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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1902
Page
8
A county news column notes local events in Virgil and surrounding areas. Mentions Dr Chapman’s delta return, Emma Sheely visiting Mrs Chapman, and Mary Taylor as Virgil school principal. Local merchants undecided on future operations and farm activity updates accompany election chatter and community sentiment about candidates.
Dr J E Noble visited family in the capital this week while Mrs S O Brown and O P Brown suffer fevers. W H Moss W A Sanderson and Walter Smith traveled to Jackson. Prayer meetings struggle. rumors warn of departing families. Home Mission Society meets at Uncle Billie Moore's on Thursday the 13th. Dr Noble sells mill and gin to Cub Hawthorn with possession set for November 8. Weather favors, cotton picking and hay cutting rush. Local happenings include Calhoun Robinson at church and Louise White returning from Jackson.
Mrs Ras Ross and Electa Trawick are on the sick list this week. The school at Lynwood is progressing nicely under Miss Aills with 37 pupils and more expected. Mrs H A Pennington is visiting the Trawick home. Dave White called at the Trawick home this week, and is described as bent and feeble.
A verbose ad-like reminiscence extols an old traveling man with a fish on his back as a symbol of Scott's Emulsion. It claims the product builds health for consumptives, children, and the sick, with generations of readers citing improved strength and flesh. The piece touts cod liver oil as a natural tonic and mentions price and sales figures in a period voice.
A correspondent condemns shady neighbors and urges moral reflection. The piece praises Miss Fannie Belle Aills for starting a Sunday school that drew 52 scholars last Sunday with more to come. It questions John Watergrass as an unsuitable candidate, noting the crowd includes men and children in the local vineyard.
Moseley Billie Huffman remains ill. Rev John Mize of Clinton is at home sick. Mrs Kate Walters and Miss Effie Patrick on sick list. Mrs Laura Landcaster of Arkansas visiting relatives. Mrs H A Pennington visiting J O Trawick family this week. Walter Patrick back at this place and glad to see friends. John White of Hinds bought out John Moore and will move back to the old Free State. A L D Rhodes of Pelahatchie shows interest here. Mrs Gates will move to Mendenhall soon. A crowd from this place and Cooperville visited Antioch Sunday. Elsa Pennington now lives at Morton. Lee Landcaster and he visited homefolks Sunday. Uncle Richard Moore went to Antioch yesterday and attended Sunday school at Lynwood. Uncle Richard is living on borrowed time but looks younger than 80 years ago. Even Pennington helped fetch windows and fixtures for his new house and will move in soon. Evan is a hustler and destined to be one of our coming men.
Cool weather approaches as Alice Garrette is reported sick this week. O. J. Ragland traveled to Brandon last Saturday for business. Robt. Pierce visited relatives near Steen's Creek on Sunday. Attend Methodist church services this Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cook visited Lynwood relatives late last week. School reopening shows encouraging improvement for teacher Mr. Covington. Ed Alexander back from Greenville plans to stay some time. J. S. Covington and W. T. Barbour attended Monterey Literary Society Friday night. Mrs. Bullock and daughter Lucile visited Brandon relatives last weekend. Oscar Bullock invites inquiries on baking biscuits. Walter Berry and family from Mon-
In a neighborly note the town records that Mrs Laura Garrette plans to move back to her old home with neighbors rejoining them. The community laments her departure and says she will be greatly missed.
Mrs. O. A. Sanders is very sick Eleanor Liles slowly improves after days of illness Several young people from Fannin and Union attend Sunday preaching Mrs Easterling of Lake Providence La visited sister Mrs O Rouse this week R J Harper of Weathersby visits brother CO W Harper John Bethune and Pierce Sanderson of Jackson visit homefolks Bro Chapman preaches regular hours sermon morning for children evening lecture on the Holy Land enjoyed by all
Mayton community updates include wedding bells forthcoming, Mrs. Cook ill with fever, Sunday school progress, new winter stock by J F Purvis, visits among residents, attendance plans for Jackson show, families planning Magee relocation, a missed church service at Clear Creek, and the death of Mrs Kennedy with comforting words. Local schooling notes mention Prof John Lawson becoming principal at Puckett, farmers nearly finished with harvest, and multiple sick list names including J E Gill and Mrs Bell Ponder.
Prof Kennedy teaches. thirty nine pupils enrolled. Bob Boggan from D Lo moves to J M Williams's for another year. A girl born to T B Allen and wife and a girl born to W S Hayse and wife. Mary Ann Hutson and W L Womack wed at the bride's parents on the 27th, Rev Boone officiating. S A Baker on business to Canton. Prof R D Maum preached at Rehoboth. Mr Stubbs improving after illness. Weather cooler, frost expected. Charley and Claud Moore visited. J P Barksdale and family attended preaching. Capt Henry of Edwards buying cattle. Mr Boothe photographed the school and gave a graphophone entertainment. H P Lewis preached at Hickory. will not return this year, but preach at Goshen in Nov. Mr and Mrs Novel Welton of King at Hickory church. Blanch Jones and Henry Pierce visited Mrs Hawkins. W D Pierce moving back home this winter. Master Warna Welch visited from Clinton with his father. Allen Holcomb Jr and Annie Smith eloped to Jackson to marry Esquire Fitzgerald, returning for breakfast. Free schools opened. Miss Singletary at Miles White, Miss Steen at Willow Spring, Rev E B Steen at Hickory Ridge. attendance small. Noted persimmon crop and good weather. John Watergrass urged again, but kindly chide Bro Whitfield for youth and ambition.
Gayden and Co advertises two missing steers about two and a half years old lost on Brandon and Jackson road near turnpike. One is frosty orocane color and the other pale red and white pied. Both branded with the letters I G on the right hip. A reward is offered for information leading to recovery.
An advertisement touts DeWitts Little Early Risers as gentle bile and liver cleansers that purge poisons and relieve biliousness torpid liver and fever prevention. The ad cites A. G. Thornton as a source.
Help wanted for a reliable farm hand, any race. Good wages offered for the right man or boy. Apply to J. L. Bass or J. T. B. Berry in Brandon Mississippi.
A Leesville Indiana man named W. Brown escaped death from asthma after using King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. He reports nightly sleep sound and credits the remedy with instant relief and cures for throat and lung ailments. Guaran bottles 50c and 1. Trial free at Pelahatchie and nearby drug stores.
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