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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-16
For Sale.

One 4-wheel log wagon in good
fix-can work mules or oxen.
Will sell cheap.
A. E. HARPER.
Florence, Miss. r. 2.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-16
BOARD or SUPERVISORS.

Board met Monday morning,
Aug. 6, with all members and Of
ficers present, when the follow
ing business was had and done,
to-Wit:
Ordered that all orders passed
at the November. 1916, term of
this board touching the issuance
of road bonds in Supervisors
District No. 2, be and they are
hereby vacated and set aside and
are superseded by orders passed
at this term.
Ordered that Taylor-Wills Gro
Gerry Co. be awarded the contract
to furnish beat l with No. l
oats at 94I cents per bushel, and
mixed feed at $2.85. R. R. Blu
sick beats 2 and 5, oats at $1.O7
per bushel, and beats 2, 3 and
S Royal mixed feed at 1925 per
hundred pounds; beats No. 8, J,
M. Walsh, oats at camp at 81 90
per bushel and mixed feed at
S3.07 per hundred pounds.
Ordered that R. M. Laird be
awarded the contract for Parish
Slough fill at 35 cents per yard,
or 1926 for the job, as per speci-
ficatians or file in the office OF
chancery clerk.
Ordered that the clerk adver-
tise for sealed bids on an
automobile for the Pelahatchie
Precinct Road district; said bids
to be filed on or before II O'Clock
on the 9th day of September
1917.
Ordare by the poard that
the of the Tishomingo Gravel
Co. to furnish such gravel as
may be ordered from or by the
board of supervisors or president
thereof. for road purposes in
supervisors district No. 2, at the
price of as cents per ton f. o. b.
pit, be and the same is hereby
accepted it being expressly I'M
derstood and agreed that this
contract is only for such gravel
as may be ordered bv this board,
or the president thereof from
said Tishomingo Gravel Co., and
shipped by said company on
said order. This order shall be
effective only when written con-
tract has been executed by the
president of this board and by
said gravel company as required
by law.
Ordered that two mules for SUI
pervisor's district No. 3. be pur-
chased from C. K. Jones for the
sum of $575. It is further order
ed that 1926 of said purchase
price be paid cash, and the re-
mai1der $3.50 be deferred and
due and payable on the first day
of January, 1918, without inter-
est; that the clerk i is directed
and authorized to issue warrant
payable out of the road main
tenance fund of said supervi-
sor's district No. 3 in the said
sum of $325
Ordered that two mules be-
longing to supervisors district
No. 8 be sold to C. K. Jones for
the sum of 1926 cash. said price
being fair and adequate price
for said mules, sum to be placed
to the credit of the road main
tenance fund, of said supervis-
or's district.
Ordered that the following al
lowances be made, to-wit:
A. J. Grantham, live stock
inSnectOr SOU w
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-16

Be it ordered that the clerk of
the board be and he is hereby
directed, empowe red and author
lied to issue a citation and sum-
mons for the Finkbine Lumber
Co., Finkbine-Trenton Lumber
Co., and Green Bay Lumber Co.,
returnable before the board of
supervisors of Rankin county on
Monday, the 18th day of August
1917, at 8 o'clock a. M, at the
court house in the town of Bran
don, and that they and each of
them have then and there fer
the inspection and examination
of the said board all books, rec
ords, certificates, writings, ETC.,
showing or tending to show all
or any timber estimate on any
land owned by them, or either of
them, in said Rankin county. as
same shas been estimated sepa-
rately of each and every acre by
a competent timber estimator.
Whereas. the road commission
ers of Pelahatchie Election Pre-
cinct road district have adopted
and reported to the board of ST.
pervisors a survey and estimate
of cert lin road construction as is
provided for in Section 5, chap
ter 176, of the Laws of 1914;
therefore, it is ordered that the
clerk of the board of supervisors
shall file said report arong the
records in his office and shall do
all things as required under said
section 5 of said act. tits further
ordered that said survey and es-
innate be and the same is adopt
ed as is reported by said commits
sioners, provided the said roads
are changed.
Ordered that the following al
lowances be made, to-wit:
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-16

DR.. G. w. Barlow, medi-
cal attention Geo. Wal
terS------ --------- 5 90
H. A. Laird, expense on
vat ---------------- 9 so
Charlie Purnell, vat work / 90
j. w. Faulkenberry, same 2 so
S. d. Donnell, telephone 2 70
j. G. Writ, lumber ------ AZ So
j. w. Wilmington, vat a 90
0. P. Cross, same----- l 90
w. D. Steen, nails ------ 8 80
c.. C. Mckay. bldg bridge
and making fill---- 20 90
j. w. Slade, bridge work l so
Jonas Holmes, building
bridge----------------- 27 80
J. A. Penn, repairs bridge
and making fill ------ 10 90
w. C. Barksdale, nails 80
G. B. Coward, lumber IS 40
L. T. Lawrence, repairing
bridge --- z Az
J. A. Smallwood, same Z 90
Russell May, vat work - 2 SO
Connie Grantham. same l Is
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-16

Fresh bread Mondays and
Thursdays. w. G.. Barnes.
Putnam patriot., 1917-12-14
MARRIED IN
 HARTFORD
Leslie Heath ard Beatrice Thnrber Graduates of Putnam High School
Bride Groom Leaves for Texas Training
 Camp

Announcement has been made in this city of he marriage in Hartford last Salurday afternoon of Leslie B. Heath, sou of NIT. and Mrs Clarence F.. Heath, Mechanics street, and Miss Benlriee Thurber, daughter of Mrs. Emma J. Thurber, Providence street
 Both of the young people are well known in Putnam where they attend ed the public schools and graduated from the Putnam High school. MT. Heath has been employed at the Travellers Insurance Company, Hart ford but is Ieeying for a soldiers train- ing camp in Texas. Mrs. Heath has been teaching in the Camp school, New Britain, since heri graduation from the Willimantic Normal school four years ago.
 The nuptial ceremony was performed at the First Baptist church, of Hart ford by the pastor, Rev. MT. White. The couple left for wedding trip to Worcester and springfield, after a short visit with relatives in Putnam Sunday afternoon.
Putnam patriot., 1917-12-14
New Business Concern Will Open It's
 Doors Saturday
Putnam Hardware & Mill Supply COrpO-
 ration Ready for Customers

Manager Charles Devine, manager of the Putnam Hardware and Mill Supply Corporation, is busy putting the finishing touches on the arrange, ment of the different departments of the store on Union street preparatory to opening the doors to the public to- morrow, Saturday morning.
 Since the new concern took over the business conducted for the past forty seven years by Perry & Brown the store has been in the hands of carpen ters and painters, the fixtures have been put in and the stock arranged. This is now in the last minute stage of completion and business will begin December l5lh
 The store has 200 square feet Of floor space, is painted white, which gives m added light, and the arrangement of the departments makes everything convenient for taking care of the trade At night the store will be brightly lighted by overhead hanging electric lights shaded by white globes. On the west side is arranged the heavier hardware, nails, bolts, etc., and on the east side are the newest thing in boxes for containing the smaller articles. Several "silent salesmen," the most improved style of show cases, are used to display goods. The show windows have been femodeied to meet the re. quirements. At the rear will be n large case for tools. Ladders on tracks will provide the means of reaching the boxes higher up. The office is in the rear on the east side.
 The store is well arranged and equip. ped for handling the business, which will be general hardware business with especial attention being given to builders hardware and mill supplies
 adv
Putnam patriot., 1917-12-14
The High School and the War
Pupils Doing Their "LittIe Bii"

The high school has tried to do it's "little bitn in the present national crisis as is shown by the fact that the pupils had much higher average in their studies for the first eight weeks of the school year than usual. They also have contributed some of their time and money as evidenced by the following figures:
 The seniors have taken out sS05 In Liberty Bonds, the juniors S5O4, the sophomores SS25, the freshmen sl40O, the Sth grade S404 50, besides $40 bond for the high school and another for the Sth grnde as whole, making total of s403s 30.
 The school has subscribed S2S3 35 to the Y. NJ, (. A. fund, S92. 20 to the se- nior and junior Red Cross societies, S43.76 10 the Library fund, s35 10 to other organizations. These figures do not include approximately $50 given to the Red Cross by the class of l9l7
  wristers, 25 scarfs, helmets, s pairs of socks, 20 face cloths, "A scrap books.
 The pupils have spent much time in the following activities:
 Soliciting for the Red Cross, solicit ing for subscriptions to the Liberty bonds, soliciting magazines, helping on the Y. NJ. C. A. canvass helping the Chamber of Commerce in the mili- tsry census, writing letters and send ing candy and food to the soldiers ,giv- ing entertainments, canning fruits and vegetables, working on farms and ! helping In gardens-this latter was done ny over s dozen girls as we'll as boys, Hooverizing.
Putnam patriot., 1917-12-14
Syrian aud Armenian Relief

On Sunday, Dec. l6, the people of Putnam will have sn opportunity of listening to Rev Clarence Pittman and Miss Bertha Morley of Hartford recently returned from Turkey where they have been eye witnesses of many of the atrocities perpetrated by the Turks and are fully able to give graph ic accounts Of the situation in that county.
 Mir. Pittman will speak in the Con. sregational church in the forenoon, in the Advent chapel at l;5O, and in the Baptist sunday School at 1920. Miss Morley will speak in the Baptist church in the forenoon, in the Con. gregational Sunday School at l2, and in the Methodist sunday School at f2:So.
Putnam patriot., 1917-12-14
Advertised letters, Dee. II, 1917.
LADIES

LADIES Mrs. R. F. Dupuis, Mrs. Wm Me kibben, Miss Clara Young.
 GENTLEMEN Aleix BasleyMr. Blaney, K Duozc- zak, Chas. Nj. Stiles. Newton A. Ballard is enjoying a hunting trip in Maine with head qu rters at The kalahdin iron Works
Putnam patriot., 1917-12-14

Mrs. ames Wright of Willimantio was in the city Tuesday.
 B. A. Wighlman of Norwich was in Putnam Tuesday.
 Felix LiZotte, who has been at St. Vincent's hospital, Worcester, foI three months with a cracked hip bone has returned to Putnam. lie will be forced to use cIulches for many months.
 The K. of C. campaign for funds closes this week. The contributions have been generous but more is needed to reach the quota. Among recent nam Lodge of Elks.
Putnam patriot., 1917-12-14
Second Monograph Concert by William
 DigginS

True to his promise William Dig gins, now holding the degree of NJ IL. and S l. C. and NJ. A. S. and T. k. k from the Arcanum Club of Putnam, gave q second concert in the club rooms last Tuesday evening. Bill was better, brighter and buster than ever and played tune after tune, the pro- gram being varied to suit all tastes and each number was received with enthusiasm. MT. Diggins brought his own phonograph cabinet and all and the concert was absolutely free. The audience remained until late hour and gave Professor Diggins a vote of thanks for the pleasant evening he provided.
Arizona republican., 1917-07-22
WORK |S RUSHING
 O|V LARGE CANNON
 ID SUPPLY ARMIES

The thousands of cannon to back up the "SammeS" in the trenches in France are being turned out as fast as American ordnance plantj-..nd they are some of the biggest ill the W oriG-can make them. The nunoer in which they have been contracted for is being kept secret by the war department and will not be made known probably until after the war, but it is known that every factory is going at its fullest capacity
 report recently printed from one of the big ordnance factories that that plant alone was turning out 25, 000 of the 3-inch guns and 10000 of the 3.Ss was stated as incorrect by high officials of the war department here. No one factory can turn out guns that fast, as badly as the gov elnment needs them. But it is known that the orders run into the thou sands at that.
 If there was one thing the army was short on when war came it was artillery. Without waiting for appro- ptiations or authority, Secretary Bak CT advised every factory that had
Arizona republican., 1917-07-22
IF COUNT I'M, FIT FTY USED CARS
 SALES BY JAMES

Selling over fifty used cars every month,' said l.. c. James, of McArthur Brothers used car department. when asked how business was holding up. That seems like a big number of used cars for one concern to sell in Phoe
 nix" continued MT. James, "and I noted recently that one big Los An geles concern were greatly elated over selling 300 used cars the past year. At the rate we are going now we will
 double that and I attribute our sue cess to the way we handle used cars, no misrepresentation on the part of the salesmen tolerated, cars overhauled by expert mechanics, new tires and top added when necessary and cars paint
 ed in our own paint shop, which with McArthur Brothers name plate at tached, assuring satisfaction, makes a combination that gets business. In the sale of automobiles I think each year you will notice the adapting of meth ods used in the sale of other merchan- disc. l say merchandise because auto
 mobiles are becoming such a necessity | as to be classed as merchandise and l people are also beginning to appreciate | the fact that it pays to buy good | used car of standard make. rather than | a cheap new one. Of course" said | MT. James, We know that advertising 1 in the newspapers has done much in i the building of our used car business, ard to those who live out of town we send an actual photograph of any car
 along with price and description. If we continue to sell used cars through
 out the year in proportion to sales now,
 said MT. James, I believe McArthur Brothers will hold the record of the entire country, according to population.
 We have been asked how it was
 that we could sell so many good used
 cars and yet have sixty to seventy used
 cars in stock all the time. That's the
 easiest question 1 have to answer"
 said James with a laugh. flor lots of | questions are asked by used car buy
 CTS. we don't buy used cars to sell
 again, but with the McArthur Brothers
 organization selling new Packard, Jeff
 fiery and Dodge Brothers motor cars
 all over the state, we take old cars in
 trade on new and they are turned
 oyer to this department for disposal.
Arizona republican., 1917-07-22
MAXWELL TRUCK
 WINS APPROVAL
 IF Al kEEGAN

Al. Keegan of Phoenix recently pur- ton trucks for use in the huckster busi- ness between Phoenix and Avondale, and the territory adjacent to the seV- eral large camps of the Southwest Cot ton company, west of the Agua Fria river
 MT. Keegan had been using a dou- ble team and wagon. but found the roads so difficult as a result of heavy of the great cotton camps, that a team of horses could not handle a ton load successfully, and after looking the mar ket over carefully, decided that the low priced. sturdy. efficient One-ton Maxwell truck was best suited to cope with the unusually bad road conditions prevalent in the Avondale district.
 When you consider that this truck will cover 100 miles in an ordinary working day and that the upkeep is considerably less than that of a team and wagon, it is extremely economi cal, said MT. Keegan. "Especially since one man and a Maxwell truck will do the work of several horses and their drivers"
 MT Keegans success with his new truck will be carefully watched by the many interested parties of Avondale and the great cotton belt west of Phoe- nix. since the hauling of products of farm and garden from this new dis trict to the Phoenix markets now con- stitutes one of the most perpleXing problems of the ranchers west of the river
Arizona republican., 1917-07-22
OWNER STORIES
 IF JEFFERY S|X
 BEST EVIDENCE

The best recommendation motor car can receive comes from an owner after he has driven it several thousand miles and then writes a letter like this one. which was received recent y, says Warren McArthur of McArthur Broth CTS.
 Four months ago I purchased from your dealer in Clifton a Jeffery model 671, and since that time have driven it 5000 miles. l am very much pleased to say that in all respects the car has been very satisfactory. The gasoline mile age has been A miles to the gallon and in our country where the hills are steep and the car travels over some very bad roads, l consider that it has been do- ing some remarkable work.
 The other day l took fourteen pas sengers in this car from Clifton to Mo- renci, a seven mile tour on an even 10 per cent grade and at ID time on this trip did the car oVerheat or show any signs of being oVerWorked. It is a nleaSIre to me to be able to recommend the Jeffery Six" so highly and you may say for me that anyone contemplating the purchase of a Jeffery Six will if he buys, receive high value for his invest ment.
 My car has created considerable fav- orable comment in Metcalf and Clifton districts and l am proud to be a Jef- fiery owner"
 This letter is from a well known man in that district said MT. McArthur and is only one of a number of letters We have received from Jeffery owners who are loud in their praises of this car. We are still selling Jeffery SiX's at the same old price, continued MT McAr
 thur, no word yet received from tn Nash Motors company of an advance, although it is admitted that all other cars in it's class have been advanced $50 to $200 Big stocks of raw mater ials held by the Nash Motors company bought before the advance in prices, is given for the price of the Jeffery re- maining the same at this time.
Arizona republican., 1917-07-22
DERBY HAT LOSES
 MUCH POPULARITY

Where are all the derby hats Of -n~. terday? Why do only a few men wei.i them any more?
 Blame it on the seductive soft hat Blame it on motor cars. which do not agree with derbieS or high hats. A man under a derbv in a motor car go- ing more than three miles an hour looks incOngruous as a derby wearer, coat off and a cigar between his teeth, padding a canoe.
 Blame it on the war. This may sound flippant but it isn't. The war has done great deal to popularize the soft hat Look into the windows show ing summer styles for men and note the military lines and names. Note the wide brims. the absence of conspicu- ous bands, the trim touch that suggests training and discipline.
 The soft hat has passed through many freak styles and experiments, said a Ina aberdasher. Its comfort is it's first quality It conforms easily to the head is light in weight. and isn't badly hurt if it happens to be stepped or sat on or run over in the street"
Arizona republican., 1917-07-22

equipment to turn out field guns to work at maximum capacity The gov e nnent gave orders that 1t wanted all they could produce and the fac tories started at top speed for the government. Since the appropriation bill has passed the department has entered into contract after contract for the delivery of these guns. 1t is stated here that the progress that has been made has been very pleasing to the ornance bureau.
 It is known that in some type of field pieces the government is taking French model, somewhat different from the type recommended by the artillery standardization board several years ago. The ordnance plants had made large numbers of these for the French government and were equip ped to turn them out in vast quanti- ties, so as in the case of rifles the government varied it's type to get quantity
 The Lewis machine gun that was rejected by the army for years, it is known, has been contracted for by the thousands and deliveries are eX- pected to start in the near future in large numbers But the government hasn't taken one type alone. It has ordered all it could get of every type, making notifications to standardize the ammunition on light field pieces, the 3-inch and the 3.S and machine guns, the government expects to have an ample supply to fully equip the guard, the national army and keep a steady flow going to the regulars in France.
 On the heavy field pieces. however there will be some delay. It takes seven and eight months at top speed to turn them out, and necessarily while large number have been con- tracted for it will take time to get them into service.
Arizona republican., 1917-07-22
MOVIE FEATURE, CHALMERS JAR
 LEAP FUR L|FE

Helen Holmes, daring motion pie tue actress, drove Chalmers auto mobile, at top speed, off the dock at San Pedro Calf, four times in an attempt to make 9 thirty foot leap onto a barge and the fourth time she did it." said 0. F. Pape, Chalmers dist il utor for Phoenix.
 The stunt was staged for the ninth chapter of "The Railroad Raid ders,' Mutual Signal photo novel. This hair-raising ride i'll the Chalmers is easily the most sensational perform ance of the year in motion picture adventure drama.
 .''o stage. The Leap For Life from San Pedro dock, a high powered car was necessary and . strudy Chalmers was chosen A barge was anchored thirty feet from the dock and experi- ments began The daring movie act ress took a hundred yard start and drove off the dock The car fell five feet short of the barge. She jumped, swan back to the dock, the car was raised and the next day she tried again This time she fell but two feet short of the barge. The car was raised gain and Helen made her third trial. She took q longer start and it was estimated that she was travelling for fv-five miles Gn hour when she jumped from the edge Gf the pier. The car jumped clear over the barge, the rear wheels just missing the front of the craft.
 Certainly l can do it now pro claimed the fearless young actress. By thiS time she and John P. McGoWan, director of the picture, had been able to fieure out. to T mathematical cer- ] tainty, the speed required to strike the
 Few of Miss Holmes daring i stuq:s gre staged without careful plannrg. which accounts for the fact i that she escapes unhnrt from so many rcrilGEs adventures. There was no way ] however. cf figuring out how to drive an automobile from docl; and land i at T ',i'c" spot until the thing had been tried.
 ''The herd ah"sn given the ChaI-
 mers in these several trials-diving into the water. being fished out. and i landing repeatedly on the barge,-
 had no effect on the cars speed and ! power. It w3s a supreme test of inc
 nerve of a girl. of the stamina of q motor ear. and of the lengths to which
 up-to- date moving picture impres-
 sarios will go to provide thrills fol ' their patrons.
Arizona republican., 1917-07-22

sleep on a divan. At clock the alarm clock started it's racket twelve hours late. Mrs. Luckie aWoke to find the house full of smoke and flames creep ing up the stairway. She was aroused just in time to escape to the~street. The fire, which originated from cleo tric wires, destroyed almost everything in the place with an estimated loss of $5000.
 That clock has been my pal for years said Mrs. Luckie. T never knew it to miss it's regular morning alarm before. It must have known some
Arizona republican., 1917-07-22
ALARM CLOCK PAL
 SAVES HER LIFE

Mrs. Alice Luckie lives up to her name Her luck was due to a lucky alarm clock and lucky accident
 Mrs. Luckie is the housekeeper in a Chicago apartment of H. H. Apt. Her alarm clock always awakened her every morning at o'clock Though she had set it the night before the clock didn't
 go off the other morning. MT and Mrs. Apt were away from home in the afternoon and Mrs Luckie went to