lewis and Burnham, local coz
tractors, are engaged now in draw
ing plans for water system and
electric lighting plant for the prem
Uses. The water will be carried
to a concrete reservoir with a capac
itv of $500 gallons, the source be-
ing a large spring. The water
flows to the residence by gravity
The electric plant will be operated
either by water or steam and it will
be ample to light all the buildings
and grounds.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-30
Pistol ToterS
nous.

The deadly battle with crazed or
drunken man on a train at Will
mington, Del, should be to the
country another lesson of the neces-
sity of stringent regulations con-
corning the sale of pistols. No man
has an assurance that his life is safe
as long as any man can purchase a
pistol and ammunition.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-30

SHlS. LOOK at the beautiful houses In large
cities and see the women going out of them and
taking their children away from the evil influence
of the father.
In the meeting at the Colony club of New Y ork
city when the striking girls told their story the au-
dience received as much as it gave and perhaps
more. The rich women went there with little in
terest but they left much impressed. They saw
these girls standing up before roomful of peo-
pie and telling their experiences as few women
IN the audience could have done. The latter real
lied that the girls had WORKED OUT THEIR
OWN PROBLEM and that they were keen enough
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-30

The substitution of rice for meat
is the propaganda that is to be
spread throughout the country by
the Rice Association of America.
The association will meet in New
Orleans April 13. In the meantime
rice as a sustaining food is being
preached through many avenues OF
publicity.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-30

Most of the excitement in life is
hunting for some.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-30

mentally 10 grasp the situation and brave enough
convictions when the fight suffering
The interest which the society taken the girls
strike the direct result of the suffrage agitation have
BEGUN TO RECOGNIZE THEIR COMMON INTERESTS
The man with stands with the worngnan comes to
political issues and eventually will do the
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-30

Somehow the people who do as
they please seem to get along just as
we'll as those who are always trying
to please others and sometimes
better.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-30
Women, Regardless of Class.
Must Stand TOGETHER.
Lr1oNT. New York Society Woman.

BY Mrs OLIVER H. p BELMONT New orks Woman.
THINK the coming together of the shirt strikers and the
society will ACCELERATE THE WAVE OF
- UNIVERSAL SISTERHOOD. We all need it and tho
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-30

WOMEN HAVE DEPENDED ON HAVE
FAILED U.s. WE BEGINNING UNDERSTAND THAT
AND TO REALIZE THAT WE MUST AS wo-
MEN REGARDLESS OF CLASS. THE GIRLS DIS
COVERED THIS WHEN WENT oIyr ON
STRIKE THEY NEED OTHER, NEED THE POWER
OF ORGANIZATION
The women who live in leisure and luxury NEED THEM ALSO
Men have not stood by them any than they by the east side
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16

years Even with death glazing them her terrible eyes
lost of their ferocity believe she went out feeling
that this last act had made her life worth while.
She left directions about her baby only looked at
him and nodded, saying, He'll know what to do; then
she too went the great divide The feud had de
scended to the two babies living wide eyed and ulConl
pretending, each his side of the ridge
Poor Raymond 1t was like throwing his two years
work his face If there a simple follower of
Christ, he the He had hoped so much, and
this ending to his prayers was crushing dlsappOlnt
ment He reprOaChed himself bitterly for staying
with the other of those poor Really, 1t
seeing this upright Christian such distress that
gave my first idea of civilization its finer 1t
illunned my world. He sat there and poured out his
fine, pure soul to mea lout OF a fight loving country
boy In the end he decided that having failed
the tragedy Just enacted there was only course
open him: to for the two little wildcats blinking
at him in the
W silent baby, and Raymond talked al the way.
He would legally adopt them and take them 10 his
mother Reared IN ignorance OF their origin surrounded
by the benecent influences OF her home he believed he
could eradicate this blood hatred he had found in Ken
lucky. Fortunately, he could afford such an expert
rlent.
pered all the way Boston, unless YOU put them where
they touched each other; then they'd veil like wild
things III PAIN but keep them out of reach and they
never made sound
There is going over their entry into Raw
monds beautiful home. His mother received them as
twin brothers, and as such they grew up Jackson and
odicW Nay MS dNppteu sons / got
Judge Raymond's law office, and after twentv-four
years partner in the firm although the Judge is
dead never lost the interest took in the boys and
was IN and out about once week They grew and
throve till they strong and straight as Young pop
lars For all their city surroundings. they always
seemed to belong to the larger spaces OF the hills.
When they were five they went TO kindergarten
The first day they backed up against the fence side by
side and whipped out the school, There wasn't a boy
who did not go home wreck. The teacher politely
quested their withdrawal At seven they were placed
III private school, where of the bows wore Faun-
tleroy suits; that they came in thern-thev went
home III rags Again, courteous request for removal
Finally, however they reached grammar school This
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16

seemed exactly what they wanted for they leaned and
fought and played with concentrated fury ---c was
amazing. They always fought for each othe-; but
touched each other 1t possible 10 avoid l.
They simply boIted through the public schools. nd Al
seventeen were ready for Harvard
Mrs Raymond had let them go their own ga1t II
many things, and their tastes developed along . INES
OF direct inheritance from their primitive ancestors
Firearms of all kinds they would have. an -aeIr shoot
ing thing to envy. They rode and swan anu
wrestled with the same arior and devotion heF
wouldn wreSte with each other because OF l!e PtS
cal contact 1t entailed but they hunted toge,her anu
the rivalry between them was painful don o-iie'e
they really cared much 10 be experts, eN~epO '1-
each was determined TO lead ~,.-
AT Harvard they worked ike good fellows i@N-'-s
the course. they stood together a. me A1a =
their classes On The football team Jackson sol Ing
and Carew haback- In every sport they were ~ eL.s
matched and, strive they would the average Vs.
about the same Tor each
Judge RAYMOND died when the boys were Sopne-
rnores. and, as Robert could not leave hentucay' s
OF his mother and oversight OF the bows ie 20 @
Mrs Frank n and took up our abode IN the ~ 1OH
homestead and from that time on | saw nv c1argS
constantly. They were much Ike the averase S'IlF
l1ngS except that they were stronger. hCi- YAM
seemed increase as they grew older. and rotiCeg
that they constantly on the watch Il or -IE'T
his back for second Il only TO wiIrl WIZ curious
swftness, though expecting attack from e rs--
questioned them but they could give no reason siinp
said they did not like 10 face away from each other
They were graduated with honor. and coveTst
themselves and Harvard with athletic glory kooeI'
10 see them and when their schoO-r1JeS gar
RED them of the hed on their shoulders ne shouted -
JOY. He had been a Harvard himself. and HS
pride in these adopted sons really pathe-lc
When IL over and Fair Harvard hA- Devs
sung for the last time he asked them what they wan1
to do They had decided 70 60 into brokerage 9Se,
First. however, they going 10 Sade. the CneAS
beautiful home. where house party was 70 DC hee-
never get used TO this boSh about house pArue
In Kentucky, We say are going 70 have COMPANY
but up here If One-eyed calf Jumps into Your IO.
yard YOU call II house party | reckon II Is Detau'
company is such effort SOutherner always hAe
ing company and expects II, and doesn't do nlch P'
parng. But with you-al IL such undertaking W.
nave 10 call IT by fancy to get even Tor Al ~
work YOU do
FRANKLIN leaned back with a flush ms face anu anu
lapSed into silence. Tom Root handed nm I"
third cigar and said: ,.
Go on You surely aren't going to stop now' "nA'
became of then9"
James spoke before Franklin could answer WEI
they like gentlemen? Did they compare well with ''A
clasSrnates?"
Franklin eyed his dapper companion much as -
naStiff might look at black and You can . -
CorhEssa Page ,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16

w THAT is feud, anyway" asked Tom Root He
w leaned toward the loose jointed kentucklan
who sat opposite.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16

ONE day we were coming down Bald Notch, when the
~ sun burst out in a sudden flare of light and showed
us the women a spur about four hundred wards below
We Couldnt reach them and the wind would have car
RED voices the opposite direction. We both knew
what was coming. As looked at Raymond he fell on
his knees and commended their souls to God | WASH
much on prayers, but immensely interested in anv
kind OF fight while Raymond prayed watched the
terrible drama below
They met and don't believe either said one word
For minute they looked at each other Then they laid
their babies down on each side of the ridge and in oh
dience TO the old old law of the eud fired at the same
second fatal shots. We plunged through thickets
and trailing vines stones to the ridge where the
bodies lay. Mrs Jackson dead, and Mrs. Carew
nearly She looked at Raymond he bent over her
and said Brother, there amt nohin in that peace talk
OF yourn this the III st happy minute I've had for
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-17
Hodeins, Ok. Nov

Hodgns, Ok, Nov. ID, 1910.
Editor Mena Star.
Dear Sir: AS we are now located
in Hogen, Ok, a little wide place in
the road, inhabited mostly by Choc-
taws of very dark color. of whom all
seem very refined and are ambitious
when it comes to drinking or idleness.
The white people are their slaves in
this country. Here are some of the
prices of things sold here: Flour not
any better than the $2.35 flour in
Mena So. SO; corn 20 cents per bushel
sweet potatoes $l.10, Irish potatoes
ST 90, poorest grade of coffee 20 cents
per pound, meat 19 to 20 cents, eggs
IS to 80 cents. Cattle and hogs out
of sight. AS you see eggs, butter
cattle and hogs are so high. there is
not one family out Of ten that is able
to afford them. There are two very
good stores here but they sell 10 pei
cent higher than the merchants in
Mena; they are robbine those poor
hard working people Of their honest
labor. Cotton sells at the gin at is
cents. The cotton crop was very eooc
here.
haven't had a good drink since
left Arkansas. All the people hau
their water for drinking and most 0
their water for other purposes from
Black Fork.
With best regards to The Star ant
it's readers. An Arkansas Girl.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-17
Interesting Story Mixed.

A friend from Egger writes special
news item for The Star that in some
ways needs a diagram. 1t reads:
while Buster Cotton and others
were out hunting the other night Bus
ter and very large oppossum had a
fight and Buster got bit in the fracas
and it became necessary to amputate
the oppossum's s teeth, which was done
by his friends" !"
Just what Buster and the oppossum
were fighting about may not be neces-
sary to make the story complete and
can be passed, but it is probable that
many readers would like to know at
just what part of Busters anatomy
he was bitten, the location of the
fracas not being given Then again
it can readily be understood that il
was desirable to have the animals
teeth amputated or otherwise treated
in order to release Buster, but just
how the oppossum' $ friends were pre-
vailed upon to do it is not explained
nor whether it was by painless
operation or otherwise. Correspond
ents should be careful in giving de-
tails to make themselves understood