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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
5
Walter Thurston Pate, Aura Purnell, Mrs. Lee Allen and many others are listed with short visits, travels, or health notes. The piece also covers church sermons, market plans, local officials, bank affairs, civic meetings, and upcoming municipal ordinances including dog taxation and sanitary rules. Many named residents and visitors are mentioned.
The Brandon Bank held its annual stockholders meeting last Tuesday. Net profits reached 5534 percent on capital stock with a 15 percent dividend declared and 4034 percent added to surplus. Seventh annual meeting and dividend, stock earning over seventy dollars per original share, now valued at 326. The older directors and officers were re elected. The 15 percent dividend is paid in cash as stockholders express satisfaction.
Small classified note offers a nearly brand new item for sale with instruction to inquire at the office for prices and details.
For Rent. Several hundred acres of good pasture land with over 100 acres of creek bottom and ample water. Spent summer and winter pasture at a bargain. Apply L. C. Robinson.
The notice advertises Mrs. R.S. McLaurin’s house for sale and promotes Brandon stores H. A. Busick Company Brandon Drug Co and Brandon Mercantile Co with specials on shoes clothing cosmetics buckwheat and hay. It urges shoppers to visit before buying and notes a local phone line 86.
Classified brief listing two double brooders in new condition for sale at 35 dollars each. Includes request for goose feathers around 30 pounds. Also notes addresses in Brandon Mississippi for Mrs Wynn and Mrs McLaurin, plus Brandon Drug Company offers prescription compounding with pure chemicals.
For sale by Mrs R S McLaurin a piano. Also notes of household goods offered by H A Busick Co. S L McLaurin and We have just received a fresh carload of Pansy and White Velvet flours plus shorts and bran for feed from H A Busick Co.
A recent visit to Pelahatchie notes a well kept A. & W. Depot with a competent agent, the Lessell Hotel famed for good fare and clean linen, and praise for J. T. Longmire the postmaster. Local merchants Ross Bros. & Summer, W. J. Bell & Sons, B. F. Mulhollan, J. L. Tanner, J. A. Spann & Co., J. A. Taylor & Son, C. W. Taylor, two drug stores, livery stables, and the Lockwood Lumber Co. are credited with solid growth driven by fair dealing, strategic location, and a strong school attracting families. Mayors and law officers praised for orderly governance.
Mrs. W B Stacy of Pearson died Friday night at the Jackson Sanitorium after a period seeking health. Funeral held today at 3 30 p m with interment in Greenwood Cemetery conducted by Rev W F Yarborough. She leaves her husband five children and is sister of E B Cook longtime hospital official. Her death mourned by many in Pearson and Rankin County community.
The Mississippi Legislature meets in Jackson with Lieut. Governor J. P. Carter presiding until March 20 when Luther Manship takes oath. J. L. Hebron named president pro tem, Frank Robinson clerk, Edgar Franklin sergeant at arms, Anita Perkins post mistress, Turner Roberts and H. Thornton door keepers, A. C. Annne Dippah temporary ker, L. Pink Smith clerk. Col. H. M. Street elected senate sergeant at arms over H. Quin by 70 to 60. Street to serve as sergeant at arms of house alongside Catey of Lee.
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