The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-04-16
AND MATTERS
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drunk produced by cocaine costs very
little and it transforms It's victim into
a veritable daredevil, who seems to
have no reason or conscience while
under the influence of the drug.
1t Is charged that a great many OF
the crimes recently committed by ne
groes are directly %traceable to cocaine.
1t Is certain that negro laborers are
each year becoming more indolent and
impudent, hence it is probable that
some steps will be taken to prevent
the sale of the drug in Mississippi.
Xxx
En- PEASANT.
During the past several weeks the
delta section of the State has been
visited by a large number of mill men
from the North and East who are
anxious to get options on timbered
lands. A number of large hardwood
mills have already been erected in this
section of the State, but there are yet
thousands Of acres of the finest hard
wood timber in the world still in its
virgin state. Indications are that
within the next few years the hard
wood timber industry In the delta will
rival the pine forests of the Southern
section of the State in the volume of
its lumber traffic. Better still is the
tendency to manufacture it into fin
ished articles right here in the vicin-
ity where the timber is grown. Green
wood, for instance, has one of the
largest furniture factories in the South
and the furniture which it manufac-
lures is of the highest grade. And the
mill is making money for its stock
holders. Several other large factories
are projected in various parts of the
delta and the chances are that a num-
Der of them will be built within the
year.
The Ocean Springs Progress relates
experience that others have had, in
the following vein: "One thing that
jars the newspaper nan Is to discover,
after he has blown his head off try
ing to discourage people from send
ing to catalogue houses, that some fell
lows whom he has been trying to
boost, are getting their stationery
some medicine house or Cheap
John concern. This shakes his ON
fidence in his fellow men and cause
him to wonder if he has not been a
little too fresh"
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With as good stock raising facili-
ties as Mississippi has, it is strange
that farmers will import plug horses
from other States and pay fancy prices
for them. There is enough good graz
ing land in Mississippi, now lying
idle, to raise all of the mules and
that the farmers of the State
can use, and they can be raised here
at much less cost than further North,
where the winters are eve and
stock requires heavy feeding for half
Of the year.
State Commissioner r. H. Henry an
nounces that no more exhibits Will be
at Jackson for the Worlds
and no exhibits will be received
at ST. Louis after April 80. Those
who now have exhibits ready for ship
may send them by express to
st. Louis. addressed to "R. H. Henry,
Mississippi Building" The MISSISSIPPI
pi exhibit at the fair will be a credit
to the State and to the several gen
tlemen who have worked so indus
to make it possible.
A-A
Seventeen new brick houses are In
der contract to be erected in Green
wood. Several others are projected.
More than fifty residences are being
built in various parts of the town. An
railway will be built this sum-
ner and several other enterprises arc
IN the tapis. On April Is Greenwood
will hold an election to vote bonds
'or the purchase of the waterworks,
lights and sewerage.
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Some towns in the State that will
ssue bonds for municipal improve
nents: Jackson, for new waterworks,
$3.50, 900; Meridian, for general i'm !
$3.50, 900; Aberdeen. for wa
.erworks and sewerage, 5000 900; va
700 City, for waterworks, lights and
SITS, 000; Tupelo, water
works, 100000; Gulfport, municipal
improvements, 100000. Mt. Olive and
Flora are both contemplating the is
,uance of bonds for public conven-
ences. And there are many other
Mississippi towns deserving OF men
ion in this connection which we can
lot now call to mind.
A number Of the boards Of super
Tisors of the State have taken ad-
-antage ofsthe authority granted them
~ the last legislative session to in
.rease the salary of the county super
ntendent of education.
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A dispatch from Columbus an
ounces that the Progressive Union.
n organization of the business men
# that city, has secured the location
# a big knitting mill with a capital
took of $3.50, O00. The plant will en-
10y 200 hands. The securing of this
Industry again demonstrates the po-
entiality of organized effort in town
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The Greenville Democrat announces
hat a million dollars of the recent ap-
,ropriation for levee improvement will
expended in the immediate vicin-
ty of Greenville. The money put in
o circulation in that vicinity ought
o make Greenville a hummer. 1t is
lready one of the best towns in the
Marshall county citizens have
aunched a determined effort to secure
he location of one Of the branch agri-
ultural experiment stations provided
or by the last legislature. BY the
z--- - +h0 hill ono of tho stations