The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-09-28
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MISSISSIPPI {
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over.
Blue Mountaineering Mountain Col
lege has just opened it's forty-fourth
annual session.
Standardization county agricult-
ural high school opened it's eighth SEES
sion on the 18th.
Corinth-Rev J. II. Fowler, pastor
of the Tate Street Baptist Church. is
conducting a series of revivals.
Union-The local plant Of the New
ton Cotton Oil Company, after making
extensive repairs, has resumed opera
ton.
Jackson.-Trustees Of the Missis-
sippi state prison sold 400 bales of cot
ton at an average Of 21.49 cents per
pound.
Meridian.-The Meridian freight bu-
reau has been formally organized,
with c. H. Hayward as manager and
secretary.
Natchez-Miss F1oy Fowler of Oak
Grove was burned to death Tuesday,
and the home of her father, Lewis
Fowler, destroyed by fire.
Wesson.-The Booster Club has pre-
pared its program and prize list for
the annual trade day fair, which will
be held here Oct. 20 and II.
Senatobia.-T M. Gregory of Sen
atobia mercantile concern, returned
from Kansas City, where he purchased
carload of pure bred Poll Durham
cattle.
Belzoni.-Farm Demonstration H. A.
Carpenter of the district of Washing
ton county is now urging the farmers
to plant bur and crimson clover as q
soil-building crop.
Jackson-W. N. Taylor, assistant
superintendent of education, returned
from Clarke county, where he attend
ed the opening of the agricultural high
school for that county.
Clarksdale.-The cornerstone of the
new $30, 900 city hall was laid in this
city with Masonic ceremonies. Most
Worshipful Grand Master George B.
Power of Jackson presided.
Meridian.-The principal organiza-
lions of the city have adopted resolu-
tons urging the city to appropriate
$4,000 annually for the maintenance of
a milk inspection department.
Jackson.-Sixty meetings, conduct
ed by Memphis and Mississippi bank
ers and state agricultural officials are
being held in II counties of North
Mississippi in fight on the boil vice.
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Corinth. = The Mississippi-Tenne
see Fair will begin in Corinth on Tues
Gay, Oct 8. Work has been in prog
ress for the last several days on re-
pairs to buildings and improving the
track.
Clarksdale-L. O. Genton, repre-
senting produce concern of Memphis.
had a miraculous escape from death
when his car plunged through an open
bridge on the graveled road and land
ed in sh feet of water.
Meridian.-The Southern Hay Grow
ers' Association was organized in Me-
ridian with the election of officers, as
follows: w. l.. Donaldson of String,
Miss, chairman, and Leslie L. Gilbert
of Montgomery, secretary.
Hazlehurst.-The board of trustees
Of the Hopwell district school have
accepted the plans of G. T. Halls, ar
chitect, of this place. for the erection
of a frame one-story school building
to cost $4,000.
Columbus.-Paul O'Connor and John
Sloan, conductor and engineer of the
train which ran over and killed A. D.
Whitfield, an aged Confederate vet
eran of this city, were tried of crimi-
nal negligence and acquitted.
West Point.-Gen. Nathan Bedford
Forrest was in Best Point and met
with a good number of Sons Of Vet
Grams, and after an interesting address
by Gen. Forrest, Camp West Point,
Sons of Confederate Veterans, was
organized.
Hazlehurst-Miss Marian Dodds,
daughter of John M. Dodds, former SUI
perintendent of the Oakley State pris-
on farm, and Mrs Myrtle Dodds, Girls
Canning Club demonstration for Co
piah county, committed suicide here
by drinking solution of sulphuric
acid
rg-Congressman ]. w. Col
iier of this district, Vice President w.
l.. Park of the Illinois Central, A. H. H.
Egan, general manager of the Y. & M.
v. Railroad, and Mayor ]. j. Hayes OF
this city conferred here with refer
ence to the big peace jubilee, or re.
union of the Blue and Gray, to be held
in Vicksburg In October, 1917. Mr..
Park said that between $4,000 and 20
900 veterans OF the civil war, repre-.
senting practically every state in the
Union, will be here for the occasion.
Foxworth-The body of Marcus Web
ster Dunaway, private in the land
Coast Artillery, arrived here from San
Francisco for burial.
ermanville.-Sheriff Davenport ar.
rested two boys, Ed Dodds and j. Lee,
negroes, charged with selling whiskey
at q church at Hermanville.
Amory.-Ground has been broken
and the site laid off for the new $25, 600
Baptist Church at Amory.
Louin.-H. H. Stringer, secretary OF
the Jasper-Smith Fair, is arranging to