The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-09-16

! of Mississippi to know that of only
five States in the Union known to be
absolutely free from graft, their State
is n of the five. This is just as it
should be. We have been fortunate,
indeed, in securing honest and up
right officials, and the writer is firm
in the belief that if it were ascertained
hat any other kind had slipped in,
the people would rise in their wrath
and bodily boot him out of the State.
In this age of graft it is refreshing, ill.,
deed, to know that Mississippi is &c
knowledged all over the United States
to be n of only five that is entirely
free from the blight. Let every citi-
zen labor to keep it so.
The fever situation in Mississippi
shows no material change, or, in other
words, no more has happened than
was expected after it was found that
the infection was so general. While
there have been a large number Of
cases at some points, the death rate
has not been appreciable, and with the
means now at hand of combating the
disease, 1t is expected that the quaran-
tine will be a thing of the past after
this year.
The time for the holding of the Mis-
sissippi Industrial Exposition has been
changed from November 8 to Is to
November % to December 2, inclusive.
The change was made IN order to give
time for getting together exhibits and
arranging for the exposition after the
quarantine period had passed. Active
work will be prosecuted, however, dur
ing the intervening time, and the pros
poets for a successful fair are excel
lent.
The strenuous efforts being made by
several Mississippi judges to have the
law strictly enforced III their judicial
districts should be just as s%trenuously
upheld by the people. A laxity of en-
f0rcement will eventually grow into a
general breaking OF the law. An ex-
ample of this can be had in the city OF
Memphis, in our neighbOring State CT
Tennessee. Enforce the law rigidly.
If the enactments are not just, have
them repealed, but by no means allow
a laxity in the enforcement.
The recent agitation against the
adopted arithmetics for the next five
years in Mississippi because the book
contained a number of examples that
were very unfair to the South, has had
the excellent effect of having each of
the examples complained of changed,
and the Mississippi edition at least
will be free from them. That was a
good work that the people can thank
the newspapers for.
Monroe county will work her roads
on the contract system, and has pre-
pared and published an elaborate set
of specifications for the same. 1t would
be well for counties contemplating the
securing of better roads to get a copy
of the Monroe specifications, there be-
ing much valuable information cor
tanned therein. Write the chancery
clerk for a copy, and if stamp is en-.
closed a copy will be forthcoming.
The Bolivar County Democrat, pub
lished at Roseda,e, issued a splendid
illustrated edition last week that re-
fleets great credit upon the publishers
and the enterprising citizens of hat
section. 1t contains twenty-eight
pages, and is replete with information
concerning the section of country it
rnnrocnnfc on6 chnwc II u01l fnp
Rosedale.
The little city of Marks. in Quitman
county, not being satisfied with the
advent of a splendid newspaper, sew
eral good buildings and other evil
dences of prosperity, is now consider
ing the organization of a business
to advertise the advantages of
the place and help in making it still
larger and better. Marks is a game
place, sure.
The McComb City Fair, to be held
at that place on October II to %, in
elusive, promises to be much larger
and better than last year. The good
people of Pike county are not at all
pdulCky over the quarantine,
and have arranged a splendid list of
premiums for exhibitors. The fair
promises, if anything, to excel the
splendid success of last year. 1t has
proven a good investment for the peo-
pie of that section, and will be a per-
manent institution.
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The Board of Supervisors of
county have called a good
roads convention for October 2, when
a full and free discussion of the ways
and mean to improve the roads of
that county will be had. 1t is to be
hoped that the conference will pro-
duce good results, and that Lowndes
county will 500 prove the banner
good-roads county of that section.
l.. E. Hall. of Scranton, has discov-
cred a e. variety of grape that is
said to be an improvement on the
scuppernong, being larger and with
less seed. They are from transplants
of two years ago, and promise to prove
a very valuable discovery for that Sec
ton of the country. More attention is
being paid grape culture than ever be-
fore, and the discovery of this new
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