The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-12-06

The board Of supervisors at Meri-
dian has fixed the levy for the Oak
land Heights school district at 6 mills.
Three alien enemies have been ar.
rested at Pascagoula, Moss Point and
Canton and placed in Jail on orders
from the u. s. district attorneys Of.
flee.
The revival meeting in the Baptist
church at Magnolia has closed and
Rev. w. A. McComb, D. D. who did the
preaching, has returned to his home
lin Baton Rouge.
A German giving his name at Otto
J. Grosch, aged 40, clad in ragged CO.'S
tune, was arrested in the railroad
yards at Meridian, alleged to have been
acting suspiciously.
1.-THE Golden Goose" has been select,
ed as the name for the tea room re-
Gently established at the Mississippi
Industrial Institute and College by
students of that institution.
Secretary R. L. Pritchard of the
Greenville chamber of commerce has
returned from Texas, where he pur,
chased live stock for number OF
Washington county planters.
The city tax rate was fixed for Va
zoo City by the mayor and board Of al
dermen at a special session last week
at total of 20 mills This is the same
rate fixed for the last assessment.
The rivival meeting in the Baptist
church at Magnolia is growing in in
terest and attendance at every service.
Pastor R. H Purser is being assisted
by DR.. w. A McComb of Baton Rouge,
La.
Arrangements for the viewing of a
total eclipse of the sun, visible in
parts of Mississippi June s, 1918, are
being made by Prof. G. L. Harrell Of
the chair of astronomy at Millsaps
college.
Fearing mob violence, w. F. XII.
patrick, sheriff of Pickens county, Ala.
bar1a, has rushed Ernest Spruill, a
negro who was convicted at Carroll
ton on the charge of murder, out of
the county.
Ollie Matthews, aged Is, of Hender-
sonville, cashier in a Greek restaurant
at Meridian, was shot and possibly ia
tally wounded while "pranking" with
a pistol with Pete Robertson, railroad
man, in the presence of woman.
Jackson will not get an aviation
camp Definite word of this was re-
ceived in a telegram from Brigadier
General Squiers, chief of the aviation
corps, to w. p. Bridges, secretary of
the young Mems Business club.
Steps will be taken by citizens of
Biloxi and other coast towns to have
the Mississippi legislature, which will
be convened in biennial session In
January, to pass law protecting roe.
mullet, crabs and other sea foods.
The scarcity Of sugar in the east
was strikingly brought to Mississippi:
when Meridian retail grocer receiv.
ed telegram from man in New
York inQuiring if he had any sugar
and to ship him 100 pounds by ex.
press.
The boy df D. D. Posey of Standard,
former Hancock county road commits
sioner, was found on the public road
at Bayou ITALIA, near Bay ST. Louis
There were four bullet wounds in Po-
sey's back, indicating he had been
shot from ambush. The dead man
was 40 years old.
The Galloway Memorial Methodist
church, 100000 edifice, was dedicat
ed at Jackson with Bishop Hendrix,
Of Kansas City, as chief speaker. DR..
Alfred Franklin Smith, of st. Louis, a
former pastor of the church, also
spoke The church is memorial to
the late Bishop Galloway.
The Philomathean Literary society
in Mississippi college, the oldest liter.
airy society in the state, having been
organized in the fall of 1850, has elect,
ed this years anniversary ticket, as
follows: Anniversarian, Luther p.
Lane; first orator, A. B. Massey; sec.
ond orator, A. B. Russell; third orator,
D. P. Dunn; herald, Ross Anderson.
marshal, J. o. Gordon.
A novel method of raising funds for
the Red Cross was adopted at Cold.
water. A nutting party was organ.
ICED, and women dropped their knit
ting and went in automobiles to Cold.
water bottom at a point Is miles west.
TO hunt scalybarks. Fifteen bushels
were gathered and sold and the Pro
ceeds used to purchase wool from
which to knit articles of comfort for
the soldiers at the front. Nuts are
abundant in the section visited by the
party.
The preliminary trial Of ]. w. knight
at Aberdeen, charged with the muir.
der of Charles c. Fleming, resulted In
the defendant being discharged with
out bond Knight shot and killed
Fleming at Gattleman last October
claiming he did it in self-defense.
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