The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-09-27
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The Hermanville high school opened
with full attendance.
A Red Cross society has been organ.
lied at Mineral Wells with about 80
members.
an attendance of more than 5000
scholars.
The public schools of Columbus
opened their 1918 session with q
good attendance.
The Edwards high school began it's
1918 term with an enrolment or
about sixty pupils.
The farmers and business men Of
Crystal Springs are planning for hold
ing the prosperity fair.
The Scottish Rite fall reunion ended
three-day session in Meridian with
work in the 32d degree.
Lamar Callicott of Coldwater is now
a full fledged aviator. having received
his license as an air pilot.
The public schools of Greenville
opened the session of 1918 with the
largest attendance in their history.
The first car of cotton to be shipped
out of Clarksdale this season left for
Whitman Mills at New Bedford, Mass.
The car contained 65 bales.
The Lauderdale County Baptist as
ISOLATION convened at Marion for a
three-day session with a large num-
Der of we'll known Baptists in attend
ance.
What promises to be great revival
service began in the Brookhaven Meth
odist church, with Dr. Shade w. Walk
er of Huntingdon, w. Va, occupying
the pulpit.
The fall term of the Pontotoc county
circuit court will probably be in SEES
sion only two weeks This is the first
term of court held in the new $4,000
court house.
A union service was held in Ripley
by the Sunday schools of Ripley in
honor of the soldiers of Tippah county
who were called into the service Of
their country.
Lieut.. Harvey Greene of Biloxi
Troop c OF Cavalry, now stationed at
Camp Jackson, says that the troop
will soon be taken to Camp Beaure-
guard, near Alexandria.
Circuit Judge Papl B. Johnson, al
Hattiesburg, has announced his candi
dacy for congress to succeed Repre-
sentative Harrison, who is in the race
for United States Senator Vardamaaa
seat.
The opening of the Kinds county ag'
ricultural high school at Raymond for
it's first years work was a happy and
significant occurrence for not only
Raymond and vicinity, but the entire
county.
A party of representative citizens OF
Brookhaven left for Atlanta, Ga,
Charleston, S. c., and Washington, to
present the claims of Brookhaven to
the establishment of one of the army
training camps.
Lawler Morrow was nominated for
chancery clerk at Philadelphia In a
primary held to elect successor to
the late w. ]. Brantley, who was
found dead in the courtyard on the
night of Aug. 4.
Twenty Lowndes county citizens
who have been accepted by the Co
lumbus exemption board for service
in the pending war against Germany
left for Camp Pike, Ark, where they
will go in training.
Two men were seriously injured and
several others badly bruised at Dur
ham, three miles south OF ClarksdAle.
when a motor car containing IL mem.
bers of Y. & M. " bridge gang col
lided with an automobile truck.
In the suit of Miss Burleigh Pugh
against the /. C. railroad for alleged
indignities she experienced while wait
ing in the depot at Taylor for train.
the jury at Oxford rendered verdict
in behalf of the plaintiff for $4,000.
w. B. Lockwood Is in Hazlehurst,
representing George Clowers In his
suit against H. w. McManus, wherein
the plaintiff is suing McManus for
damages growing out Of an automo-
bile wreck north of Crystal Springs
about a month ago.
The chancellor of the University Of
Mississippi has made some important
announcements for the session open
ing Sept. 10 as result of resolutions
passed by the board of trustees. The
trustees have established a school Of
commerce and business administTa-
ton. Military training will be 70
quired of al lablebodied students.
A great addition to the Jackson high
way is the big flag which was raised
at the junction Of the Crawford and
Artesia roads, seven miles west Of Co
lumbus.