The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-04-22


table crop is at least 15 days late. but
the ideal weather is helping consider
ably and this lateness may be made up
for il the present weather lasts.
The board of Mississippi levee COM
missioners, in meeting held at Green
Vile, awarded contract to r. w.
Clark & Co. for 5000 yards of levee
work on the IssaQuena county dis
trict at $1.59 per cubic yard. The
board authorized the issuance of $780,
900 in certificates Of Indebtedness
when needed to meet the cost Of new
levee work.
Haywood Boone and Nick Black
were shot and almost instantly killed
at Lambert April II by Bob Henson,
who came to Lambert recently from
Ruleville. The shooting arose over
poker game. Henson was arrested by
Sheriff Smith, Quitman county, and is
now In Jail awaiting preliminary
hearing. He refuses to discuss the de-
tails of the crime. Henson is a brick
layer and has not been in Lambert
long. The other men lived there. He
left the scene before the officers came
and escaped arrest.
Grover Day, 80 years old, is at the
point of death, his throat slashed
from ear to ear as result Of quar-
rel with J. r. Solomon at Coldwater.
The tragedy was the elimination OF
an argument arising from checker
game. The argument arose over
move in the checker game. Mr.. Solo
mon is said to have started the trouble
by stabbing his adversary in the cheek
with a fountain pen. Solomon is be-
ing held in the county Jail pending the
result of his victims wounds.
One of the greatest events in
Pythian circles in Mississippi that has
taken place in years was the big two
days celebration recently held in Me
ridian. Saladin Temple No. 142, Dra-
matte Order knights Of Khorassan,
the host, held monster ceremonial, at
which so tyros were initiated. The
temples from, Birmingham, New Or.
leans, Mobile and Montgomery partic-
ipated in the parade. One feature of
the celebration was the dedication OF
Meridian's new $4,000 castle hall by
the Hon. Walter B. Richie of Lima,
Ohio, past supreme chancellor of the
Knights Of Pythias, and author of the
major portion Of the Pythian ritual.
Many features of the Mississippi
pageant to be presented in Columbus
by the senior class and 700 students
of the Industrial Institute and College
on the campus May 27, commence
ment week, will serve to attract hun
dreds of visitors from all sections of
the state and the south. The pageant
will be the most gorgeous undertaking
ever attempted by southern college,
and 1t will be the first real big pageant
ever staged in the south. The play is
being directed by Miss Emma Ody
Pohl and Mrs. Rice Gather, the au-
thor. It will depict the history of Co
lumbus. The Columbus Riflemen have
been invited to participate.
A cigarette stump discarded by
tramp who spent the night In box
car is believed to have strated the
Are at Tupelo that destroyed 1900
bales of cotton, the property OF the
Gulf Compress company. causing
loss of $4,000, fully insured. Two
thousand bales were saved by the fire
department, and the flames were pre-
vented from spreading to storage
shed on the Frisco tracks 200 feet
away. The. dyeing plant of the Tu-
pelo cotton mills, $50 feet from the
burned shed, was saved after hard
work by the department. The night
watchman, who discovered the flames,
says he observed two tramps early In
the night idling around the shed and
ordered them away.