The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-08-26
EXPOSITION TOUR is READY
"Grown in Mississippi" Tour to San
Francisco Fair Will Carry Forty
Young Ladies Representing
Mississippi Counties.


Francisco officials. The subject Of
a new and adequate station at this
point has been before the railroad
commission for a year.
The commission at several success
sive monthly meetings, passed order
after order, inhicting fines of $500 at
each sitting on the Frisco Railway
Company for noncompliance. when all
the time the corporation was in liqui-
dation. When the commission real
lied this, the process was changed,
all the fines, which then aggregated
something like $4,000, were RENTED
and a new citation directed to the
receivers of the property was passed.
The receivers were given GO days in
which to prepare suitable plans, and
these have been prepared, submitted
to the commission, and with some
notifications of an immaterial ma
ture, stood approved. The receivers
are given 60 days in which to start
work and 80 days from date of start
ing to complete the task.
Exposition Tour Ready.
H. E. Blakeslee, commissioner of
agriculture and commerce, who will
be general manager of the Grown in
Mississippi excursion to the Panama
Pacific Exposition, in addition to his
other duties, is devoting much
thought and effort towards a compile
ton of the details necessary to in
sure the success of the tour. The
arrangements are for making up the
Mississippi special in the local yards
of the Illinois Central on Aug. 26, to
leave at l pm. sharp. In addition to
carrying 40 young women of Missis-
sippi, representing as many counties.
the train will be boarded by about 100
more citizens of the state, and it is
probable that several members of the
Legislature. state officials and others
will be included in the personnel.
Mr. Blakeslee has prepared for TAX
ing along on the trip large quantity
of printed matter pertaining to Mis-
sissippi conditions and opportunities.
for distribution along the way.
Negro Lawyer Disbarred. -
Judge Wylie H. Potter on Aug. 10
handed down a decree of disbarment
against S. D. Redmond, prominent
negro physician and lawyer of this
place. The order of the court is the
aftermath to lengthy hearing, fol-
lowing the filing of formal charges
against Redmond by commission of
lawyers appointed by the court to in
vestigate his alleged misconduct. He
stands ousted from practice on the
ground that he has not acted fairly and
honestly with his clients.
BACON Will Recover.
Otis Bacon, the young man who
stabbed himself in the left lung, just
above the heart on the night of Aug.
Is, after brooding for some time over
the fact that his salary was too small
to justify him in marrying the girl he
loved, probably will recover.
Reports from the hospital, where the
young man was taken after he tried TO
kill himself in the bindery at the plant
of the Tucker Printing House, say that
the self-inflicted wound is not now
dangerous.
Robbing Mail Sacks Charged.
Charged with breaking into the
railroad depot building at Goodman,
In Holmes County and stealing and
breaking into a United States mail
sack which. was stored there, Bunk
Drane and Henry Body, two negroes,
were brought here Aug 20 and turned
over to the United States marshal.
After arraignment before Commits
sioner Ricketts, the pair were held
in the sum of $1,000 each to the
grand jury next November. Among
other charges against them is forgery
of money order for $3.50.
To Erect Powder Depot.
Negotiations were opened here by
E. Craig, a representative of the Du-
pont Powder Company, for 14-year
lease on some two acres of ground,
two miles south of Jackson, for the
construction of powder storage
depot 1t is understood that several
structures of metal and brick for stor-
age and safekeeping Of combustibles
Race For Librarian On.
It is probable that the most inter
esting race for state librarian, the only
office in the state for which woman
can qualify and hold, which has been
witnessed, will be that which is now
in progress. Five well-known ladies
are now lined up as active aspirants.
and are eagerly watching the returns
indicating the legislators elect, for 1t
is at the hands of the legislature, in
joint session, that the librarian Is
chosen.
Each of the announced candidates
eve oIreadv aefivnlv cam0aicning.