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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1919
Page
4
The account recalls a year with 53 WAR entries, returning to Camp LeMoin for reequipping, shedding overcoats and blankets as summer approached. After a week of drills, the unit resumed front-line duties and faced a German raid the first night back.
A faded fragment recalls an old remedy using Sage Tea and Sulphur to darken hair. The note mentions a patient returning to natural color after using the mixture, reflecting vintage home grooming lore.
An advertisement claims Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound provides a ready to use hair darkener. It enhances lustre and fullness, disguises gray hair, and requires only light daily application with a comb or brush. It states the product is a cosmetic, not a medical cure.
A clipped OCR item highlights Dr S P Weathersby as a veterinarian offering cure and treatment services at a Beal clinic. The brief notes his expertise and the scope of care provided, indicating a local medical presence in the animal health field.
An advertisement touts carbon paper at $2.00 per 100 sheets with a special non smutting durable grade. It invites readers to ask their stenographer how many times a sheet can be used and to test the product.
Sealed bids will be received at the chancery clerk's office for mapping Rankin County and for supplies including tents and 16 oz duck. a school sale bonds of 600 dollars and 6 percent bonds are also bid. The Board may reject any bid. J A Robinson Clerk.
The Board of Supervisors on April 9 1919 granted a petition to create The Third Road District in Rankin County Mississippi embracing specified townships and sections south and east of Pearl River. The district may issue bonds up to ten percent of assessed value to build and maintain highways, with publication in Brandon News for three weeks prior to the May 1919 meeting.
Sealed bids for Federal Aid Project No. 5 on the 6.0 mile State Trunk Road between Jackson and Meridian will be opened at Brandon Courthouse at noon on May 7, 1919. Plans are in Jackson and Brandon offices. bids must include five hundred dollars cash or certified check. Xavier A. Kramer is State Highway Engineer.
Complainant H A Busick Jr versus defendant Ben Alliston No 2898 Chancery Court Rankin County decree March 25 1919 orders sale of forty six acres in North part of NE section 12 township 5 north range 3 east and fifty acres off south end of S%4 of section 1 township 5 north range 3 east east of public road with 18 acres on east end excepted to pay court costs expenses and debt up to 224 dollars. Sale May 5 1919 at Brandon courthouse. sale proceeds first to costs then debt. S D Donnell witness and agent for clerk.
Letters of administration granted by the Chancery Court of Rankin county to the administratrix of Lucy Thomas estate require all claims to be probated and registered within one year or be barred. Susie B. Buchanan administratrix notes this on the 10th day of April.
The decree of the Honorable Chancery Court of Rankin County Mississippi directs S D Donnell Sheriff to act as special commissioner and sell by public outcry the W 2 of the NE% and the E% of the NW% and the NW%4 for the SE%4 in section 24 township 4 range 3 east, with sale set for the first Monday of May 1919 in Brandon to partition among complainants and defendant. title believed good but conveyed only as special commissioner.
The Rankin County Agricultural High School seeks bids by noon May 8 1919 for a dormitory building at Johns Miss Plans and specs are on file with H H Bullock Superintendent of Education and with Prof Charles St John Principal The board requires a certified check equal to 6 percent of the bid as a good faith guarantee the successful bidder’s check to be held until completion
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