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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1902
Page
5
A local ad urges readers to have eye glasses regularly examined every two to three years to ensure proper fit and comfort. It invites customers to visit for an eye examination and to obtain glasses that stay comfortable with a suitable date for service.
Blackberries ripening. Brandon hosts July 4 celebrations with speeches by congressional candidates in Satartia Yazoo county. Town news notes illnesses, visits, and local happenings including Mayor Cole fencing, Miss Rose Longmire and Miss Eva Harrison visiting, and several residents improving from illness. A jail sentence follows a depot incident with two tramps, Ed Hank and John O’Rourke.
P. P. Walker will be at Florence on the 16th and 18th and at Terry on the 19th and 20th. Announcement dated June 11, 1902.
For sale one 60 inch Atkins saw 8x9 gauge nearly new. Apply to William Buchanan Brandon Mississippi June 11 1902.
The Rankin County Interdenominational Sunday School convention will meet in Brandon on Thursday July 17. An executive committee led by A M Shields W H Waddell J J H Whitfield A G Thornton Miss Bessie McCaskill Mrs Nora Jones and Mrs Harry Watson will arrange the meeting and invites attendees from abroad. Beat vice presidents must ensure county schools are represented and reports are due ten days before the convention.
Authorities break up a cattle thief gang in Rankin County after two weeks of pursuit. Ringleaders captured and sent to the county farm for long terms. Thousands of dollars in cattle stolen and driven out of the country. Farmers rejoice as the gang’s career ends. Also an ad touts Prickly Ash Bitters to cleanse impurities before summer illness rises.
Monterey hosted a children's day program last Sunday praised for unity and effort. Misses Annie and Addie Cooper led volunteers with Amanda Cooper Mary Williams Estella Cooper assisting in singing and performance shaping a successful event.
A large crowd attended the day’s exercises as the annual collection reached 5.65 dollars. The dinner was sumptuous and enjoyed by all with widespread cooperation. The piece praises cooperation and deliverance from prejudice as signs of intelligence and spirituality attributed to an auditor.
The Sabbath school convention of Beat No 3 will meet with Goshen Springs Sabbath school on the Saturday before the second Sunday in July at 9 a m. All Beat schools should be represented. Dinner on the ground. D W Denson Vice Press Beat 3 Pisgah June 11 1902. Also an ad notes a plan for a free summer trip for state editors and praises Meridian Star for supporting legislative action.
An advertisement claims Smith's Nerve Restorer helps those tired from malarial districts overwork or aging regain vigor and enjoy early life pleasures. It guarantees relief of weakness and full vigor, priced at $1.00 and sold by A. L. D. Rhodes in Pelahatchie.
A Texas revival anecdote about a would be speaker evading the grand jury, a Kokomo notice of a man selling stock for a $500000 windfall after a prank, plus a blood hounds order by a board. The clipping mixes humor, commerce, and law enforcement bits from Hatfieldsburg Progress.
An advertisement promotes Smith's Sure Kidney Cure as the greatest blood purifier of the age. It invites those with pimples or eruptions to try one bottle, claiming the base material is used by Indian natives for blood impurities. Price 50 cents and 1.00, sold by A. L. D. Rhodes in Pelabatchie.
A partial list outlines flour, bacon, hams red rose, cat hams, shoulders very fine, oats, evaporated apples, chipped beef, corned beef, peaches, apples, apricots, salmon, chicken pate, baked beans, veal loaf, pickles. The notice invites readers to buy these goods at close prices, highlighting consumer pleasure in eating well.
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