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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1923
Page
2
The Brandon News is published weekly on Thursdays and enters second class mail matter at the Brandon Mississippi post office.
A satirical list itemizes charges per label used by a country weekly editor. It assigns monetary values to terms like successful citizen, gallivanting fellow, hero, estimable lady, eminent divine, and recalls of Volstead law, ending with a deceased merchant as a leading citizen and progressive resident.
From The Brandon News 1898 clipping: Miss May Jack will teach the primary department at Braxton Collegiate Institute. Inez Cole of Brandon visited relatives on Steens Creek last week. Judge Enochs to start for Williamsburg next Saturday and opens his first term of court on Monday the 18th. Sheriff White and RK. Gayde visited the county farm Tuccan. Gayden notes Rouse has the prettiest thirty five acres of corn. crops look fine. Rouse seems right man in the right place. BE Martin, W B Collier, H T Ellis and Clifton Cole spent days on Old River fishing. water high, fishing scarce, Martin tells a string of new and true fish stories.
A brief quip about disliking a woman standing and stepping on a toe, highlighting discomfort with chivalry in a playful tone.
The Brandon News publishes official candidate announcements for the August Primary across many offices including State Revenue Agent Stokes W Robertson District Attorney D M Anderson re election Representative W H Boone George S Ware S R Myers R F Brown R H Watts Edgar Misterfeldt Sheriff John R B Ross D Buchanan Leslie M Stingily R C Taylor Scott D Donnell Tax Assessor D B Ward C E McKay J A Robinson Chancery Clerk Burl F Purvis G A Harrison Samuel C Tanner Circuit Clerk J E Kersh Dave P Gayden Surveyor Jos Wynn Superintendent of Education H H Bullock H P Barksdale Supervisors Beat One R G Berry W L Martin Beat Four W D Owen R Be Knight W H Till Be G Davis
Tunica Mississippi June 12 Henry L Whitfield candidate for Governor spoke before a large audience refuting Conner remarks from Canton. He said Conner was one of four who could have prevented a five million dollar deficit while House presiding officer and that he did not profit from high salaries. He urged a business like approach and welcomed investigation of past records.
Mayton notes describe visitors from D Lo and McGee Arkansas visiting Howell and Graves families, a marriage of Mrs Leon Jones to William Lee of De Lo, local social events, a hospital recovery report, a theater party, and a funeral poem about Willie Ross killed by a train.
Senatoria Mississippi June 11 Henry L Whitfield candidate for governor spoke to a large crowd. He criticized state spending and cited a 1922 university appropriation rider limiting the secretary’s pay, noting the board replaced the secretary with a business manager earning 4500 annually. He argued such waste would end under his administration. A Chicago man choked on a button in his soup over a morsel implying the joke.
The Rankin County Board of Supervisors met at the Brandon courthouse on the first Monday in June with most members present and President pro tem W. H. Till presiding. They accepted bids for cattle dip supplies and a Clear Creek bridge, approved numerous payrolls and expense allowances, authorized sales of timber, and awarded feed and oat contracts for Beat 1 4 2 and 5 and a sale of land for school funds. The board adjourned to its next regular term.
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