The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-22

New Albany has bought the machin-
erv and commenced work on a $25..
600 box factory for making packing
cases of all kinds. The plant will
employ a considerable number of
hands and nrove of no little help
to the industries of that growing city
Large quantities of timber that has
little value for anything else will be
worked into merchantable stuff and
made to bring money. The plant will
serve the double purpose of furnishing
a market for the timber and employ
ment for labor.
Although Mississippi is generally
looked upon as strictly a cotton State,
it might interest the people to know
that last year the Orn crop amounted
to the ~stupendous figure of 80, 709, 664
bushels. That should diSpel the idea
hat We raise nothing but cotton. The
corn crop for 1905 promises to reach
the fifty million mark on account of
the reduction in cotton acreage.
While less attention is paid to wheat
growing in Mississippi than any other
Southern State, something over $4,000
bushels were grown last cal. No
figures to give the amount received
for trucking have been compiled, but
it is safe to say that even the truck
erS themselves would be amazed at
the enormity of this industry and the
amount of money it brings into the
State every year. With the cotton
crop bringing from SIS, 100000 to $780,
600, 000 and the corn crop being worth
$40, G00, 900. it looks as if our State
stood pretty we'll up on the two prin-
cipal crops of the South.
Vaiden's handsome new courthouse
will be formally dedicated on May
2. An elaborate program is being
prepared and some of the leading ora
tors of the State will make speeches.
1t is a substantial and cOmmOdious
building and the people of that thriv-
ing burg have a just cause to be hap
Ply over its completion and occu-
pancy.
Work Is under way on fourteen
miles Of the Mississippi Central rail-
road from BrOokhaven east. The road
will prove a great boon to the people
of that section of the State and will
open up a splendid trucking and fruit
growing country after the timber 10
cleared away.
Jackson's two million dollar manu-
featuring concern and railroad are as
sured facts. The ground for plant
and terminal facilities, as well as inn
mense bodies of timber up Pearl river,
have been bought and paid for. 1t
promises to be the largest numbering
concern in the State.
R. H. Parker. of near Waynesboro,
is the right kind of a farmer. He is
successful and prosperous and owns
one of the best farms in that section.
Mr.. Parker always raises all the meat
needed on his farm and never sells
less than from 1000 to 5000 pounds
each yea He keeps bees and gets
more honey thar his family can use.
Good stock only will be allowed to re-
main on his farm, which consists OF
500 acres.
President Roosevelt should feel
more kindly toward Mississippi since
the outcome of the Memphis News
Scimitar's contest for the largest fam
ily of living descendants of one per-
son. Mrs. Mary Buck, OF near New
Albany, was the winner OF the first
prize. successfully showing that she
had 154 living descendants. The next
prize was awarded to some n IN
Tennessee, with 104 living. There
were a number in Mississippi with
more than this, but according to the
terms of the contest only n prize
could 90 TO each of the States of Mis-
sissippi. Tennessee and Arkansas.
Mrs. Black is SO years Of age n hale
and hearty. Her large family OF de-
scendants number many OF the best
people in the State. In the face OF
such convincing argument as this 1t
seems impossible for other sections or
the country to claim that MISSISSIPPI
is an unhealthy State.
The Armour Packing Company Will
erect a depot and warehouse in jack
son to cost $40, 900. 1t will be three
stories high and fitted with all mod
ern conveniences for handling refrlg-
Grated meats and products. The Ar
mour Company is approaching the I'M
portance of trade relations with MIS-
sissippi and will arrange IN time 10
get in on the ground floor.
Hattiesburg is preparing to enlarge
the city limits to three times what 1t
is at present. The city is growing
fast and more territory will eventually
be taken in from time to time, as the
population increases. The population
is something like 10000 at present.
Mississippians are feasting on rad
ishes, lettuce, strawberries, new pota-
toes and other table delicacies. Up
about Chicago and Milwaukee they
are now looking for enough warm
weather to plant the spring vegeta-
bles. Who wouldn't want to live in
Mississippi anyway?
The action of Mississippi farmers Ia
forming an association to handle the
cotton crop and care for the surplus
will be the entering wedge that will
/ put thousands of spectators out of
} business who have amassed immense