The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-30
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has been dedicated.
The naval recruiting office at Gull
port will be closed after Sept. /.
Attala countys second cooperative
car of cattle was shipped from Nc
Adams.
Judge F. E. Everett OF Greenwood
has sent in his resignation to take e.
feet Sept. l.
There Is considerable demand for
farming lands in Leflore county at the
present time.
]. T. Brady was found guilty at Meri.
dian of the murder of Pink Hardy, his
wifes father.
The one hundred and sixteenth ses-
sion of Jefferson military college will
open Sept. 10.
The, 800 employees. Of a lumber COM,
pany who went on strike at Sumrall,
have returned to work.
Six national guard units from Kerr
lucky, West Virginia and Indiana
have arrived at Camp Shelby.
"Blackie" DOrowitZ, the condemned
murderer of Police Captain Charles
Sites, was hanged at Vicksburg.
The fourteenth annual session OF
the North Mt. Olive Baptist. Sunday
School convention is in session, with
the St. Mark Baptist Sunday school.
The Clay county agricultural high
school at Phelan will begin its sixth
session of 1918 on Tuesday, Sept. II,
1917.
The progressive farmers and bust
ness men of Fayette have organized
the Producers gin and warehouse
company.
T. Weber Wilson. Attorney for
Jones county, was the orator of the
day at the opening of the Neshoba
county fail.
The first cooperative shipment OF
cattle from Attala county was shipped
by County Farm Demonstrators E. c.
McReynolds.
An urgent call was sent out to the
people of Hattiesburg to assist in the
eradication of mosquitoes by cleaning
their premises without delay.
The first bale of cotton sold at
Mount Olive was raised by s. ]. Will
hanson, weighed 504 pounds and
brought 25 sic cents pound.
The local exemption board for
Wayne county has completed passing
on exemption claims and forwarded
final report to the district board.
Miss Gussie Fort of Collins will be
the new home economics director at
the Woman's college for the coming
session, to succeed Miss Annie Cook.
The powerboat Ruby, valued at $500,
and 800 quarts of whisky valued at
$500. were confiscated by special
agent of the department Of justice at
Biloxi
A young man named Chance was ac-
cidentally killed at the Wood lumber
company's works, about two miles
from Weathersby. His home was at
Collins.
The resignation of W. Homer VIII
son, member of the board of conf
missioners of the Beat One good road
district, was accepted by the board Of
supervisors.
Sam A. Neville, Meridians success
full railroad promoter, has announced
that he will shortly turn his attention
to the organization of company to
build railroad cars.
By reason of his acceptance of the
secretaryship to the Baptist state edu-
cational commission, Rev. R. B. Gum
ter, pastor of the Louisville Baptist
church. has resigned.
The body of Samuel Walker, former
deputy sheriff of Harrison county, was
found in the Cedar Lake road, eight
miles from Biloxi. Walker apparently
had been shot to death.
All kinds of clubs have been formed
among the farmers in Copiah county.
Pig clubs, dairy clubs and other clubs
are formed, and on the afternoon of
Aug. % a poultry club will be organ
iZed.
Hundreds OF letters are flowing into
the office of D. T. CASTOR, secretary
and treasurer of the Mississippi indus
trial institute and college, from young
women who expect to be students the
coming session. l
The second district Of Washington
county with T. L. Gilnser, Torrey Wood
and DIR. r. F. Wilson, composing the
exemption board in the army draft.
has certified its quota of 204 men in
the district board.
Five thousand or more people at
tended the Nag raising at Camp Shell
by. Fl. S. Stevens presented the flag
for the citizens of Hattiesburg and
Major Howard OF the construction de-