The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-07-05
MISSISSIPPI
BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS
OF THE STATE


Biloxi housewives are up In arms
on account Of an advance in the prico
of ice.
The Seashore Divinity school IS in
session at the Seashore camp grounds
near Biloxi.
A company Of home guards organ
lied at Pontotoc. More than 60 names
were enrolled.
For the first time in several years
the women of Jackson are holding
knitting parties.
Judge F. E. Everett of Indianola
convened a special term OF circuit
court for Leflore county.
Material for the construction, Of the
new Y. & M. v. passenger station at
Greenwood is arriving daily.
Mayor David Cottrell Of West Point
has received his second carload Of full
blooded registered Jersey cows.
Bank deposits In the three Hatties.
burg banks passed the $1,000 900 mark
according to the last statements.
Mack Little, farmer, living near
Georgetown, committed suicide by
slashing his throat with a razor.
Nearly pvnrv oIipihin vn1nO man In
Belzoni has joined the field hospital
corps organized by DR.. E. L. Robert
son.
The North Mississippi Epworth
league conference of the Methodist
church, South, will be held at Column
bus July and 6.
At mass meeting of the citizens
| If Pontotoc a company OF home guards
| fog the town was formed and about
60 men were enrolled.
At meeting of the congregation
the Baptist church Of Clarksdale has
adopted plans for the erection of o
new $4,000 church building.
For 46 years Mrs. Daniel Conan,
aged 95, of Carthage. had secretly
treasured the bones Of her dead hus-
bard, and her death has just revealed
the fact.
A soldiers and sailors record, with
the name of each sailor and soldier
leaving Lincoln county, with a COM
plete personal history of each one, is
being kept.
The program committee of the New
ton County Sunday School association
has issued the program for the annual
meeting of the association at Strattor
ON July and 6.
Sam Wilson, a well known engineer
of the steamboat Alec, while nearing
Jonesville on the boat, tied a number
of heavy weights around his body
and ieaped overheard.
Application has been made to the
city council by the Greenwood bust.
ness league to permit the establish.
ment of curb market for the sale OF
all kinds of country produce.
Rev. P. II. Howse, conference evan.
gelist of the Methodist church. has
just concluded a successful revival al
Tallawah, where Rev. H. Mellard, pas.
tor at Purvis, recently organized Q
church.
James Richardson Of Newton, who
was formerly captain of the Newton
military company before it was mus
tered out of service several years ago,
has been recommissioned as captain
in the national guard and is now seek
ing to organize cavalry company.
Walter Howell Lott of Holcomh,
who was married at Greenwood to
Miss Beatrice Martin, from Duck Hill,
Miss, is under arrest at Ruleyille on
a charge of bigamy. Lott is alleged
to have another wife and five chill
dren living in Carroll county.
LOHHlo D. MOSSiey, republican, ma
tional committeeman for Mississippi,
for "a years clerk of the United States
circuit court for the southern district
of Mississippi and a resident of Kinds
county for more than third of cent.
ury, died at his home at Jackson.
Seeing that his fathers life was In
serious jeopardy, Herman Owen, e
prominent and well known young
business man of Columbus, shot and
MORALLY wounded Oscar CartwelI
who, in drunken condition. it is said
attacked the young mans father, r
G.. Owen, with a knife.
Miss Frances Hogg, a trained nurse
so far as known is the first Mississip
pi woman to depart for service In
France. Miss Hogg. who was fornAer
ly superintendent of the Matty Herses
charity hospital in Meridian and visit
ing nurse of Jackson, has been or
dered to report at Birmingham with a
Red Cross hospital unit to leave for
France soon.
On account of the high cost of coal
the Crystal Springs water and light
plant is using sawdust in the plant as