The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-11-16
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

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Brandon visitor Tuesday.
'Uncle' Johnnie McLaurin is
able to be up again after Sc
we're spell of illness.
The coldest weather of the
season arrived Wednesday,, the
thermometer registering as low
as 16 degrees Wednesday night.
H. A. Jones and interesting
little son, H. A., Jr., of Puckett,
were in Brandon Saturday, and
paid The News office pleasant
call.
C. w. Runge, division passen-
ger agent of the Southern Pacific
Railroad, with headquarters at
Riverside, CAL, was here last
week, visiting his brother, w. G.
Runge and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Wynn have
received a letter from their son,
Byington, who is with the United
States army, stationed in Texas,
stating that he has successfully
passed the examination for pro-
motion to the position of second
liutenant.
Every farmer in Mississippi
should plant enough wheat to
supply flour for his home use, as
there is no telling how high flour
may go if the European war con-
tinues another year. p. P. Gar
ner, Commissioner of Agricul-
ture and Commerce.
The Mississippi College quar-
te5 will sing for the morning
md afternoon preaching service
at Langford (Oakdale) Baptist
church on Gext Sunday, Novem-
Der 10Th. Dinner will be served
on the ground and everybody is
invited to attend with basket.
Mrs. J. S. Mcdonald, who is
rapidly recovering from a Sc
rious operation that she recently
underwent at the Baptist Hos
pital at Jackson, has returned to
her home at Dobson, after a ten
days stay with her sister, Mrs.
Ed Rhodes, of Brandon Route /.
c.. H. Bethune, the efficient
and capable manager of the
county home and farm, is here
by awarded the blue ribbon for
| the finest sugar cane and syrup
received at this office this year.
Mr.. Bethune brought us in three
stalks of cane and a gallon of
syrup last Thursday that for
quality cannot be surpassed.
At a special session Of the
chancery court of this county,
last Monday, w. P. Anderson
was fined $100 and cost for tail
ure to obey an injunction re-
straining him from having cattle
infested with or exposed to the
Texas fever tick on the public
highway. B. O. Meadows, jus.
tice of the peace in Beat 8, was
fined $25 for failure to answer to
the same charge, and his case is
to be heard at a later date,
The News has received a copy
of the Tucson, Ariz., Citize ,
from which we note that our
former townsman and distin-
guished young friend, Hon. ].
w. Buchanan, lead the ticket in
the Tucson district for state sem
ator, defeating his republican
opponent by nearly 800 votes.
Mr.. Buchanan has served several
terms in the lower house Of the
Arizona legislature, and demon
strating his superior ability in
this position, the people had nc
hesitancy in comforting greater
honors upon him. We congrat-
ulate Mr.. Buchanan on, his great
victory.
! Rev. Simon Luberacki, a re-
formed Jew, preached at the
| Methodist church last night to 9
| fair-sized and appreciative con-
Igregation. Mr.. Luberacki is
from the city of Warsaw. at
present occupied by the Germans.
! He is endeavoring to organize
religious and industrial homes in
the south and elsewhere for the
evangilization of the poor Jews
and Gentiles from the slums Of
the congested cities of this coun-
try and also from the war zone.
| His work is to convert ignorance
into knowledge, vice into virtue,
adversity into prosperity, freez-
/ ing infidelity into the blazing re-
ligion of Moses and the proph-
cts, and Jesus Christ and the
apostles.
| At last weeks meeting Of the
board of supervisors, all Of the
lcounty inspectors, except five,