The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-09-20
MISSISSIPPI
BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS
OF THE. STATE II
Grenada high school opened for the
fall session.

The Picayune high school openet
with an enrolment of three hundred.
s.~r
An auxiliary to the Byhalia branch
of the Red Cross has been organized
at Victoria.
Three cars of hogs have just oeen
shipped from Lexington on the coop
erative basis.
Columbus was established in 1915.
and there is a movement on foot to
arrange a centennial celebration next
year.
Circuit court for the second district
of Kinds county convened at Ray
mond with Judge Wiley Potter pre-.
siding
The Hollandale consolidated school
opened in it's new three-story brick
building, which has just been COM
pleted.
The body of j. r. Burton, SIS years
cid, keeper of small store in jackson,
ras found with shotgun wound in
the neck.
Prof J.. E. Carruth has resigned az
principal of Magnolia high school TO
accept similar position in his home
town of Summit.
Seven mercantile firms of Laurel
has been indicted by the Jones county
grand jury for alleged violation of the
10-hour labor law.
C. A. Breard, the soldier, poet and
newspaper correspondent of Beauvoir
and inmate of the Jefferson Davis Sol
diers home, is dead
The Scottish Rite fall reunion was
held at Meridian with a lalrge class Of
Master Masons from throughout the
state taking the degrees.
George H. Ezell, president of the
Ezell Clothing company in Columbus,
committed suicide here by shooting
himself through the head.
J. D. TurIey has purchased two
ton motor truck, and will operate il
between Coldwater and his plantation
| Is miles west of that place.
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
Chief of the Greenwood fire depart
ment fsr the past seven years. F. O.
Johnson, rendered his resignation. He
is succeeded by Mr.. Lee Bridges.
The Biloxi public schools for the
| 1918 term opened with an excellent
list of teachers, headed by PROT Ned
Kochler, superintendent of schools.
An election will be held ct Column
bus soon for the purpose og naming
successor to w C. Gunter, mayor Of
Columbus, whose death occurred last
week.
Prof. P. H. Easom has resigned az
principal off the new Arkabutla con.
solidated school owing to his expecta-
ton of being called upon for military
service.
Work is progressing satisfactorily on
on the new Arkabutla consolidated
school, but it is feared shortage OF
materials will delay the completion OF
the building.
Contractor VIM. P Kelly will soon
begin the construction of the good
gravel highway from Shellmound in
the direction of Doddsville, to the Sun
flower county line.
The board of school trustees at Cor
NTH has leased the building of the AL
corn Wooden mills for additional rooms
to relieve the crowded conditions now
prevailing in the primary grades.
The Peoples Bank and Trust com
pany of Tupelo, Miss, has been named
the official depository for funds be-
longing to Lowndes county, and is to
pay $40 per cent ireerest on deposits.
.
R. B. Young, a cattleman from the
Argentine Republic has purchased one
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.
Mrs. A. A. Fisher aged 65, a native
of Indiana, fell from runaway wagon
in Gulfport and was killed. In falling,
her feet became caught in one of the.
wheels and she was dragged about so
feet before the rose was stopped.
Cal. r. A. Burton has been succeed
ed as superintendent of Jefferson Mil
itary college at Natchez by C. G. Pros
pere, who comes from North Carolina.
Col. Burton resigned in order to ac-
cept commission as lieutenant col
onel in the regular army, and has been
assigned as. an instructor at Leon
Springs, Tex.
Rev. J. g. Randolph, manager OF the
Methodist Orphanage, located at Jack
son. announces that Saturday, Oct. 13,
has been set apart as the annual
work day and Sunday, Oct IA. as
harvest day. for the benefit of the In