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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
6
Brandon community items list visitors, moves, sickness, work changes, and local happenings from Brandon and nearby towns. Mentions of Jackson and Memphis trips, inaugurations, school adjustments, and business updates. Notes on officials, residents, and charitable visits, with brief crime and legal notices and local merchant promotions.
Rhode Island Reds eggs from prize winning pen offered at 1.50 for 15 eggs. M Shields advertises the largest line of furniture and cook stoves in the county. W G Barnes lists a good pair of mules and two milch cows. LC Robinson of Brandon Mississippi invites inquiries. Nice bale hay offered at 500 cents per bale by W G Barnes.
Classified notice offers a nearly new item for sale with instruction to contact the office for prices and details. No specific item, date, or location provided.
The Rankin County Teachers Association will meet in Florence tomorrow and Saturday, urging all county teachers to attend for potential benefits. S. R. Myers, Supt. Education. Also advertised: a 60 acre farm near a good school, 15 acres facing a residential street, near the depot, suitable for crops, for sale or rent with terms available through K Carl Stingily, Pelahatchie, Miss.
A Corn Growers Contest will be organized soon for Ran in schoolboys with prizes and full plan details to be published in the Brandon News. The note underscores farming as vital and mentions local shop H. A. Busick Co offering butcher knives axes scales and a stocked grocery department with canned goods and condiments.
For Sale two full blood Angora billies offered by Wm. B. Mayers at five dollars apiece. Notice of Brandon Drug Co stockholders meeting at S. L. McLaurin's office next Wednesday the 29th at 4 o'clock. W. G. Barnes, President.
Wanted. Salesman with own team to call on country gin and saw mill trade with our celebrated line of oils and greases. Rankin and adjoining counties. Salary or commission. The Fairfax Refining Co. Cleveland Ohio.
George Gordon stallion available for stud services at any time. Payment due April 20. RoBBin’s.
Rankin county farmers gathered for the Farmers Union meeting in Star with wide local union representation. President Singletary chaired as Harp was absent. Prof Wall welcomed visitors and extolled cooperation while State Lecturer Bradshaw detailed the union’s growth from 4000 members to 70000 since 1905 and urged farmers to hold firm for higher cotton prices.
About 30 pounds of pure goose feathers offered by Mrs M C Wynn of Brandon Mississippi.
Mrs. Fannie J. Robinson born November 16 1868 died December 5 1907. Lifelong Rankin County resident with a stint in Arkansas she was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Dave Denson the wife of J A Robinson and mother to several children. She joined the Baptist church many years ago and remained an invalid and bedridden in her final years near home.
Attend meetings she prayed for her husband to convert. God heard the prayer as he and their little daughter were baptized. She endured a long illness of consumption, staying hopeful and planning for her family. Though not spared to earth, her faith and patience remain an example for her husband children and parents. Kate W. Barksdale.
The port office department notifies publishers of second class mail matter that after April 1 1908 it shall be unlawful for any daily newspaper to send a paper to a subscriber in arrears over three months and that weekly papers must not be sent to a subscriber more than one year behind in his subscription.
The department will fine a newspaper each time that a copy is sent to a subscriber who is due over 12 months. We ask that you pay up or we shall be compelled to cut off your name if over one year behind. The News is worth $1.00 and improving. Remit to cover the amount due, as printed on the address.
Advertisement requests twelve names and addresses of music leaders and superintendents to mail a copy of the 1308 Windows of Heaven No 6 song book. The notice is signed by J. B. Vaughan in Athens Georgia.
Brandon Mercantile Co offers three self rising buckwheat packs totaling 6 pounds for 75 cents or two pounds per 12.5 cents each, plus a single half pound package at 85 cents. (Note: OCR text indicates pricing could be inconsistent.)
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