11 Oct 1917
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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1917
Page
1
Ref A and V R R timetable lists eastbound train times for Brandon route with timetable details. Highlights include departure windows and station stops. The brief indicates scheduled departures and sequence of trains for eastbound service.
Rankin county items report visitors from Clinton Fannin Ackerman Bernice and Memphis local church events and military notes. The Beat 2 Fair in Oakdale October 19th features a dinner and speakers while plans for a Fall Winter Sale by E M Odom are announced.
Residence recently repaired and in splendid condition with necessary outhouses and good water. Asking price one thousand dollars, a bargain. Mrs Octavia Robinson, Value, Miss.
Dr. Willis Walley of the State Board of Health visited Brandon to inspect sanitation and found the town in a severe state of neglect. He cites unusable school toilets, open closets near businesses, trash and cans in streets, weeds on vacant lots, and mosquito breeding cisterns. He calls for ordinances and public cooperation to prevent typhoid, malaria, and other diseases.
An assortment of ads promotes fresh mackerel from R. R. Busick and Pure Home-Ground Brandon Meal guaranteed clean and wholesome. G. H. Sherrill advertises Choice Seed Wheat recleaned and graded. The Brandon Feed mills invite visitors to see pure sanitary corn meal milling next to the Brandon News office. Owensboro and Chattanooga ads for chandeliers, lamps, shoes, and cane mills complete the notice.
W C Ellis a long time Florence resident died Saturday at 4 30 p m after three weeks illness with Brights disease of the kidneys He was about 60 born in Kemper county moved to Florence in youth He leaves a wife four sons three daughters a brother Samuel and a sister Eunice The funeral was at the Methodist church conducted by Rev J W King with Masons in charge at Floren cemetery He was a merchant farmer and stock raiser known as a leader in public life and a hospitable host The community will miss him.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy and kindness after illness and death. Also notices taken up stock describe a red skull and a black bull near Brandoe area, with owner urged to prove ownership or face estray sale under law. Wilson.
W D Thomas announces a full and complete line of hardware and furniture arriving. Readers are invited to call and inspect the elegant inventory at the store.
Notices urge observation of Work Day October 18 to support the Methodist Orphanage Jackson Miss where about 200 orphans rely on free will offerings. Bring offerings to Sunday school or church October 14 Harvest Day or send to Superintendent J B Randolph Jackson Miss. Also, a trustee sale notice details a Rankin County land foreclosure under a 1911 deed of trust with substitute trustee named and sale scheduled at the county courthouse.
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