The Brandon news., February 25, 1909, Image 1

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VOL 18, NO. 5. BRANDON, RANKIN COUNTY, MISS., FEBRUARY 25, 1909. $1.00 PER ANNUM?"
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SAVE PART of the money you make and put it in the
bank. Put just five dollars a week in our bank and in
twenty-five years this sum and the interest on it will be a
snug fortune.
We will pay you 4 per cent interest on the money you
put in our bank and compound the interest every six months
on time deposits
Brandon Bank....
....Brandon, Miss.
SIDNEY L. McLAURIN, ROY L. EOX, .W. H. BARNES,
Vice-President. Asst. Cashier. President and Cashier
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We will have with us next Fri
day and Saturday March 5th
and 6th, Mr. Bush, special re
presentative of A. E. Anderson
& Co., of Chicago, III.
This is a tailoring house of great
renown and Mr. Bush is an ex
pert in measure taking. If you
want to see a great line drop in
and we will take great pleasure
in showing you our stock.
Also receiving our new line of
E. &W. Shirts at 50c, $1.00 and
$1.50. They are beauties.
New line Arrow Brand Collars,
best made.
New line Neck Wear.
Just Wright line Men’s low cuts
in Tan, Oxblood and Patent
Leathers. Come in and let us
fix you up.
Your friends,
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VVe wish to announce to our friends anl the general
public that we are now open and doing business in
the new Gale Building, on the corner of President
and Pearl streets, with a new, complete and up-to
date line of Dry Goods, Shoes, Clothing, Men's and
Ladies’ Furnishing Goods, and everything else that
is carried in a first class dry goods store, and we
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wish to say that if you are m need of anything in
our line we will kindly ask you to call around and
inspect our goods. Our mofto at all times will he
fair and square dealings wi h everybody, and our
prices just a liftle cheaper than you can buv them at
any other place, for cash only. A call is alLwe ask,
and we assure you that ourforce of experienced
salespeople will he glad °* show you every aftention.
Yours For Business
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Cor. President and Pearl Sts., - - Jackson. Miss
RIBBON CANE SYRUP.
We find the following in the Laurel
Cronicle:
“Any energetic young man who will
delibertly, systematically and energeti
cally apply himself to the study and
exploitation of the ribbon cane syrup
inudstry inSoutihMississippi can make
for himself a fortune in the next five
or ten years.
“The wealth that lies in this syrup
business, awaiting only the touch of
the alchemist who will transmute the
cane into coin is almost uncomputable
in terms of dollars and cents.
“Here in a limited area of SoutliMis
sissippi and a small part of the Ala
bama is grown a cane peculiar to this
soil, and, so far as known, not pro
duced or producable elsewhere on
earth. Uhis cane yields a syrup su
perior in flavor and in richness of
.substance to anything known on the
table of modem epicures. It is a
syrup that, when Its merits shall be
come generally known, will be in su
preme demand by people who are
able to pay any price for whatever
their palate craves, and whose ever
increasing demand for an article the
supply of which is positlevly limited,
• will soon Wake it one of the high
priced luxuries on the tables of the
wealthy.’”
So far from this famous cane be
ing confined to a limited area of
South Mississippi and small parts of
Alabama” it has been successfully cu
tivated by hundreds of the farmers
of Monroe and neighboring counties,
for many years, and the yield in this
county in 1908 was many thousands
of gallons,
Why, In this county, as the Chron
icle might have noted by report in
The Aberdeen Examiner several^ mon
i ths ago, we have a steam mill and re
‘ finery for the manufacture of syrup!
from the ribbon cane, and last week
was reported the ribbon cane crop of
218 gallons made by President Win.
Kolb, of our county Union, on a lit
tle less than half an acre, and a crop
of 764 gallons from a measured acre
and a half, is reported by W. H. Tyle
of Atala county, and we heard of
some big crops in Holmes county.
There has been little exported from
Monroe county, for the reason that
local demand has taken producers
supplus at better price than export
could command, but we have hundred
of families who use no other molass; *
Mr. L. B. Lawrence, of Caledonia,
An Lowndes county near the Monroe
line, has a steam molasses factory,
that handle large quantities of ribbon
cane, and a similar factory is owned
by Dr. Jan Uitahovan of Lowndes
county.
In Holmes county, at Durant, con
ductor Ben Weathersby of the Aber
deen Division of the Illinois Central
railroad, runs a mill that turns out
several thousand gallons of ribbon
cane syrup a year that is sold in*
cans in many Mississippi towns.
Mississippi, as we havee often said,
is a leader among {he States in the
matter of diversification of crops,and
in almost every county can be found
almost every product^ congenial to
soil and climate.—Aberdeen Examiner
The News published some time ag
reports from individuals and cane mill
owners, that indicated a crop a syrup
grown In Rankin county in 1907 of
over 60,000 gallons, the crop of.>1908
was about the same. The “Free
State” possibly makes more syrup 1
than any other county In Mississippi,
and of as fine quality as made any
where in the world. Last week’s is- ,
sue of the News contained a letter ,
from Senator McLaurin urging the '
farmers to plant larger crops of Lou
isiana cane this year than usual and
! spoke of the possibilities of the great
demand that would be built up for
pure suryp could the people of the
North be made acquainted with its
excellence. It is a crop that requires
the right kind of sandy soil to pro
duce the best results; it also must be
I gathered when ready and it requires
an experienced person to successfully
make it—no green hand need expect
to boil it just right, until taught by
experience, which is often bitter.The
crop cannot be made much larger
this year unless seed cane is brought
in. fro.nLouisiana as the seed to plant
was saved out last fall and the bal
ance ground up. However, more fer
tilizing can be done and better crops
made, with more seed cane banked
away next cutting season, for the
demand is sure to grow.
Stewart Douglass Robinson, a neph
ew of President Roosevelt, fell out of
a six story window of one of the
dormitories at Harvard, Saturday
night and was killed, the accident
doubtless resulting from the young
man opening the window for fresh
air, as he had been complaining of
being sick, and leaned too far out.
Our battleship fleet anchored in
Hampton Roads Monday after circl
ing the globe without a serious mis
hap, the success attending the mar
velous feat gaining the admiration
the naval would and the plandits
?f all our people.
Bale hay and all kinds of feed
stuff at
W. G. BARNES.
Mardi Gras was celebeated this
iveek In New Orleans, Mobile and
Natchez with more expensive page
tnts and magnificent halls than ever
jefore. a ,
We have been getting
in lots of new goods, and
we want you to come in
and see them. We have
nowr in stock Internation
al Harvester Company’s
Disc Harrows and we can
get any machinery they
manufacture on short
notice.
We have the celebrated
Perry Cultivators and
will soon have the Im
proved Circle Brace Di
verse Cultivators, which
is claimed by Texas Far
mers to be the greatest
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invention in the world tc
dispel the terrors of Boll
Weevil.
We have the Oliver
Plows with which yon
can plowT as deep as yon
with the righ \
kind of Cultivators to Cul
tivate shallow you wil
not have any cause tc
j fear Boll Weevil or-a Pool
l Crop.
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Don't for a momen'
suppose that we have noi
the thing you want in the
• Hardware Line because
if we don’t carry what
you are looking for we
can give you a price on
almost any article and
get it for you on short
notice.
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We want you to come
here if you need any
thing in the Dry Goods,
Shoes, Hats, Furnishing
Goods Line. Embroide
ries, etc. As we are pre
pared to surprise you in
the prices which we are
making throughout the
lines.
We feel that you will
certainly lose as much as
we will by not giving us
the chance of sbowing
you through.
We have just received
a new line of Saddlery,
Buggy Harness, Breech
ing Strap Goods, etc.
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A. M. Shields
Everything But
. Groceries....
Brandon, Miss.