The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-04-26
TOWN AND COUNTY

Notes of Interest.

Hood.
Why pay the advance. for othel
tires when you en- yet buy Gooricf
at the old price. C. w. Pracht & Son.
Pure bred Silver Wyandotte cock,
erels $3.50. Eggs for setting S1.5O
Mrs. M. c. Balm, Brownsville. Il
Remember the date-May 3rd-Oc.
casion-the Red Cross concert. Tick
cts Doc. Our goal $4,000.
For Sale-Half and Half cotton seed
$500 per hundred pounds. Apply to
b. A. Whitelaw at old Brownsville Liv-
cry & Livestock Barn. If
Planting Cotton Seed-I have about
five tons first picking cotton seed for
sale. -Four dollars and fifty cents per
hundred. See w. S. Lea.
For Sale-0r will trade for colts
or cattle one good work mule about ten
years old. Phone 22S-A, H. A.
Naylor. 81
For Rent-Nice home on Gibbs
street, this city. Apply to Mrs. John
Z. Cause, $40 Beal Street, Memphis,
Tenn, or Mrs. Vernon Mann, Browns
vile, Tenn. q
b. w. Ross is making extensive i'm
provements on his dwelling located on
Hatchie Avenue. He expects to have
1T completed within the next week or
ten days.
Lost on Streets of Brownsville, Sat-
urday, April 20-Fifty-two dollars in
paper money. Finder please bring
to Byrn-Sturdivant Drug Co., and re
ceive reward.
Services at Bethel Saturday after
noon at A o'clock and at 8 o'clock; at
Zion Sunday morning at II o'clock and
, at Tabernacle Sunday afternoon at A
o'clock, by the pastor, B. J. Russell.
Services at Trinity Sunday morning
at IL o'clock and at Tibbs Sunday af-
ternoon at a o'clock by Messrs. E. C. |
Sturdivant, G. L. Carlton and C. E.
Wellington, and Mrs. Sturdivant
The wramer, fair weather which has
followed several days of cold and rain,
are most welcome to our farmers.
Much corn and cotton has already |
been planted in this county and it will |
take warm weather to bring it up.
Four train loads of soldiers passed
through Brownsville Wednesday after
noon. They came through Memphis,
but no information could be received
as to where they were going or from
whence they came.
The county school board will meet
today for the purpose of selecting coun
ty teachers for the school year 1888
Many teachers have registered at the
county superintendent office and the
hoard hAras 10 eli ------. y .
positions at this meeting.
Strawberries are beginning to ripen
now and it is thought that picking will
begin next week. 1t is understood that
the prices viii be unusually good this
season. The crop will not be heavy
but many growers say that their pros
poets are fine. Pickers will soon be in
demand and school children will have
an opportunity to offer their services
at good wages.
Road workers have been busy in
various parts of the county during the
past week, and most of the main roads
are in very good condition. The cross
roads, where work is uncertain, are
the only ones in bad condition now.
Don't forget the great value of the
split-log drag, Mr.. Overseer, it's the
cheapest and best instrument on earth |
for making good roads.
Invitations have been received by
friends here to the marriage of Major
Warren Philip Jernigan to Miss Jo-
sephine Shackleford of Chattanooga.
The wedding took place April n. Maj.
Jernigan is ranking officer at the Mil
lington Aviation camp and is young
man of splendid character and prom
Use. He is a relative of Mr.. ]. D. Cur
is of this city and has been most
courteous and attentive to citizens OF
Brownsville who have visited the avia-
ton camp.
It appears now that the acreage of
cotton in Haywood county will be I'M
usually large this season. This is un-
doubtedly due to the high price Of the
staple during the past few months.
The wise farmer and the patriotic one,
however, should put the bulk of his
planting in corn and other food crops.
This is what our government is urg-
ing and what the country most needs.
Food crops are all bringing high prices
and will continue to do SO. The price
of cotton is an uncertain quantity.
Hardy Jones of Memphis was in
Brownsville last week. Hardy was
raised in Brownsville but has not Wis
tied our city before in nine years. He
SAYS he never saw such great improve
ment in town in his life. He thought
our streets fine, our business houses
unusually good for city of this size
and our residence districts especially
up-to-date and well kept. Mr.. Jones
has many boyhood friends here and
they were delighted to see him. He is
at the head of a splendid cotton BUSH
ness in Memphis.
Mr.. Medicus and others are giving
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