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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1922
Page
2
A local civic appeal argues politics disrupts small town cooperation. It warns party clashes divide neighbors, stall improvements, and foster hostility. The piece calls for balanced involvement, reduced partisanship, and renewed communal effort to advance local prosperity.
An exhortation urging society to prioritize child welfare and education. The author argues children influence future community life and deserve protection, cooperation, and supportive homes. It stresses remembering one’s own youth and the lasting impressions of childhood on honor or ignominy.
The piece urges fraternal spirit and collective effort for community success, warns against pessimism, and cites RAT SNAP advertising. It includes political announcements for Circuit Judge of the 8th District and Insurance Commissioner, plus editorials on weather, manners, delay, and the Illinois mine war lesson. It mirrors a small town newspaper mix of opinion, ads, and notices.
The Brandon News announces candidate G C Tann seeking re election to the Chancery Court of the Second Judicial District, subject to Democratic primary action.
The text urges investors to seek bonds at low prices and hold to maturity. It argues some people gain by making others poorer, and counsels readers to keep bonds and avoid reckless sales. It presents a critical view of opportunistic trading and a discipline for prudent investing.
Local residents along the A. and W. Railroad faced travel delays as a nationwide strike began on Saturday July 1. Shop workers walked out reducing available repair staff and leading to cancellations and elisions of freight services. Westbound passenger train No. 5 was annulled on July 1 2 and 3, with engines diverted to passenger runs and several freight trains suspended temporarily.
The Board of Records and the School Board will meet Friday morning to discuss the school building project to be erected before the next school year. Bids have been received but the contract has not yet been let. full details will appear in next week's News.
The community welcomed recent rain as farmers needed relief. County Agent O L Simmons of Brandon and Lane Fortneberry of Pike County visited last week. Local residents and visitors from Pela hatchie and Shiloh joined in weekend gatherings. Mrs. George Collier remains seriously ill and Children Day drew a large Cross Roads crowd. Louie Gayden arrived to visit relatives.
Ex Secretary of the Navy Jo S. Daniels attended the Booker T. Washington monument unveiling in Tuskegee Alabama. A colored woman urged both races to see ownership of people as a caution, arguing slaves were profitable because they were kept working and controlled from dawn to night. She urged slaves and white owners to apply the same discipline to themselves.
Illustration shows a smart Dutch frock with pockets and square yoke, made in crepe de chine in various color combos. Proved advice on life and manners appears in scattered moral maxims about trouble, earnings, and self restraint.
About 12,000 people in Fiji Islands were treated for hookworm disease using a method credited to Dr Maurice C Hall of the Department of Agriculture. The believed cure is a chemical named trichloride 38 carbon t-tra-chloride, described as the positive remedy for hookworm.
The revival began Sunday at the Baptist Church led by Rev. M. O. Patterson of Clinton aided by Dr. W. A. McComb of Baton Rouge. Attendance grows with members and visitors from other congregations, and Prof Kalinowski of Mississippi College directs music. The event winds up Friday night.
Mrs Will Shields was a pleasant visitor in the F S Shivers home Tuesday evening. Mrs W D Steverson visits her sister Mrs F S Shivers this week under treatment by Dr L O Church. Mrs Bailey guest of Mrs W D Stevers Friday afternoon. Prayer meeting every Saturday night at this place. Emmitt Shivers and sister Miss Sadie were in Morton Saturday on business. Mr Paul Bailey pleasant caller in the Shivers home Sunday. Mrs Irvin Holmes guest of Mrs Shivers Sunday. Sunday school here every Sun.
Miss Vannie Renfrew spent Sunday with Mrs. Bailey. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Hawthorne made a pleasant visit to her sister in Leslie County recently. A day at 2 30 p m invites all to attend.
Rats steal millions of dollars' worth of grain chickens eggs and other property. They destroy and threaten health. If rats trouble you try RAT-SNAP. It kills them and prevents odors. Cats or dogs won t touch it. Comes in three cake sizes 35c 65c and 125. Sold and guaranteed by Thornton s Drug Store and A M Shields.
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