The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-05-03
MISSISSIPPI GLEAN|NCS
News of Interest Prepared
in Epitornized Form by
Special Writers

The agricultural high school at Kos
suth closed Friday.
Another artillery battery Is being or
ganized at Meridian.
Ground was broken at Crystal
Springs for the new Baptist church.
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s. w. Barksdale, we'll known farmer
OF Hattiesburg, died In the Matches
hospital.
The fifth annual meeting of the Me-
ridian Presbyterial auxiliary was held
at Biloxi.
About rs women Of Hattiesburg or
ganiZed a local chapter Of the Red
Cross Society.
The plant of the Greenwood reduc
ton company will begin operations
about the first Of May
Many women of the state are inter
ested in the mothers conference" to
be held in Hazlehurst May 7.
A branch chapter of the American
Red Cross society was organized at
Holly Springs with rs members.
Hillman College, the oldest college
for girls in the state, closed the years
work with an interesting program.
Blue Mountain has the honor of hav-
ing given to the state the writer of
her centennial pageant and masque
Eight cars of cooperative shipments
Of hogs have been shipped from Lex
ington, netting $14,35l.36, since Janu
airy.
The Home Guards of Yazoo City are
arranging for patriotic rally and a
flag raising over the courthouse oD
May Z.
The convention of the United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy of the state
of Mississippi assembled in Green.
wood.
Ing organized into council Of defense
to urge the people to raise more feed
and foodstuff.
Maj. ]. C. Welborn, u. s. Army, is il
Hattiesburg to designate selected
young men for training in the officers
reserve corps.
A beautiful flag purchased by the
students Of the Enterprise high school
was raised to the top of the cupola of
tho school building.
Somewhere in Mississippi the first
capture has been made of an alien sus-
pect by the Mississippi troops under
the federal service.
V. r. Powell, Clay county farmer,
who was bitten en- the arm by rabid
colt, has gone to Jackson to be treat
ed at the Pasteur institute.
Biloxi men and women interested in
the organization of chapter of the
American Red Cross society here have
succeeded in securing 420 members.
Percy j. Wetzell, a Biloxi black
smith, has gone to Washington, where
he reported to the ordnance depart
ment for employment in the navy de-
partment.
Walter McDavitt, Claude Lawles.
and Harrison Bryant, three young
white men, are in the county jail at
Laurel, charged with stabbing Rufus
Altman OF Sumrall
The people at Crystal Springs got
an example Of the scarcity of food pro-
ducts when it became known that not
an Irish potato could be bought at any
of the retail stores.
In shooting affray In the southern
part of Lawrence county Ed Price was
shot and instantly killed by William
Sartin. Both were we'll known farm
ers and middle-aged men.
At a mass meeting of Lauderdale
county citizens to discuss increased
production Of food crops committee
was appointed to perfect plans for the
organization Of farmers credit as
ISOLATION.
Grenada is beginning to take on
quite martial appearance. About 40
of the young men of the city gather
on the public square every night and
are drilled by members Of the nation
al guard.
Grand Master O. U. Addison of the
Mississippi Odd Fellows states that
the grand lodge meeting, which was
scheduled to meet in Vicksburg in May
of this year, would probably be called
off on. account of the war.
J C. Castilaw, a farmer living nine
miles east of Brookhaven, was seri-
ously injured by runaway team.
Rev. A. N. Clark, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Biloxi, has offered
his services to the United States in
the war with Germany.
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The people of Meridian will vote on
a proposition to raise the salaries OF
policemen and firemen.