The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-24
LETTER
FROM PELAHATCH|E

riage of Miss Pearl Walters to Mr.Waton
1t was not a runaway marriage the
young people just walked over to DR..
| AfcDonald's to get him to tie the knot.
Miss Bessie Jones and Nolan Horne, of
Pelahatchie school and Miss Grace Stegall
Of Lodabar, will represent this beat at
the Field Day exercises at Florence.
We are sorry to learn our genial ex-
mayor, Mr.. r. F. Grimes and wife, have
sold their new home and are preparing TO
build cut about mile and half from
| town
Mr.. Q. P. Cross, of Ralason prairie, be-
lieves in having meat at home and some
to sell. Selling to Mr. Coleman, of Me-
ridian, fory-eight head of pigs, bringing
him something over $4,000.
There are others of our farmers who
believe in raising their own meat. One
of our merchants bought over six hundred
pounds of home made bacon from two of
his customers one day last week. And
another one bought big lot of hams.
Verify true is the saying a ham in the
smoke house is worth two in Chicago.
Now all these things are good and if each
one of our people get good pig and give
it the slop and garden truck that is wasted
bacon would not be 16 cents.
| am in favor of organizing The Rankin
County Meat Club. The boys have shown
us what can be done raising corn. Now
the cid men corn club is going to show
what they can do and we will have to
have meat to go with the corn bread.
So dear sisters have your old man to fix
the pen, get the best blcoded pig you can,
and then save up all the garden scraps
and if he is any account he will probably
! be willing tc carry it out to the pig.
| My friend told me this true tale of the
first two years of her married life.When
| was first married some one gave us a
dog-at the end of the year we had an
emery yellow cur and a house full of
fleas. Then | snapped the purp for a
pig, and at the end of another year we
had a hog that weighed three hundred
pounds and we had sausage, spare ribs
and back bones. Verify pig is worth a
dozen yellow ours.
This reminds me that enc of our fell
low citizens is crank en- the subject of
Pclan-C China hogs and | expect he has
the finest herd in Rankin county. He has
several hogs that cost around $425.oo and
thcy will weigh 1000 pounds and some OF
them are under II months old. Verify
this is some pigs.
The fine chickens are also being bred
extensively in our town. Mrs Shields,
Mrs. Carl Stingily, and DR.. Kersh have
fine flocks of Rhode Island Reds. Mrs.
c. w. Taylor having birds from prize
winners in both Rhode Island Reds and
Barred Plymouth Rocks. One flock of
Rhode Island Reds of 7 having laid since
| January 9Th to March 1888 eggs. Veri-
" with meat at 10 cents a pound, these
were laying some.
Our school is progressing nicely and
we hope to capture some OF the prizes
field day at Florence We do not remem-
Der of seeing any account of the new brick
stores that have gone up in our town. Our
| druggist, Sam Rhodes, built him very
pretty drug store on his old stand and
three other brick stores in front CT Tay-
lor's and the bank.
Our enterprising merchant, Mr. Mash
burn, On Goforth street, has just finished
a two story brick building with store
under meath and offices for our two law
yers, mayor and marshal office and CRY
court room above
Mr.. NJ. Summers is building him a
new store house on the west end of his
! lot
Miss Mayfield, sister of Mrs. Tom
Beckner, is visiting here.
Our town is growing very fast, new
houses going up every day and none to
rent at present.
Mr.. A. L. D. Rhodes and family have
moved to Jackson. Mr.. Rhodes buying
an interest in drug store in that city.
Frank Manning has returned from ST.
Louis, where he spent two weeks buying
the spring stock Of goods for Taylor
! From the way the new goods are coming
in he must have spent all his time in
buying goods for this enterprising firm.
Mr. Roby Stingily is on the sick list
this week.
Bro. Dawson, the Methodist pastor,
preached two very interesting sermons Sun
day.
Bro. Simmons, the Baptist pastor, gives
US fine sermons The people of our town
think they have two as fine men as preach
ers as can be found anywhere.
Representative Heslep spent Sunday at
| home.
Mr. Munsterman, who lives just north
of town, has bought binder to gather
his crop of oats. We wish others would
follow his example and raise their meal
and feed at home. Verify my soul longeth
| for return of the corn bread of my
childhood, and the I've hominy that my
mother used to stew. We didn't have
Pellegra when we had good home ground
meal.