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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1906
Page
8
Sun returns after heavy rain. crops damaged yet hope remains. Obituaries and sickness noted including Mrs. Ballew of Harrisville and Mrs. McDowell’s family. Local schooling with Prof. F O Ratliff. several residents moving or visiting nearby towns. Weather calm but floods linger as Pearl River overflows low lands.
Figures from the American Grocer show Americans spent about 1.549 billion dollars last year on alcoholic drinks tea coffee and coca cola a rise of over 21 percent in five years while population grew less than a third of that rate per capita expenditures reached 18.68 on stimulating beverages with beer averaging eighteen and a half gallons per person and alcohol alone accounting for most of the spend though more temperate overall.
The Home Circle urges balance between work and home. It warns that a man too busy for his wife and children loses gentleness and Christian spirit, while praising encouragement to youths. It cites boys spending nights away from home and church, wandering into worldly ways and neglecting moral organizations.
A moral plea urges enjoying the good in life now not hoarding for tomorrow. Emphasizes making homes cheerful for children, balancing work and recreation, and valuing time with family. Warns that postponing happiness can rob loved ones and stresses planning for old age without sacrificing daily joy. Also cautions youth to avoid street corners and to seek constructive play and community spaces.
An informal election is ordered for Brandon to decide on issuing bonds of 25000 for a water works and electric light plant. The election will be at the courthouse on October 12, 1906. W Bill Collier and W S May are appointed to count votes. All property owners may vote, using 1906 assessment rolls. Clerks to provide blank tickets and voters must write For or Against with their names.
An assorted page features ads for Gayden & Co promoting farm wagons cane mills and evaporators, a liver regulator product, a humorous doctor visit anecdote, and King’s Royal Germetuer health claims. Also included are an administrator’s notice for Benjamin E. Therrell, a Mississippi chancery decree notice, and a land sale announcement by E. H. Ohlyeier as special commissioner.
Notice of foreclosure on February 14 1906 by trustee T W Hemmingway and J W Thompson to sell lands in Rankin County Mississippi to satisfy debt to Mississippi Bank and Trust Company. Executor George Robinson and attorney William Buchanan announce probate claims against Dan Butler estate with filing deadline and legal actions in Brandon Mississippi September 7 1906.
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