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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1905
Page
4
Local items from Brandon Mississippi include obituaries, community notices, and social updates. Readers learn about Sunday sermons, school events, weddings, and family news from numerous residents across nearby towns such as Langford, Dobson, and Jackson, with crops and weather affecting daily life.
The Goshen area reports ongoing rain with farmers worried about harvest, plus community notes on illnesses visits and social events. A Texas letter from Brandon dated May 13 describes rain since April and slow plowing, crops lagging, and reflections on local town features and a seven thousand dollar college.
A scath ing appeal condemns liquor traffic and license systems urging voters to oppose old party support for saloons. The speaker laments murders and social harm from alcohol and calls for temperance reform, voter action, and ending license. Also notes stray mislaid horses found at Brandon and seeks owners to prove ownership and cover costs.
Lists of applicants for April examinations show thirty-three whites with four failing outright and twenty-six passing first grade. Many passed on elements of agriculture, with several named among those passing, while only two obtained first or second grade overall. Additional results include thirty-one applicants with limited passes. The notice ends with a medical advertisement for PRICKLY ASH BITTERS claiming to restore energy after stomach, liver, and bowel disturbances.
Mrs O Peterson of Topeka Kansas says Billard's Horehound Syrup is her favorite for coughs and colds and has done all that is claimed. It is offered in 25c 50c and 1.00 sizes and is noted as sweet and pleasant to taste.
A judgment from April 22, 1905, in Julia Morrison v Green Donnell for $65.93 leads to a public sale. On June 12 in Brandon, the property in Rankin County identified as the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter, section 9, township 8, range 4 east, will be sold for cash to cover the judgment and costs. H. O. Welch, Special Deputy Constable, notes the sale date as May 24, 1905.
Commissioner's sale announced by decree of the chancery court Rankin County Mississippi dated March 28 1905 will occur June 5 1905 in front of the courthouse Brandon Mississippi to the highest cash bid for lands described including parts of section 82 northwest quarter and southeast quarter plus ten acres along the east side and southwest quarter of section 34 with additional fractions noted, sale to follow legal hours.
Public auction to satisfy a decree in chancery court of Rankin County Mississippi for partition. Lands described include a 15.25 acre parcel in Florence near the Brandon and Byram road, bounded by specific lines, sold for cash with costs and interest, at the courthouse doorstep on the date of sale.
Notices and ads from 1905 include a Chicago to California rail route via Milwaukee and St. Paul, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific lines with daily departures and a call for tickets, plus an Interior Department public notice of final proof for land claim in Mississippi with witnesses listed.
Sealed bids will be received at the chancery clerk office until 12 o'clock noon on the first of June 1905 for building a bridge across Saunders Creek near Webster's Mill per on file plans. The board may reject all bids by order of the Supervisors. BSON Clerk Brandon Mississippi May 5 1905.
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