The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-11-02

gineer and attorney were here We'd
nesday, going over proposed site. Def
mite plans have been agreed upon and
work on the $750,OO0 plant will start
at once.
Greenwood Three very distinguish
ed speakers have accepted invitations
be given by the Greenwood Travelling
Mems Association at the Confederate
Memorial Building on Friday evening
Nov. 3.
Colum bus.-A tax levy Of 10 mills
has been made by the local municipal
council for the fiscal year beginning
Oct. /, 1916. This is an increase of
one mill over the preceding year, this
increase having been necessitated by
the fact that the city was recently
forced to pay Lowndes county about
$4,000, which had been collected as
taxes in the Columbus school district.
Jackson.-J. C. Clair, head of the in
dustrial and immigration department
of the Illinois Central, which has done
so much to add to the success OF the
1916 Mississippi State Fair as well
as to stir up the people throughout
their territory to larger and more
practical vision of life, is here. Mr..
Clair witnessed the presentation of the
noted 81 c." bulls to the respective
members, for whom they were do
mated.
Corinth-Elaborate preparations are
being made for the entertainment Of
of the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy and the Masons, who will be
in Corinth on Saturday, Nov. 4, en-
route to Shiloh battlefield to take
charge of the laying of the corner
stone of the $4,000 Confederate mon
ument that is being erected there. Mr..
Robert Henderson, Mississippi director
of the Shiloh monument committee,
and other members of the Corinth
Chapter, U. D. c., are anticipating this
event with much pleasure.
Aberdeen.-The entire city is full
of excitement as a result of G. G. Mil
Ter, father of Miss Mary Miller, the
pretty young school teacher of Platts
burg, Miss, who met her death here
several months ago, shooting Clyde In
gram, the man who, it is alleged,
ruined his daughter. Court had just
adjourned Thursday when Miller, who
had been in the courtroom all day, got
up from his seat, walked up on to the
raised platform where the attorneys
sit and where Ingram, Lee and Broom
field were standing, pulled his pistol
and fired at Ingram, the bullet strlk-
ing him in the arm. Clyde Ingram
and Miss Mary Miller taught school
together in Winston county. Last
summer Ingram brought Miss Miller
to Aberdeen and placed her in negro
boarding house He then. it is charg-
ed. engaged Dr. F. E. Lee to perform
a criminal operation, which resulted
in the young girls death.
Natchez.-The Golden Jubilee OF st.
Joseph's School for Girls was celebrat-
ed with an elaborate program Tuesday
Meridian Allan McCants
is planning and will recommend q fit
ting celebration of the 25th anniver-
sary of Hamasa Temple, A. A. o. N.
M. S.. During the early part OF next
year.
Meridian. Mississippi Alabama
fair grounds resembled one OF the Eu-
ropean trenches after heavy artillery
bombardment Sunday, the various ex.
hibitors tearing down that which they
had carefully erected during the last
week.
Greenville. Greenville Gravel
Company's big dredge boat. valued at
several thousand dollars, is at the bot
tom Of the Mississippi river. at the
company's plant, after having been
driven on snag in the recent heavy
wind.
William Dunn and H. b.
Moore, members of the Mahoning CO
noe Club Of Niles, Ohio, arrived here
Tuesday en- route to New Orleans on
5000 mile canoe trip. The young
men are competing for the cup offered
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