The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-10-11
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The Meridian council has fixed Nov
as the date for holding an election
for bond issue of $4,000 to estab
lish a municipal ice plat.
Fire of undetermined origin destroy.
ed the Alcorn county court ho!aa, Cor
NTH, causing loss estimated at be
tween 100000 and $4,000.
Mrs. Maria Presto of Bay st. Louis
was killed in front of her residence on
Gainesville road by an automobile
owned by Walter S. Hoover of Napo
leon.
Surrounded by most Of their chill
dren, grandchildren and other rela-
tives, c.. K. Buntin and wife, residing
near Starkville, celebrated their gold
en- wedding.
w. l.. Via of Biloxi, deputy oyster
inspector, has handed in his resigna-
ton in order to take position as fore
man in the car shops of the Gulfport &
Mississippi Coast Traction company.
The first Columbian to be arrested
as a Stacker was Robert G. Brown, an
automobile mechanician, who is charg-
ed with failure to respond to an order
to appear before the local exemption
- hoard for examination
The Mississippi A. & M. college at
Starkville wants a new yell, and the
College Reflector has offered a prize
for the best expression of vocal en-
thusiasm submitted to its editors be.
tween Oct. l and Oct 2.
Two hundred and Twenty-Five dol
lars and thirty-five cents for bale
of cotton is a record made at Yazoo
City. Fire destroyed the plants OF the
William Carter Lumber company and
the Baldwin mill works at Laurel.
w. H. Rudy, well known planter OF
the Glen Allen section Of the county
Is in a hospital dangerously wounded
having been shot by a negro. The ne.
gro was not well known in the neigh.
borhood. He was killed after he shot
Mr.. Rudy.
The threatened strike of employees
of the Mississippi Packing company
plant in Natchez was called off when
the company granted an increase laid
to be two and a half cents an hour
The employees had demanded cents
an hour, but accepted the compromise
An order has been issued by the
board of Mississippi oyster commits
sioners closing the state oyster reefs
in the Back Bay of Biloxi during the
oyster season. This step was taken by
the board on account of the fact that
the oysters in the Back Bay have been
depleted.
H. B. Graves, chancery clerk OF
Jones county, gives out the following
as the assessed valuation of property
real and personal, in the two districts
of the county: First district, including
Ellisville, land valuation, $3,434, 528;
personal property, s443,73S; total, 49,,
S78, 266.
With the return of the second com
mittee sent to Charleston, S. c., to
push the selection of BroOkhaven as
location for one of the government
cantonments, there is every assurance
that Brookhaven has as good chance
as other places that are foremost In
the running.
Second district, including Laurel
land valuation, $4,312,094; personal
property, $1,8S5,74S; total, $685., S42
Grand total for the two districts, $11..
767,4O3. The railroad valuation in
cluded in the above figures is $1,491.
295 These figures are based on the
equalization made by the state tar
commission.
The exodus of labor has ba.ome 80
serious from Natchez that q petition
has tcen sent to Mississippi congress.
men aid senators asking that govern
ment, investigation be made. 1t is
claimed tina. labor agents purrorting
to be representatives Of the govern
rpent are instrumental in causing the
labor to leave.
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At a conference held in Greenville
with w. P. Kretschmar, president, and
w. Blake Godfrey, state secretary OF
the Y M. C. A., arrangements were
made with Rev. Phillips Davidson, rec
tor of st. James Episcopal church, to
take charge of the campaign to raise
$4,000 allotted to Mississippi for the
Y. NJ. C. A. war work.
The shipping of cord wood from
Coldwater is reaching large proper
tions, and many wagons are employed
to haul the wood from Beartail bottom,
where it is being cut. This is new
industry here, and the wood is being
shipped to a Memphis concern for the