The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-05-06
TABOR TELLS OF HIS VISIT TO
BRANDON

In the Earlvile Leader last week. E.
b. Tabor, who was q recent visitor to
Brandon. has the following to say with
reference to his stay In Brandon:
I'VE arrived at Brandon at about O.
clock. Brandon is II miles east Of Jack
son. the state capital, and was the home
of the Tabor family for something over
nine years just previous to coming to
sArlville nearly twenty years ago. Here
we met Mr.. Town again who had come
over from Vicksburg. arriving at the
Same Time. Brandon is the home of Mr..
and Mrs. G. c. Sprague. who visited here
some time last fall. and 1t was to their
home we went that evening.
In Brandon we met so many of the
old frineds and received such a hearty
welcome that it Is impossible to mention
all the names of friends of other days
Here we visited for q full day, putting
every minute to good advantage and with
great pleasure, for II you ever lived In a
southern community. you have some iuea
OF how good the people can be to you. We
found things changed very much. The
town itself Is not much larger for 1t has
suffered from two bad fires since we
visited 1t nine years ago. A few new
homes have been built. but 1t was no.
tfceable that the old p.ank sidewalks
have given way to a system of cement
walks which covered the entire town
Twenty-fOur hour electric service had
also taken the place of earlier and more
crude lighting systems and q system of
'
or beat as they call 1t down there, has
Just voted something over 500, 600 for per-
manent roads and a meeting was held
the day we were there to talk about
building new and modern school house
to cost not less than So. 900 on a beautiful
old campus that has been a school site.
for three-Quarters OF a century. Twenty
nve years ago 1t was not even thought
that there was any timber near the town
good eonugh for lumber, but now the
whistles of at least dozen sawmills can
be heard morning, noon and night Two
big mills are located right near the de-
pot. which Is over mile from town.
Breaking away from friends in town
Tor half an hour or more, we went over
east half a mile to call on Mrs G. r.
Martin. widow OF the late Chas. T.. Mar
TIN. who formerly lived on the Duncan
Dunn place In Freedom and who went to
Iowa In the early '7O's and to Mississippi
about 1892 She Is en- aunt of Willis A.
Martin, cashier OF the First National
Bank. of Earlville. Her husband died
q few years ago. but the family still
lives In Brandon. We also stopped to call
on Mrs. J. L. McCaskill, who lives in the
mousse which was occupied by Gen. Sher-
man when he made his march from Jack
son across the state to Meridian.
The south Is enjoying & season Of
WONDERFUL prosperity ana her people are
coming into their own. Land has doubled
and trebled In value In the past few
years. Around the old town OF Brandon
making farm homes on the lands that ara
cheaper In price than in the states farth-
Ser north And the people down there are
entitled to all the good things that may
come 6ra co their way for they are mighty
US during our stay in that section.
Leaving. Brandon Tuesday afternoon
We got to Jackson just three minutes be-
Tore the Panama Limited for Chicago
was due. Mr.. Town continued his Jour
ney westward. bound for another ston In
louisiana and then. we believe, to Texas
POintS Chicago was reached at 1890
Wednesday and home on "Bflly's train
after e.,';,. week very pleasantly and rest
I'VE said we could not name all the
friends W saw Mt Brandon but there
We're the SpraGues. DIR. McLaurin and
Mr. and Mrs. s. L. McIaurin. Maj. Pat
Bob Maxey and daughter. Miss THY.
NJ. and Mrs. A. N. Shields, Mr.. and
Mrs.. Il. L. Shields. Postmaster Bob
Burns and wife, Editor Wayne May and
Gayden Bros. A. q. Thornton. the sJ BIZ.
SICK boys. who have succeeded to the big
mercantile business: Will Owens and
family, who were Yankees with "a
when we lived there. Mrs. Lillian Shields.
Henry Barnes and Sam Stubblefieid and
Jim Shields who had brought to town
dozen Quarts or moro OF f1ne straWber-
res q his own raising. and Representa-
Tvs 0ul. NobertSs And Tom COttrell and
Hugh Washburn and Dave Gayden ana
vie. and his mother and Gus Norris ana
Juogo Anse AcIlaur1n, who Is following
ln the footsteps Of his able father. Who
qieo while serving his state as United
states senator: and there were others.
put memory does not recall their names
just now.
And = Jackson We stopped at the san-
itar1um to go III. i 4. B. Berry, who Is
g patient SUFFERING from breakdown
because Of OverW6rk. and who has Wit
ted ~ twice "A Earlville. Oh, W had 4
9ood time al right. and hops 20 eee those
folks again some day"