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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
4
The Rankin County Board of Supervisors met December 4 1916 with full attendance. They awarded feed contracts, set county physician terms, and named road committees. reports cover schools, salaries, and audit findings with detailed itemized expenditures and committee appointments.
Florence notes the upcoming reelection of city officials led by Mayor R. G. Berry and aldermen with S. J. Dear as street commissioner for 1917 18. The piece mourns Capt. J. T. Jones founder of the G S I Railroad in Buffalo NY and notes widespread despedite events including dairy ship trades and local moves. It reports sermons and a church call for Rev. S T Courtney, moves by families and a proposed Brandon county fair to boost youth industry.
Harold Bell Wright’s popular novel drama returns to Century Theatre Jackson on Christmas Day. Elsbury Reynolds expands Preachin Bill character with a sumptuous mounting. Love triangle between Sammy Lane and Young Matt anchors the plot. producers Gaskill and MacVitty promise a unique cast. Special note for out of town ticket orders.
Ad claims catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It explains the Eustachian tube inflammation causes rumbling sounds and deafness, with Halls Catarrh Cure advertised to act through the blood on mucous surfaces. An offer of one hundred dollars for incurable deafness is noted.
Dr J C Cole and his bride Betty Hastland received many social attentions in his hometown with a eight course dinner by Mr and Mrs Harris Collier, bridge and refreshments, guests includes Miss Ethel Thomas Roy Fox and Mrs Houston Scruggs. The couple left for Meridian then New Orleans to start their life together. W G Barnes praises Chamberlain Cough Remedy and Charter Oak stoves.
Rankin county celebrates the consolidation of New Prospect Rhodes and Mt Carmel schools with the opening and dedication of the new Prospect Consolidated School. Prof R M Winstead presided, Rev Bryan Simmons delivered the dedicatory address, Ford Peace lecture by R H Henry, and J T Calhoun spoke on consolidation. Two teachers, Mamie Baker and Winstead, soon to be joined by another if enrollment warrants. A large crowd attended, and a homegrown dinner followed on the grounds.
A newspaper ad compares a cough to a fire bell urging immediate treatment with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It cites Mrs. Thomas Beeching of Andrews Indiana reporting that the product helps prevent lingering coughs after colds or grip.
TT T Cottrell trustee will sell at public auction on January 1 1917 in Brandon Mississippi the property secured by deed of trust from W B Allen and wife to W B Collier as executor of T D Harris estate. The estate includes a house and 4 acres in Fannin and additional parcels described in Rankin county parcels. Title believed good but deed conveys only trustee's vested interest.
Notice that W L Maxey as Trustee will sell at public auction on January 1 1917 in Brandon Mississippi the Ed Lewis place lands in section 29 township 5 range 4 east and adjacent parcels. Included are livestock and farm equipment: a 12-year-old black horse mule Mack a Thorne wagon a 10-year-old red cow Jezzie Bell a 2-year-old red steer a 2-year-old brown and white spotted calf and farm stock. The sale follows a 1912 deed of trust to secure debt owed to T H Collier recorded in Land Trust Book 76 page 29 Rankin County Chancery Clerk.
Notice of Trustee's Sale for land in Rankin County consolsids the Pace deed of trust dated Feb 24 1913 including Daisy the eight year old mare and land parcels in Section One and Section Two. Substituted Trustee E A Howell to sell January 5 1917 at Brandon courthouse. Also notice of Rankin County Board of Supervisors January 1917 bid call for county depository with banks invited to propose security for county funds. Clerk J A Robinson signs.
Frank Windom and Ada Windom execute a trust deed to T B Spann as trustee to secure debts to C R Stingily. By default the trustee will sell on January 15, 1917, at the Brandon courthouse to satisfy notes on a Pelahatchie property with a house on 2nd Street, bounded by Jerry Butler and Anderson Butler lots. Public auction to the highest bidder. Land posted. No hunting on the parcel. Witnessed by Ida Jones and F Jones.
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