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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11
the middle Of his cotton rocs when
when Ilt lays it by.
DOBSON

(By j.. u. McOOnalQ.
The farmers are very busy this
week and old Beck is playing her
part.
The crops are growing rapidly,
many of the farmers are working
their corn and getting ready to
work the cotton, as the corn holds
an important place in the crops 1t
is being worked carefully.
Rev. Al E. Terrell titled his
regular appointment Saturday and
Sunday here at. Rock Hill at the
Baptist church.
The young people organized the
B. Y. P. u. Sunday.
Arthur Mayors of Star paid
shis neighborhood visit Sunday.
w. L. Barnett and ]. M. Grain,
contractors with the w. G. Lumber
Co., made a business trip TO Bell
Pine Saturday.
Russell Nav made a business trlI
to Brandon Saturday.
j. M. Grain delivered nice
Load of cabbage at Finkbine lum-
Der camps. Some of the cabbage
weighed eight pounds.
Finkbine lumber camps, two
miles below here ilse a fine place
for peddlers and sightseers.
Mrs. Cecil Ford mas recovered
from a few days illness.
Mrs. T.. N. Paddock has returned
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11


home after /. visit with her fela-
tiveS.
DR.. J. r. Myers and family. also
Mrs. Annie s. Myers made trip
to Brandon Monday.
Mrs. Joe Myers and son made
q business trip to Brandon Mon
day.
w. L. Barnett lis on the sick list.
w. f. Miller made his regular
trip to FinkDine camps Saturday.
Mrs. Rosa May and granddau.-
ghter, Annie, visited Mr.. Russell
May one day this week.
Little Miss Xynena May is visit
ing her aunt Mrs. M. I. Barnett.
Two negroes met in the street
the other day and carried on this
conversation: Ha, dare nlr
Amt you gona pay me?
I amt said amt. ],
amt AK is you amt. | axed
you ain you is.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11
Bankers and Merchants

The Bankers g. Merchants Fire
Insurance Company made greater
nrogress during the past week In
every department than Tor any
week since its organization.
Secret ~ S3urs announced tnat
Owen = Palmer, of Gulfport, one
of the best posted insurance men
in the state, has accepted the posi-
tion of special agent. He Will ar
rive in Jackson Monday morning,
familiariZe himself with the opera
ton of the Bankers x Merchants,
Fire Insurance Company, ana
Immediately enter upon his duties.
Mr.. Palmer was for several
wears special agent in this, state,
during which time he visited every
county making rates and personal
investigations of all property IN
which his people were interested.
For some time he has been q
member of the insurance firm OF
Merger & Palmer, local agents,
Gulfport, which is recognized as
one of The leading agencies III the
state.
1t is very gratifying to the stock
holders Of the Bankers Il Mer-
chants Fire Insurance Company to
know that The business has devel-
oped to such an extent as to make
a special agent necessary, and IT -
particularly gratifying that this
company has been SO fortunate as
to secure the services OF. Mr.. Pal
mer for this important place.
Reinsurance Facilities
Another verv important develop
ment of the Bankers & Merchants
Fine Insurance Company during
the past week is the fact that this
company has made very valuable
reinsurance connection with the
Greensboro Fire Insurance Com
panv, the George Washington Fire
Insurance Company and the Pilot
Fire Insurance Company, OF
Greensboro, North Carolina, all OF
which are stock fire insurance
companies and have been doing
business for many years.
With these additional facilities,
this company will be able to mater
ially increase its volume of bust
ness. This company is doing every
thing it can to build up it's lines so
that by taking care of the business
Offered it may be able to serve to
the best advantage both the agents
and the insuring public.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11
NUDGE G. C. TAM

Inanother colum of this weeks
paper vii be found the announce
ment of the candidacy of Judge
G. G. Tam for reelection as
indqe OF the Chancery court for
The second judicial district.
It is a pleasure for US to re-
commend to our readers the cleo
fion OF so able man as Judge
Taan. He has served two terms
and during all that tim we nave
vet to hear a derogatory WORD
spollen of his honesty, sobrlety
and allround usefulness.
Mississippi needs just such men
a Judge Tam to administer the
laws on our statue boks and we
wish for him every success IN
his Forthcoming race.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11
PEARSONS

Judge Ben F Stacy one of the
oldest residents of PearSons, but
who has been residing with his
daughter at Rolling Fork Miss. is
visiting this week among his fri
ends here. The Judge says that he
came through forty miles of water
TO get to Vicksburg and that the
hills look mighty good to him.
Mrs. Gladis Holm. accompanied
by pretty little Mary Allis joined
her husband for few days stay
in Vicksburg this week.
Mrs. j. r. Webster had the pie
assure of entertaining her. co-wor-
kers Prof. Middleton, and Prof.
Russell of The Jefferson County
Agricultural College. These disti-
nguished teachers were attending
the State Teachers Association,
and it was happy coincident
Webster could have them with her
in her home here.
Rev. Wood of Clinton filled his
regular appointment at the Babp-
fist Church Sunday.
Mrs. Dollie Dennis of Lake is
spending The week with homef0lks
here Mr.. and Mrs. Morrison.
Some of the prettiest flocks of
chickens any where to be found is
here at Pearsons. The Maxwells,
Douthitts, Vanhorns, and Hagans
are making a success of it from a
commercial standpoint. The pref
erence seems to lie between the
Rhode Island Reds, and the White
Leghorn.
The Friends of Mr.. Meady Pie
rec and wife are glad to see them
able to be around again after their
collision with an auto on Pearl
River bridge not long since. These
good people were able to attend
The Gypsy Smith Meeting in Jack
son Sunday.
Several fishing parties, some
from the city tryed their luck with
the finny tribe in the waters of the
Magestick Richland. Some had
excellent luck, but report snakes
more numerous, and vicious than
they had ever seen before.
There has ben notices here of
late a strange species of bird. deep
blue in colour, but smaller than
our native blue bird. This bird is
gregarious in habit. Judge Fisher
who is a recognized authority on
ORTHODOXY says that this bird has
evidently migrated here from
same foreign cline and evidently
have come TO stay as they brought
their wives with them.
The farmers in=this vicinity raj
sed more peas last year than for
several years before and are so
well pleased with the results that
they will plant peas every where
and in every thing this year. One
farmer says he will plant peas in
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11
THE BRANDON NEWS. THURDAY, NAY Ii 1922


Jack'.gai.- and afterWarfl spent the
week end with homcfolks.
mir. and Mrs. Virgil Everett and
Interesting little sons, were visl-
tors in The home of Mrs. K. r.
Patrick Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Walters Jr.
visited Mrs. Walters parents Sun
day.
Misses Alma and Rochel Walters
attended the State Teachers As
ISOLATION al Jackson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch Huff were
visitors in the home Of Mr.. George
Huff Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. r. e. Patrick has returned
home after visiting her daughter
Mrs. Lamar Mobiles of Jackson.
Prof. M. w. Steen Of Star our
former teacher visited relatives
and friends here last week.
Mr.. Gale Jones a. prominent
young man of Johns, made trip
up the road towards Mosely Sun
uay
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11
NOTICE

70 Those expecting to take college
Entrance Examinations at johns
On May 18th.
!. Begin at $3.50 A. M. Each ap
plicant must furnish his own
paper, ruler, and compass.
!. Get from each applicant his
name, address, and school COM
plete.
!. Ask for the regular uniform
college entrance certificate
signed by applicants princi-
bal. If such Certificate is not
presented, permit applicant
to take examinations but in
form him that he papers will
not be graded until such GER
tificate is sent to I'll. M. Ivy,
State Supervisor on High
Schools, Jackson. Miss.
. Collect a fee Of soc from each
applicant. This fee is to pay
for postage and other expen-
ses of the examination.
!. Each applicant must take
three examinations. Passing
all cf them will validate the
three credits claimed on the
certificate up to fifteen units.
/. The English paper should be
written in ink, the others may
be pencil.
Two hours is the maximum
time to be permitted on any
examination.
!. The applicant must write his
name and address on each
sheet.
/. TIE examiner will send all pa
pers and return all questions
to H. M. Ivy, Jackson, Miss,
and remit fees collected after
deducting return charges.
Yours very truly,
Ii ID Do Wis n q 10
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11

the estate of A. G. McLaurin, de-
ceased, and all persons having
claims against said estate are re-
CURED to have the same probated
and registered before the Clerk
of said Court within six months
from this date. A failure to pro-
bats and register any claim for
six months will bar the claim.
Sidney L. McLaurin, Jr., Exc
cut0r.
Brandon. Miss. April 81, 1922.
Nav a, 11,18,25.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE OF 9Th
DISTRICT
Judge G. E. Wilson
Subject to the Democratic pri-
mary.
9 II lCorl RaunnIl

S. II. (Sam) Bagnell,
Present Sheriff of Claiborne Coun-
ty, Candidate for Insurance Com.
missioner, subject to action OF
the Democratic party.
| ask your consideration. Your
vote and influence solicited.
If elected | will be active in the
of the duties of the Of
flee.
V ote tt Pro m o e.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11
ANTIOCH

Our Sunday School is progress
ing nicely. We hope to continue
with a good attendance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lamar Mobiles of
Jackson, are the proud parents OF
fine little girl, born April 23d.
Mrs. Mobiles will be remembered as
Miss Edith Patrick Of Antioch. !.
Miss Lola Summers who is atten-
ding school at the State Normal
College of HatGiesburg, attended
the State Teachers Association at
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11
STRAYEn

From Finkbine Lumber Co.,
Turpentine Camp near Pickett,
Miss, One sorrel Mule weight
about 900 pounds. Last seen April
1922. Finder will please notify me
at New Camps.
Yours Respty.
Finkbine Lbr, Co., Tuprentine
Dept, H. B. Wadsworth, Supt.
May II, IS.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11
G. C. Tam

The Brandon News is authori-
zed to announce that G. G. Tam is
candidate for reelection as
Judge of the Chancery Court of the
Second Judicial District. Subject
to the action of the Democratic
primary.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate Of
A. G. McLaurin, deceased.
Chancery Court,
Rankin County,

State OF MISSISSIPPI.
Notice is hereby given that on
the 13 day Of February, 1922, the
undersigned Sidney L. McLaurin,
Jr., was appointed by the Chan
Gerry Court of Rankin County,
state Of Mississippi, executor OF
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11
POSTED

Sections Is, 9 and all other hold
ings belonging to me in T. 6, K. z,
Rankin County, against hunting,
fishing or otherwise trespasslng.
NAV 4, II, 18p. J. F. JONES.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-05-11
THE BRANDON NEWS
Published every Thursday by
THE BRANDON NEWS co.

Entered as second class mail
matter in the postoffice at Bran
don, Mississippi.
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
What Happened DmingHasRo1icemans 80 Year

LMOST every one knows Craig
n Kennedy. sometimes called the
scientific detective" Not so many
know Charles Flood, otherwise Patrol
man Flood, of the great Metropolitan
Police. Yet all who know Mr.. Kennedy.
who brings to his solution of battling
crimes all the resources of modern science,
ought also to know Mr.. Flood-for
Patrloman Flood Joined the "Finest' al
most fifty years ago, when Mr. Kennedy'S
science, had he possessed it then, would
have landed him in an asylum for the in
sane. For Patr0lnan Flood must have
many memories of those police days fifty
years ago which would vastly amuse the
admirers of Mr.. Kennedy
Flood can remember the days when
crime wasn't often furnished unless some
one saw the criminal commit the deed
and caught him before he could get away.
Mr.. Kennedy is the symbol of to-day's
methods, when the police are not worried
at all by a criminals escape They have
countless sciences to fall back upon in
picking up the trail. PatroInan Flood
has witnessed the metamorphoMs.
We have had our attention called to
PatroIman Flood by the announcement
that ne has just made his first arrest
after almost fifty years! And his sudden
fame for most unpolicemanlike conserve
f,sm reminds us that Arthur B. Reeve.
tine creator of Mr.. Kennedy. might draw
an interesting comparison of these scien-
tIHc PONCE times to the days when Patrof-
man FIood Joined the force.
The New York herald., 1922-04-02

DR.. Waite left all kinds of discriminating
of scientific murder by germs and drugs.
In the end he resorted to the very un-
scientific arsenic. Moreover. at feigning
insanity he was poor. The priest Schmidt,
who preceded him, had the advantage of
having studied bit of psychiatry. AS a
scientific malingerer he was much better.
Yet with all the science and organization
some mysteries are not solved to-day much
better than half century ago. The Elwell
case still crops up in the news, unsolved.
The unfinished Taylor case in Los Angeles
is hardly yet cold.
Which leads to another thought. The
best way to defeat science is not by science.
The criminal who strikes in the dark with
a blackjack or gun-and beats it-he Ia
safest. There is no scientific circumstan-
tial evidence to betray him, Just blow
and flight.
The cave man style of crime is coming
in again.
So am led to take my gun in hand and
give little scientific psychoanalytic study
OF our wave of crime.
Speaking of this wave of crime, accord
ing to AttorneyGeneral Daugherty there
are 142,500 cases pending in the Federal
courts. Forty per cent. are criminal cases,
and prohibition cases furnish the largest
single class in this proup
Since 1912, in ten years, there has been
an 500 per cent increase in criminal cases
in Federal courts.
Last year there were 55,516 convictions
in New York State, against 4O,6S1 in 1920.
Fifteen thousand more convictions in a
year.
Liquor plays the star part in this crime
drama, an increase of 100 per cent in con-
victions over 1920.
Mr. Haynes tells us that 1880 900 peo-
pie have quit drinking in two years. He
does not say how many have taken IL up
because IL had become fashionable.
Then the American Bar Association says
that national welfare demands "a remedy
for the rising crime wave."
The first thing will be to find remedy
for the greatest OF all scientific schools OF
crime the bootlegging business. Bootleg
ging offers a profession In which millions
can be made.
The twentieth century organization OF
rum runners uses airplanes speed boats,
racing automobiles-even torpedoes. 10 Is
said. in the Detroit River-possibly will
use the submarine next.
That 10 scientific warfare. Airrlane
The New York herald., 1922-04-02

on the streets and look about for the
policeman, with further instructions to
keep going down town on his search until,
IL no policeman were sighted, he had
reached police headquarters where the
chief was
The stable boy probably would have run
across Patrolman Flood, for any OF the
small boys playing in the street would
have been able to direct him to where Mr.
Flood, in his bright new uniform, had last
been seen The patrolman would have hur-
ried to the Harrington home. There he
would find Mr.. Harrington's body removed
to the spare bedroom, the maid servant
already having thoroughly removed with
scrub brush and broom, and tidying hand
all traces OF the disorder I'M the library
which had been left behind by the mur-
derer.
Having asked a number OF questions,
such as:
did any OF you see the crime?
did any one see the murderer?
Are there any servants missing?
did the slayer leave behind his pistol.
or his shotgun"
the patrolman would leave the house
hurriedly, after thoroughly searching the
outhouses, the barn, the upstairs and the
cellar, and go as fast as he could, by horse
car or, perhaps, driven by the stable boy
In the Harrington carriage, to headquar-
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
How Old Timers Would
Handle Murder Mystery

But that was about all there was OK
crime in those days-that is serious crime
Burglaries and murders. There we're no
big murder mysteries as We understand
them to-day, for the simple reason that
almost every murder was mystery, un-
less the culprit was caught in the act or
left behind such definite clews that he
could not escape being arrested.
Let us. still in retrospect, suppose that
Mr. William Harrington. banker, member
of family distinguished in his COM
munity, himself a prominent figure In
local affairs and of some Importance ma
tionally, had been murdered on Patrolman
Floods beat the day after Mr.. Flood
Joined the force.
Perhaps Mr.. and Mrs Harrington's maid
servant or their stable man entering the
library in the Harrington home was
startled to see the master on the library
floor, his inert form still warm. The
maid servant probably would have gone
into Mysteries, but the man servant who
had perhaps driven Mr.. Harrington to his
office in the two horse carriage every day
for years, would promptly set about CIV
ing the alarm.
II Mrs. Harrington we're at home he
would have called his mistress. Mrs. Har-
rington, even in the emotion OF her first
shock, would have run next door to the
neighbor, Mr.. Smith, and would have
called upon him for help. Mr.. Smith would
have first instructed the stable man to go
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
Prove Crime by Process
OF Negative Elimination

Actually their only hope would have
been to find on the streets or in some Of the
city dives men who looked like murderers
and from among them find one or two who
couldn't prove they we're innocent. This
much accomplished they would have been
fairly started on their hunt. Probably,
though, in the end they would have for
The New York herald., 1922-04-02

must fight airplane. Rum chasers must
run down rum runners. Like must catch
like.
Now things were not so much different
forty-seven years ago when New York's
Patrolman Flood joined the police force.
In retrospect, of course, they do not look
much different.
There were just as many murders, no
doubt, but we did not hear so much about
them-nor of as many Of them. 1t was
possible in those days to kill a man and
hide his body. There were just as many
burglaries, probably, but we didn't hear
of so many. Many home holders knew
1t was almost hopeless-the catching of
the thieves and the recovery OF their
loot, so they didn't bother about walk
ing over to the station, where the chief
of police had his office, to make COM
plant
The New York herald., 1922-04-02

chief and would have received instructions
to go back at once and repeat his search:
to recover anything the slayer might have
left behind, such as a glove or handker-
chief, or. perhaps, his cane or hat
One OF the chiefs closest officers would
accompany the patrolman and. after con-
doling with the family and again ques-
tioning the servants and himself search
ing the house, this high official would
have returned to headquarters, there to
initiate the man hunt.
Clerks at headquarters would be put
busy at once embodying in terse tele-
grams news of the murder and the re-
quest that all police officials near the
city keep lookout for any suspicious
person. These would be promptly sent
out to nearby cities. The same clerks
then would write longer letters by hand
to the chiefs of police in the nearby
cities, giving whatever additional informa-
ton their superiors could give them.
III LHG HedHtiIHt the 1bTbutI WOuiu uIlNt
hurriedly to the Harrington home and
would officially pronounce Mr.. Harrington
not only dead but murdered by some per-
son or persons unknown"
Before arriving at this conclusion the
Coroner would again question all members
and attaches of the Harrington family. en-
faithfully to learn II there we're
any enemies OF the banker who had made
threats against his life; IL there had been a
of important papers; If there were
signs when the body was discovered OF
there having been an alteration, or
struggle, denoting that the slayer had been
an intercepted burglar.
After all OF these procedures the police
would have been as well equipped - they
possibly could he to begin their searc= for
the criminal
The New York herald., 1922-04-02


therefore even if they had captured him he
could not have been identified. That is,
of course, unless some one had made
threats which the other members of the
family could recall, thus giving the police
of that day a real clew right at the begin.
ming.
But let us speculate upon the same stu
alton occurring to-day.
The maid servant or the chauffeur would
first, upon discovery of the masters body,
rush to the telephone and call the gem
orally known number which, especially at
tended to by all telephone operators.
would give them at once the switchboard
at police adquarters-perhaps miles
away.
To the operator on the switchboard. un-
doubtedly, either one OF the servants MAX
ing the call, or even Mrs. Harrington her
self would cryout:
There has been a murder"
Before the voice could speak another
syllable the keen young man at the police
switchboard would plug in on the private
wire of the Homicide Bureau. The rest
OF the sentence would be heard, almost
without a break. by the operator there.
This operator would signal instantly for
the attention of the officer then in charge
OF the Homicide Bureau, meantime asking
quick, staccato questions:
what IS the name? What Is the adj
dress? Where is the body now? Are you
sure death has arrived or does there seem
to still be life?"
BY this time the officer in charge of the
bureau will be on the wire and his COM
manding, businesslike voice will break In
and take up the dialogue. His commands
will be brief:
Keep every one but q physician or i'm
mediate member Of the family out OF the
room. DO not touch the body until a rep
resentative OF the Homicide Department
arrives. DO not touch the walls the wood
work, the window glass or disturb any
article on the tables or on the floor or
mantelpiece II there is weapon left by
the murderer do not pick IL up: leave II
where II Is. The authorities will be there
in q minute"
Even while this officer Is giving his
orders 10 the distracted members Of the
Continued on Tioelfth Page.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-17
HURT IN COLLIsIoN

Walter RagsdaIe was slightly hurt early Saturday afternoon when a truck which he was driving collided with an automobile at the intersec- tion of First avenue and Second street. MT. Ragsdale was removed to his home and 1t Is no tconsidered that his injuries are serious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-17
MANUFACTURERS LISTED "UNFRlENDLY" BY LEGION
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU l
 THE AGE-HERALD Montgomery, Ala. Dec. 16

The Alabama Manufacturers asso- citation was listed among the 'un- friendly" by the American Legion of Alabama in a communication dis patched today to all posts of the state by Gen. R. E. Steiner. commander, and J. T. Laurie, adjutant of the de- partment of Alabama. The decision to place this organization of promi- nent manufacturers and business men in the list of those not favoring the organization of soldiers and sailors resulted from the adoption of reso- lution last week commenting Presi- dent Harding for his veto of the sol dier bonus bill.
 The communication to the local posts contained the following quota tion from a Birmingham newspaper: "President Harding was commended for his veto of the soldier bonus bill. which was characterized as a politi- cal engineering expedient.'
 In placing the association among the unfriendly the letter to the local hosts continued: The deparment commander presumes that the above account Is correct as he has seen nc denial of it and regrets that the Ala bama Manufacturers association has placed itself in opposition to the req sonable demand of the legion, and in characterizing this demand in the language above, Is difficult to con- strue this action otherwise than as unfriendly."