The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-06-07
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"a Womanless Wedding" was staged
at Starkville under the management OF
the Ridgely Rebekah lodge.
Andrew Edwards, 70 years Of age,
committed suicide at his home, five
miles west Of Brookhaven.
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Prof. Homer e. Warren has been
elected superintendent of the Ocean
Springs public schools for the ensuing
year.
Plans have been completed for hold
ing "Baby Week at the Greenville
high school auditorium. June 13
and IA.
The ninetieth annual council of the
diocese of the Episcopal church in the
state of Mississippi was held at Co
| lumbus.
The commencement sermon of the
Magnolia high school was preached
in the Methodist church by Rev. M
N: Melvin.
tuberculosis continues to be the
chief weapon of death in Forrest coun-
ty, according to the vital statistics re.
port for 1916.
A carload of hogs was shipped from
Leflore county by DR.. w. T. Johnson,
which were sold on the Sast st. Louis
market for $2,043.
The spring term of chancery court
for Hancock county convened at Bay
st. Louis with Judge Denny of Pasca-
goula on the bench.
About 600 members are enrolled for
Hattiesburg normal college. Sixty of
the students are men
A decrease of 25 per cent in the cot
ton acreage is the estimate of Yazoo
county, furnished by M. Faulkner,
prominent planter of the Delta.
The contract for building the Sand
Hill school house, near Ellisville, has
been awarded to j. j. Jones and work
on the building is now under way.
A carload of fine beef cattle was
shipped from Magnolia by County
Demonstration Farm Agent F. ]. Hurst
on the cooperative shipment plan.
Rev. C. c. Jones, Baptist minister
of Texas, is conducting revival meet
ings at the Fernwood Baptist church.
He is q brother of the local minister.
At a special election to decide
whether or not LOwndes county should
have farm demonstrator, the propO-
sition was defeated by a decisive ma
jority.
Plans are being made by L. A. Olson,
county farm agent of Lafayette coun-
ty, to ship a cooperative car of Irish
potatoes for the farmers of the county
about the middle of June.
Capt. John R., Members troop oil
cavalry at Biloxi will be recruited ul
to war strength of $50 men by June
4, as a result of instructions from
Adjt. Gen. Erie C. Scales.
B. Patton Harrison, congressman
from the coast district, has accepted
an invitation to deliver the address
at Hazlehurst at the unwilling of the
Confederate monument July 4.
Much progress has been made in the
organization of the machine gun COM
pany at Natchez. Carroll H. Newton,
a veteran of the Spanish-American
war, has been elected as captain.
A meeting of the citizens OF
Lowndes, Clay, Monroe, Noxubee and
Oktibbeha counties was held in Column
bus for the purpose of organizing a
branch chapter of the American Red
Cross society.
Pike county citizens who advocate
the voting of bonds for the establish
ment Of the Pike county agricultural
high school were encouraged by Prof.
Calhoun, who said: Keep up the
fight and victory Is certain to crown
your efforts"
Prof. J.sL. McMillin, superintendent
Of the Macon high school, has been
chosen director, over Is applicants. OF
the Inter County normal, to be held at
the Copiah-Lincoln joint county agri-
cultural high school at Wesson, begin
ming Monday, July 2S.
The ninetieth annual commencement
Of Mississippi college at Clinton was
celebrated with the graduation of 81
men and one young woman. The in
stitution is rot co-educational insti-
tuition, but by special dispensation
Miss Ele Steele, sister of Prof. Steele,
was granted the privileges of the col
lege, and the degree of bachelor OF
arts was given her.
Three cars of livS stock were
shipped from Magnolia in one day last
week.
George Roudebush Culley, son of
Mrs. w. G.. Alsworth of Madison, now
in the service Of the government as
valuation engineer, in the interstate
commerce commission, has made ap-