The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-01-25
MISSISSIPPI GLEAN|NGs
News of Interest Prepared |
in Epitomized Form by
Special Writer'S
The business section of Tishomingo

Inc SLrlk0 OF HV0 uuuuTcu men At
Bond Is unsettled.
The street cars of Yazoo City have
resumed service.
A brass band has been organized at
Dyersburg with thirty-five pieces.
The Yazoo City farm loan associa-
ton was organized here at the court
house.
Many improvements will be recon-
mended in the fire department at
Meridian.
p. w. Dedrick, an old Confederate
soldier, aged 70 years old, died near
HaZlehurSt.
The initial meeting of the Walthall
County farm loan association was held
at Tylertown.
Malaria caused more illness during
1916 than all other diseases combined
in Forrest county.
Beats one and three, Forrest county,
will vote on good roads bond issue OF
$4,000 on January 30.
The turpentine distillery of George
P. Yonge, II miles from Leaks rille,
was destroyed by fire.
Rev. Mr.. Christian of Norfolk, Va,
was installed as pastor of the Presby
terrain church at Oxford.
The police are searching for J. e.
Lovett. age go, who disappeared from
his home on December 26.
Constable Louis Largelliere at BIZ
lcxi was placed under arrest on q
charge Of neglect OF duty"
Owing to the weather conditions at
Friars Point the January term of the
circuit court was postponed.
Five hundred employees at the Bond
Lumber company's plant at Bond are
on strike for higher wages.
There were 1899 bales OF cotton
ginned in Kinds county, from the crop
of 1916 prior to Jan. 1, 1917.
The upper Mississippi conference OF
the Methodist Episcopal church has
been in session at Greenwood.
Committees were appointed and 9TH
or plans made for a big carnival and
mardi gras in Biloxi on Feb. 20.
The Crystal Springs Bank of Com
MERGE is liQuidating it's business
through the Crystal Springs bank.
The Houlka Farm loan association,
with a45 men and women members,
met and perfected the organization.
For the frst time in years truck
farmers in the vicinity of Biloxi have
strawberries for sale in midwinter.
P. B. Founders. Senatobia's new
marshal, has passed the word down
the line that the sid" Is going on.
Durant lost one of its oldest citizens
when Mr.. E. C. Shine died. He was
IA years old and a native Mississip-
plan.
E. G.. Zackery, charged with the MUIR
der Of Will A. Griston Dec. 80, 1915,
at Water Valley, was held without
bond
Inspectors of the interstate COM
merce commission are examining the
physical property Of the Y. & NJ. V.
railway.
Street Commissioner McAuley at
Hattiesburg has started a movement
to make the city spick and span on
Sundays.
Methodist preachers and laymen Of
the Aberdeen district are going to
hold very important meeting in Oko-
Iona Jan. "a and %.
The finding of coal deposit on the
Y. & M. v. property north Of Vicks-
burg has awakened interest in the
mineral possibilities.
Rev. G. H. Thompson. presiding ell
der OF the Meridian district, an
nounces the new schedule for the first
quarterly conference.
The board of supervisors have made
arrangements for the work of tick
eradication at Bonneville to be begun
early in the spring.
At meeting of the directors of Ala
bama &c Vicksburg railroad company E.
Ford of New Orleans and K. Threefoot
Of Meridian were elected directors
The cold weather has not killed the
cabbage plants in the fields around
Hazlehurst. 1t Is claimed that the
plants brought from South and North
Carolina are able to stand much more
cold than plants raised in Hazlehurst.
J. M. Carpenter of the A. & NJ. col
lege and J. S. McKewan, the county
farm agent, held a demonstration Ia
terracing near Winona.
The board of supervisors has called
an election for January &c. to vote on
the question of issuing one hundred