The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-03-24
MORE KIND WORDS
FOR GRENADA AND HER PEOPLE
BY Some of the Editors of the
National Editorial Association.

)ut Of Memphis, where we had been so
yrandly entertained at 1l:45 p. M. on
February, %, and arrived at the town
Of Grenada, Miss, early the next morn
ing, in good time for the breakfast to
which we had been cordially invited.
A reception com mittee composed OF j.
W. Buchanan the witty editor OF the
Grenada SENTINEL. and Messrs. Vile,
Hoffa, Newburger, boarded the train
and welcomed US in ad a n The IA
vored -four hundred" and odd who
composed the tourist party were march,
ed 20 the court house where the fifteen
hundred white residents Of this bust
ling little town had spread a breakfast
for the multitude which seemed almost
a miracle of loaves and fshes-only
that while the loaves, white aud crisp
were they,and so were the fishes brown
and toothsome, there we're numerous
other viands. How in the world such
a small town could get together such
a quantity Of delicious food and arrange
IT so temptingly and serve it 30 skill.
iully will always remain u mystery. VI
the staple article Of this-as we'll as all
other southern repasts, we can only say
that, meeting on our way back from
breakfast a motherly gray hen we sal
uted her with the respect due TO the
only survivor of the late wholesale
massacre of the kith and kin.
a we'll fed. happy. not TO say hilari-
Gus, crowd, we assembled in the BaP-
list Church, and were formerly well
coined by addresses from the Baptist
minister, and from DR.. McIntosh, pres.
ident OF the Grenada WOmen's College,
the lovely students of which 10 caps
and gowns turned out in numbers, TO
brighten up the church and occasion.
The little town OF Grenada Is a hus.
tier. Once upon a time the Cyclone
devastated her but she got up and
shook herslf together again, and was
as good as new. Another time the fire
tiend brought her to ashes and hack
ened ruins, but she proved a Phoenix
and now she has churches oil all de-
nominations, good common schools Tor
both white and colored children, a hne
college for girls, and boasts u manu-
factory for COMPRISING cotton seed.
the oil from which forms the basis OF
Fairbanks ''Cotosuet" and the refused
is used, some as a fertilizer, and some
as cattle food for which purposes 1T is
exported in large quantities notably to
Sweden and Norway.-West End (Chi-
cago) Advocate.
Leaving Memphis in the night we
awoke at early daylight in the pretty
little city Of Grenada, Mississippi. A
colored band aroused US from cur
slumbers, and we were soon conducted
to the court house in the center OF the
town, where the ladies had ''e~r -nd
palata6le breakfast spread for the ex-
c%ursionists. On those tables there was
an abundance OF everything that heart
could desire iu the way OF food. After
all had been satisfied the editors were
conducted TO the Baptist church, a
pretty little brick structure. where we
found Brother Buchanan-the one and
only DECENTRALIZATION OF the Grenada
SENTINEL; and to whom the excursion
lists we're very largely indebted for the
warm Southern greeting so heartily
extended by the Greuadiaus. He had
the gavel as 1t were, and in a few min
utes had the whole push smiling audi
bly, with his keen humor and abundance
OF wit, Addresses of welcome were
delivered by the President OF the Gre.
NADIA Female College, Rev. W. A.
HAMLET, the bright young pastor Of
the church, and others, all of which
dubbed over with hospitality and good
cheer. Responses were made by Col
Henry, President of the Association
and Mr., willard, OF New York. Abou'
rs of the young lady students of the
college honored the editors with theil
presence robed in the regulation cap ant
gown. For Grenada let US say it wa
the warmest and most hospitabl'
greeting, size and population consider
ed, we received along the route. 1t i
a pluck little town of between three
and four thousand people. Although
it has been totally destroyed by a cy
clone, Tapped up by fire, and scourge'
by yellew fever carrying off 400 OF it
inhabitants, the will OF the people ha
remained supreme, and it has arise
phoenix like out of the ashes of de
spair, and to-days lands a thrifty, hus
Ting little city full Of renewed energ
and get-there-Eli. 1t has its ow
water works, electric light plant, goo
public schools, a Female College, cot
ton compressors, cotton.seed oil mil
and a full quote Of brick bushes
houses and dwellings, with a goo
agricultural country on all sides of il
-Greenville (Ill.) Advocate.
Leaving Memphis, our next stop wa