The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1899-06-03
MISS. SATURDAY, JUNE ;, $780,
JUNE JOTTINGS.
Practice what you preach.

Practice what you preach.
Grenada has too many lOafers
Nine-tenhs Of the born leaders of men are
women
1t is summer. red-hot summer, and the ice
man has us in his power.
Decoration Day, universal holiday in the
North. was observed Tuesday.
The wise man never risks his reputation BY
trying to answer fool questions.
Most people who rob Peter to pay Paul for
| get the last part Of the contract.
When marriage brings a woman to the
wash tub she is justified in calling it q labor
| union.
| Hose Co. No. did some good practice work
Monday night under the direction of Foreman
| Salmon.
A pound Of nice yellow butter only brings
a dime in Northern markets. and it is but
little better here
Grenada is perfect in all things but one
she needs better sidewalks on the side streets
lind needs them bad
Even the town clock does not believe in
working on the Sabbath, and stopped at II
O'clock last Saturday night.
An Ohio man recently hung himself from
the top round OF ladder. Once more we are
reminded that there is always room at the
top.
The southern part of the state has suffered
severely from drouth. Grenada county is
all right--plenty Of moisture-b but not too
much.
The commencement sermon OF the Univcr-
sity of Mississippi ut Oxford will be preached
on Sunday, June 49, by Rev. Chas. Hemphill,
of Louisville. Ky.
Hot weather seems to breed trouble among
the colored population. The srrappcrs are
up before his honor. Mayor Bell. with per-
sistent frequency.
The cape jessamincs, the southland's
sweetest flower. got a quietus from the zero
weather of last winter, aud are conspicuous
this summer by their absence.
Clcaa up your premises and keep them in
good sanitary condition. There is surely
trouble ahead for the person who creates and
maintains nuisance of any kind within the
jurisdiction OF the board of health. AS that
body has Il sworn duty to perform.
A discussion has been going on between
the newspapers and musical critics as TO
whether or not there is genuine music in the
p)pular southern air Of ''DiXie." One thing
is certain. it will make an old Confederate
yell quicker and yell louder than anything
else,
Two of our faircst damsels arose from their
downy couches on Tuesday morning at the
unearthly hour Of four. ate breakfast at five
and at six we're at the depot awaiting the
departure of the Water Valley train to bear
them away to the anticipated pleasures OF
the railroad picnic ut Torrance. They had
to wait until nearly eleven o'clock, but they
wanted to went" and they went-thc most
disconsoate and tired looking young ladies
who ever started out on pleasure bent
How much do you suppose" said loca
dealer to the SENTINEL "thc man gets for the
salt in that barrel. which we are selling fol
81? Well take out your pencil and figure it
Put down 10 cents barrel for our profits
SO cents to the railroad company for ship
ping; 20 cents for cost OF barrel; IL cents fo'
getting the salt from the mine to the dock
! That makes how much: s. cents. Well
that leaves lust Is cents for the Crigina
owner for his salt and the work OF getting II
in the barrel.
From the Water Valley Progress: Mrs
Geo JONES' OF Grenada. spent Wednesday
a, d Thursday with her friend, Mrs. Il, +
Wimberly DR.. Cant returned the first OF
the week from an inspection at Terry anc
Abbeville and reports having small poN al
\ or near both places. DR.. Cant holds to tht
opinion that general vaccination Is the only
way to preventa q wide spread Of the disease
,,... The Newburger Cotton Company is send
ing types OF Mississippi cotton to the Belgian
exhibition OF cotton and its products at Ant
werp, Belgium.
A story is told Of a certain young lady who
- found package of love letters that had
been written to her mother by her father be-
fore they were married. The daughter saw
that she could have u little sport and reaC
= them to her mother substituting her Owr
name for that OF her mother and Il fine
) young man for that OF her father. Tho
mother jumped up and down in her chair
! shifting her feet, and seemed terribly dis
gusted, and forbade her daughter to have
anything to do with man who would writ'
such sickening and nonsensical stuff to :
- young girl. When the young lady handec
=. the letters to her mother to read the houst
became 50 still that one could hear the grass
= growing in the back yard and the bed ticI
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