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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1905
Page
5
Local and personal items recount visits to Cato Jackson and Vicksburg. Mentions births illnesses and social events including birthdays, baptisms, lodge activities, and church notices. Also notes weather, farming, upcoming services, a prize piano contest and academic appointments at the University of Mississippi.
Dr. O A Thomas who just earned his medical degree at Tulane leaves with his wife for the Indian Territory to establish practice. Lillie Thomas of Jackson and Mrs. W A Trout of Atwater Ill accompanied by Miss Virginia Bullock as far as Jackson. Deputy Morris seeks Lionel Johnson for horse theft. Johnson’s brother is a local lawyer E H Johnson. The May circuit court juror lists are printed with two weeks of names. An upbeat note promotes PRICKLY ASH BITTERS as a remedy for stomach and kidney issues.
S. M. Hunter advertises in our paper claiming top quality work with skilled up-to-date mechanics and direct personal attention to each building. The piece also notes Mrs. B and her youthful look due to PRICKLY ASH BITTERS. A. G. Thornton Special Agent.
Mrs A Barr of Houston Texas reports in 1902 that one bottle of Ballard's Horehound Syrup cured a severe cough from exposure. The ad touts the syrup as pleasant to take and lists prices 60 cents and one dollar for various bottle sizes.
The News piano contest committee counted votes at 6 PM listing numerous contestants led by Miss Eunice Washburn and Miss Viola Burns among others. A call to vote continues with coupons printed in the paper each week and voting ends Saturday July 1 at noon.
The catalogue denounces cigarettes as The devil's kindling wood full of deadly poison. It claims smoking damages willpower, brain function, appetite, digestion, temper, and health, leading to heart disease, alcoholism, unattractiveness, unemployment, and moral decline. It warns cigarettes link to improper literature and social degradation.
For sale one gin outfit and one grist mill. Terms and particulars available from Geo Robinson, Pela Hatchie, Mississippi.
Commissioner Cole details show life companies with 34 420 policies covering 68 283 889 dollars in face value. The report outlines the scale of life policy penetration and premium income across the sector.
The document lists financial figures: paid for $11,725 covering a total of $81,902,188 after lapsed, premiums received $2,852,495, losses paid $902,946.14. For fire insurance total premiums $2,884,107.82 with losses incurred $2,056,946.26 and losses paid $1,936,666.79, difference $110,279.47. Losses incurred to premiums is 88.12 percent.
In Gulfport Mississippi a sensational elopement case ends with L E Devall bound over to the circuit court in five hundred dollars after taking thousands with a Gulf & Ship Island employee's wife to California. The wife has vanished, Langworthy seeks divorce, and public gossips recall a long rail line prominence as the case looms toward grand jury action.
A column laments gender and justice bias noting a man who killed a woman should face harsher penalties while the accused receives a five hundred dollar bond and likely walks free. The writer argues society’s courts fail to equalize punishment and calls for reform.
Commissioner Sol Dobson announces a chancery sale by decree dated March 28 1905 in Rankin County Mississippi for lands in township 7 range 4 east including nw w4 sw 32 se44 10 acres and related parcels to satisfy 209.40 plus costs and interest. The sale will be June 5 1905 in front of Brandon courthouse.
In Rankin County Mississippi the chancery court will on June 5 1905 public auction the property of Amherst Guynes to satisfy a partition decree. The land lies near the Brandon and Byram road Florence and includes about one and five eighths acres with specific boundary calls from the 1898 deed to Tibbie Guynes. J L Buchanan sheriff and commissioner will conduct the sale at the county courthouse door in Brandon for cash to the highest bidder.
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