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

IelVeQ ndnuSOI1c TciHuHeI dtlOn. AL ihis
vas nothing less than could have been ex-
pected of such good people as live at
and around D'Lo.
1t was our pleasure to call in upon the
Baptist Young Peoples Union meeting
last Sunday afternoon while it was at
work. Mr.. Claud Holcomb is president
and Mrs W.. S. Allen, secretary. The
exercises were very interesting, inter-
spersed with songs. Papers were read
and talks delivered on various subjects,
as per the following program, to-wit:
The subject for the day was peace.
I. Scripture Reading. Luke 2:I-1I4.
2. Talk on the history of the world
being history of wars-Rev. w. S. Al
len.
3. The Prophecies of Isiah-Mrs. E.
K. White.
4. Song.
and s. mot represented.)
7. "The Hague Tribunal, Miss Kate
South.
The articles read and talks made were
very entertaining and instructive
The B. Y. P. u. is very young here
having been organized just few short
months ago. The prospects are fine for
steady growth as it deserves such.
Dr. Waller, we are glad to note, has
so far recovered his health as to return
to his home at New Hebron, to his prac-
tice His lady and sick baby remains at
Capt. Berry's for while longer.
w. c. Johnson the valiant correspondent
at Cleary came into our burg last Monday
morning to bring Rev. Charles Lewis,
Of Clinton, the pastor of Hickory Ridge
church, to the south bound train on way
to Collins, to deliver a lecture Of some
sort unknown TO us.
Rev. @. w. Riley, of Jackson, stopped
off here Monday morning and went out
to preach for several days at Clear Branch
church, of which Rev. L. S. Terry, of
Mendenhall, is pastor. Revs. Lewis, Ri
ley and Terry are fine men and fine
preachers Would that all our interior
country churches appreciated such min
listers and have such for their pastors.
The four wires of the Home Telephone
Company have been stretched past this
point from Harrisburg to Jackson. 1t
will pay any one to visit the automatic
exchange of this Telephone Company at
Jackson, and see the wonderful workings
of complicated machinery doing the work
of telephone girl. Speaking of the
wonders of mechanism of today, we need
not be surprised at any progress made in
machinery now that a machine does add
ing of figures with a greater certainty of
correctness than docs many a human
brain; and some machines fly like bird
We need cotton picker now about as
badly as any other useful appliance to
substitute for human bones and muscles
There have been several mechanical pick
ers before the world but little seems to
be noted concerning them. We observe
that such a machine was patented July
10. The patent granted covers 40 diff
ferent claims 1t has been tested for two
years in the cotton fields. With it one
man and a team of mules will do the
2work of forty hand pickers.
The Union Advocate is agitating a fine
thing, a necessity too, when it is calling
Tor pledges to plant wheat this fall, in
sufficient quantities of land to justify some
moneyed concern in erecting a Towering
mill and elevator at Jackson. Farmers
all, are urged to take an interest in this
matter. You are asked to SOW not less
than two acres. and to promise positively
and in writing that you will do so. The
mill man or men want a guarante
that they shall lose no money on the
prospective mill This is fair to all.
will be but very little to any one man, or
farm, to venture just two acres. If the
wheat be lost, the loss is incomparably
snail when the speculation might resul
in saving you very heavy bread I'LL
The experiment is certainly worth try
ing. Send your name to the Advocate
without delay, and tell that paper tina
you for one will pledge two or more
acres in wheat, and the Advocate will
send you proper blanks to sign and close
the contract. When you take your own
wheat to the mill to be made into -four,
you can trade the wheat for the -four
made from it. And then you get real
good homemade natural -four No adul-
teration, no sinful bleaching in this case.
You get pure bread for your wife and
your loved ones to enjoy, and you get all
this advantage and cheapness of good
bread through hardly four days work on
very small spot Of ground that can be
well spared from cotton or boil weevil.
To bring about this much needed en-
terprise, the officers of the various local
unions in Rankin county have an inn
portant work to perform to get their mem
bers to take part in this matter. God
speed the day when we can all live at
home.
August Ropke, a German assistant secre-
tary and book keeper of that rich Louis
vile, KY, bank, the Fidelity Trust Com
pany, is now in jail in that city charged
with the embezzlement of $1,I4o,ooo.oo
the entire surplus of the concern. No
telling yet how much more he flched.
Speculation was at the bottom of his
downfall. A little human nature is shown
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