The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-11-18

MISSISSIPPI MATTERS

s1SSlnpl division or the southern Cot
IN Association, gives out the following
circular letter:
"To the People of Mississippi:
81 feel quite sure that all fair-minded
men will agree with me that the South
ern Cotton Association has accomplish
ed some good. That much more good
can be accomplished by better Organi-
cation | feel assured. | feel it absolute
ly necessary hat we 90 to work and
bring about a more complete OrganlZa-
ton, and | ask the people of every
county in Mississippi to send their
county president and secretary, or at
least two representatives, to meet with
the executive committee at Jackson on
Nov. % and "A. The meeting will be
called to order promptly at 10 o'clock,
am, on Nov. %, in the house of repre-
sentatives. | should also like t o have
any others who feel interested enough
In this great work to attend and give
us the benefit of their counsel. My
Idea in calling this meeting is TO con-
slider carefully this organization from
every standpoint, and to devise ways
and means for better organization and
more definite purposes. 1t will be
~ tAANtD CSiCA Jun PoN III "a
penseS of its own representatives. A
few dollars expended and a few days
loss Of time should not prevent your
attending. | consider this meeting of
vital Importance to YOU. Your pres
ence will be worth a great deal to all of
us, and | want you to como, not with
the idea OF a frOlic, but with the idea OF
two days hard work"
Less than thirteen months ago the
village OF SturgiS, in Oktibbeha county,
between ~Starkville and Alderman, was
wiped out by fire, nothing being left to
mark the spot except the smOldering
ashes and n lonely store. In less
time than two hours $40 900 worth of
property was consumed, with only
s., 800 insurance to cover the loss. This
calamity would have disheartened pee
pie of less energy and determination,
but not so with the merchants Of Stur-
gis. Today where the old, dilapidated
buildings stood, twenty new brick and
modern wooden buildings stand, well
appointed for their business, with invit-
ing plate glass fronts. Before the fire
the weary pedestrians had to wade the
mud in winter and the dust and sand in
summer, but not so now. They have
graded the streets, put in good side
walks and have made the little place
look like a city.
DR.. G. G.. Rucker, Of Bluff, is the
owner of some very interesting relics
dug from the grave of an Indian in the
Tailahatchie hills. The grave was ac-
.cidentally discovered as the result of
hogs roofing up the ground and bring
ing to the top some old spoons. Fur
Their digging brought to light the skel-
etOn and some more spoons, a bowl, a
bottle and a brass kettle. The bones
SO old as to be easily crushed in
the hand. The bowl is in almost per-
feet condition, which is an unusual
thing for bowls of this kind and age.
The coloring is very strange, but beau
tiful. The bottle is made of dark-cOl.
Ored glass, and is almost ~unbreakable
on account of thickness.
An Eastern cotton factory has ex-
pressed a desire to get to Jackson, and
the city is going to be asked to take a
sufficient amount of stock to bring it.
The factory is a observation-disclosures
concern, and the owners are anxious to
get their plant down in the vicinity of
jhe cotton patcheS-as a great many
a already done, and as many more
Ire going to have to do in the course of
line. The city Of Jackson has a great
factories of one kind and another,
no cotton mill, and that is what is
believed to be necessary TO put the old
own on the real high road to pros
Senator McLaurin of Sharkey and
Dulaney of IsSaquena declare
he cotton crop in the delta is only 60
,er cent of what it was last year, and
N many fine farms the crop amounts to
These gentlemen are two Of
he largest planters in the delta.
The board of supervisors of Coahoma
ounty have let. the contract for the
obstruction of a steel bridge over Sum
.ower river between ClarkSdale and
'riars Point. This is the second steel
ridge for which contract has been let
Tithin the past few months.
The police of Jackson have been Civ
lg the blind tigers a genuine shaking
p recently, and several of them, white
nd black, men and women, have been
ned as much as x00 and the costs. 1t
to be impossible to break up the
ger dens, their profits being SO large,
ut life is being made a burden to some
f them, and they declare they are done :
18th the business. Some few of the 4,
der and stronger ones have been ]
pulled" and fined so many times that
ley have grown used to the feeling
nd hardened to the crime, SO that an
before the courts has no
errors for them.
The following subscriptions to the sill.
Dr. service fund being raised by the I
3vernOr were sent in last week: Presi- !.
ent Spencer, Second Vice-President |"
inley and Vice-President Russell of
le Mobile and Ohio and of the South !
Railways, 800 each; the Missis-
ppi Home Insurance Company of