The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-31
VOLUME XLVII.
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS
By J. L. POWER.
state Farmers' Institute.
By J. L. POWER.

State Farmers Institute.
We copy to heartily endorse the fol-
lowing timely and practical SUGGESTIONS
of Mr.. Wilson in his Picayune Current
Comments:
The farmers institutes in the sew
eral counties of Mississippi have at
tracted SO muchh interest this year,
and are proving so productive of good,
as to suggest the idea Of State farm
ers institute next year, as culmina-
ton or rounding up Of the county in
stitutes.
The services of the best institute
conductors of this and other States
could be secured for an institute here
at the capital. The railroads, ever
ready to promote the material and in
dustrial welfare of the State, may be
relied on with confidence to give a
very low rate to delegates attending
the institute.
The citizens should throw open their
doors and invite the farmers of the
State to their firesides and hospitable
boards and make their visit one long
to be remembered. Here is an oppor-
tunity for the people of the capital
city to meet the farmers Of the State
and for the farmers of the State to
meet each other-the sun-browned
yeomanry, the salt of the common
wealth-an opportunity to do the
whole State and people service and
for the capital city to honor itself by
the entertainment of the farmers of
Mississippi in the homes of it's citizens.
At the time the million-dollar state
will ha rfn o of
new 100000 hotel will be open to the
public, the new $4,000 courthouse will
have been built, the 100000 opera
house will be ready to receive the dele
gates to the institute, the $100, 900 sew
benefits and the men who dig the
ground and who. consequently, pay the
taxes. would, in addition to attending
the farmers institute, see all these i'm
provements and rejoice in the prog
ress of their capital city.
There is something in this idea. The
more it is dwelt upon the more it will
grow. The assembling Of the repre-
sentative farmers of Mississippi, five,
say. from every county, making one
from each supervisors district, at the
capital for State institute, and their
capital city would make an epoch In
the history of this great agricultural
State. 1t would be memorable in
State recollection. 1t would prove
grateful to patriotic sensibility. 1t
would weld the people Of the State
into one harmonious whole. and they
would march on to diversified develop
ment in solid phalanx.
ht1 te \ Htvs fDr hA ~
the State to think about. 1t is some
thing that should be acted upon. II
contains germ Of wonderful possibil
ties. 1t would mean much for Jack
son, for the people Of Mississippi and
for the State.
The Hattiesbug Progress always
manages to find a little silver in the
lining no matter how dark the cloud
Hence 1t was with great pleasure thai
1t chronicled the peculiar freak Of the
late terrific storm on the gulf. Presi
dent Jones of the Gulf & Ship Islant
Railroad was, naturally, very uneasy
when he learned of the violence of thu
tornado, lest the "big ditch" he is dig
ging in the Gulf of Mexico, should b.
filled up with mud and sand, and so
practically ruined. To his great JOY
however, it was found that the wind
being in kindly mood toward at leas
one thing in that section, with mar
yelous strength and precision hat
blown out the mud, etc, already in thu
canal and washed 1t clean, leaving /
four feet deeper than when the storm
struck it. This saves a great deal o
work by the dredge boats, and is ;
feak so remarkable as to be attracting
wide interest. The Progress says
will need only few such blows to Civ
them deep water at Gulfport.