The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-02
1000 LABOR At CAMP sHELsv
Army Officers on Hand and Contract
ors Are Preparing for Work.

ors Are Preparing for Work.
Hattiesburg Work at Camp Shelby
Is getting in full swing. More than l.
600 men are on the JOB getting the q
900 acres cleared off and ready for the
carpenter crews that are coming. Mou-
ty & Co. of Chattanooga are contract.
ors and are making preparation for the
work In hand. They propose to make
a record for themselves and the gov.
eminent in the short time in which
they will fill their contract.
Major George H. Weller OF the quar-
termaster's department, IL on the
ground and has his work we'll in hand
Major w. J. Howard is stationed here
also Col. Dalton visited the canton.
ment last week.
All teams available in South Missis-
sippi are on the grounds. The teams
AMI mcn. building railroad from Nc.
Lain, Miss, north through the Blodg.
EFT timber, are all on the grounds at
Camp Shelby. e. 3. Caperton, who has
been road building in Harrison county,
is also here with his teams and men.
Farmers Of Forrest county have turned
their eyes to the camp and many OF
them are leaving growing crops for
public work Laborers of Hattiesburg,
who for some time have been com.
planning about scarcity Of work, have
more jobs offered than they can fill.
Soldier Wants $4,000 Damages.
r. E. McManus, private of the
First Mississippi regiment, by his at
torney, M H. Mcneil, has filed in the
circuit court of Copiah county a suit
for $4,000 damages. The declaration
against the railroad has two counts
for $4,000 each. The first count
charges that the plaintiff, McManus,
on the 23d day of May, 1917, in the city
of Jackson, was negligently struck and
run over by the operation Of one of the
Illinois Central railroad trains, and as
a result both limbs were amputated
just below the knees. The second
count in the declaration charges that
the railroad train was composed of re-
frigerator cars loaded with bananas,
and that the doors of the train had
been negligently left open, and while
McManus was on duty in the north
yards in the city, acting under the di-
rection of one of the lieutenants, and
making an effort to capture two es-
capped prisoners, one of the doors Of
this train, which, it is charged, was
running at high and reckless rate OF
speed, struck the muZZle of his rifle,
knocked him against switch stand
and beneath the running train, and his
limbs were mangled to such an extent
that an operation became necessary.
Best Fair In History Of State.
More county exhibits are promised
for the Mississippi State fair this year
than ever before in the history OF the
organization.
1.-THE county must be the unit In
making the state fair a success" says
President r. S. Curry Of the board OF
directors.
"Only by having exhibits from the
various counties of the state can we
hope to make comprehensive display
of the resources of the state.
Emphasis will be placed on food
crops, and the conservation OF food
supplies. The federal government will
give us splendid assistance with this
feature of the state fair, having POM
ised to send it's ablest experts here for
lectures and demonstrations that will
be Of the greatest value, especially to
our farmers"
Will "Mother" "Sammies" and "Tars."
Wothering the soldiers and sailors
to De stationed in Mississippi is the
novel and worthy task the Mississippi
Mothers congress and ParentTeacher
association has set itself to, as ex-
planned by the state president, Mrs. H.
P. Hughes of the Agricultural college,
who is planning the movement. The
details of the plan will be in the hands
of a mothers service committee at
each point IN the state where Sam
mics" or "tars" are encamped.
These committee will work with the
Y. M. C. A. and other allied organiza-
lions to make life more homelike for
the boys in camp.
May Not Collect Back Taxes.