The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-02-15
MISSISSIPPI GLEAN|MGs
! News of Interest Prepared
in Epitomized Form by
Special Writers

The Poplar Springs scnOol mousse
has burned.
The $3.50 school house was destroy
ed by fire.
Arrangements are being made for q
district meeting of Odd Fellow lodges
in Columbus, Feb. 10.
The Biloxi Yacht club has increased
its membership to 166 since the re-
organization of the club.
Authorities OF Woodville are max
ing a determined effort to stop the
unlawful sale Of liquor.
An Aberdeen country club has been
organized with sufficient subscribed
members to insure it's success.
R. E. Grace has sold to John w. Barr
the Burton plantation near Browns
Wells, containing 1880 acres.
A continuous highway from Michi.
gan to the Gulf of Mexico is being prof.
ected by the Meridian highway asso.
citation.
Burglars entered the store of l.. G..
Spencer at McCarley and blew open
the safe. securing $40 in cash and
valuable papers.
The bond issue of $4,000 to pur.
chase terminal property for the Meri.
dian and Bigbee railroad carried by a
vote of 338 to 96.
The smokestack of Carrollton's light
and water plant was blown down and
put the people Of Carrollton out of wa
ter and lights for several days.
H. H. Cross Of Denver, Col, a noted
painter of Indian pictures and life.
long friend of Col. William F. Cody,
Is the guest of Back Bay friends.
The board of supervisors of Copiah
county sold $500 additional road
bonds to be used in the further con-
struction of public roads in district 5.
The Southern paper mill at Pas.
cagoula will, on March 1, give to all
employees who have been employed for
three months 10 per cent increase in
wages.
General Samual Wragg Ferguson,
one Of the few surviving brigadier gen.
erals OF the Confederate army, passed
away at a Jackson hospital in his SD
year.
Arrangements are being made at Co.
lumbus for big ceremonial of the
Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan
the latter part of this month or early
in March.
The c. H. Parsons trial for the kill.
ing of Ashby Wells has been continued
until the next term of court in Halle
hurst. This case was supposed to
come up in February.
DR.. E. T. Wade, a Jackson dentist.
has applied for a patent on a concrete
crosstie which he is confident will fill
a long-felt want. as it will not crack
or break in the middle.
The Cumberland national farm loan
association has been formed with a
membership of 100 from the counties
of Webster. Oktibbeha, Clay, Calhoun.
Chickasaw and Choctaw.
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The activity Of labor agents at
Natchez has aroused the planters gen.
orally, and every effort is being made
to keep labor from being enticed to
delta plantations and the north.
Fifteen or twenty floats are being
built for the Biloxi Carnival and Mar
di Gras to be held on Feb. 90. The
Mississippi centennial exposition will
have one of the most elaborate floats.
An action in libel was filed in the
U. S. court at Biloxi by the sailors of
the Swedish vessel Windsor Park, now
in port at Gulfport, against the vessel
and her master, whereby the crew
seeks to recover two years wages.
While two brothers. Denval and
Cecil Wilson, ages 10 and Is years,
of Eucutta, were out rabbit hunting
the gun in the hands of Cecil was
accidentally discharged, tearing the
top of his brothers head off.
The officers of the two engineering
corps of the u. S. government at
Vicksburg are watching closely the
bulletins regarding trouble with Ger
many, for in the event of hostilities
they will be called away from the Mis1
sippi river work to take their places
in the regular army.
State Senator w. C.. Bowman of the
highway committee OF the Natchez
chamber of commerce, has been adj
vised that all funds necessary for the
preliminary survey of the Natchez-
Winnsboro highway are now in the
hands of the Cecil and the man In
hands Of the department.
The Young Mems business club at
Yazoo City has put the matter square.
~ up to the farmers: "A creamery or
no creamery" If the farmers will fur
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