The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-06-30

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ceeds will be usedsto buy sona
books for the church. Girls and
ladies' bring boxes for all are in
lterested.
John B. Darnall, who has been
conducting the Geo. 7. Darnall
grocery business during the lat.
ter's illness of four weeks left for
his home in Brandon this morning
where he operates hotel. Du-
ring his stay here Mr.. Darnall fell
in love with the people and city,
and when he gets in position to
buy beach home will move to
Gulfport, he stated. Mr.. Darnall
is q young man with cordial man
ner and made friends while here.
Gulfport Herald.
]. H. Grain, of Wilson, Ark,
came in yesterday to spend the
week with Mrs. Grain and the
children, who are visiting Bran
don relatives and friends. Mr..
Grain reports splendid prospects
for cotton in Mississippi county,
Ark, one of the best cotton coun-
ties i'm the cotton belt. The boil
weevil has never infested that
section, and cotton makes bale
to the acre.
F. R. Ziller, of Meridian, has
rented the Buchanan lot ON the
west side of the public square and
is having large bill boards erect
ed, which will carry the adver-
ptisements of many of the leading
and popular products Of the coun-
try. Mr.. Ziller operates one of the
largest bill posting establish
ments in the south, having them
in nearly every town and on every
prominent highway in the Miss
issippi and Alabama.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Rodgers, of
900 West Capitol street, are the
proud parents Of dainty little
daughter whom they have called
Eta Alethia. The young mother
wasbefore her marriage, Miss Ell
ia May, of Brandon, and many
friends are congratulating her and
Mr.. Rodgers upon their new found
happiness. The mother and
daughter are at the Jackson San
atorium where they are being
showered with beautiful flowers
and other tokens of interest
Jackson News.
Mr. and Mrs. H. c. Washburn
and little neices, Misses Mayne
and Jean Myers, motored over to
Union, in Newton county, Tuesday
and visited friends, returning
home yesterday afternoon. They
were accompanied by Mr.. Estes,
who has been under medical reat-
ment at jackson for several
weeks. Mr.. Estes suffered a stroke
of paralysis some time ago, which
destroyed his speech, and it was
hoped that electrical treatments
would restore it, but his condition
did not improve. His home is at
Union.
Nearly every evening, just about
dark, an acrobatic performance is
staged on the electric wires on the
public square that affords much
amusements to those who gather
to witness it. The performers are
big rats that come out of the pow
er house and climb the electric
light poles to the wires and them
proceed on the wires to the pub
lie square, where the performance
takes place. They go as far as the
postoffice, and play in the shade
trees near the bank. This uau-
sual stunt on the part Of the ro-
dents was first noticed by one OF
our prominent citizens, who did
not say anything about it for sew
eral evenings, as he had just re-
turned from a weeks fishing trip,
and was al little timid about it,
fearing that he might be the only
one who could see rats on the
wires. He stood it for several
evenings, and finally approached
q sympathetic friend and told him
he was seeing rats on the electric
wires, and wanted him to go and
see them. At first the friend adj
vised him to take q nap, and he
would feel better, but but persist
ing they went together and sure
enough they both saw the same
thing, when the attention Of 9th
ers was called to it, and the fact
was verified by all present,
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