The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-16
MISSISSIPPI
BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS
OF THE STATE

| One of the most interesting events
held at Pontotoc in many years was
Soldiers day"
| III. H. Roof, who acted as secretary
for the Biloxi Commercial clup sever
years. has resigned.
DR.. ]. c. Lilly of Natchez. has 70
ceived orders to report for service in
the medical reserve corps.
The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
railroads new depot to be erected al
Greenwood will cost $4,000.
The forty-sixth annual camp meeting
at the old tabernacle, three miles east
of Oxford, was held last week.
Outlook for good crop of corn and
other foodstuff is excellent in Alcorn,
Lee, Monroe and other counties.
The Truck Growers association at
Crystal Springs is winding up its can
ming operations for this season.
were the scene of delightful picnic
given in honor Of our soldier boys.
DR.. E. C. Parker, well known as q
surgeon on the coast, received in
structions to report at once at Wash
ington.
Fourteen out of the draft of 154
failed to respond to the summons OF
the local board Of examiners in Lamar
county.
The board of supervisors let the
speedway between East and West Pas.
cagoula rivers.
The Leflore county board of super.
visors have abandoned the operation OF
the county convict farm and will sell
the property.
1t is predicted by farmers that more
cotton will be grown in Copiah county
this season than since the advent OF
the boil weeyil
The directors of Beat One Fair, Ran
kin County, held meeting and put
things in shape to further the interests
Of the fair to be held this fall.
The supervisors at Hattiesburg
tackled vexatious problem when they
considered raising 100000 for the
building OF a road to Camp Shelby.
Between thirty-five and forty miles
IF cable will be laid by the United
States government from Gulfport to
Ship Island, Chandelier and Horn
stands.
Machinists employed by the South
ern railway have been granted an in
crease in wages and employees of the
company's Columbus shops benefit by
the advance.
Mississippi coast packing companies
are making preparations to open the
shrimp season soon, and fleet of sew
eral hundred schooners will be sent
out into the gulf to search the waters
for shrimp.
H. H. Johnson, secretary Of the
Acona Farm Loan association, has re-
ceived checks amounting to over $780,
900 from the Federal Loan Bank OF
New Orleans, representing the amount
of eight loans.
Ii orlyn I,
been confined in the county Jail at
Greenville in default of $500 bond
to await the action Of the Washington
county grand jury to answer to the
charge of larceny.
William Stubblefeld, merchant at
Yazoo City, filed voluntary petition
In bankruptcy His liabilities are plac-
ed at $2,217 06, with assets amounting
to $2,20S56, of which $1,S39.50 is In
ventory value of stock in trade.
While the Mississippi delta will pro-
duce a good cotton crop, the cost OF
production will be higher than ever
before in the history Of that section,
according to State Senator Ed Frank
lin, president of the Mississippi
Delta levee board
Colonel C. L. Lincoln Of Columbus.
attorney, and Past Grand Master OF
the Odd Fellows Of Mississippi, and
John T. Wood, former postmaster, mar
rowly escaped serious injury when an
automobile in which they were riding
turned over an embankment on the
Pickensville road.
Those thirty or forty counties in
Mississippi that have contracted for
the construction of gravel roads, and
in nearly all Of which work has been
suspended or delayed because of the
inability Of contractors to procure ma
terial on account of car shortage, will
be glad to learn that some measure or
relief is now promised by the commits
sion on car service at Washington.
with whom the matter was taken up
and persistently pursued by Senator
John Sharp Williams.
Improvements aggregating $4,000
to $4,000 will be completed by the
Gulf Coast Senior and Junior Military
academy, located between Biloxi and