The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-11-29
MISSISSIPPI GLEAN|NCS
News of Interest Prepared
i'm Epitomized Form by
Special Writers
Mrs. Pearl Gardner Williams, wife
of John B. Williams, the sheriff Of
Lowndes county, is dead.

or Jonn Is. Wllllams, the SnerlII Oh
Lowndes county, is dead.
L. S. King. prominent planter, was
instantly killed at Eden when q
freight train backed over him.
The first days drive for the Y. M.
C. A. war fund in Brookhaven result
ed in an oversubscription Of $500.
At the first meeting held at Magee
in behalf of the Red Cross work 120
members joined and $107.50 was do
mated.
Coahoma county's entire allotment
of $4,000 for the Y. M. c. A. war fund
was not only subscribed, put paid In
cash.
The Lorman chapter of the Red
Cross has forwarded large number
of Christmas packages for the sol
diers.
Little Frank Sigrest, aged about z,
had his collarbone broken at school
while playing with his classmates at
Flora.
The Crystal Springs water and light
plant is doing thriving business sell
ing water by the barrel to the truck
farmers.
lPrentiss county came to the front III
the Y. M. C. A. campaign by raising
nearly three times the minimum OF
$1,000.
Either everybody observed the law
in Meridian Sunday, or the police did
not see them, only three arrests being
recorded.
Rev. Mckay Smock has resigned as
pastor of the Central Baptist church
at Coldwater to accept call to Yves
ton, w. Va.
James De Angelo, IS, prominent
shipbuilder at West Point, was struck
on the head by piledrtver and in.
stantly killed.
A. w. Leposser, marshal of Hands
boro and former deputy sheriff of Har.
rison county, has been appointed q. S,
deputy marshal at Biloxi
Rev. Solomon, pastor of the Baptist
church at Meridian, has resigned the
pastorate to become Baptist pastor at
Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg.
The court calendar for the Decem.
Der, 1917, term of the Washington CIR
cult court has been prepared and con
tains more than 120 cases.
r. E. Hurt, one of the first settlers
in Kilmichael, is dead. He was son
of DR.. W. N. Hurt, who located in this
community in the early part Of the
last century.
The first Tate county boy TO see
service on the French front ig Major
Written j. East of Senatobia, who has
engaged in his first battle with the
Boche airmen.
The executive committee of the state
teachers association met at Jackson
and selected Jackson as the place OF
to 4, inclusive
The Lowndes county board of super
visors, at a special meeting, ordered
horizontal increase of so per cent in
the assessed valuation of all cultivate.
BILE lands throughout the county.
Fred Grand of Mendoza, Va, a mem
Der of the 15Oth infantry supply COM
pany, was killed at Camp Shelby, near
Hattiesburg, when a log rolled from
wagon and struck him on the head.
To secure 10000 new members for
the Red Cross is the next patriotic
campaign to be launched in MISSISSIPPI
pi, and plans are being rapidly formu.
lated for the big Christmas member
ship drive.
John Newbrough and Tony Jaranko,
privates of company A, 18TH machine
gun battalion, arrested at Hattiesburg
with two other soldiers and charged
with highway robbery, escaped from
their guards.
Rev. A. S. Strain of Anton, Ala, SUI
perintendent of Universalist church
work in Mississippi, is at the home of
A. ]. Runnels, near Ellisville, suffer
ing from severe case of blood poi
soning.
Jackson will not get an aviation
camp Definite word of this was re-
ceived in a telegram from Brigadier
General Squiers, chief of the aviation
corps, to w. p. Bridges, secretary Of
the young Mems Business club.
A meeting of the joint fiscal com.
mittee of the Mississippi legislature
has been called to meet in Jackson on
Monday, Dec. 10, at which time reports
from the various subcommittee will
report on the work assigned to them,
Ben Ford Holt Of Crystal Springs has
received orders to report to Fl. Screw
ems, Ga.