The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1889-07-13
GLENDORA GLEANENGS.
Happenings for the Past Week In that
Thriving Place Specially Report
ed for the Sentinel
GITNnnRA LANDING.

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EDITOR SENT1NEL-We had the
pleasure CT meeting here last week Mr..
J. A. Bentley, travelling for Rothchilds
Bro, mammoth establishment OF ST.
Louis. The genial commercial tourist
did q big business throughout this sec
tion for his house. Mr.. Bentley is a New
orleans raised boy--is handsome and
brilliant, and yet a candidate TOR beneS
dictoral honors.
R. K, Sturdevant left Friday morning
for Boston where he will remain about
two months w wish him a pleasant
soiourn while in the Hub city.
DR.. w. o. Jones. who practiced medi-
cine down here for several years, Is now
= prominent member of the r, G. Flower
Medical Co. of Boston.
Mrs Jas. P. Sturdivent departed last
Wednesday for Demopolia, Ala, where
she will spend the summer with the
cold folks at home" Mrs. SturdiVant Is
most estimable lady. and we wish her
and the bright little son that accompa-
MES her, happy hours during her stay
from home.
DR.. R. L. Jones, one of Mississlppi's
best and most honored citizens, and
we'll known everywhere,is is now on q visit
to his Black Bayou plantation, arriving
here Sunday night. Although the doc.
tor nearing his seventieth year 1t would
indeed be hard to find a gentleman oi
his age that is possessed OF the same
amount energy and perseverance. DR..
Jones is citizen of broad mind and
stately form, is Just the kind OF person
that would command respect and atten'
ton in any assemblage, and we hope his
declining DAYS be one of sunshine and
happiness. With the adjunct of first
class saw>mill, purchased some time ago
through the indetatigable Joe Newbur-
ger. Of Cotfeeville, and that arrived here
last week on the Steamer, r. l.. Cobb, bis
Black Bayou plantation, one OF the lar
pest and best in the State, will stand as
a lasting monument to his thrift and
enterprise.
This is election year and Judging
from the Charleston papers there are
several citizens in Tallahatchie county
who want to be sheriff Mr.. H. H. Do
gan. the present incumbent, and who has
been connected with the Office for the
past fourteen years, is a candidate for
reelection, and our word for it, he will
run the gauntlet like scared wolfe.
Hunter is noble man whether in or ont
of the sheriff's Office, and we fail to see
where the Taxpayers could better them
selves than by continuing him in a
nosition he has filled SO acceptibly for an
eighth of a century.
The railroad is coming, and then we
will be in town, and don't yOu forget it,
The tug-boat Joe Seay r"rsed Glen>
dora this morning at Z orock with a
mammoth barge loaded wit" stave tim
ber that will be shipped to England.
This is proof positive, that this country
is known far and near, tor all purposes,
as one Of the best in the world.
The Tallahatchie river is booming and
vet it is still raining. This has certains
ly been wet June in these parts.
The Birdie Bailey one of the prettiest
steamers that ever ploughed the waters
of the Tallahatchie, made her first triI
up last Saturday. She will make two
trips week from Greenwood to shar
kew, connecting at the former place will
the Parasot line of boats for Vicksburg
The Birdie Bailey is pretty size and ha
big "P;;" gilded between her chmneys
She will be here Wednesdays and Sat
urdays. throughout the summer.
CANNON Stinson, alias Calvin Stinson
negro prisoner sent down here abou
two months ago from Grenada, made hi
escape from here last Friday morning. IL
is about forty or forty-fve years ole, com
plexion black, weight about 15Opounds
hight about five feet seven inches, heav
set, and limps on lett leg left leg i
either deformed or has been hurt year
ago in some way. Your correspondent i
authorized by Mr.: E. D, Graham, tn
county contractor, to say that a iioera
reward will be paid for his deliver,
either on the farm at Glendora or tn
Grenada or Charleston jails.
The Tallahatchie Messenger, one of tn
best and probably the neatest paper eve
published in Charleston, is now produ(
ing articles from week to week write
by Mr.. Merrin, who is now publishln
paper at Plant City. Fla. The artlcl
are headed "Tallahatchie County's WI
Record" which are interesting an
especially so to old citizens OF II
county. Mr., Merrin is a good writ
and is well posted with the history
this county for some time before ar
after the war. 1t was just thirty yea!
ago the first of last January that NJ
Merrin issued the first paper ever pu
]ished in this county, and people cane
Charleston for miles and miles to see u
paper as it came off the old Hand Pres
It was a big day in the history
Charleston, as farthers, mothers, an
sons and daughters, sisters and brother
and aunts, and all the balance OF y
family were there. and on this occassl
Mr.. Merrin was doubtless the center
attraction, as he pufed away grindil
out the latest news received by HIM
the team route. 1t seems to your CO
respondent about thirty years ago gold
glittering gold-was the chief circuI
ting medium, and It is said on Il
occasion many dollar fell on the pu
fishers office stones in payment for !
paper. Many of the names the auth
mentions in his history are very famlll
TO me, For instance, Col. W. Fl. FL
Gerald well known to your readers, v