The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-10-25
MISSISSIPPI
BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS
OF THE STATE

| Word has been received in Green
4 vile Of tho appointment OF Nathan
Goldstein as food administrator Tor
Washington county.
Rev. w. B. Hogg, chaplain of the
First Mississippi infantry, who is con-
Quoting a revival in Columbus has
been ordered to report to Camp Pike.
|
! Mrs. E. o. Richardson OF New Or
leans sold her Greengrove plantation
to w. M. Cavett OF Clarksdale for $751;
600. The plantation consists of 1000
acres.
Every section of the state was rep
resented by delegates to the Missis-
sippi Womens' Christian Temperance
| Union convention, which opened in
Columbus, continuing three days.
The Mississippi Woman's Christian
| Temperance union held its thirty-fourth
annual session in Columbus. Among
convention speakers was Miss Ella
Boole of New York, vice president Of
the national organization.
John B. Mays was painfully injured
at his home, five miles west OF Halle
| hurst, when he went out to his barn
| to feed Holstein bull, which gored
him in the abdomen. The wound Is
not serious, physicians say.
|
Crystal Springs has six matrons sew
ing for the soldiers who knitted socks
| for the Confederate soldiers. These
are Mesdames L. NJ Dampeer, w. H.
! Thompson, A. D. Stay, Ben Ford, E. c.
Wells and Mrs J. NJ Dampeer, Sr.
r. D. Gadberry, a negro residing on
Silver Creek, has made success. He
! has farm of 112 acres of delta and he
sent one of his sons to YaZoo City
| with twelve bales of cotton, for which
/ he received nearly $4,000, besides the
seed.
Forty thousand people passed
through the gates of the Mississippi
Alabama fair grounds, at Meridian.
breaking all records for one-day at
tendance in the history Of the fair as
ISOLATION. 1t was school children's
day.
| 1.-THE man who fights in blood-soaked
trenches may be performing more
dangerous service, but he is not per-
forming a more necessary service for
| the nation than the man who buys 4
Liberty bond" said Senator John
Sharp Williams, in an address before
the Rotary club, Jackson.
The teachers and faculty, under
Prof. ]. NJ Consley of the Marshall
County Agricultural high school at
Slayden, gave to the teachers of the
entire county what was termed con
servation dinner" in the spacious din
Ing hall Of that school. There were
more than SO teachers Of the county
present
That the copper cent is going to be
used more now than it has been IN the
past is the evidence arising from DEM
onstrations around Greenwood cigar
counters. At these places copper
coin is used in every sale OF cigars,
smoking tobacco, chewing tobacco, Gig
arettes or cigarette papers, all on &C
count of the war tax revenue.
|
The feature of the opening days pro-
gram of the national memorial reunion
in Vicksburg was the address deliv-
| cred by Governor Burnquist of Mime
sofa Mayor j. ]. Hayes delivered an
address of welcome to the soldiers OF
the Blue and the Gray, and Governor
Burnquist responded, paying tribute to
the valOr of the American soldiers OF
the sixties and also to the soldiers OF
today, who are the sons Of the soldiers
Of other days.
When Pike county circuit court OPEN
ed In Magnolia Congressman Percy e.
Quinn delivered patriotic address
which was frequently interrupted by
applause. He spoke on the causes and
1uStlflcatlOn OF the war, SAO"AAS luos
the United States had good and suffi-
cient reasons for declaring that state
| OF war existed between this country
and the imperial government OF Ger
many, and was justified in making the
appropriations and necessary prepare
tions to defend the country and main
tain the rights of its citizens.
Leroy Percy, chairman Of the 7. M.
C. A. war work committee Of Missis-
sippi, thinks that satisfied soldier
will render better service than one
improperly cared for, and being con-
vinced that the Y. M. c. AS army
work, more than any other thing,
keeps our soldier boys contented, he
is busy Preparing to launch a cam
paign to raise in Mississippi 100000
for the, "Y" war work. Rev. Phillip
Davidson is the field secretary for
this campaign, and will be aided by a
complete state organization. Both he
and Mr.. Percy will make headquarters
in Greenville.