The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1918-04-25
FLORENCE DEPARTMENT
BY R. A. WHITFIELD.

day night the 10Th OF April. All
members of all the Sunday
Schools in town and their friends
are cordially invited to come and
have a good time. No admission.
What ails the heart of man or
woman that connot carry in it
some degree of gratitude to the
great rules Of earth for such
fine seasons 80 far for preparing
and planting and sowing for an
abundance of food?
We hope the ''less cotton" and
the more corn" committee
through out beat l are accomp-
fishing a good work. Will the
chairman of the entire beat force
be good enough to write to The
Brandon News to let the people
know how the drive for more
| food crop progresses? Good news
from the head source will prove
encouraging.
The news from the truck
farms is very encouraging since
the late frost. Practically no
damage was done by Jack frost.
Let every farmer and gardner
do their level best to raise food
enough at home for their families
and their stock so as to avoid the
necessity of buying any in the
future.
We again offer the suggestion
that those who have good papers |
and magazines fit for our soldier I
boys to read turn them over to
some post office, first putting a
one cent stamp on each paper so
that they can be sent to the va
rious camps for the soldiers. The
post masters will take pride and
pleasure in assisting in such
efforts. Remember, folks, our
soldier boys in camp need men,
tai food as we'll as food for their
bodies. It relieves the tedious
ness of idle or resting hours to
have something useful to read.
It encourages the boys" to be
so nicely remembered by the
friends at home. Let's not neg
lect them any longer in these
little attentions. We feel proud
of our women who are so vigor-
ously pushing the sale of Liberty
Bonds. Many of them have sue
ceeded remarkably we'll. They
are helping much to win the
war.
Mrs. w. D. Steen of near!
Florence enjoyed the delight of |
having Miss M. M, Lacky of
Clinton, as guest in her hone one
day last week. Miss Lacky is
very prominent in religious work
in Mississippi and is a very fine
character.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Steen of
near Florence, had the pleasure
of a weeks visit last week,
from their two grand. daughters,
Misses Mighronne and Linnie Lee
Stay, of Hazelhurst. The father
of these young ladies, Mr.. G. R.
Stay and his sister, Miss Annie
Belle, came in on Saturd y after
noon, to the delight of the old
couple. On Sunday afternoon
they returned to their homes. |
Brother Wash Steen. not with
standing his boys and girls are
all grown up. married and have
interesting families of their own
is as young of the youngest, and
he walks as erect and straight
as an Indian from the forests.
Here is a curious fact. On Mon
day night as we were retiring we
hung our dollar watch on a
nail near the head of the bed.
Just as we turned it aloose, it |
began to oscillate in short rapid
moving pendulum. We observed
| it in motion at il o'clock, also at |
about | q. m, and when we awoke |
at S a. m. the watch was still
busy oscillating and keptit up
till z. a. m. when we had to take
| it up. Will any of the readers of |
the News venture an explana-
ton of this act of a ''one dollar"
watch? If any wish to expert
ment, drive round nail into the
wall, but little way, perpendic-
ularly. Hang the watch with
out it's guard) so it does not
touch the wall, and give it a
start and see.
The trustees of Steens Creek
High school had a meeting on
the Goth and elected the faculty
for the next session. Prof. Brock
| of New Hebron, was elected
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