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Brandon News

Location

Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America

Date

Aug 20, 1908

Page

2

Local News From Lucedale and Shiloh Ball Team Rise

Mrs J M Murray and children visit relatives in Lucedale Mississippi. Shiloh wins its first game after two weeks of practice. The community plans an old time picnic on the asth to raise desks for the school. G P Cook, principal of Johns High, promotes the next school session.

T. H. King Charlie Chapman Montrose Miss A.A. .Murray John Tragler Shiloh G. P. Cook John’s High School

Langford Weather and Local Notes in Warm Season

Warm dry spell continues with light showers possible to refresh. Duttwiller and Easterling families visit relatives. Hattie Johnston from Mobile visits Aunt Rouse. C C Rouse enlarges store for post office. Mrs. J A Bethune recoveries from typhoid. Methodist church progress. crops fine. road work active. 12 acres of corn expected to yield 600 bushels. Walter Thomas, Y C Sheppard attend Rock Hill meeting. New Prospect sermon fourth Sunday by Rev Culpepper. dinner on the ground invited.

Mrs Miss Duttwiller Memphis Bessie Easterling Tay Rouse C. C. Rouse Jackson Hattie Easterling T. G. Sheppard Walter Thomas Rock Hill Hebron Y. C. Sheppard New Prospect S. B. Culpepper

Protracted meeting at Baptist church and local notices

Health is very good in the community with visits from Helen Dent Minnie Bell McNeil of Hinds county Wm Turcott and family Brandon visiting C A Turcott Miss Harriett Bullock of Monterey and Mrs B S Howard of Jackson staying with relatives Rosa May visits her son C B May in the delta A protracted meeting continues at the Baptist church with Bro Simmon delivering sermons Miss Margaret May died Friday after a protracted typhoid illness and was laid to rest Saturday in the family graveyard Weep not mother and siblings we cannot call her back but find solace in the beautiful home above W L Manning and wife of D Lo visited relatives here last week

Helen Dent Minnie Bell McNeil Hinds County A. G. Baker’s Wm. Turcott Harris Brandon C. A. Turcotts Rosa May C. B. May Delta Baptist Church Bro. Simmons Margaret May Margeret W. W. Williams Jackson Monterey Greenfield Mary Webb Mrs. Taylor Mt. Carmel Corinne Kearney Flora D. W. Webb Ella Womack Thomasville J.J. Covington East Rankin Concord Farmers’ Union

Monterey notes and church events prompt local work

In Monterey the community reports a good quarterly conference with Dr. Watkins preaching and sixteen baptisms. Mrs Ida Jones of Jackson visited relatives, W. W. Williams sold cotton in Jackson, and plans to build a warehouse at Florence move ahead as contracts and lumber orders are placed.

Fannin Dilemma Over School District Tax and Local Happenings

Fannin struggles with school district policy as property owners debate the tax needed for a separate district. The community shows effort with schoolhouse improvements and plans for a new teacher. Notables like Sanderson move away, Latham to occupy his home, while Miss Jemmie Ellis joins a Pisgah meeting. The Allen family hosts a large dinner with music and jokes, and Grandmother Allen completes a state fair knit lace table cover. A. Ace chaperones Jackson youth. Rankin becomes a summer resort as F. W. Rather visits old friends and pupils. C. E. Klinker from Jackson also visits.

Fannin Hill Allem

Sunday Notes From Jas A Speer and Neighbors

The column records Mrs. Jennie King recovering after illness and visits by Tom Gray and daughters from Pelahatchie. It lists Miss Mary Webb from Monterey as a guest of Miss Mary Speer, church visits by Misses Susie Buchanan and Beedie Darnall, and relatives of Yazoo City and Monterey visiting. It shares church meeting outcomes at Mt. Carmel led by Rev. J. A. Alford, plus a quoted exchange on religion. It also contains a long excerpt praising forestry, European science, and a Lincoln County girl advising Kansas City Star readers to work and save, urging youths away from loafing and toward employment.

Mary Webb Monterey Mary Speer Mr. Smith Centenary College Cleveland Tenn Susie Jennette Buchanan Beedie Darnall Brandon Dick Wilson Yazoo City W. D. Taylor Mesdames Caine Jones Mollie Williams Mr. Marshall Patrick Mt. Carmel Church J. A. Alford Lincoln County Kansas City

Poultry Expert Advises Home Remedies for Epidemics

Mr Otto Barth an incubator maker and experienced poultry man advises on preventing fowl epidemics. He recommends cleaning houses two to three times weekly, weekly sulfur fumigation, burning sulphur with live coals, then airing for an hour. Keep dust, litter, grit, bone, charcoal and clean drinking water available and vessels scalded. Ensure dry well ventilated quarters and proper feeding to avoid outbreaks.

Otto. Barth

Notice of Trustee Sale in Rankin County Mississippi

Trustee H M Quinn will sell at public auction for cash the east half of the northwest quarter section 3, township 5 north range 4 east, containing 80 acres more or less, in Rankin County Mississippi. The sale is under a deed of trust from F R Adams and G E Adams to Security Trust and Banking Company dated March 5 1907 recorded in book Lb 75 in the chancery clerk's office Brandon. Sale date September 3 1908 at courthouse door during legal hours.

H. M. Quinn F. R. Adams G. E. Adams Security Trust & Banking Company Chancery Clerk’s Rankin County Mississippi Court House Brandon Rankincourey Science Quinn

Pelahatchie to Issue Six Thousand Dollar Town Bonds

Notice by the Pelahatchie board of mayor and aldermen of intent to issue six thousand dollars in bonds at six percent interest, payable semiannually, to replace prior school bonds for the public school building and annex. Bond approval depends on twenty percent of eligible taxpayers petitioning against the issue. Public notice published in Brandom News for three weeks.

Pelahatchie Brandom News Sgog Onsale Seaberane Agaipet

Mississippi chancery command to appear before Rankin court

State of Mississippi to Charlie Mor an, the defendant, you are commanded to appear before the chancery court in Rankin County on a specified date in 1998. The notice references a Saral codaea defendant and is signed by the clerk of court for Com.

State of Mississippi Charlie Moran Chancery Court Cave of Rankin A. D Saral Codaea Nora Gayden Blerte

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