The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-05-17
MATTERS
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS
Bv KATE MARKHAM POWER.

IT, we may Judge by the enthusiastic
interest and the wise preparations OF
the officers and members, the Missls'
sippi Poultry and Pet Stock Associa-
tion will have q meeting In January
worthy of the growing Importance OF
the poultry business in Mississippi.
The meeting will be held January bill,
in West Point, and the finest poultry
and pet stock in the South. as well
as prize specimens from all parts OF
the country, will be exhibited. These
exhibitions and the good-natured RI
valry they engender do great things
for Mississippi poultry, and are rapid
ly bringing our stock and our breed
ers 10 the notice of the world. Mr..
]. r. Young is our State secretary, and
it will be through no fault Of his II
his wide advertising and excellent
methods do not insure success. The
Dixie Poultry" (the trade paper) is,
by the way, the very thing that is
needed, not alone by breeders of fancy
stock, but by every farmer or farmers
wife in Mississippi. There is no earth
ly excuse for the present scarcity Of
chickens and eggs in Mississippi. II
every home in the country raised more
than enough for home consumption
the city tables could be easily sup
piled, and the women Of the small
farms would enjoy the rare luxury OF
plenty of pin money" 1t requires a
: little capital, a goodly amount of work
and care, and, first and best of all,
| wise foresight and the economical
planning of poultry houses, etc. But
= the returns are ample and the work
e full of interest; and SO far as we have
i been able to learn, pin money" comes
| by the same route to the woman's
e pocket as is travelled by the more I'M
portant sums en- route to the more ca
g pacious pockets of the head of the
e house." and that route is labor. Usu-
q ally it lies with those most interested
: to make the journey a pleasure or a
e trial.
b With "broilers'' still bringing 80 to
s 35 cents and eggs standing at Is cents
e per dozen, despite the approach OF
e summer, the farm wives around the
e Capital City should find it both pleas
ant and profitable to increase their
e flocks.
L Commissioner R. Fl. Henry returned
" last week from his trip to St. Louis,
where he went to select the site Of the
Mississippi building at the Louisiana
"a n,robo.a EvDocifion Mr. Hanru
st came home full of enthusiasm because
1t Of the magnitude and splendid man
fe agement of this great enterprise, ant
1t is delighted with the site for the Mis-
E. sissippi building. He is pleased be
is cause of the postponement, and say
e that everybody else is in high goo
is humor about it. In an interview Nh
10 Henry says, among other interesting
d things:
)e 1.-THE selection of the site was mad
n on Tuesday, in company with some o
= the exposition officials, regret beini
lie expressed that the members of tn
IN State bureau were not present. Tn
lr site is near the government building
ne on an eminence overlooking TIN
Id grounds, in the section set aside TO
c. State and foreign buildings, and i
most eligible and beautiful, in a grow
ID, of magnificent oaks. The manage
to ment reserves the right to make Sigh
OF changes in these locations, but Missis
he sippi being among the first States Il
a stake her claim can count on a first
N, class site.
ul mo plan for our building has beel
definitely agreed upon, but l am dis
posed to believe that the idea ad
as vanced by Gov. Longino, that Beau
de voir be duplicated, be adopted. Thi
I'M suggestion has met with favor by som
10 of the members Of the bureau, an
ne Director of Works Taylor thinks tn
III idea a splendid one. He says a replic
ell of the old home Of Jefferson Davi
lis would attract more attention than any
thing else this State could build; tha
nv it would attract attention both by res
IN son of its historic interest and peculia
ve style of architecture"
in 1t is certain that Water Valley
en- honored far above other Mississippi
RS towns in the man who serves her
at police justice, Col. M. D. L. Stephen
ne one of the FIVE surviving members
1t the Secession Convention which a
he sembled in Jackson, January 7, 1856
ue Though this stanch old citizen mul
re have changed considerably from II
ne straight, strong, clear-eyed man
ng life's prime, whose picture honors IL
wn writer's room, we are confident TIL
SIS. he is, despite advancing years, quii
re- as able to fight his own battle as l
Of is to put a stop to those OF other
he He declares, with great earnestnes
asst that he has never regretted his vor
IN for secession in that great conventic
ill of 81. May the Colonel, with that a
St too small remnant of the Old Guar
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