The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-21
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izen of Jackson, was a Brandon
visitor yesterday.
Mrs. G. w. White came over
from Clinton Sunday and spent
the day with homefolks.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Barnes
have as their guest Mr.. Barnes
mother, Mrs. w. G.. Barnes, of
Florence.
Mrs. S. NJ. Hunter, of jack
son, spent few days the first
of the week visiting Mrs. T. t.
Cottrell, and other Brandon rel
atives.
Mrs. j. C. White returned yes
terday from a visit to her sister,
Miss Margaret Foulks, who is
a member of the faculty of the
Meridian city schools.
Mrs. ]. M. Dees and little son,
Joe, Jr., of Richton, arrived in
Brandon Tuesday for a few
weeks visit to her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. R. E. Gayden.
Mesdames Sudie McLaurin,
Anna May, R. P. Fixes, and
Miss Annie Robinson went to
Bolton yesterday to attend the
district meeting of the Ladies'
Missionary Society.
The many friends of Mr.. Jack
Henry, who has been quite sick
for some time at his home at
Clarksburg, will be glad to learn
that he is improving, and hopes
to be able to be out again real
soon.
Misses Ruby Palmer and Ruth
Cottrell, and William Mcintyre
and Victor Martin, chaperoned
by Mrs. Cottrell, of Brandon,
and Mrs. Hunter, of Jackson,
made a delightful trip to Clinton
Sunday afternoon in Mr.. Mar
tins new Hupmobile.
Mrs. Sallie Fauquier Walters,
recently of New Orleans, and her
niece, Miss Julia Walker, came
to Brandon last week and will
make this place their future
home, keeping house in the Wal
ker residence, near Baugh's
we'll.
DR.. and Mrs. P. w. Tompkins,
of Vicksburg, have moved to
Brandon, and have apartments
at Miss Susie Buchanan's resi-
dence on College street. DR..
Tompkins is the governments
representative in Rankin county
looking after the work of tick
eradication.
The State Fair at Jackson will
open Monday, and every indica-
ton points to one of the biggest
and best fairs the state has ever
had. The automobile pageant,
which occurs Wednesday, will be
the greatest sight ever seen in
the capital city, over a thousand
automobiles having already en-
tered.
County Cotton Statician Till,
of Pelahatchie, sends us the fol-
lowing government report: There
were 666 bales of cotton, count
ing round as half bales, ginned
in Rankin county, from the crop
of 1915 prior to September 18th,
1915, as compared with POI bales
ginned prior to September
25th, 1914.
William E. Thornton has re-
turned from a several months
stay in the west, where he went
in search of health. He returns
much improved, and will resume
his work as carrier of route 3,
which work was performed in
his absence by Billie Darnall.
Among the Brandon pleasure
seekers in Jackson last night
were Mrs. Robert Burns, Mrs.
II. L. Shields, Hon. w. E. Nc
Intyre, Roy Fox, Will White,
Bob BusicK, Cole Burns, Bill Tay-
lor and Prof. C. I. Laseter, the
jolly party having gone over to
witness September Morn, which
was presented at the Century
Theater.
Prof. M. C. Ferguson and Miss
Maude Harvey, daughter of w.
S, Harvey, a prominent drug
gist of Mathison, Miss, were
married at the home of the bride
last Sunday morning. Prof.
Ferguson was principal of the
Brandon Graded School session
1894, and is very popular
here. His many friends con-
nrat1llate him ON winning SC