The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-22
MISSISSIPPI GLEAN|NGS
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Special Writers
Greenville is to have an agricultu-
raj fair.
The fourth car of cooperative hogs
was shipped from Lexington.
Jackson will be advertised through
out the country In motion pictures.
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The business district of Chanshaw
was visited by a fire, entailing loss
of $4,000.
Capt. B. F. Moss, one of the Oldest
residents of Jones county. died at his
home as Mossville.
DIR. j. H. Spencer was arraignsd by
Postoffice Inspector Charles I. Brown.
charged with forgery.
The mercantile establishment OF
Mrs. A. M. Cross at Enterprise was
broken into and robbed.
The bonds in the 13-mile Lafayette
county, drainage district have been
sold in the sum of $4,000.
Stock subscriptions aggregating 49,
$50 have been raised for the establish
ment Of a creamery in Laurel.
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A branch of the Campfire Girls Of
America has been organized at the In.
dustrial Institute and College.
All of the old fields and pasture
lands near Scooba that escaped fall
fires are now being burned of.
Lieut.-Col. J. J. Hornbrook, U. 8. A.,
is in Jackson arranging to muster out
the First Mississippi regiment.
Miss Pearl Mccoy, of Poplarville,
has been unanimously chosen to be
May Queen of Blue Mountain college.
The Pike county board of supervis.
ort declined to make an appropriation
for an exhibit at the Mississippi Gen.
tennial exposition, to be held in Gulf
port
The teachers association of Jack.
son county was held with Prof. R. D.
Poet of Moss Point presiding and Mrs.
w. T. Gordon OF Pascagoula, secre-
tary.
Miss Elizabeth Cooper, aged go, a
highly respected lady of the Camp
Ground community, dropped dead
while assisting in the preparation Of
breakfast.
A new corporation is being formed
to take over Browns wells, the IA
nous Copiah county health resort,
which is already well known through
out the south.
With the purchase of the property of
Mrs. Mary Eaton by the Hattiesburg
lodge of Masons, plans were definitely
laid for a Masonic temple to cost not
less than $4,000.
Mrs. Mary King, age II years, died
at her home three miles west of Val
den. Mrs. King was the wife of the
late Robert King. one of the earliest
settlers in this community.
While sitting around an open fire
with the family group of six, Velma,
the little 7-year-old daughter of Madi-
son Rutledge of Troy, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed.
The Blue Mountain board of alder
men has just authorized the issuance
of $4,000 worth of municipal 20-year
bonds to be sold for the erection of
new brick public school building.
The Monroe county grand jury in
dicted Mrs. Winston Tubb and her
husband, Winston Tubb, charging
them with the murder of Ed Mize, one
of the Monroe county supervisors.
One of the most successful banquets
ever held in the Magnolia state was
given to the members Of the young
mems business club at Yazoo City.
President Howard S. Williams of the
Young Mems Business Clubs of Amer
lea was on the program as principal
speaker.
The damage suit brought by Stuart
Roberts against the Southern Paper
company of Kreole, Jackson county,
and New York City, has been trans
ferred to the United States district
court at Biloxi by the defndant com
pany on the grounds that the company
Is domiciled in New York.
The board of supervisors of Lamar
county has given public notice OF in.
tention to issue $4,000 OF 51s per cent
bonds at the regular meeting in April
TO be used for the erection here OF an
administration and academic building
for Lamar county agricultural high
school,
The Lefiore county teachers assoc1-
alton held most enthusiastic meet
ing. Twenty-Five teachers were pres
emit to discuss the question on teaching
language, after which the subject OF
county field day was taken up and dis
cussed. 1t was decided to hold meet
ing at Itta Bena, April Is.
The Prentiss board of trade, organ
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