The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-10-18
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Sixty automobiles we're destroyed
in a fire in Jackson
The National Nut Growers held it,
annual convention in Biloxi.
A business district fire in the heart
Of Jackson caused losses which will
run UP to about $4,000.
Railroads running into Natchez re-
port great difficulty in securing suff-
cient men for section crews.
The Lambert. Red Cross chapter
shipped large supply Of goods TO
headquarters at New Orleans.
Grenada county shipped it's first car.
load of sorghum molasses. The ship
ment was made 10 New Orleans.
The Delta Light and Traction COM
pany has received several new cars
for the Greenville street railway.
More than $475,O00 worth of Liberty
Bonds have been purchased by the sol.
diers at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg.
S. d. Wooten Mrs c. X. Avant and
Miss Metra Hawkins have organized
Red Cross branch at lMoOre's school.
The Hattiesburg American, the at
ternoon newspaper succeeding the
Hattiesburg Herald, made its initial
appearance.
Four white men, representing tho
third increment of selectmen in Le-
flore county left Greenwood for Camp
Pike via Memphis.
Thirty negroes left Jones county for
Camp Pike, Ark. This is the first
contingent of the negro draft to be
sent from this county.
Rev Charlie Crisler, of the Method
ist church of Brookhaven, assumed
charge Of the Methodist revival SER
vices in Crystal Springs.
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J. S. Koonce, 50, Torrance. Miss,
died at Baptist Memorial Hospital
Memphis, from injuries received in
mill accident at Torrance.
Officers here are searching for Pur
Wis Taylor, the 4-year-old son of G. w.
Taylor of Enterprise, who was kidnap-
ed in Meridian and taken away in an
automobile.
A bond issue of $4,000 has been
authorized by the mayor and board
of aldermen to be used for the streets
and opening others in Back Bay re-
gion of Biloxi.
The second day of the Pike County
fair opened at Magnolia with much
exhibits in the several departments
were greatly admired.
A feature during the meeting of the
Confederate veterans, which will be
held at Vicksburg, beginning Oct. Is,
was the annual reunion of the Mis-
sissippi division, S. C. v.
Evidence secured by postoffice in
spectors caused the arrest of w. H.
Smith, rural carrier and substitute
clerk in the Clarksdale postoffice, on
charge of rifling the mails.
Congressman Pat Harrison drew
round after round Of applause when
he spoke to a big audience in Stark
vile, discussing the issues on which
he is making his campaign
Active efforts in Mississippi to
raise 100000, the states share of
the Y. M C. A. war work fund, are
under way with Leroy Percy, Of
Greenville, in charge of the plans.
A plan has been launched in Pass
Christian to convert the neutral
ground on the beach front, between
the highway and the water line of
Mississippi sound, into a park
Ten white men and 40 negroes, COM
prising the second increment of Dis.
trict No 1 of Washington county's
quota to the new national army, left
Greenville, en- route to Camp Pike.
Lowrey Memorial Baptist church
Blue Mountain, has called DR.. r. A..
Kimbrough, of Vicksburg, Miss, to
be its pastor, to succeed DR.. w. E..
Farr, who resigned recent y to accept
the pastorate of Baptist church in
the Mississippi Delta.
By paying $4,000, more than $500
an acre, for 748 acres of Coahoma
county land, A. ]. Moseley, J. H. Smith
and W. A. Richie of Clarksdale have
demonstrated their confidence in the
future of the great Mississippi delta
and in Coahoma county lands.
A soldier named T. L. Lundy on his
way to Lexington, jumped off of traie
No. 6 at Canton and had his right leg
crushed below the knee. 1t seems he
had cut another soldier pretty badly
at the camp in Jackson and was trying
to make his way to Lexington. He
was sent to Jackson hospital. where
he died.
Stanley Yarbro shot and fatally
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