The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-11-11

| Only forty-fve more days till
Christmas. Lest We forget do
your shopping early.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forest Smith
and Miss Gertrude May came
over from Jackson Sunday after
noon and spent a few hours
with Brandon relatives. They
made the trip in Mr.. Smiths au-
tonobile.
Fred Cook, who has been as
sistant depot agent for some
time, has been transferred to the
relief corps, and is now tempo
rarily at Forest. Mrs. Cook will
make her home with her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Nor
ris until Mr.. Cook is stationed.
The Board of Supervisors, at
their meeting this week. rescind-
| ed their order passed at the last
meeting with reference to the
game law, and passed new or
der fixing the open season the
same as the state law, which
permits the killing of quail from
| Nov. l till March /.
Mrs. Daisy McLaurin Stevens
and daughter, Miss Daisy, re-
turned home Saturday from a
months visit through the Golden
West, visiting Colorado, Utah,
the Expeditions at Los Angeles
and Frisco and many other
places of interest. They were
the recipients of many social
honors, and had a most delight
full trip.
''The Winning of Barbara
Worth, a dramatization of
Harold Bell Wright's great story,
| interpreted by a strong COM
pany, aided by novel scenic and
! electrical effects, is to be played
at The Century Theatre, Jack-
son, Monday, November 22nd.
1t is thought that with this
ample notice, good many will
arrange to attend from here.
The News was acting in per-
fectly good faith last week in
claiming Billie Darnall as the
champion potato grower of this
vicinity, but now comes the real
stuff-sure enough potato grow
ers-in the persons of R. r. Bu-
sick and A. M. Shields who pre-
sent tubers weighing all the way
from 8 to 10 pounds each, and
which makes Billie's look like
small potatoes indeed. BusicK
and Shields make potato grow
ing an avocation-if they made
it a business there's no telling
what in the deuce they would do.
Billie, we are sorry, but you, IL
have to come with something
else.
Bonnie Wynn came home Mon
day from Shreveport, La, where
| he has been in a sanitarlum for
several weeks, recovering from
I injuries that he received in an
explosion in the oil fields near
that city. Mr.. Wynn was un-
conscious for a long time after
the accident, and his life was
despaired of. Nine bones were
broken and his body was badly
lacerated and bruised. He will
stay with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jos. Wynn, until he has
sufficiently recovered to return
to his same position.
Mrs. Will Muh, of Brandon, is
now dividing her time among
her relatives, Mrs. Ferguson, her
mother; Mrs Berbette, her sister,
and others in her old home dur
ling the time she is taking treat
ment that she may regain her
strength. Mrs. Muh has not
been we'll since her accident
, more than a year ago when her
horse ran away, breaking the
buggy and seriously injuring her
and her many friends are wish
ing that she may again be made
we'll and strong. jackson Cla-
rion-Ledger.
Henry Shields established a
new record this week in selling
rocking chairs, having sold about
Is to his customers. The chairs
are made at Camden, in Madison
county, and were brought to
, town by the manufacturer in a
WAGON They are made of sea-