The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-11-15
MISSISSIPPI GLEAN|Ncs
News of Interest Prepared
in Epitomized Form by
Special Writers

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w. A. Logan. aged ~, one OF the
best known residents Of HattiesDurg
Is dead.
Greenvil4e will elect mayer and
half the members OF tho city council
Monday, Dec. 10.
The Mississippi Baptist state con
vention will meet in annual session al
Brookhaven on Nov. II.
| United States Depty Marshal ]. D.
Money died at Biloxi. He was 60 years
of age and native Of Carroll county.
Mrs. Jim Gaia Lee, aged 35 years,
was killed at Hazlehurst by being
thrown from wagon loaded with lum-
Der.
Sam E. Dunn, a planter, residing
near Clarksdale, purchased 632 acres
of improved land near jamestown for
$500
Rev. T. L. Holcombe, who recently
accepted a call to the First Baptist
church at Columbus, has begun his
pastorate.
The Byhalia chapter of the. Red
Cross has shipped to headquarters in
New Orleans a box containing 2l9
handmade articles.
by order of Judge R. E. Jackson,
two weeks of the November term of
the circuit court for Adams county
have been pretermitted.
The people of Meridian voted for an
increase of tax levy from 1e to II mills
to provide funds for increasing the sal
airy of firemen and policemen.
Rev. e. l.. Malone, rector of the
Church of the Holy Comforter, at Gads-
den, Ala, has been called to the pulpit
of ST. Pauls Episcopal church at CO.
iumbus.
The circuit court of the Twelfth jul
dicial district convened for the No
vember term at the Forrest county
court house, with Judge Paul B. john
son presiding.
The students of the Jones county
agricultural high school have shown
their patriotism by voting to have one
wheatless meal and two meatless
meals each day
n
Members Of the umous police
force who, like ever ne else, have
been hit by the hig ost of living,
have petitioned the council to ad-
vance their salaries.
E. S. Gambler, representative in con-
gress from the First Mississippi dis
trict, has appointed George Sherman
of Columbus to a cadetship at the
United States naval academy at An
napolis.
James M. Mcdonald, formerly of
Jackson, tried in Atlanta, Ga, on a
charge of numbering Joe Jung, a Chi
naman, was found guilty Ct manslaugh-
ter and sentenced to 20 years i'm
prisonment.
Col William Winston Fontaine, aged
"a, died in Jackson. During the Civil
War he was attached to the staff Of
General ("Stonewali) Jackson and
was with him at the time of his death
at Charlottesville.
L. c.. Carter was painfully injured
and Horace Kinard slightly hurt when
an automobile driven by Carter crash
ed through bridge on the Marion
road, near Meridian, turning turtle,
and landing in the creek below.
Louis Mangin, foreman for West
End fire company of Biloxi, has sub
mitted an annual report of the fires
occurring in that city from Nov. l..
1916. to Nov. 1, 1917, which shows that
there have been turned in 43 fire
alarms.
About nine hundred students Of the
College are showing their patriotism
Mississippi Industrial Institute and
by becoming members of the Red
Cross auxiliary of the Columbus chap
tie. which has been organized at the
college.
Miss Maud M. Trood, assistant state
home economics agent in charge Of
urban emergency work, spoke to a
large audience of Yazoo City women
on the conservation of such foods as
are needed by the government for the
! use of the army and the allies.
Officers of the U. S. signal corps
+! have inspected the site Jackson offers
for an aviation camp. They were:
Lieut.. Coils. Crabtree and Edgar, Ma
Tors Farrar and Castle, and Capt. Hol-
ders. Nothing will be known Of the
officers decision until they return to
| Washington.
Col. J. D. Money, deputy United
States marshal, died at his home at
Beauvoir, aged 63 years, after brief
illness
| Hugh Sample, one of the Oldest and
/ most highly respected citizens OF Pom
totoc county, died at his home after a
| short illness.
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