The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-03-10

An Arkansas editor stated in
his paper that il a certain old man
didn't quit trying to fiirt with the
ladies Of that town that he would
print his name in the paper. The
next day after publication, TWEEN
ty-tWo men came into his Office,
paid up several years arrears and
a couple Of years in advance and
told the editor not to believe every
thing he heard.
Brandon relatives and friends
of Harvey Watson, formerly of
this place, have received the fol-
lowing interesting announcement /:
Mrs. Margaret A. Thorp an
nounces the marriage Of her
daughter, Lena Victoria, to Mr..
Louis Harvey Watson, on Monday,
February twenty-eighth, nineteen
hundred and twenty-one, Wash
ington, D. G. At home after March
the tenth, 1926 West Main Street,
Richmond, Virginia"
While attending the picture
show Finkbine Lumber Camp Sat-
urday night, John Grain, Jr., lost
his mule. John drove out to the
camp, and left his mule hitched to
| his buggy. After the show was
over he discovered that his mule
had been unhitched and gone.
Early Sunday morning. he got
trace of the missing animal and
found that it had beed ridden to
| Jackson by negro. After reach
ing the city, the mule was turned
loose, and was on his way home
when John found it.
The News wants every farmer
in Rankin county to study closely
the cotton cartoon printed on the
first page of the paper this week
Cut it out and paste it where you
can see it every day for the next
three months. 1t will be worth to
YOU many times the subscription
price of this paper. We already
have enough cotton on hand to
last for two years, and it will be
down right stupidity for farmers
to keep heaping up Surplus that
cannot be sold perhaps at all.
In a recent issue of The News
| it was stated upon what we con-
sidered good authority, that la
dies would be assessed with com
mutation road tax, but this seems
| to be an error. as we are informed
by Assessor Ward that so far as
he can learn, the law does not
contemplate this measure, and nc
.~oyision was made for it by the
state tax commission in prepar-
ing the assessments blanks. The
women. therefore. will not be as
sessed with road tax, but they
will be assessed with poll tax
which they will be liable fol-
whether they register and vote OF
not.
/ Sheriff Harrison is thorn in
the side of the illicit distillers
and retailers. He has an eye as
keen as an eagles. and can just
look at a fellow and read his in
| tentions. He picked up a couple
of colored fellows on the street.;
Saturday who were just in the act
of filling their bottles for a sale
When questioned as to what they
were doing with bottles in theil
pockets, they said they were hunt
ing for gasoline. Mr.. Harrison
will have more time from the
Office from now on and he will
keep keen watchout for the deal.
ers in white tightening, and will
make it intensely interesting fol
them.
| Well and truly has it been sait
! that the Holy Bible has the an
swer for every conceivable ques
ton, says an exchange. Yester
day evening a couple of gentle
men engaged in discussion O
weather conditions and beginning
of spring. Attention was called
to the fact that the fig trees arr
putting forth leaves, and one o.
the gentlemen said that the Holy
Bible was his authority for thu
statement that when the fig tres
1. nut forth leaves we know tina
summer is nigh. His Statement
was predicated on Matt. xxiv:32
viz: "Now learn a parable of thu
fig tree; when his branches is We
tender and putteth forth leaves
We know that summer is nigh
! Practically the same statement i.
made in Mark xii :28, and Luke
xxi:30. The fig trees have beer
putting forth leaves for severa
days, other trees, plants ant
lshrubs have taken start to pre-
j sent signs of spring, and the chi
naberry trees, said to be another
sure sign Of the end Of winter, 81
far as snow and ice are concerned
hs,, presented it's signs on almos
every limb, though everybody is
| willing to concede there is chance