13 Dec 1917
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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1917
Page
1
East bound and west bound passenger trains timetabled with departure and arrival points. Schedule lists standard daily routes and times for local service, noting station stops and operating patterns across the timetable page.
Local items report H L Shields sick. Sallie Shields visiting New Orleans. Mr. and Mrs. Stingily to move. Ruth Cox and Vernon Pace wed at Lake Mississippi. officers assigned to Texas posts. Cavalry and infantry duty updates. cold weather grips region. St Luke's Guild Bazaar December 15. Annie Robinson praising Washington post. Odom announces big December sale in Star. Red Cross Christmas drive for Rankin County seeks 2154 members December 17 to 25 under J A Lindsey as campaign manager.
L C Jones of Piney Woods Country Life School Braxton Mississippi seeks 500 heart pine fence posts for sale or trade. Also offering 84 Jersey heifers calves about a year old from registered Jersey Jinks and a Tamworth boar from Virginia.
Severe weather lingers in Florence area since last Friday. A little 8 year old boy died after clothing ignited from a fire at a cabin home near Will Long's place. Measles affect several families. a single adult case reported. Florence Masons and Woman's Economic Club hold meetings with talks on fair plans and food conservation. Subscriptions and local ads noted for Brandon News readers near Star and Florence.
The United States government offers War Savings Certificates in a five dollar denomination at four percent annual interest, compounded quarterly, available to the public at four dollars twelve cents each. No gold coin distribution will occur for holidays as a patriotic substitute.
Notice of a lost heifer about 24 years old with white on the face found in E. E. Jackson's pasture miles east of Brandon. Branded on the right hip with O G or D G. Finder to notify L Gayden for a liberal reward. Rankin County Bank, Brandon, Miss.
An advertisement claims local catarrh treatment cannot cure symptoms and promotes an internal remedy that acts through the blood. It cites testimonials, ingredients, and a firm named NY & CO, urging readers to consult family pills for constipation as well.
Fast train carries Pullman sleepers between Vicksburg and New York connecting with through sleepers to New Orleans and Cincinnati. Dining car available. Vicksburg and Atlanta service carries through coaches and sleepers between Vicksburg and Atlanta. For information, contact R. E. Willincham at Meridian Mississippi.
Rankin County Mississippi invites sealed bids through January 1 1918 noon for January 1918 supplies including oats mixed feed and other feeds for teams for sewers and County Home deliveries at Brandon Florence Pelahatchie and other depots plus road work in Beat 4 with three bridges on Pelahatchie and Shiloh road and a 50 foot dump at Farrish Slough bridge. Plans and specifications are on file in the chancery clerk office. The Board may reject any or all bids.
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