The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-05-25
AN ENTERTAINING TALK.
Mr.. Levin Lake Talks of Grenada ana i's
People Back in THE sos.

the copy being misplaced;
TUESDAY, the 18th day cfMay, brought
up many things in connection with the
town, once Tullahoma, now Grenada.
'On the 18th day of May, 1895, l
landed in Grenada, rather Tullahoma.
That was a memorable day in the his
tory If this town. The arrival OF two
keel boats on the Yalobusha river,
loaded with western products, owned
by my two older brothers, William
and Henry. The products consisted OF
-four and bacon, plain furniture. with a
small quantity of whiskey and many
other things wanted by the early set
tiers of the country. The people OF
the town we're so jubilant over the ar
rival OF these boats. they heralded
their arrival by powder deposited in
logs and stumps and fred them off.
The town was quite small then, not
over seven or eight families, and as
| many more saloons, with two physi-
clans, Drs. Howell and Edmunds one
lawyer, A. c. Balm. Later we got
from our rival town, Pittsburg, their
newspaper, and still Later their post
| office, which put Tullahoma on a boom,
greatly to the disparagement OF our
rival town. We had no churches then,
one small school in the rival town of
P%ittsburg. The town was improving
and advancing, but since had passed
through a great many vicissitudes. the
back-sets of fires and cyclones, on the
9TH OF May, the anniversary OF the de-
s~tructive cyclone which passed over.
Twenty-Five persons were killed out
right, sixty wounded. The southern
part of tie town was destroyed, con-
sisting of sixty or seventy residences.
Two schools were 10 session at the time
of the destruction. Many were killed
and wounded. The teacher of the
female school was killed and the
teacher of the male school was badly
wounded. The first backset of the
town was by fire in Al, beginning with
Stokes corner, postoffice and many OF
the other buildings on the south side
of the square. And later the destruct-
i've fire in '55, burning up the town
entire, except two buildings, saving the
Lake corner building and the bank
corner. Prior to that time there were
two rival towns, Pittsourg aud Tulla.
homa. Owing TO the strife OF those
two towns, the growth Of both was
greatly retarded. 10 July, '36, they
agreed t o consider, and do away with
their strife. The marriage ceremony
of the two towns was performed on the
4th of July, SO, changed from Tulla'
homa and Pittsburg to Grenada. The
strife being ended, Grenada com
menced prospecting, and has greatly
grown and strengthened to the presen,
day."
Mr., Lake states there was no church
in the town when he came here
There is not a soul, not a single per
son living in the town or county tina
was here when l came here in 1885
The first Nj. E. conference held IL
North Mississippi was held in '3S
Many OF our notable preachers were
present on this occasion. That confer
ence surrounded a territory that i
now covered by seventeen conferences
There were preachers that came OF
: horseback. riding 500 miles. 1t wa
: presided over by Bishop Morris, from
Ohio, who came on horseback through
the country. The conference was hell
: in one OF the stores upstairs. The
we had one church here, which W
! used for day preaching, the Presby
terrain church, now still in use, wit
, the Masonic lodge over'it.
81 visited my home in Maryland i
1910. The first stage coach reache
here in January, '3S, ii memorable da
to Grenada. The line ran from Jack
n son to Memphis. | returned from m
visit in November of the same yea
My wife accompanied ne. We live
ICIc uu'lA Npi loAoAbS ~ va 50 ioh
lily of children.
It my wife and l have lived togethe
It over sixty years. Some Of my childre
p" still reside here, Mrs. LYDIA Owen
and a number OF my grandchildrer
whose mother, Mrs. Thomas Garne
IL died here. During the years w ha'
G lived here we have tried to live RICH
e. sustaining morality, building up
school. My brother and myself bui
the first parsonage in North Nissi
:, sippi."
Mr.. Lake joined the Masonic LODI
in 1888, and at the last meeting of Il
grand lodge OF the state, held
Oxford, he had the honor of being t.
st Oldest member in the state.
err He promises to give US some mo
d. "reminiscences in the near future, a
k. we know he is the one that can do it.
- Piles are not only most painful, b