The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-02-08
MISSISSIPPI .GLEANINGS
News of Interest Prepared
i'm Epitomized Form by
Special Writers
Five hundred tourists attended the
meeting of the Biloxi tourist club.

rive hundred COuriStE dLteHucu tIc
meeting of the Biloxi tourist club.
A farm loan association was organ.
lied at Sanford with twenty-five char
ter members.
G. H. Mattox Announces that he will
double the capacity of his pickle fac
tory at Meridian.
The mayor and board of aldermen
of Macon recently purchased an auto
mobile fire truck.
Fifty-nine cattle dipping watts have
been constructed in Harrison, jackson
and Hancock counties.
Machinery for the big sawmill to be
erected at Paulding in Jasper county
is being unloaded at Louin.
The Southern railway is erecting
large shed at it's Columbus shops for
the protection of it's employees.
There were 11,407 bales of cotton
ginned in Kinds county from the crop
of 1906 prior to January 16, 1917.
By a large majority the voters OF
Beats One and Three of Forrest coun-
ty voted for 100000 bond issue for
good roads building.
George Francis Holland 67 years
old, prominent Snowman, died at his
winter home in Biloxi. He was ma
tive Of Delevan, Wis.
The main auditorium of the Majestic
theater, one of the largest motion pic
ture playhouses in the south, was. gut
ted by fire at Jackson.
The qualified electors Of the city OF
Meridian will pass on a $25,000 bond
issue for the Meridian and Bigbee
river railroad on Feb 6.
Suit for s154,6S4 alleged as commits
sion for the sale of $4,000 acres OF
land has been filed at Macon by C. M.
Meeker against the former owner.
A carload of hogs was shipped from
Stoneville on the cooperative plan, the
sixth car shipped from Washington
county within the last few weeks.
The planting Of peanuts will receive
considerable impetus with the distri-
button of seed peanuts, running vari-
ETY., by the cotton oil mill interests.
$3.50
o. H. Crittenden, formerly resident
of Eastabuchie, was buried at that
place. He was prominent railroad
official in Texas and died at Houston.
J. M. Leverett, SO years old. an in
mate of the soldiers home at Beau
voir, is dead. He was member of
company X, 18th Mississippi regiment.
Evangelistic services at the First
Baptist church at Hattiesburg are be-
ing conducted by DR.. John F. Chris
tian, assisted by S. L. Rayburn, noted
singing leader
About $50 sailors from the three tor
pedo boat destroyers in port at Vicks-
burg were rendered a Dutch lunch on
DeSoto Island by the city and CONNER
cial bodies of Vicksburg.
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Join Brown, a farmer living eight
miles west of Senatobia, attempted
suicide by cutting his throat with his
pocketknife. Mr.. Brown has been in
i'll health and his mind had become un-
balanced.
Announcement has been made that
the New Orleans & Northeastern rail-
road, now part Of the Southern rail
way system, will double track its lines
from Meridian to New Orleans with
105-pound steel rails.
j. D. Lynch, in charge of the work OF
raising the tracks near Vicksburg,
states that 1t will be very improbable
that the work will be completed before
the high water which comes along
every year.
The board of mayor and aldermen
have passed an ordinance asking the
citizens of Belzoni to vote upon the
question of a bond issue Of $4,000 for
the erection of building for negro
school pupils.
Gregory M. Luce, wealthy owner
of cut-over pine lands in George coun.
ty. informed H. A. Camp, president OF
the Hattiesburg Commercial club, also
a large land owner, that he would guar
antee not less than $4,000 as George
county's proportion of I the $25O,0OO
fund being raised for a five years
campaign to nationally exploit and az
vertise the gulf coast country.
Sarah Coins, IA years old. held OF
band of listed States revenue officers
with a revolver and shotgun for moro
than two hours, near Biloxi, in fruit
less attempt to save her father from
arrest. The arrest of the girl marks
the taking into custody of every
member of the Coins family save her
mother and one brother, somewhere
out west" TT puts an end to the
noonshining which has been going on
In Greene county for years.
Data regarding the amount OF tom
mage of vessels operating out OF Biloxi
is being gathered here by representa-
- r~,,roo, 0f onpc,rc dpnart.