The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-09-13
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News of Interest Prepared
in Epitomized Form by
Special Writers

The board of supervisors sold the
Leflore county farm.
The Walden high school opened with
an enrolment OF 113 pupils.
The Pike county fair will be held at
Magnolia from Oct. to s, inclusive.
A branch OF the Young Mems Bust
ness club is being organized at Me-
ridian.
The new Producers gin and ware
house at Fayette is rapidly being com
.pleted.
After suspension of sewn days,
street car service was resumed at
Laurel
Harry Hayward Of Corinth sustained
broken arm when he attempted 10
crank his car.
Carey d. Mathis of Crystal Springs
will ship from his farm about 16 car
loads of fall beans.
Miss Anna RENE OF indianapolis has
been appointed as senior public health
nurse at Hattiesburg.
Circuit court for the second district
of Kinds county convened at Ray
mond with Judge Wiley Potter pre-
siding.
The first three drafted soldiers from
Leflore county were J. M. Pratt, An
drew H. Wamsley and Thomas j.
Gould
After weeks of strenuous work by
the Alcorn county board the tax as
sessment of the county has been com
pleted.
The Vicksburg chapter of the Amer
lean Red Cross society has shipped
four large boxes of hospital and sur
gical supplies.
The Campfire Girls of Brookhaven
gave a patriotic program in the audi
forum of the high school for the boys
of Troop F cavalry.
Work on the Harrison county high
way between Biloxi and Pass Christian
is being held up by the inability Of
the contractors to get shells.
NJ H. Daily of Coldwater, who is
administrator for the estate of his
brother, NJ NJ Daily. has sold the lat
ter's farm near Duncan, for $109.37 an
acre.
Miss May Quarles, home economic
agent for Harrison county, has been
appointed district agent of the state
organization with headquarters at Hat
tiesburg. -
Major Frederick l.. Palmer, u. S. A.,
has been detailed by the government
as Instructor of military science AMI
tactics at the Gulf Coast Military
Academy.
A union service was held in Ripley
by the Sunday schools of Ripley in
honor of the soldiers of Tippah county
who were called into the service of
their country.
The gulf coast packing companies
face the most serious shortage of la
Dor ever known, according to repre-
sentatives of the shrimp and oyster
industry of Biloxi.
The board of trustees Of trustees of
the Greenwood schools employed
Misses Hattie Brown and Mona Quain
as additional teachers in the grammar
and high school grades.
Through the efforts and enterprise
of members of the Columbus chapter
of the American Red Cross over thou
sand articles of raiment have been
made for the soldiers at the front.
Woodmen from all parts of the state
attended picnic at McComb City and
q log rolling association was organized
with fourteen camps of Pike and ad
joining counties as charter members
R. B. Young, a cattleman from the
of the finest farms in Kinds county,
near Edwards, and will begin at once
the creation of one of the best stock
farms in this section.
The Hattiesburg Herald is the name
of new morning paper to appear on
the morning of Sept. H. 1t is under
the management of the Daily News,
with G. S. Partridge of the Washing
ton Herald as editor.
Joseph Roy. known as SHORTY, who
has been held at Biloxi in connection
with the murder of Sam Walker Of BIZ
loxi, former deputy sheriff. ut Cedar
Lake, on Aug 10, was released Dv
Chief of Police r. M. Randolph.
w. J. Plemming OF Picayune. bis
two sons and Sam Kellar were struck
by lightning and rendered unconscious,
but will recover. Flemming, his sons
and young Kellar were in field gath
ering corn, when thunder shower
came up and all four took refugs un-
der the wagonload OF corn.
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