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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
3
As county registrar I will be at designated locations on specified dates to register all voters who have reached voting age since last registration and those not yet legally registered. Sessions will ensure eligible residents can complete registration ahead of future elections.
Sealed bids will be received at the chancery clerk office until 12 o clock noon on the first Monday in June 1908 for bridges across Clear Creek Richland Creek Hominy Creek and Rehoboth road per on file specifications The board may reject any or all bids MO A Gayden Clerk Brandon Miss May 7 1908 Owensboro wagons and bug gies at W G Barnes
In a reflective Yazoo City Sentinel piece, the author argues for the soul’s immortality, linking faith with science as Ninety-nine percent of scientists and biblical teaching align on immortality. The essay notes nature’s spring renewal as proof and calls for a reckoning day to right earthly wrongs.
Three farms near Atherton PEI raise foxes for their skins. Stocks total seventy five animals, with skins sold in London from 500 to 1800 dollars each. Foxes live year round outdoors, protected by high woven wire fences, fed oats milk bread and occasional meat. The animals remain very wild, approachable only by the keeper when feeding.
The article notes strange scientific contradictions from alloys to solder, sulfur, steel, copper, rubber and carbon pencils. It highlights how heating can have counterintuitive effects on melting, hardness, expansion and conductivity, previewing future research to resolve these puzzles.
A well dressed man on a moving train sits on a little girl’s newspaper. He offers the paper back and apologizes. At her stop the girl asks for her fried fish that appeared in the newspaper and was displaced by his seating.
Joint meeting of Scott and Rankin County Medical Societies held in Brandon on Tuesday June 2 at 10 a m. All physicians in the county are urged to attend.
The Farmers Union Warehouse Company charter details incorporators W C Moore and others, domicile Pelahatchie Mississippi, capital stock $10 000, par value $5, existence fifty years, purpose to operate gins mills warehouses and handle produce on commission, startup required $1500 subscribed. Acknowledgment by incorporators before A P White J P on May 23 1908 in Rankin County Mississippi.
Incorporators J O Parkison C J Stubbs L O Mullican W L Lane L L Kirkpatrick and T J Morris form the Florence Farmers Union Warehouse Company in Florence Rankin County Mississippi with capital stock of 10000 dollars and par value five dollars. The company aims to operate cotton compresses gins grain elevators and general warehouse business initiating when 2000 dollars is paid. Notary acknowledgment records the signing on May 9.
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