The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-09-02

States Land Office at Jackson over
sixty thousand patents for lands in
the State of Mississippi. These pat
ents are issued by the United States
and are the basis of title to all lands
purchased from the government.
They will be delivered to the owners
of the tracts upon the filing in this
Office Of an affidavit to the effect that
he is the owner of the land described,
and the original receipt is lost or de-
stroyed.' Please insert in the papers
for which you correspond a e1tice to
this effect.
FIRED w. COLLINS, Regldter."
This notice means more than Is in
dictated on it's face. 1t means that
in the State of Mississippi there are
more than sixty thousand pieces OF
land Of which the title has been
perfected. Mr.. Collins says that for
owners to secure these patents. all
that is necessary is to certify that
the original receipt has been lost or
destroyed and that the party applying
is the owner of the land. 1t might
be well for those who own land that
came from the government to give
the matter some attention to prevent
trouble in the future.
Reports from all over the StaUe in
dictate that never before has there
been so much work Of a sanitary ma
ture done and that the towns are
now in a condition to claim the appel
lation of "spotless." This is certainly
one good effect of the fever scare.
They ought to be kept in this condi'
ton all of the time and it is criminal
not to do so. The crusade of clean
ing up will not only tend to lessen
the possibility of infection from yell
low fever. but from other diseases as
well. The writer becomes more for
chilly convinced every day that the
proper thing to do is to take the
none being spent in establishing
guarantees and spend it in sanitation
ard do away with the stringent quar-
antine.
The little city of Marks. in Quit
man county, is partaking of a large
slice CT prosperity. 1t is in the rich
delta country and already has a large
trade. The business houses have
been more than doubled in q short
time and now Eugene Clarke has
started g newspaper to keep things
humming. There is a great future
before Marks and the people up there
are of the kind that will likely get all
that is coming to them.
Recent reports state that only four
more miles of road are to be con-
structed before the NJ, j.. & X. c. will
be abe to operate trains through from
Mobile 10 Middleton, Tenn, the north.
ern terminus at present. The work
has been delayed somewhat by rains,
but is progressing fairly well.
Friend Robertson. of the Wesson
Enterprise. in response to about $50
letters from Northern people asking
for printed matter descriptive OF his
| section. issued an edition of his paper
! last week filled with information that
will prove valuable and mailed to
these interested parties. 1t was an
| especially interesting paper and will
| TO doubt prove to be worth many DOL
lars to Wesson and vicinity.
~Indianola will have concrete walks
of uniform dimensions in the princi-
pal parts of the town. The city board
will pay half the cost and the abutting
property owner the other half. This
is a good scheme that other towns
might adopt with profit. Money spent
in good roads and walks is judiciously
expended and regret will not follow
such action.
Greenwood claims to be the clean
est city in the State. 1t is to be
hoped that a large number of cities
will get themselves in shape to con
test this claim. If every city and town
in the State was trying to occupy the
position claimed by Greenwood there
would be no cause for the present bus
iness-destroying quarantine. Com
mence next year early, clean up the
towns, destroy mosquitoes and keep
open house.
Capt. J. F. Merry, of the Illinois
Central railway, with headquarters al
Manchester, Iowa, desires experiences
of successful farmers for use In
publication on Mississippi. Ii yot
have been successful. write 1t out anc
send to him. The writer of this de
partment also desires such expert
ences and will be glad to get as many
as possible.
Grenada's new brick factory has
proven all right in that the product II
as good as can be manufactured any
where. 1t will prove a great benen1
to that city, as well as profitable II
the owners
Meridian is to have a new Sl5O,OU'
cotton compress to be built n oper
ated by parties from New Orleans.
The wagon factory at Laurel vii
be greatly enlarged. almost II no
quite doubling its present capacity
This plant has been very successful
from the beginning. and goes to prov
that such establishments, IL properl,
handled, can be made a success Il
this section And why not? We hav'
the material froia which they ar
manufactured and the market for th
in;cha1 article We snCuId do mo