The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-19
FROM ALL PARTS
OF MISSISSIPPI
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for Hasty Pcrusal.
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CTIutSuQCul rs BILL Ill QlOSI ODD
The Clinton auxiliary Of the Fed
Cross has made a splendid showing.
Navy recruits from Mississippi will
be limited to Is men q week for first
enlistments
e. w. Ward, oldest Confederate vet.
Gran at Water Valley, died at the age
of "a years.
A picnic given at Pascagoula on the
Fourth for the benefit of the Red
Cross netted $500.
Oma, the 4-year-old son of o. J. Dun
can, at Carrollton, was killed by the
kick of family horse. ~
The Fourth was celebrated in Clos.
ter by a general suspension of bust.
ness and flag-raising.
The business men of Osyka met at
the town hall and organized board
of trade, with 40 members.
For the first time in forty years the
Seashore campground camp meetings
at Biloxi have been postponed.
Holmes county has just received
charter with authority to form a chap
ter of the American Red Cross.
The construction of the joint freight
station of the Southern and N. o. rail-
roads at Corinth is about complete.
A midsummer reunion and ceremon-
ial Of Masonic bodies of the state will
be held in Jackson on July "a and q.
Mayor Scott announces that he has
instructed the police department to
clean out the gambling places in Jack
son.
A Red Cross society was organized
at Pontotoc with an encouraging en-
rollment, and with the election of Of
ficers.
At meeting of the board of super
visors an $4,000 road bond issue was
granted to complete the road between
Morton and Forest.
Basil l.. Mayes of Oxford has been
appointed u. S. commissioners for the
western division OF the northern dis
trict of Mississippi.
The National Nut Growers associa-
ton, which is composed OF leading pc
can growers Of the south. will meet in
convention in Biloxi. Oct 10 to II.
The Blue Mountain summer normal.
which has been in session, for five
weeks, closed last week with a series
OF state and professional examinations.
Oscar Davis, white man, who lives
near Locopolis,I was lodged in Jail at
Charleton. charged with killing Luz
Their Williams and wounding Bud WI.
liams.
The $4,000 Pike county bonds for
establishing the county agricultural
high school at Godbold's Mineral
Wells were sold by the board of su.
pervisors.
A thorough tick eradication cam
paign is being waged in Lawrence
county under the supervision Of Dr..
E. H. Aicher, federal supervisor of the
work there.
During an electrical storm near Lex
&~r<or Hrbfrip~ Iy;1Iod $uyo x,nvxr e;-c
mules while hitched to a wagon haul
ing gravel, and neither the driver nor
wagon was struck
Organization Of the Red Cross Aux.
Hilary at large in McComb City has
been completed with J. B. Alfor.l.
chairman; o. B. Quinn, treasurer; A.
J. Evans, secretary.
Contracts amounting to over $780,
900 for road work in Leflore county
were cancelled by the board OF super.
visors because Of failure Of the con-
tractors to make bond.
II. H. Spears, q farmer living obout
three miles west OF Tylertown, was
arrested near McComb and lodged in
jail charged with crime against his
13-year-old sister-in-law.
Mabel Burleson, 8-year-old daugh
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Burleson Of
Columbus, who was recently bitten by
mad dog. has been taken to the Pas
teur institute in Jackson for treatment.
S. e. Moreton. who has been vice
president and general manager OF the
Homochitto lumber company, with
mills at Bude, will also fill the same
position for the j. ]. Newman lumber
company, with mills at Hattie-burs
and at Sumrall.
In gun fight with man named
Pittman, whose grievance with her ia.
Their she had undertaken to SETTLE
Miss Bette Falkner of Laird was shot
in the face with a double-barreled
shotgun and the sight of both eyes de
stroyed
Mrs George p Graham, Sd years old,
resident of Clarksdale, attended o
moving picture show few nights ago,
which was the first movie she had
ever seen and the first entertainment
Of any kind she had attended In 80
years. Her husband declares she has