The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-05-24

! Vacation days are here.
4 Chester Brown is visiting hi
! little Brandon friends.
81 Mrs. NJ. L. Buckley is the
guest of Brandon friends.
Marvin Darnall, of Jackson,
spent Sunday with homefolks.
Cap Buchanan has returned
home from the A. & M. College.
j Miss Myrtle May spent the
weekend with friends at Pela-
| hatchie.
| Willie Watson spent Sunday
with his parents. Judge and Mrs.
VIM. Watson.
| William Taylor, of Grenada,
visited Brandon friends the early
part Of the week.
Miss Jennie Cole, Of Oakland,
Ky, is visiting her neice, Mrs.
ii. s. Smith, at Brandon Depot.
Mrs. Louise Dickson, of Hat
tiesburg, is spending a few days
with Brandon relatives and
friends.
Miss Matte Cofer, assistant
| in the Pelahatchie Bank, spent
Sunday with her sister, Mrs. w.
B. Collier.
L. S. May has had his house
wired, and is now receiving the
splendid service of the Brandon
Water & Light Co.
Miss Beulah Lowenberg left
Monday for New Orleans where
she will be for some time under
treatment of specialists.
Miss Maggie Belle McRae has
returned home for the summer.
after closing a very successful
term of school at Webb. Miss.
Mrs. Charlie Downs has been
very i'll for several days. Her
Imany friends hope for her an
early and permanent recovery.
| Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Washburn
and Emmett Dickson motored
over to Crystal Springs Sunday,
spending the day with friends.
Roy Crook came over from
Crystal Springs Sunday and
Ispent the day with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Crook, on
| Route 2.
Mrs. J. M. Dees and little son,
Joe, Jr., arrived yesterday for
several weeks stay with Mrs.
Dees' parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r.
E. Gayden.
w. H. Barnes. of the Rankin
County Bank, is at Greenville
this week, attending the annual
convention of the State Bankers
Association.
J. B. Darnall is the proud pos
SCISSOR of a brand new 5-passen-
ger Maxwell automobile, having
traded his old car in at the Jack.
son agency last week.
i Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. Kelly Jr.,
IMr. and Mrs. J. M. Deakens,
! and Henry Kelly of Whitwell,
Tennessee, visited Mrs. A. l..
Freiley, /; sister of Mrs. Kelly
and Deakens, last week, making
the trip in their car.
Mrs. Robert Burns is attending
commencement exercises of the
industrial Institute and College
lat Columbus, this week, hel
accomplished daughter, Miss
Viola, being among the number
receiving diploma.
Mrs. Emma Page. who has
tbeen here for several days visit
ing her brother. j. E. Martin
and other relatives and friends
left yesterday for Cato, where
she will spend some time befor'
returning to her home at Rock
port, Miss.
Mrs. Lottie Cox Johnson, ant
little son, Jimmie, of Beaumont
Texas, are visiting their aunt
Mrs. Barnett. Mrs. Johnson will
: be remembered in Brandon 2
Miss Lottie Cox, daughter Q.
1lMr. and Mrs. Charlie Cox, VIII
| moved from this place to Beau
mont several years ago.
At it's regular meeting las
| Sunday, the Baptist Sunda
! school passed an order author
IIizing the church to be wired TO
| electric lights. Splendid fixture
have been ordered, and whe
the job is completed by 7. B
IIDickson, who was awarded tn
| contract for wiring. this church
4 from q lighting standpoint, wi
compare favorably with any cit
JIchurch. ..