The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-29
STATE SOLDIERS
AWAIT DISCHARGE
TROOP TRAINS BEARING TROOP
ERs ARRIVED IN HEAVY
DoWNPoUR OF RAIN.
WELCOMED BY CITIZENS
Camp Swept Taylor, After Six Months
Silence, Resounds With Activity
of Guards Awaiting Dismiss
al From Service.

| Ice at Camp Wilson, San Antonio,
Texas, the First Mississippi regiment,
| Is back home, and according to Off
| GERS in charge of mastering out the
| soldiers, will be released from serv-
| Ice Immediately.
| There was no public demonstration
when the troops arrived but a crowd
of friends and relatives greeted the
returned troopers, who went direct to
Camp Swep Taylor, which had been
prepared for them.
Their first day back in Mississippi
was a cherries one from. a weather
standpoint, and downpour of rain
caused considerable discomfort. 1t
was the same sort of shower that fell
upon the men when they were rockies
| last summer.
with making camp that they would
not give any definite answer to invita-
tons to take part in public celebra-
| tons. 1t is thought certain, however,
that regimental review will be held
and street dance will be given for
futtered from many buildings as the
soldiers strolled through the streets,
looking happy enough just to be home
again.
Lieut. Col J. ]. Hornbrook, u. S. A,
| Is senior mastering officer at the
camp and has as his assistants Maj
| L. S. Upton, Capt. William Carleton
and Capt. E. D. Smith.
The men look to be in splendid
| health and are tanned from their long
| tour under the Texas sun. Their
| equipment looks like that of regulars,
and it would be hard to recognize
them as the same raw guardsmen who
left here last fall.
Only one man from the First Mis-
sissippi has died since the troops left
Jackson although they suffered an ep-
idemic of measles and pneumonia.
The home coming was different in
many ways from the departure Of the
| troops from San Antonio. When the
regiment left Jackson five months ago
| the work of loading was accomplished
amid confusion. Raw recruits have
now become trained soldiers and the
very appearance of the men bespeaks
untold praise for the military training
which they have received.
The trip from San Antonio to Jack
son was an uneventful one. The
three trains bearing the sections of
the regiment left San Antonio Monday
afternoon They arrived in Shreve-
port and came via Delta, Louisiana
Vicksburg The men were not allowed
| to leave their coaches while enrOute.
| Most of them were provided with
sleeping accommodations as the regi-
| ment Jared better than some of its
friends and was provided with Pull
man cars for the trip.
Trying To Reopen Hospital.
A movement has been launched to
reopen the Matty Hersee Charity hos
pital in spite of the continued refusal
of the board of state trustees appoint
ed by Gov. Bilbo to allow the use OF
the state funds appropriated by the
legislature for the use of the hospital,
which closed it's doors recently be-
cause of the lack of funds.
The movement contemplates tempo
rarily sweeping aside the state appro-
priation, until the next legislature
meets, and raising funds to operate
the hospital until next January, for
the people of Meridian and Lauder
dale county.
Dipping Law Is Valid.
At the office Of the attorney general
it is announced that an average of
three or four letters are received every
day making inquiry about some feat,
ure of the statewide eradication law
passed by the 1916 legislature. The
great majority Of the writer's of these
letters want to know If there Is any
way for cattle owner who is opposed
to dipping to get out of it. They are
all informed that there is no escape
that the legislature gave the state
live stock sanitary board plenary pow
ers to pass laws of their own so as to
obtain uniform dipping in every coun-
ty in the state.
Meetings Held in All Districts.
eThe state department of education
has completed series of district
meetings, one in each congressional
district of the state. These were most
successful and have paved the way
for greater development among the
county superintendent of education.
Governor Bilbo gives out a state
ment showing subscriptions to Beau
voir since his last report, which
amount to $30613. Or this sum the
faculty and students of the A. & M.
college gave $524.33.
The Cybur. Gulf & Northwestern
railroad reports to the secretary of
the railroad commission that during
| the quarter ending December 81, its
total resources were $7,247, expenses
s6,974, taxes 1851. This little road OPP
crates over twelve miles of territory
| from Cybrf to Picayune.