The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-05-13
BY II. E. BLAKEsLEE, Jackson.

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little attention paid to the possibility
of making them carriers of commerce.
Water is the most economical means
of transportation known and there are
a number of streams in Mississippi
that could be made of service with
the proper attention. Pearl river could
be made navigable for small vessels
as far up as Edinburg with a small
amount of work, and there are dozens
Of other places where Uncle Sam
could place a few dollars to an advan.
tage. Wake up on this subject, and
see that our congressman present
your claims for recognition in the ap-
preparations made with such regular
ity.
Greenwood is organizing a local
building and loan association with a
capital stock of 500, 900, all being tax.
en- by home people. Such an ~associa.
ton will prove of much benefit to that
growing city by enabling many to own
homes by paying on the installment
plan, whO could not do so otherwise
A city of home owners is preferable
to n of renters and the proposition
of Greenwood is justly receiving the
unqualified endorsement of it's besl
and most influential citizens.
Ten thousand mules will be needed
in constructing the Panama canal and
Mississippi with her commanding po-
sition near the scene will not be in POI |
sition TO furnish a single one of them. |
1t sometimes looks as if the best thing |
that could happen would be for cotton
to go to five cents and remain there
for a few years. While such a thing
would be disastrous to our people in
one way. it would certainly force a
Investigation of products that would
be worth thousands in the end. Mis-.
sissippi should raise a large number
Of mules for export, to say nothing of
enough for our uses here at home.
|
A gentleman living near McCOmb
City planted one-eighth acre in Eng
lish peas and realized over $50 from
that small piece of ground. Others in
the community, stimulated by his sue.
cess, will plant some truck next year.
The pioneers who break the ground
for improved methods and diversified
tiOn are the ones to whom the greater
credit is due.
The great number of educational
institutions throughout the State are
announcing the closing dates of their
session, which has been pronounced
the most successful since the war
Mississippi ranks second to none
along the line of common education,
although lacking in some of the pro
fessional lines. We are proud of our
public schools and there are very few
indeed who begrudge the money spent
in maintaining them.
Hazlehurst has been shipping con.
siderable quantities of truck and the
season is young yet. Up to the 9th
fully $500 bushels of green peas had
been shipped and the crop was not =
nearly exhausted. Some of the grow. ,
ers had sold. more han 800 worth to
the acre. Beans and cabbage will be
the market in a few days and later
will come other products. After the
is off corn and cotton will be
planted and a good crop realized.
What country in the world offers
greater inducements than this of ours?
Let the world know of the good things
we possess and the development will
be wonderful to behold.
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After a long drawn out fight by
the travelling men of the State and
the Jackson Board of Trade, the Rail.
road Commission has ordered a union
commensurate with the needs |
of the city constructed. This will be
good news to a large number of peo-
pie from every section of the State
who have business in Jackson and
have had to contend with the mad
equate facilities afforded. {
Work of construction has begun on {
an extension of the M. & O.'s branch {
to Vardaman, to a point ten miles [
west, which will be called Calhoun {
City. Only a short time will be re. $
CURED to push this extension through 7
when it is believed that another ex- |
will be made and an eventual {
with the Ittabena branch of
These lines will open up a
section Of country.
The weather has been very ~unfavor- :
able for planting the cotton crop and :
is safe to estimate that the acreage .
will be even more greatly reduced :
han at first contemplated. Very lit :
lie cotton has been planted and a :
considerable amount of the contem- :
plated acreage will be put in corn and :
)ther products. Trucking has also
and the berry crop which was
lust being taken off is damaged to a
considerable extent. :
The prosperity of Mississippi is at '
racting hordes Of ~adventurers and I
confidence men to the State, as has :,
the case everywhere when "pay '
has been struck. They come in
very imaginable disguise and the a
nan who misses them all is fortunate c
indeed. Articles of household neces- c
Iity are peddled at enormous prices, !
AXE nostrums are sold to ignorant a
people at fabulous prices, bogus his. q
orical and biographical works sold to r
hose with an abnormally developed J
Jump of vanity at prices that would
nake a sane man shudder. A safe