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promises The number TO cali UP IL
knlckerbocker 5000.
June Il. Brown in Base Hospital 81
has written to fund donor John r. Bull
lard thus: This card was found In q
box OF cigarettes my boys had for Christ
mas and j am thanking you for them,
although IL seems as II / had waited
some time before doing 70. The fact 10
that this IL the first opportunity 1 have
found to write The boys enjoy the
cigarettes more than anything else that
is sent to them, and through your kind
ness and that OF THE SUN Tobacco Fund
they had q very nice Chrintmas"
Corporal r. Van Hull. A. p. 7sl, sends
this note Of thanks: What can n few
lines scrubbed on q card do toward tell
ing you and THE SUN what we owe In
cheer ana comfort through the tobacco
sent to us? We are very thankful and
say So" This card was mailed from
Toul on February z.
Need Smokes Much rs Ever.
Private John F. Hudson Of the ls5th
Aero Squadron. Third Army. writes from
Ireves Germany: Just received the
cigarettes you contributed to THE SUN
Tobacco Fund for some Sammies in
France. am one OF the lucky ones to
because In the FIRST place I needed the
smokes and In the second place some OF
US were beginning to fear that the folks
back home would begin to think that
now the war was or We didn't need
anything from home"
Lieut. R NJ DAILY writes the thanks
Of Company c. s3oth Labor Battalion. s'
the close OF January: Many thanks fog
Piedmonts; they are fully appreciated
by this organization"
To THE SUN Tobacco Fund comes thii
from Germany In q letter dated Feb
ruary 2: During the past months Of
hardships we have received in your nant
numerous gifts Of smokes. In behalf Of
the old Company r. Nineteenth Regi
ment Engineers. take pleasure II
thanking THE SUN for the Joys we have
received through your medium
Mrs. Cal Stein, fund donor. received
this from Germany: Your nice pack
age of cigarettes was greatly welcomed
by three windjammers buglers OF Com
pany B, 104th Infantry. and they CAM
In the right time, because We had NO
been paid for four months previous tt
their arrival here"
Sergeant Mccormick was in Base Hos
pital IS. A. p. o. 9ls. when he wrotI
this card and sent II back to the smok
fund.- We'll. here is our faithfules
friend again and we are once moro I
happy bunch. even when some of Us AZ
still only able to limp. 1t Is a grea
work THE SUN has done and the boy
In service abroad will never forget II
Wherever We have been. and It include
the hospital. THE Sun fund always go
there on time"
More Necessary Than Chow.
From "a Doughboy Who Smokes
comes a card to fund donor n. T. Gran
lund, who wishes him TO know how fin
n thing tobacco is 20 the soldier man
more necessary than too much chow.
The author of this praise Of tobacco 1
Private c. II. Forces Of Company Z
l2sth Infantry.
Leo ]. Trembiy Of Machine Gun Com
pany D. 1o4th Infantry, Twenty-sixth d
vision. Fifty-second Brigade is laconi
in his note from Germany but undoubt
} eddy sincere: II think highly OF tn
! tobacco have Just received and NOR
highly OF the giver."
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DoMINICK J. CARDANI.

Dominick J. Cardani. a member Of
the hrm OF \ CAssx T. Inc. catersS OF
937 sixth avenue, died from pneumonia
Yesterday at his residence. 124 West
Fifty-hfth street He was born in this
city thirty-fve years age. He continued
the business established by his father
forty years ago, Mr.. Cardani was prom
inent In a number OF Italian societies.
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German intrigue in Siam ut the out
break of the war he was decorated re-
Gently by the British Government Be
sides his mother. who lives in Toronto.
he leaves two sisters and a brother in
New York.
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CHARLES E. VAN LOAN LII.
Family Comes From West "a
Author in Arlington, Ia.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 26.-Charles Il
Van Loan. humorist and writer OF sport
ing and other stories. is seriously III IN
the Arlington Memorial Hospital. near
here. He came East two or three weeks
ago on business and became III when In
this city.
His wife and two children have ar
rived in Arlington from their home In
Los Angeles.
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British omcer to visit Newport.

NEWPORT. Feb. 2s.-Lieut. Presley
Taylor Of the British service is ex-
pected here TO visit his sister, Mrs.
Walter G. Herardi. Mr.. and Mrs Ban
croft G. Herardi have returned to New
York.
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THE REV. w. ID. BRIGGS.

VANCOUVER, r. c., Feb. 26--The Rev.
W, n, Briggs, a graduate Of New York
University. who served as a missionary
In Siam for twenty-eight years. died in
his home here to-day in his ffty-third
year For his work in counteracting
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LEE--LYMAN.
omcer of Army Medical Corps
Takes Bride In Boston.

kpecioI Uespdfch 70 TIE NtN,
BOSTON, Feb. c6.-Mlss Ella Lowell
Lyman was married this afternoon IN
Kings Chapel TO Lieut-Col. Roger
Irving Lee OF the Medical Corps by the
Rev. Howard y. Brown. The bride is
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Lyman.
Col. Lee is a son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lam T. - OF Pasadena, Cal
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MARRIED

BREEsE-MOMAND.- At Trinity Church,
February %, 1919. By the Rev William
T Manning, d. D.. Grace Lucille
daughter of Mrs Rssland -Momand. to
James Lawrence Breese
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McEorma ck-Brousse.

Miss Isabel Marian Rrousse daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. a. A. Brousse OF Plain
field, y. J., was married there last even
ing to Daniel Robert Mccormack,
knights Of Columbus secretary at Camp
Merritt.
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Philadelphia Girl 10 he a Bride.

Speciu' beSpdfCA 10 IHE Sun.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. c6.-Airs. W. Me-
lancthon Grasgow Of 4525 Walnut
street announced to-day the engage
ment OF her daughter. Miss Miriam Ople
Glasgow, to Leonard L. Cook, also OF
this city.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
WHAT COMES UNDER THE
BAN OF WARTIME
PROHIBITION

Any beverage containing more
than one-half of one per cent alco-
hol would be banned by the war
time prohibition act, effect next
July l, under measure approv-
ed by the House Judiciary Com
mittee to make the act effective.
The committees definition of
Intoxicating liquors was written
in the bill as follows:
"The words beer, wine or other
Intoxicating malt or vinous liqu-
ors in the war prohibition act
shall be construed as any liquor
which contains in excess of one
half of one percent of alcohol =
Enforcement of the war time
prohibition law, which continues
in effect until after army demob-
ilization, is placed with the inter
nal revenue bureau by the bill
framed by the committee. Agents
OF the bureau would investigate
violations would be conducted by
U. S. district attorneys. Any
place where liquor is manufac-
tured or sold would be declared a
public nuisance, subject to abate-
ment and its operators subject to
fine and imprisonment as guilty OF
a miSdemeanor.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27

tinctions. 1t is the home Of Miss
issippi's greatest statesman,
John Sharp Williams for one, and
for another it is a pioneer in di-
versification. 1t was the first
county in the state to inaugurate
cooperative shipments of live
stock and particularly hogs. In
1917, County Demonstrators, w.
R. Ritch, concluded 100000 was
a goodgoal to set and Yazoo made
it, on hogs alone. For 1913 Mr..
Ritch wanted $500, 900 as a total
for hogs-and the mark was
passed with $4,000 to spare. The
prices ranged from 15Ato 1874
cents per pound. Now this year
Mr.. Ritch and the cooperating
farmers have set 100000 as the
mark to meet and they will do it,
for among it's other distinctions
Yazoo has probably the best
county demonstration agent in
Mississippi. With a hog export
ing business growing at the rate
of more than 100000 a year, no
wonder Yazoo is prosperous
county.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
KILLS BAD NEGRO
ON 4. 8 '. TRAIN
Hugh Washburn Constable ol
Brandon Shot in Self Defense

The lifeless body Of Robert
Green, well known negro dray-
man was brought back to Jackson
Sunday night and turned over to
his family.
From the best information that
could be obtained it seems that
Hugh Washburn, a deputy sheriff
of Rankin county, and also said to
be constable of Brandon, was call
ed on at the Brandon depot to
quell a disturbance that was be-
ing raised on the A. & v. west
bound train. Green was the cause
of the trouble, it is said, and when
the officer went to arrest him to
take him from the coach, he made
as if to carve him with knife.
Washburn used his pistol with
deadly effect, firing five times, it
is understood, killing the negro
instantly.
Green has been in the employ
of the Buckeye Oh Mill for some
time, as driver, it is said, and is
well known about Jackson where
he has lived for several years.
Clarion Ledger.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
SURRENDERED WARSHIP
PROBABLY BE SUNK.

While the supreme war council
has not discussed the disposition
of surrender German warEhips,
the naval experts of the council
have studied the subject, British
and American officers agreeing
that the proper solution of the
question will be to sink them in
deep water. French and Italian
officers do not take this view, and
if the experts do not soon reach
an agreement the matter may be
the supreme war council.
The British navy has captured
the greater number of ,German
vessels taken during the war and
the british delegates feel they
have a greater interest in the de-
termination of the question, and
they have the weight of the opin-
ion of American experts with
them. There are "a German war
ships, aggregating half million
tons, or an estimated buildign
cost Of $20O,OOO,OOO, at Scapa
Flow. These naval vessels cannot
be used profitably in commerce,
are too heavily engined and have
no cargo space. fact which has
been proved. It has also been
demonstrated by American wreck
ers that naval vessels cannot be
broken up at a profit.
The Italian government claims
to have broken up the famous old
battleship Duello at profit, but
no one else has been able to do so
well. The turrets and side armor
plates could not be utilized ex-
cepting at great expense, and even
the boilers and engines would be
possible to detatch the navigat-
ing instruments and much brass
work, which would be done in
any case, but the recommendation
of British and American experts
is that the hulls should be sunk.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
Boiler Of the Power Plant Explod-
es in Mobile

One man killed and seven more
or less seriously injured in the
explosion Of main boiler Of the
Mobile Electric Co. power plant
in the heart of Mobile at 8::25
o'clock Monday night. The dead
man was pinned beneath the
Wreckage Of the boiler room
which was completely wrecked,
some Of the concrete bases weigh
ing several tons being blown q
cross the street from the plant
The city is in darkness, but carr
are running.
The blast shattered every win.
dow in the district within The
block and Was felt as far as three
miles in the residence districts
Theatres in the downtown district
report that panics were narrow
" ayerted.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
A Business Proposition

The Democrat-Times has no
intention of presuming so much
as to advise the planters how to
produce cotton and corn or any
thing else, but we are willing to
go on record as abusiness fore
cast that the farmer or planter
who increases his cotton acreage
this year at the expense of acre
age to food and feed stuffs will
make a business mistake and will
be sorry next winter that he did
it. Cotton has for nearly cent
ury been the South's money crop
and when produced as the surp-
lus crop will make the producer
independent. In plain words the
farmer Or planter who produces
at home feed and food for home
consumption and then all the
cotton he can, is the successful
farmer or planter. The bank re-
cords show that the "all cotton
farmer is most always an early
and persistent borrower, while
the farmer who raises his meat
and bread and hay and oats on
the place and cotton as the sur.
plus or money crop usually has
money to his credit in the bank
Under present conditions this
record will be emphasized. And
if cotton is raised simply as the
surplus crop, the acreage will
not be sufficiently large to pro.
duce more than the world
can consume and hence prices
will be high and remunerative.
Greenville Democrat Times.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
AGRICULTURAL NOTES
BY S. v. Burks

The Star Potato Growers Asso-
ciation meet at Star Saturday
March 1st, at three o'clock P. NJ,
and all growers and co-operators
who wish to get in the association
are earnestly requested to be on
hand. Officers for this year will
be elected, and rules and regula-
tions will be adopted.
The people Of the Star commun-
ity are good co-operators and are
now getting organized 50 that the
business can be handled efficient
". The purpose Of being organiz-
ed is to be able to market the
produce in the most profitable
and desirable way. Mr.. 3. El
Muse and w. B. Price, Secretary
and President Of the association,
are doing al they can to get
things in shape for successful
year, and with the splendid CO.
operation which they get from
the many good citizens interested
there = 40 doubt but that this
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
Armenian Boy Tells of Turkish
Horrors.

Some of the horrors Of Turkish
persecution in Armenia and the
suffering brought on the coun-
tries of the Near East by the war,
which he has personally witness
ed, were told by Boya Jian, a
young Armenian Of Greenville,
South Carolina.
Il know positively Of 1000 Ar
menianswho were burned alive by
the Turks and Of 800 babies who
were scalded to death in boiling
water and their mothers forced to
eat the cooked f1esh," the earnest
young man said.
Boya jams own family, and
even he himself, has felt the eff
feet of the blows which have de-
scended upon Armenia. His
grandfather was murdered by the
Turks; his father escaped from
them into Russia and the women
were made to sufferin many ways.
The last letter I have had
from my mother" uoya Jian told,
was in January 1918, when |
heard that $50, 600 Almenians
had been massacred by the Turks
in five months. / couldn't stand
it any longer, and went back to
look for my people. It was no use.
Some of the Armenians had been
sent into exile into the Arabian
desert, and many thousands of
these died by the wayside from
hunger and exhaustion. My rel
ativeS may have been among
these"
The memoryof the Armenian
women and children impelled
Boya Jian to join in the fight a.
gainst the Hun and the Turk, and
after his return to this country
he enlisted in the American army
and served until the armistice
was signed.
He is appealing for aid for his
country. To-day Armenian,
starving, appeals to America for
help. Why? Because America is
Armeniais best friend. Ameri-
cans and Armenians have the
same God, their religion is. the
same, and the salvation Of Ar
menians' lives is possible only by
the aid of this country.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
Will Prevent the Flu.

Mr.. Harper Leech, formerly of
Memphis, now an energetic cor
respondent in Washington tells us
that we are going to have a re-
currence of the influenza next
year. We may, but we are going
to beat the "Flu" next year.
The flu caught medical men and
scientists absorbed in war dis
eases and war surgery. The flu
went on it's journey with little
medical attention. The physici-
ans simply could not get at it.
The war is over and the investi-
eating departments Of medicine
will before another IL months
have either a ~fu specific or q
preventive.
The battle between disease and
medical science is interesting
For hundreds Of years disease had
physicians on its hip. During the
last century scientific physicians
gained strength and began to
hold their own against disease
During the last 20 years physi-
clans have had the upper hand
and, given any sort of chance
they circumvent or prevent most
OF the ills that flesh is heir to.
II we were spectators we
would be willing to lay a bet that
the ravages Of influenza will al
no time during the coming genera.
ton be as great as they were last
year, and the lack Of severity 81
the disease will be due to the 40.
plication of knowledge resulting
from the discoveries and hard
work Of our physicians. CONNER.
cial Appeal.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
Freight Crashed Int q Passenger


One woman, Mrs. Charity
Thornton, of Weoguffa, Ala, was
killed and fifteen Others were
hurt in wreck on che Z. & N. r.
R. at Sylacauga, Ala, Monday
morning when Central Georgia
freight crashed into the passeng-
er. The cause of the wreck can
not be definitely stated but it
is understood that both engineers
claim they had the right way. The
passenger train was struck by the
freight, it is said as the former
was crossing the Central tracks.
Mrs. Thornton died on a train
while being taken to a Birming-
ham infirmary.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
,ear will be the best ever.

year Will be the best ever.
Last year potatoes were COM
paratively cheap, but in spite of
this fact there were several grow
ers of the Star Club who cleared
$4,000 per acre on their IRISH po-
tato crop, then made 40 bdshels
Of corn and SIS worth Of peas
on the same acre. Now this can
be done by any other man who
goes after the proposition in the
right way.
do not suggest that any person
plant a nenormous crop Of Irish
potatoes for market, but / do
know that any farmer can handle
from one-half to one acre profita-
bly, if he will follow the potatoes
with corn and peas or beans.
A good community will do more
to keep the boys at home than
good advice.
If you would like to have some
body working for you, put a little
money in the bank.
1t is to be hoped that all farm
ers interested in land terracing
and incubation Of live stock will
attend the demonstrations, and
learn to do the work as efficiently
as anyone, and thereby enable me
to reach more people and also
make the work. more educating.
At present | am unable to do only
a small part of the work that Pm
called on for as there is such a
rush in cooperative marketing
and buying, also lotssof inocula-
ton to do. Now when / go to a
community and help with one
problem it is my aim and also that
of the Department that some one
will learn to do or supervise the
same problem next time without
my assistance.
There is only one better man
than the man who gets behind
and pushes in an effort to improve
the community, and that is the
man who goes ahead and pulls.
You've got to be, citizen in or
der to vote; but you've got to do a
good deal more than vote to be a
citizen.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
OPEN N0STRlLS! END
A COLD OR CATARRH
How To Get Relief When Head
and Nose are Stuffed Up.

Count fifty!l Your cold in head
or catarrh disappears. Your clog
,ged nostrils will open, the air
passages of your head will clear
and you can breathe freely. No
more snuffiing, hawking, mucous
discharge, dryness or headache;
no struggling for breath at night.
Get small bottle Of Ely's
Cream Balm fro myour druggist
and apply a little of this fragrant
antiseptic cream in your nostrils.
It penetrates through every air
passage of the head, soothing
and healing the swollen or in
famed mucous membrane, giving
you instant relief. Head colds
and catarrh yield life magic.
Don't stay stuffed-up and miser-
able, Relief is sure,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
Notice To Club Members.


want to encourage every boy
who can to enlist in the Corn
GlEzsb aals siisas !!his year. Yon
can't afford to let such splendid
opportunities as the club boys
have pass. Send me your name and
address stating the clubs you wish
to enter, and I'll see that you get
lined up all right.
Remember that you do not have
to have a registered pig to get in
the pig club as we will have a
grade department for Rankin
county this year as we'll as a
pure bred department.
S. V. Burks,
County Agent.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
ALL BUT REGULARS TO BE
SENT HOME.
Arrangements Being Made to
Ship Them at the Rate of
100000 per month.

Washington, Feb. 25.-GeneraI
Pershing notified the war depart
ment today that divisions now in
the American expeditionary fore
es excepting those with regular
army designations" would be re.
turned to the United States in the
or the arrival of their respective
divisional headquarters in France
This was interpreted as meaning
that all divisions except the first
second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth
and seventh would be returned as
soon as shipping was available.
Combats troops not assigned to
divisions will be returned in the
order in which their services can
be spared and a similar policy
has been adopted regarding SER
vice of supply troops except that
as far as possible these also will
be returned in the order of ar
rival IN france.
General Perishing said he es-
timated the movment of troops
based on tonnage known to be
available and on the German ship
ping soon to become available as
follows: March 212,O0O; April
221,000; May 248,00O; June 207,-
900.
The General said that based on
these estimates divisions would
be returned in the following or
der:
March, 27th., 30th., 85th., S7th.,
and 91st; April 26th., 83rd.,
82nd., 35th., and 42nd. May
32nd., 28th., 33rd., 80th. and 18th ;
June-89th., GOTH, and 10th.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
Report Of Armenian Relief Chair.
man.

Armenian and Syrian Relief
Chairman, of Brandon, Mr.. w. B.
Collier, gives encouraging report
funds from the different churches
and public schools are increasing.
Mrs. g. r. Schuman, chairman of
Brandon depot division, has done
splendidly having collected near
" $1,000. Mr.. Collier thinks he
will be able to furnish full re-
port Of his work next week.
Only two communities HI Beat
2 have sent in contributions name
ly-Pearson and Andrew Chapel
We should exepct at least $500
and $1,000 from these communi-
ties. Do your dead level best.
Ask the teacher Of your public
school to take charge Of the work
and let all do their part. We
have Hebron, Mt. Carmel, Andrew
Chapel. Lucknow, Langford,
Bethel, Greenfield, Pearson and
brakes Chapel.
Reports from other beats are
too late for publication this week.
Hope to have az least 4 partial
report from each beat in the coun-
ty next week. Let's not lag in
This week
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-27
New Record For Airplane Going


What was said to be new
record for airplane travel was
established Monday at San Diego,
Col, by Col. Walter G. Kilbry,
who flew 115 miles from River
side to Rockwell Field with Mai.
Albert Smih, as a passenger in 38
minutes. The De Haviland plane
averaged 180 miles an hour. The
best previous record known is that
of Eric Springer, and Earnest
Longchamp, 172 miles an hour es-
tablished last January when they
flew from Cleveland to Dayton,
215 miles in Is minutes.