The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-10-26
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MISSISSIPPI MATTERS
J NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
J By KATE MARKHAM POWER.


,hsre are more than " ooAen orainy'
~' "ro sensible young men in whose
a'ua the matter could be brought to
nHo,sful issue. 1t Is unquestionably
chat these organizations are neces-
u~ N the growth of u towns.
S' must be some official source
i, which to get the facts and fig
needed by would-be investors.
csDitalists who look about them for
.,aces in which to make suitable in
..ments do not often pause to con
''der a town that is SO slow as to have
organized body of business men to
-som they can apply and from whom
.1o, can get the facts and figures they
..ed Our State has great natural
9th and splendid resources, and
,,hile her devoted press is u%nflagging
y. Tho zeal with which these facts are
,art before its readers, it is we'll I'M
aorstood that these readers are largely
a,ome folks" and familiar with the
.,rditions. 1t is the people who never
.so and rarely hear of a Mississippi
newspaper that we are most anxious
~ instruct. Boards Of Trade can do
.h,S and our towns a have Boards
~ Trade. All that is needed is the
will and a considerable amount of
energy mixed with a large amount of
toitb in the town. Our section is the
oulv part Of these United States
,brough which the traveller can pass
without gathering up a trunk load
fmore or less) of pamphlets, folders,
fractures. etc., usually prepared in
attractive style, and telling all about
the country or advertising some spe-
cial point. Every town in the West
land sometimes only the place where
the O ought to be) has its regular
advertising agencies. These get up
and keep on hand facts and figures
we'll written and illustrated, and every
Measure party and excursion passing
through is flooded with them, while
the regular overland trains always
carry supplies of this literature
And such a country as they have, in
some instances, to advertise. Our
stately pine forests, Il glorious coast
country, our fertile uelta and splendid
hill land furnish facts enough
to fill volumes, and figures thai
would cause many an Fastener
west.bound to change cars at Chi
cago" and head ror the South.
Reference has been made in thest
columns recently to the remarkable
increase in the number of children il
the graded, public and private schools
Of the State, and while several town!
are on this roll of honor, we believ'
the prize should so to Laurel. Tha
thriving young city needs more schoo
buildings and more teachers for tn
accommodation Of the children clam
orlng for instruction this term. TIL
teaching capacity should be more thai
doubled and the town needs, RICH
now, three times as much space Il
class rooms as it has. Last year rs
white and III colored pupils were er
rolled. This year the first enrollmen
showed 527 whites and PSI colore
children. 1t is probable that no othe
town in the State car make a Xix
report.
The people of Gulfport went will
with enthusiasm the other day, whe
a large seagoing vessel anchored
the railroad pier. Brother SETTLER
Hattiesburg truthfully says that 6
soon as Gulfport's deep water harbe
becomes a fixed fact a new epoch !
the commercial history Of Mississippi
will begin. And that, with the dee
water harbor at our door, where IL
largest ships can be loaded with HON
made wares and goods, we will hay
in the course of a few years one
the most prosperous States in tt
South, II not in the Union. Fro
here We can ship anything we ca
raise or manufacture direct to al
foreign country at as low transport
ton rate as can be had by any 9th
State in the Union-.and Mississip
has "the stuff" to ship.
The regular fall term of the 8
preme Court of Mississippi conven
Monday afternoon. A large assel
blage Of lawyers from all parts of t
State was present at the opening
the term. The first fortnight or
will be occupied with the docket
the middle district. On the four
Monday the criminal docket, contal
Ing over a dozen murder cases
which capital punishment was afix'
Will be taken up. Among the imp
@nt cases coming before this hi
court during the first fortnight Is
celebrated quo %pdrranto proceedin
against the cotton oil mills on t
charge of violating the antitrust la
jackson is fortunate in the poss
sion of such a citizen as Mr.. Thon
McClelland, who has just let the c.
tract for the erection of a wholes'