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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1903
Page
8
An advertisement extols Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney and bladder ailments affecting both sexes and suggests samples by mail. The rest of the text shifts to local items: community notices, meetings, visits, political canvassing, and church sermons highlighting community events and candidates for local offices in Rankin.
Health concerns dominate the Whites and Andrew Chapel notices with typhoid illnesses among Mrs. Byrd and a Williamson child, Mrs. Tucker and J. Tucker households. general rain drought hurting corn and cotton. Sunday services, children's day events, union singings, and church decorations drew large crowds of about 700 from county and neighboring counties. upcoming preaching planned at Clear Creek and Union with invitations to all. Social visits include Rev Miley and Ora Taylor, Ora returning from Blue Mountain Female College, and many townsfolk visiting relatives. wedding bells promised and various local trips and sickness updates, with continued community activities and school plans for next Sunday.
Strange weather for this season of year with cool nights and winds effects on cotton. Farmers report crops thriving. Miss Ellen Odem visits grandmother in Jackson and shows improvement after illness. W OC Ellis and son Earl of Flor…
An advertisement extols Paine's Celery Compound as a universal remedy for rheumatism neuralgia and sciatica. It cites testimonials including Mrs Margaret Bethel of Brainerd Minnesota who claims long term suffering ended after using the remedy and credits her renewed health to the treatment.
A historic note claims blues stem from liver disorders rather than external conditions. The document also records social visits by Mr. and Mrs. Josh Jones to local families, preaching by Brother Morris, and plans for a July fourth basket picnic to support two nearby cemeteries with proceeds shared.
An article details Capt. J Drake of Marlboro County South Carolina producing a world class corn crop in a cotton region. The acre yielded 17407 pounds ear corn with 140 pounds off grade and 14273 pounds shelled, about 354 bushels per acre. Prize winners included a New York and a Nebraska farmer. Drake’s methods, driven by a strong personality, and a donation plan to the church are noted.
The article recounts Capt. Drake, near sixty, a lifelong cotton farmer born in Marion county, who revived a sandy loam acre to prize status through fourteen years of good treatment with cottonseed meal acid and kaiit. His famed corn crop drew crowds, mocking birds nested in it, and the lane to his home was lined with carriages. his son notes Drake spent nearly all time on the corn while foremen ran other farms.
At the ae church in Florence last Tuesday Horace E. Risher and Hattie D. Williams were united in marriage with Rev. QO Briant officiating. Risher, a prosperous young merchant, is held in high esteem. Williams, a former Lumberton Graded School teacher, is widely praised for her patient guidance of children and community involvement. The notice laments lack of local content in home papers and urges readers to keep city and county news.
An old newspaper fragment promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with refund if ineffective. It includes a signed box by E. W. Groves. A separate notice asks Rankin County colored teachers to meet at Brandon's colored Baptist church at 2 p m on June 27 to discuss August normal.
EF urges attendance at the Rankin County Sunday School convention in Pelahatchie on July 16. The writer, a teacher, seeks uplift from participation and notes preparations underway. Also selling a large lot of peas to improve land.
Pisgah Mississippi June 13 editor news Beat No 3 met June 13 five members present Elected Dr W Robinson chairman and Miss Lou Holmes secretary Beat contest set for Monday June 22 at 2 pm at Pisgah Judges named Watts Barksdale Tinnon Maxey Boyd Contestants urged to send names to Dr S W Robinson Pisgah Miss DR ROBINSON Chairman MISS LOU HOLMES Secretary
The writer lists wartime slang terms and defines them, then laments vulgar language among youth. He urges progress toward intellectual attainment and highlights the value of recent educational improvements and oratorical contests. Profs Hurst Maum Ward praised, Shope urged to publish more. God bless you.
Low rate round trip tickets offered July 3 and 4 for travel to all points east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Missouri rivers. Final limit July 8. For details contact local agent.
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