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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1906
Page
5
Cotton today 1040. W D Heslop of Pelahatchie was here Monday. Dr McLaurin to Smith county this week. E E Jackson of Parchman home for a few days. Rev Mr Revill to preach at St Luke's Sunday 11 AM. Poll tax delinquents named in this week. 10 men attend land sale. Prayer meeting at Baptist Mission with ten per night.
Mr. 10d and Mrs. Walter Jack plan a visit to sister Mrs. Sylvester McLaurin next Friday. Annie Hinton Wilson of Vicksburg visits Brandon relatives. Local business ventures include Miliner Hobson and Eddie Crook entering merchandising near their homes. The infant of Mr. and Mrs. Linton died Saturday night and was buried Sunday. J Butler Kersh visits his father after five years in the delta. Mrs. H S Cole and Robert Burns improving. Annie Green of North Carolina to visit Wynn brothers Joe and Kenny Wynn. Dr. W W Kersh mourns death of his brother Dan Kersh in Salmon Texas on Feb 28. John Ghiever leaves Lock-Moore Co. to be at home. Rankin County Bank building nearing completion. Board of supervisors meet to appoint road overseers. full proceedings next week. Mrs Willis Jones’s condition leads to amputation of left leg. patient recovering well. Meridian visitors note tornado damage later in Brandon. Brandon Royal Arch Chapter 121 to meet March 15 for Royal Arch degrees with a banquet at Chester House. Senator McLaurin’s bill refunds Dr Peter Fairley five hundred dollars. swift senate passage. County assessor Atkins questions liquidity-based assessments. Baptist church forms a Young People Union. officers elected for the year. Veterans meeting at Rankin Camp 265 outlines reunion plans in New Orleans April 25-27, 1906. baskets invited for Decoration Day May 5. Local ads promote PAZO Ointment for piles, Jacob’s candies, Brandon Drug Co products, and various local businesses.
Attention customers our entire spring stock is complete with the best selection in Dress Goods Silks Novelties and Millinery The clothing shoes hats and gents furnishings are up to date with new cuts patterns and styles Prices are low offering twenty five percent off on dollar spent for summer needs Wholesale service expanded with added departments Visit us mail orders welcome and appreciated Yard sale style letter ends with polite closing.
The Teacher's Association appoints committees to manage beat contests ahead of the county oratorical contest in Brandon on May 12. Beat 1 includes Lucia Moore Ada m Sullivan and J J Covington. Beat 2 includes Mary K Dunbar Lorena Berryhill and E P Hitt. Beat 8 includes J O Robinson W O Barksdale and Mrs J B Williamson. Beat 4 includes Olive Watson Edna Clement and Jno Rundle. Beat 5 includes Mina Baker Mattie Alexander and Jas Chandler. Committees are to organize at once and name time and place for beats.
N A Mott announces the Mississippi Conference M E Church South annual Sunday School Institute to be held in Columbus Mississippi from Monday evening May 7 at 8 o clock to Wednesday evening May 9 at 9 30 o clock Prof and Mrs H M Hamill will lead the event with his wife noted as a leading primary worker The board aims to make it a flagship institute with reduced rail rates on the certificate plan The piece also records the Briar Hill High School honor roll and Camp E G Davis S A Baker J A Robinson appoint a committee to draft resolutions on the death of our sovereigns eldest daughter with sympathy extended to bereaved parents The resolutions note the life of charity benevolence and kind deeds and will be printed in The Brandon News
Legal notice states all repair work not invoked within 30 days will be sold at auction. Signed by Harry Watson.
An advertisement touts Royal Steel Graniteware featuring dish pans in multiple quarts and other pans, jelly cake pans, coco shape dippers, Berlin kettles, rice boilers and sauce pans. Prices range from a few cents to about sixty cents, emphasizing gray smooth, lasting finish and broad selection for the kitchen.
In New Orleans on January 81 1906 an order requires all freight depots to stay open daily for receiving and delivering freight from 7 PM to 5 PM with a midday break from 12 PM to 1 PM except Sundays and holidays. Saturdays May through September allow a 1 PM closing. Shippers must be notified to deliver within the hours.
An old advertisement extols Grove's Tastelesa Chill Ton ic iron and quinine in tasteless form claiming no cure and no pay. It urges against shaming children for patched clothes and ends with a poet’s line about Tags covering a boy who may become the world’s joy.
The list names Mose Washington TJ Lacy JD Purvis J KE Armstrong HO Miley Tony Myers Allen Harrison J L Brown Buster Ragsdale 0 C Corley Tom Ragsdale Jake Byrd Charlie Washington Jack Stapleton Alex R Porter J R East W G Wesley Clarence Buckner Henry Harralson Henry Moss Wiley Hannah John Henry Richard Sims Ed Terry JO Ratliff Geo Gregory Rev L E Epps A A Seany King Lewis Isaac Howell WS Allen D J Shavers W E Myers Tony Green LJ Quick Wm Sutton Jerry McAfee Henry Russum C W Moore
Rankin County sheriff to sell April 2 1906 for 1905 taxes on Chapman Mrs Sarah tract in section 27 township 3 range 4 total due 285 including state county school and damages. Also ads seek district managers and real estate offerings by Stingily brothers Pelahatchie with farm store dwelling and garden goods listings.
Letters of administration on Henry Cole Atkins estate granted February 9, 1906 by Rankin County Chancery Court. All persons with claims must present them for allowance and registration within the legal time or be barred. John C. Atkins, Administrator.
Two court notices direct Emma Stingily and Adam Mangrum to appear before Rankin County Chancery Court in March 1906 to defend suits filed by J. W. Stingily and Anna Mam. Clerk Sol Dobson signs each notice dated February 26 and 27, 1906. A classified ad seeks a white woman 35 to 50 for domestic help with a modest salary and box 177 Brandon Mississippi. Another ad offers a medium mare mule in trade for a horse or brood mare by D. M. Mayers.
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