The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-03


nual session In Oxford on February
2S and March, makes bulky vol
ume of 3S2 closely printed pages.
There are 2S1 lodges in the State, hav-
ing a total membership of 1856 in 274
lodges reporting, and about IT'S in the
lodges not reporting, or a total affiili-
ated Of 10,O31. This is about twice the
strength of any other fraternal order.
The net gain of last year over 1899
was 2S4. The total degrees conferred
in 1900 was 1897. The total deaths,
23S, including three Past Grand Mas
ters-Jonn M. Stone, John F. Nc
Cormick and William Startling, of
whom excellent portraits and bio
graphical sketches are given.
The Grand Lodge was organized at
Natchez, July 27, 1918, and has met
annually since, except in 1862. Of the
90 Grand Masters, 1S survive. The
present Grand Master is Oliver l.. Nc
Kay, Meridian. Inc present Grand
Secretary, ]. L. Power, was first elect
ed in 1869, and is now serving his
thirty third year. There are only three
his senior in years of service in all
the grand bodies of masonry in the
world.
A planter near Ackerman, has rails
ed from three acres in wheat, thirty
two bushels, whicn made unusually
fine flour. The same land was plant
ed in corn after the wheat was
threshed out, and the corn from it is
also excellent. This shows that our
farmers can raise their own flour
bread" as well as corn bread" at
home. The above information was
published in the local paper last week,
and just beneath it whether purpose
ly or by accident we do not know was
a statement of the feedstuffs (only
whole car loads were recorded) that
9cle .eceived in the town of Acker-
man from September /, 1900, to July
l, 1901: Corn, los car loads meal, 80;
flour, At; bran. 4; oats, s.; cotton seed
hulls, 46; fertilizer, AZ. With land all
around us capable of producing, with
ordinary care, such crops as the plant
er spoken of above, has produced, it
seems incredible that our people will
continue the SUICIDAL policy of send
ing off, for so much that could be
raised right at home.
Mr.. George A. Wilson of Green
wood, is seeking to interest the people
Of the great delta in the culture of
rice. These low swamp lands seem
particularly adapted to rice culture
and he argues that, in case of drouths,
the splendid artesian wells abounding
in that region could be used for irri-
cation purposes. During the rainless
months of this summer our usually
beautiful delta country has been
changed to desert of burnt out crops,
but there are beautiful oascs here and
there, where the corn is abundant and
of highest quality, thanks to the water
from artesian wells. Mr.. Wilson is
right, we believe, and the delta may
yet rival our neighbor, Louisiana in
her rice yield. To one who has seen
the deserts of Arizona and Southern
California made to blossom as the rose
by water which frequently is piped
from the snow-clad mountains fifty
miles away, it seems an easy venture
to irrigate with an artesian well right
ON ones own plantation.
The Lexington Advertiser recently
published an item Of unusual interest
in making known the fact that every
member of the Lexington bar was borr
and reared in Holmes county. This
does not mean that attorneys from
a distance do not come to Lexington
for there have been, during the pas
thirty or forty years, scores of lawyers
from distant points who have located
= been to the home boys" and SO wei
have these "home boys" been equipped
for their work that the strangers hav,
not tarried long on the slim practice
i they could command. This speaks wei
for Holmes county boys, likewise TO
Holmes county.
No matter how far back Mississippi
may be sitting during the discussion o
: some of the important questions OF tn
l. times, she always manages to come t
a the front when the beauty Of the fai
d sex is up for debate. A recent instanc
!. in proof of this is the fact that httl
q Elizabeth Brooke Hunter, grand
r daughter of Col. c. M. Brooke, o
b Kosciusko, won the one hundred do
n lar prize in New York City in tn
# international beauty contest betwee
q the United States and England. Thi
q prize was recently offered by the Ne'
II York Journal, and as thousands upo
q thousands of beautiful children fror
n. England and America were entered
4. Col. Brooke, as well as many othe
]. Mississippians, are proud of his littl
granddaughter's distinction.