The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-12
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met at Olive Branch. DR.. Moore Of
Cockrum presided.
A health or sanitary survey of Co.
lrmbus is being made by DR.. William
H. Price of Cincinnati.
The equipment of the Natchez hotel
and Natchez cafe were sold at trus.
tees sale to Mrs. James G. Smith.
The burial of former Lieut. Gov. G.
d. Stands, who died at his home in
New Orleans, took place at Senatobia.
Julius Williams, a negro convict, es-
capped from the Parchman farm. He
was sentenced from Madison county.
J. G. Cammack, who has been the
very efficient postmaster at Rolling
Fork since March /, 1902, has resigned
Col. Mott Ayres, editor and publish
er of the Laurel Daily Leader died
after a weeks illness of acute gas
tritis.
The sum of $50 was realized from
the Red Cross festival given at the
Mississippi Centennial grounds last
week.
Seventy-five descendants of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. J. j. Collins had their an
nual reunion at the home of Mrs. J..
L. Shows in Moselle.
Rev. Henry Bail, an aged citizen of
the Harmony neighborhood, died after
two days illness at the home of his
cousin, Monroe Bigham.
The Lamar county educational board
has ordered the Lamar county public
schools to start six months term the
first Monday In September.
The Yazoo equity board of supervis-
ors met and let the contract for
bridge between Yazoo and Madison
counties over Big Black river
Home canned products put up by
girls of the several canning clubs in
the county are offered every Saturday
at public sale at West Point.
The exercises at the Interurban park
on the trolley line between Ellisville
and Laurel on the Fourth of July in
Guided several patriotic speeches.
Grover Robinson, formerly of Lau-
rel, is held in the Concordia parish
Jail at Vidalia, charged with the muir
der of his brother-in-law, G. Springer.
Sailing contests have been revived
in Biloxi, and races will be INDUCED
in each Saturday afternoon and posi-
bly, Sunday afternoons during the sum-
mer.
Biloxi is rapidly filing up with
summer visitors from various parts OF
the south, including large number
of residents of Mississippi and New
Orleans.
The first business meeting of the
summer auxiliary of the Red Cross So
ciety has just been held and the ladies
have gotten down to practical work for
the cause.
A thorough tick eradication cam
paign is being waged in Lawrence
county under the supervision OF DR..
e. H. Aicher, federal supervisor OF tho
work there.
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The $4,000 Pike county bonds for
establishing the county agricultural
high school at Godbold's Mineral
Wells were sold by the board OF su.
pervisors.
H. w. Mason Of Crystal Springs. the
president of the Mississippi boil wee
vii DISCRIMINATING association. has Just
completed book on the determination
OF the boil weevil.
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Citizens of Bay st. Louis voted for
the issuance of $4,000 sea wall bonds.
following a recent ruling by the su-
preme court that in order for the bond
issue to be valid the proposition must
be voted upon.
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A large acreage will be planted In
Irish potatoes in Copiah county next
season, as they are about the most
profitable crop that can be raised in
this section. The yield Is from 15o
to 200 bushels per acre.
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The members of the several women
missionary unions of the Bogue Chitto
Baptist association held joint meet
Ing at Magnolia. The local union en-
tertained the visitors, serving dinner
on the church grounds in picnic style.
The little daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
VIII Hodges is dead and Mr.. Hodge,
his wife, G. D. IRELAND and Andrew
Hutchinson Of Drew, Miss. are in &C.
rious condition as the result Of the
automobile in which they were riding
being struck by a passenger train.
Many Mississippians are seeking the
place of clerk of the U. 8. district
court at Jackson, left vacant by the
death Of L. B. Moseley. who held the
position more than 25 years.
At vidalia Cecil Tolbert, 14-year-old
boy, was run down and killed BY a
motor truck owned by the Gayola bot
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