The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-03-23


The Meridian Star expresses regret
that when the members of the Misss.
sippi Press visit the Pan-American
Exposition next summer they will
find nothing but bare walls and dust.
laden floor whore the magnificent
products of this State should be we'll
under supervision" A bill to appro-
pirate $1,000 was recommended by the
committee; but million dollar capitol,
million dollars for public schools,
textile school and increased appropria.
tions to the colleges, prevented the
demand being pressed. The Exposition
officials made a splendid impression,
and under other circumstances an ap.
preparation would have been made. II
would have been a wise expenditure.
DIR. John L. johnson, one Of the fore.
most ministers of the Baptist church in
Missisisppi-a former professor OF
English in the State University-has
purchased the Hillman college property
at Clinton. He us at present conducting
the school, but after June it will be
under his absolute control, with
faculty of his own selection. His eld.
est son, Prof. j. L. johnson, who is an
honor graduate of the State University,
and has large experience as teacher
in Georgia, will be associated with his
father as vice-president of Hillman col
lege. This college has noble record
of nearly half century, and it will
certainly be sustained under the new
administration.
Hon. VIM. d. Torrey, State Senator
for the Tenth District, died very sud
denly of. heart trouble, at Fayette, on
Thursday evening, 14th. He was in
town on a social visit, and complained
several times during the afternoon of
pain in left side, and while at friend S
house for supper, and after bathing
his face sat by the fire and expired
without a struggle. Mr.. Torrey was
death will be widely mourned. He
was native of Mississippi; born August
5. 1850; lawyer by professions; gen.
tleman by inheritance. He leaves to
his children the Heritage of "a good
name"
Rev. H. G. Hawkins, Mississippi Con.
ference Secretary of Education, is very
much distressed about the loss of a
package of Twentieth. Century roll
books, which he left on the train at
Madison Station on the Monday follow.
ing adjournment of Conference. The
railroad officials have been diligent in
trying to trace the package, but with
out success. 1t is hoped this will meet
the eye of some one who can make Mr..
Hawkins very happy by sending him
the package to .Centreville, Miss. The
thirty or more roll books in the pack.
age contain subscriptions to the twen'
tieth century fund.-
Grand Master o. L. Mckay, /. 0. o.
F., has issued his proclamation ZEN
joining upon all subordinate bodies in
the jurisdiction oi.Mississippi to take
appropriate action for the due COM
memoration Of the twenty-sixth day OF
April, it being the .eighty-second ami
versary of the Independent Order OF
Odd Fellows, by suitable exercises in
observance of the day and by public
Thanksgiving to Almighty God for HIS
manifold mercies to us as individuals
and as an order"
From our own experience and ob
servation we know that reformatory
, school for boys, and perhaps for some
girls, is greatly necden in Mississippi
This is the testimony of Rev. L. S. Eos
| ter, as we find it in the "Orphapage
Gem" The orphanage has received
numerous applications to receive boys
J who were not proper subjects for such
| charity, but who might have been put
| | in a reformatory school and made tc
) work, and might thereby have become
| good citizens Several incorrigible'
} had to be sent away.
! The Hattiesburg Progress notes that
, the Perry county records at Augusta
, ..are now exposed and mouldering in
the dilapidated old wooden shack" al
that place. Public records, as a rule
are not cared for as they should be-
: Like blessings, they brighten as they
take their flight" A good soaking rain
: or a match and they are gone forever
The Twelfth Mississippi Regiment
of which Richard Griffith was the first
colonel, will hold a reunion in Mem
phis.