The Brandon news., February 25, 1909, Image 3

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TO FARMERS
Now is the time you realize on your
seasons work. As you sell your grain,
stock or produce, place your money in
open account with a reliable bank.
Pay your bills by check, which makes
the best kind of a receipt, and avoid
the worry and danger attending the
carrying of large sums of money, on
your person or in your homes.
Our offices are always at the disposal
of our customers and country friends.
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Brandon, - - Miss.
Located in Brick Barn on Public Square.
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GROCERIES - FRESH MEATS -- ICE
Groceries bought right, kept fresh and clean,
and sold at close prices, with prompt delivery is
our motto, Everything needful for good living.
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A trial will convince you that Tanner’s Old
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J. E. MORE, • • PEUUMTCHIE, MISS.
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Pefahatchie Bank,
Pelahatchie, Miss.
We have Money to Loan at
Prevailing Rate of Interest
DIRECTORS: J. A. Spann, Sr., P. B. Summer, J. G.
Patrick, C. W. Taylor, S. S, Rhodes, R. W. Patrick, and
I. W. Shields.
BEAT CONTEST PROGRAM MARCH
' 13th, 1909.
1. Oratorical * contest—girls—on
from each beat.
2. Oratorical contest—boys—on
from each beat.
3. Spelling contest—two boys or
girls or one boy and one girl from
each beat.
4. 100 yard dash—two boys from
each beat.
5. Vz mile race—two boys from
■ each beat.
6. Egg race—girls under 14—two
from each beat.
17. Sack race—boys under 14—two
from each beat.
8. Running high jump—two boys
from each beat.
■ 9. Standing broad jump—two boys
from each beat.
10. Barrel race—one boy from
each beat.
11. Three-legged race—two boys
from each beat.
12. Running broad jump—two boys
from each beat.
The full program for county field
day with names of contestants will b
published as soon as the president
of the association receives reports
i from beat contests. The members
" of beat committees will please com
municate with one another and have
everything in readiness for beat
contests. It is suggested that con
g tests in speaking and spelling might
I' be held on Friday night, November
11th, and the athletic contests on
baturday, following
No boy or girl will be eligible who
has not been at some time of the
year a pupil of a Rankin county
school.
Line schools can send only Rau
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kin county pupils. All beat contests
must be held on date fixed by
executive committee, March 12th,
unless the committee grants an ex
tension of time.
| i^acn Dear committee is requested
to report promptly the names of suc
cessful contestants also the names of
seconds. Seconds will be eligible in
county contests if regular contestents
, fail to appear.
The oratorical prizes, are gold med
als given by the county teachers as
sociation.
The spelling prize is a gold medal
given by the Brandon News. The suc
cessful contestant in spelling will be
given a free trip to the state teach
ers association at Natchez, providing
a team of five from Rankin county
can be secured.
A prize will be given on Field Day
for the best loaf of light bread, ordi
nary size, made by a Rankin county
school girl. This contest is free for
all school girls. Any school girl may
compete, but she must bring her loaf
of bread to Pelahatchie on Field Day
and must have a written certificate
' that the bread was made without
«■ help.
Send reports of beat contests to
► president of the association.
Beat contests will he held at the
following places:
Beat 1—Florence—W. N. Taylor,
J. I. Covington, Miss Eva Smith, Com
Beat 2—Brandon—L. C. McIntosh,
D. L. Walters, Miss Eva McKay, Com
, Beat 3—Fannin—G. Hann, Eugene
Lee, Mrs. Barksdale, committee.
Beat 4—Pelahatdhie—Jno. Rundle,
Rev. Simmons, Miss Dollie Craig,
committee.
Beat 5—Johns—Gilbert Cook, Miss
Belle Hurst, F. L. Tyree, committee.
JOHN RUNDLE,
President association.
S. R. MYERS,
Supt. education.
MINNESOTA INDIANS.
They are Particularly Well Provided
for and Seem Content.
“In no State or Territory of the
Union are the Indians better provid
ed for than in Minnesota,” said Henry
Evarts, of Cass Lake, Minn., to a
Washington Post reporter. “Some of
the Indians of Minnesota have large
sums in the banks, which they have
acquired from the sale of lands, the
cutting of the timber and from the
products of their farms. In no other
reservation in the country—and I hav
visited most of them in the West—
are the Indians able to make so much
money as they are on the Cass Lake
reservation.
“I have studied the problem of the
Indians for thirty years. At one time
it looked to me as if the degeneration
of the race was but a matter of a
few years, but I have changed my
mind, and now believes that fields
of usefulness have been opened to
the Indians and that he is taking ad
vantage of them. There is not the
■'prejudice against the higher educa
of the red man that exists in the cas
of the negro.
“While higher education has not
become general among them by any
means, there is a tendency on
the part of the Government to give
its wards a more thorough training
in the things that will make them
useful citizens, I believe that not
so many years from now you will
see a great many Indians in the pro
fessions. They were somewhat slow
to take up the labors of the white
man, but after they began they show
ed remarkable proficiency. The past
two decades have worked a wonderfu
change in the character of the Indian
Of course, irresponsible character he
was. He is actually becoming frugal
in many ways, and through education
and experienece is becoming a seif
i'ospjcthig and thrifty member of so-i
ciety.”
GOOSE HUNTING. \
Better this Winter than Many Years*
Past.
Goose shooting has been better in
the Texas Gulf coast country this win*
ter than in many years past. The
winter has been a very dry one, most
of the grass has dried up and the
big honkers have been to a compar
atively few feeding grounds in the
rice fields and on the burned prairies.
Several Houston parties have brought
in big bags of the birds, one party
getting sveenty-five in Matagorda
county.
A good dog was secured by J. S.
Kuhn and C. W. Shuck, of Houston,
at Katy, a point thirty miles from
Houston. They brought in twenty
one geese and four sandhill cranes,
which are mighty good eating when
properly prepared.
Kuhn and Shuck used a trained
ox to do their shooting. They found
the geese on a big burn a couple of
miles from the town of Katy They
would walk along on the off side of
the steer, wrhich was in charge of its
owner, until they had come within
range, when the ox would ge moved
along, leaving them standing still.
As the geese or cranes arose they
fired, Kuhn using an automatic and
Shuck a double-barreL The birds
would go away, circle around and re
turn within a short time, seemingly
reluctant about leaving a good feed, '
and unable to locate the cause of
their trouble in one of the cattle, a
number which were within sight. The
shooting lasfted from 2:30 until 4:30,
when the birds finally left.
The ox also proved useful on a
bunch of ducks which alighted in a
pond on the burn. Several of these
were secured, but the ducks left after
one dose.
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Mules to Plow.
Plows, all sizes, with and
without sod cutting points to
break your land. Disc Harrows
to pulverize it. Drills to put
your oats in evenly and also to
distribute your fertilizer at the
same time. Planters to put in
cotton, corn and peas and save
money by not wasting your
seed. Riding cultivators to
work your crop economically
and well. Fertilizer Distribu
tors to be used before planting,
also when crop is growing to
shove it along to greater profit.
. Pea Hullers to save time at
iittle money cost. Wagonsand
Harness of best make to haul
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with. Buggies and Surreys
from the best manufacturers.
In fact, the teams, the imple
ments the vehicles needed on
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the farm—at prices right.
x South State Street,
Jackson, - - - Miss.
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corn don’t fail to buy SOUTHERN COTTON
GROWER or SOUTHERN SUPERIOR FER
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Show you sample and last bulletin by state
chemist and be convinced and gratified when
f gathering time comes. {
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Pelahatchie. '
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Meridian, Miss.
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