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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
2
A vintage sale advertisement offers Bleached Domestic fabrics at 5c per yard, 10 yards per customer, plus 29c white French Mull and Swiss, embroidery inserts at 5c yard, embroideries at 10c, and various lawns, ginghams, laces, Huck towels, and pillowcase fabrics with deep discounts per yard. Limited quantities and per-customer caps noted. many items priced well below former rates.
Gulfport Mississippi May 3 1908 Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company will run its first Sunday excursion of the season to Gulfport with continued runs each Sunday until further advised. Low fares from all agency stations to Gulfport apply. Pavilion at the sea-end of the pier reserved for excursionists. Signed 8 D Boylston General Passenger Agent.
The Queen and Crescent Route will run sleeping cars from New Orleans to Asheville starting Monday June 8. The cars depart New Orleans in the morning and reach Asheville the next morning about six. Service operates each Monday Wednesday and Friday during the tourist season with return trips Asheville to New Orleans three days weekly.
Notice from D. M. Ropsins offering services of Hamilton stallion George Gordon at his place 10 miles east of Brandon on Wire road. Also advertises a new sickle lawn mower at a bargain and Ideal stock farm of 878 acres near Jackson with rail line access, partly rolling terrain and creek bottom, for sale within 30 days via Box 484 Canton Mi.
A list of items including a saw mill shingle mill swing cut off saw and incubators is offered for sale by W. White as special commissioner of the Rankin County Chancery Court. The sale on July 6 1908 will auction land in section 31 township 7 range 5 east and proceeds first cover costs then $825 to Campbell Campbell with remainder to defendant Wm M Kight. May 14 1908.
Citizens of Rankin County ask Governor E F Noel to grant a pardon to Jim Alexander colored, convicted at the February 1901 term of Rankin County Court of rape. They argue he has been sufficiently punished. Signed by J M Alexander W B Lowell W C Anderson and others.
Notice invites white teachers to attend state normals in June and July at Oxford Starkville Hattiesburg and Brookhaven urging all county teachers to attend at least two weeks. Eligible teachers should send names by postal to receive circulars and information immediately.
The Daily Picayune reports the Confederates memorial group seeks a Davis portrait in every southern school on June 3 1908 the centennial of his birth. Veterans memorial Sons of Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy aid. Mississippi white schools will receive 3000 copies distributed via the Department of Archives and History in Jackson</s>
Reports to the National Cotton Ginners association through May 29 show cotton condition at 80.6 with 31,357,000 acres, down from 32,060,000 last year a 1.9 percent drop. The average stand is 89 percent and the crop is thirteen days late. Weevil presence begins in the boll weevil district but early damage is unlikely. Although current condition exceeds last year by about ten points, future yield remains uncertain.
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