The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-11-04

u NO town IN the State can boast of
1 more wonderful development in the pas
two years than New Albany. 1t ha,
been transformed from an ordinarily pooC
county town to a thriving manufactur
ing city. The population has increased
from 1893 in 1900 to 2,7OO at present
Large factories for The manufacture OF
hardwoods, clay and other materials into
the finished article have been built
Splendid business structures have taken
the place of insignificant buildings and
the town has undergone one of the most
remarkable transformations ever wit
messed in the South. 1t was the writer's
pleasure to visit the numerous factories
recently and learn something of their
magnitude. A sixty-ton oil mill was the
first and has completed two seasons of
success. An $4,000 cotton compress.
with the latest machinery and immense
brick sheds is just beginning the second
season. A clothing factory that employs
125 hands has just completed its first
season, paid 80 per cent. dividend and
increased capital stock from $780, 900 to
100000. A handle factory is nearing
a year of good work and promises to be
a good investment. An immense fur
niture factory, with the very latest ma
chinery and employing 40 hands, is
running and turning out a product that
IS pronounced by experts to be equal to
any made anywhere. A box factory
with a large capacity is just beginning
to set the wheels in motion. Two brick
factories, one for pressed and the other
for plain, are running on full time to
supply the demand for home consump-
ton. The NJ, j. & X. c. railroad is
building large shops and relay stations,
which adds a great deal to the prosper
lty of the town. The town has recently
installed one of the most complete svs-
tens of waterworks and electric lights
to be found anywhere. A sos, 900 hotel
and hundreds of other buildings are 90
ing up as fast as men and money can
push them along. 1t is in a good section
OF the country, and there is every reason
why the place should have 10000 in
habitants when the enumeration is made
by Uncle Sam in 1910. New Albany will
occupy a prominent place in the Greater
Mississippi" of the future.
The following from one of our bright
est exchanges contains a splendid lesson
and a wholesome moral:
eve know a man who as a farmer was
an acknowledged success. He made the
biggest crops of any one in his section.
His wife was the best cook in the neigh
horhood and she always had plenty to
cook. His hogs were always fat, his
barn lot full of COWS and he had con-
siderable money ahead. But the desire
to go to town at last took possession of
him. He decided that with the money
he had and that received for his place, he
move to town. live easy, wear
a white shirt and polished shoes the bal
ance OF his life. His wife held out
the move for a long time, but at
last she signed the deed and they let
the old place go.
"That was ten years ago. Today the
old man is driving a dray, the few quar-
ters he picks up each day helps to keep
body and soul together in a little rented
house in the outskirts of the
\ success as a farmer and hon
he went into business with a town
as a partner. Five years ago the
business failed. Everything he went
nto was a money-losing proposition. At
asst he had to sell his Town place to pay
l note he indorsed for a friend. (?) His
wife lost her health and is now an in
yalid. The farm he left ten years ago
5 worth 81 900, Just four times what he !
for it when he sold. Il" is too
I'D to start over as a farmer and is a
most unhappy man." !
Which leads us to remark that a sue !
essful farmer is the most Independent s
nan on earth and should be the happiest. I
Baldwin held a stock show and general
xposition of one days duration recently,
With excellent success. This little event -,
nay pave the way to the organization of {
successful county fair. Our people are S
asst awakening to the advantage of such
Okolona boasts of some splendid side \
Talks and laments the fact that other
improvements are lacking. Good walks
ROADS are an educator JnaC VIII !
v~entually lead to the best of everything. :.
I. w. FARRELL, of Newton, made 1000 O
allons of molasses from a two-acre \
atch. 1t was Louisiana cane and the j
throughout that section is said to
c excellent, better than for years. :,
IL
The Aberdeen button factory has re- u
emily made a large sale of goods at fair f
This factory makes a finished
from common mussel shells that
re found in the rivers and lakes of the "a
tate. u
Hon. Charles Scott, of .Rosedale, has
zen in Europe for some time studying v
Dor conditions, and has come to the n
inclusion that the farm labor of Italy =
i'll prove the salvation of the South +,
the much-discussed labor question. He OF
Is shipped a car load of laborers- and tt
lnounces that in the future his planta- II
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