The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-22

MISSISSIPPI MATTERS
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By KATE MARKHAM POWER.

Yazoo county and Yazoo City. the
newspapers therein and the citizens
thereof always work together for the
good of their section and their enter
prises. That is why "Yazoo' is known
wherever Mississippi is, and that is one
great reason for the fine position it
It has achieved. Just now there is
much interest in the selection and ex-
hibition of a county display at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. If
this is carried out as well as it should
be (and as 1t a be) we doubt II any
other one county in this country will
show richer and more varied natural
products. Every other county should
follow Yazoo's example and begin to
work up an interest in this great op-
p%ortunity for the South. We append
an extract from a strong appeal in
the last issue Of the Herald:
Nov that Mississippi has decided
to be represented at the Worlds Fair
at st. Louis next year, it should be the
pride of every county in the State to
collect specimens for an exhibit. A
laudable spirit between the counties
to collect and arrange the best ex-
hibits of forest, field, factory, works
of art, needlework, household, etc.,
will enable the States exhibition to be
the equal of any in the vast collection
that will be displayed in that vast ex
position.
Representatives from all the world
will be at st. Louis. They will care
fully note the exhibits of the various
nations, States, counties and cities, and
from these they will Judge which are
the most enterprising and which offer
the best inducements for investments
and homes. Certainly Yazoo is not
going to let this golden opportunity
pass to make every effort to show that
1T is second to no county in the State,
and that her people are the equals Of
any in enterprise and industry. 1t is
not too early to begin deciding how
the county's exhibits shall be collected,
and of what they shall consist. The
farmers can materially assist by care
fully looking over their crops after
being harvested and selecting the best
of everything to help swell the list.
1T Is a matter that should appeal
to the pride of every one, and the
Herald feels confident that such will
be the case. Let us all begin to talk
and work for a splendid Yazoo county
exhibit at the St. Louis Worlds Fair
of 1903. What say the people?"
The thirty-seventh annual session of
the Mississippi State Press Association
will be held in Greenwood, May 20, 81
and %, and a most interesting pro
gramme has been arranged for the &C.
casion by the officers. These are
Messrs. j. d. McKie, Biloxi; ]. T. SEN
ter, Columbus; R. B. May, McComb,
and ]. G.. Mcclure, Yazoo City, and
they make a fine working team, capa-
BILE of pulling through whatever they
undertake.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans
In session last week at Meridian de-
cided to purchase Beauvoir, the home
in which Mr.. Davis spent the last
years of his life, and to devote it to
the old soldiers. 1t is certain that it
will be we'll preserved and fittingly
kept up by these worthy sons of noble
%sires," and if the old soldiers desire
it for a resting place between life's
battles and eternal peace, we are very
sure that they will be made cordially
welcome across its historic threshold.
A great many Of our devoted Daugh-
ters and Sons, as well as a few of the
Veterans, were sorely disappointed
home bill and later the Beauvoir bill.
But, as Senator Dent of the Sixteenth
argued, We believe, after all, that this
is the better plan, and that it more
tr%uthfully shows a genuine love for
the cause and a sentiment that binds
our hearts to all that was a part of
that great struggle. Mr.. Dent argued
that there was no sentiment in a few
men arbitrarily taxing the people to
buy this place without their knowledge
or consent. However, he urged the
plan Of purchasing it by free will offer
ings, and pledged the amount that
would be required of his district OF
the spot. And it will be paid on de-
mand. Every mar who knows Senator
Dent, the successor of the lamented
Dinsmore, knows that.
The Packer, a journal which has
proven Of vast benefit to the truck
growers all over the South, gave no.
tice in a recent issue of its intention
henceforth to publish the names of
growers guilty of false packing and
other fraudulent devices. The Packer
has been of immense benefit to grow
ers in exposing fraudulent commission
houses. 1t now proposes to protect
buyers and consumers by exposing the
fraudulent grower. 1t seems that this
information will be furnished the pa
per from every market in the country.
Rosedale is to have another of the
small manufacturing plants that do
so much for a town. The most recent