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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1911
Page
5
Ras Ross and Scruggs visited Brandon and Biloxi on business while many others journeyed to Jackson, Florence, Hattiesburg, and Knoxville. The column lists residents and travelers, church events, a bank report, and local happenings from Brandon and surrounding towns.
Public notices announce J S Tisdale of Pelahatchie as a candidate for justice of the peace beat 3. The article notes Tisdale is known to Beat 3 citizens and deserves their consideration. Also offers sale and lost item notices and assorted humorous lines.
A note from W. R. Taylor offers pressing club rates at one dollar monthly for two suits or a suit plus two trousers weekly. Cleaning is extra with trousers at 35 cents and coats at 50 cents, making the service about 15 cents cheaper per suit than competitors. Special care for ladies skirts. phone 92.
Program for a Sunday School convention at Florence Mississippi on June 28 1911. Schedule includes devotional exercises addresses on parental cooperation church relation to the Sunday School and primary methods with multiple speakers and musical interludes throughout the day ending with a compare of primary methods.
Weather hopes rise with rain due for the hot dry spell. Boll Weevil spreads through cotton fields after a sighting last Sunday. Local illnesses include Euphoid fever and a few recoveries. Visitors arrive from Ludlow and Piscah. a river trip yields mixed fishing results. A large crowd attends a rally and a Saturday dance at J B Worley. Family travel plans include a visit to Jackson. Sunday school grows with notable attendance. a Thursday concert is scheduled for June 22 with a 10 cent admission. Citizens Bank of Florence reports a sound quarterly balance and healthy business.
The elder Dumas faced a lawsuit after claiming in La Route de Varennes that the capture of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette owed to the Chevalier de Prefontaine shutting his door. A court forced the publisher to recall copies and issue a new edition with a note exonerating Prefontaine.
The society urges voters to scrutinize legislative candidates on liquor laws and anti saloon measures. It cites rising violations, notes figures like Hon. Richmond P Hobson, and reports accusations about Major Vardaman era rooms at the Capitol where liquor was allegedly dispensed to lawmakers.
Brandon Bank of Brandon Mississippi publishes a sworn statement of assets and liabilities as of June 7 1944. The report lists loans and discounts overdrafts stocks and bonds banking house cash on hand due from other banks and total assets 22392977. The liabilities show capital surplus undivided profits and deposits with a total 22392977. W H Barnes president and cashier signs the document with notary public certification dated June 40 1944 in Rankin County Mississippi.
Extended dry spell but community life flourishes with sermon by Rev. O F Raney and visit by Prof. Oscar Jones of Johns. Social visits include Pearl Downs at home from the deaf and dumb institute, Cleo Stubblefield and Joe Stubblefield at Star, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Childers from Pearson. Barnstorming among Jackson visitors and garden fishing with Mrs E H Corley chaperoning, while boll weevil work and political campaigning keep farmers busy.
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