The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-01-18
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Leflore county Is to have farm
demonstrator.

Leflore county is to have a farm
| demonstration.
The Sutherland Nsanatorium at
Bonneville is being Incorporated.
| After an illness of two weeks, Capt.
J. T. Coulter is dead at Yazoo City.
Rev. ID. H. Scanlon has been chosen
as president of the Meridian ministe-
rial association.
Alfred Walters, farmer living a
few miles from Ellisville, suffered a
broken leg from runaway.
Chester Lewis, twelve years old,
while out hunting, was accidentally
shot and instantly killed near Hatties-
burg.
An order from the postoffice depart
ment at Washington establishes fast
mail service between Columbus and
Caledonia.
Edward H. Alexander, who has been
a tourist to Biloxi for a number of
years, died at his home at Humes-
town, Iowa.
The Mexican Gulf hotel, a widely
known coast resort at Pass Christian,
was destroyed by fire of undetermined
origin here.
A firm in the north who manufac-
ture tomato catsup has contracted to
take from the truckers at Hazlehurst
all the ripe culls.
Sturgeon are being caught in small
numbers off the Biloxi coast in the
Mississippi channel for the first time
possibly in history.
S. J. Grear, teacher in the Jones
county agricultural high school, has
resigned to be farm demonstration in
Pearl River county.
Four members of an automobile
party were seriously injured at Thay-
er station when the machine ran into
ditch and overturned.
r. e. Halsell, present city attorney
and former mayor Of Laurel, is dead
at his home as the result of a selfin-
flicted gunshot wound
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Biloxi citizens have received COM
munication from Biloxi's So soldier
boys at Camp Wilson, thanking them
for Christmas presents
The board of supervisors has called
an election for January 80, to vote on
the question of issuing one hundred
thousand good road bonds.
A mass meeting was held at the
Walden courthouse to discuss building
the link of the Jefferson Davis high
way through Carroll county.
There are perhaps fewer prisoners
In the Lafayette county jail at the
present time than at any similar sea-
son for number Of years.
Faison H. Smith has closed deal
for 800 acres of land belonging to the
r. B. Faison estate at Indianola. get
ting a magnificent property.
John Cox Wicks, one OF Monroe
county's most progressive farmers,
shipped the first carload of hogs ever
shipped from Aberdeen by one man.
No light has been thrown upon the
death of the strange young man be-
lieved to be Ray Hawkins of st. Louis
and who committed suicide at Jack
son.
B J. Mcdonald, government ginning
agent for Lauderdale county, reports
that there were 1,441 bales of cotton
ginned in the county from the 1915
crop.
Engineer J. M. T. Hamilton is busy
surveying and stalking lines for grad
ing on the Meridian and Bigbee road.
between Meridian and the Tombigbee
river.
Mrs. Marie Allen aged " was IA
tally burned In her home near Bel
zoni when she poured oil on the wood
in kindling a fire. She died in few
hours.
Hurled against telephone pole By
the impact of an automobile, the +
year-old daughter of A. w. Afford OF
Bogalusa, La, was instantly killed at
Fernwood.
j. A. P. Campbell former state SUI
preme court judge and said to be last
of the forty-nine signers of the con-
stitution of the Confederate States OF
America is reported critically i'll at
Jackson. He is 81 years old.
The Corn Club boys of Washington
county are elated over the announce
+l~,+ D,~of Cohb Of tha A