The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-07-22
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.

Tor their account, the entire holdings
of the Meehan Rounds Lumber Com
pany, Meehan Junction, a station ten
miles west of Meridian. The deal,
which included saw and planning mills,
logging road and 20. 900 acres of vel
low pine timber lands, involved a to-
tai of over $500, 900. The capital stock
of the Cotton States Lumber Com
pany is 81, 900 900. Extensive improve
ments are planned, also further pur-
chases of timber are being made,
which means the expenditure of many
thousands of dollars by the company.
The Liberty-White Railroad, which
now runs from McComb City to Lib
erty, in Amite county, is contemplate
ing the extension of it's line into Nat
chez. 1t is reported that the Liberty
White people have made large pur-
chases of land in Amite county, and
that the railroad people have pur-
chased Concord Park at Natchez. The
Liberty-White Railroad is one of the
prosperous short lines in the State.
Last week a suspicious looking
beetle, discovered in Monroe county,
was OCnI " 1IOl. VI. w. I1GTlCk, DIT lie
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
for him to pass on. but the beetle was
so badly crushed that the professor
was unable to ascertain the exact Ma.
ture Of the insect. but he wrote that
he believed it to be an acorn weeril
The parties who captured It thought
that 1t was some species of boil wee
vii. So far this season there has been
no boil weevil scare in This State.
There were several last veal, hut all
Of them proved to be false alarms.
M. S. Fisher. secretary of the Mis-
sissippi Cotton Association, was seized
with a violent attack of acute indiges.
ton, complicated with partial paraly.
sis of the heart. at his Office in Jack
son lest week. Opiates were admin.
istered and he was taken to a sani-
tarium in a serious condition, where
he died. Mr.. Fisher was about 40
years of age and a native of this State.
He was a p~ostoffice inspector during
The first Cleveland administration. He
was at one time secretary of the State
Democratic Executive Committee. He
was elected secretary of the Cotton
TASOOCiCIlOn WuSn II was OISdlllZCu
here last winter, and had been active
and jealous in furthering its interests.
The Kinds County Board of Super.
visors has sustained the claim of State
Revenue Agent Adams against the
Delta Pine Land Company for back
taxes on solvent credits amounting to
$4,000. About $4,000 of the sum was
in dispute, and the board was of the
opinion that the company owes the en-
tire amount claimed.
Hon. Luther Manship, of Jackson.
the well-known lecturer, has consented
to deliver six lectures for the benefit
of the Odd Fellows Widows and Or
phans' Home. The times and places |
for these lectures are as follows: Yves
son, July "a; McComb City, July 25;
July &c; P~oplarville, July
81; Columbus, July %; Holly Springs,
July 20. The order already has $4,000
ON hand for the erection of this home.
A county institute for the teachers
OF Lincoln county, will open July "a
at Brookhaven, and it is expected that |
there will be a large attendance of
teachers from all over the county.
When the Confederate veterans meet
Jackson in September, it is highly
probable that the Legislature will be
nemOrialiZed to make an appropria-
ion for monuments to mark the spot
where the Mississippi troops fought at
Vicksburg. The leaders are in favor of
passing strong resolutions, and the
several camps are passing resolutions
regard to the matter.
President w. T. Lowrey, of Missis-
'ippi College, expects to take t1e field
n a very few days in the interest of
he $4,000 endowment which it is ex-
)ected to raise from among the peO-
Die. The endowment is to be 500, 900,
,ut $4,000 has been given, contingent
N raising $4,000.
On July 81, under the auspices of
he A. and M. College, a farmers fn-
will be held at Clinton, in
Kinds county, and the people of the
are making extensive prep
lrations to care for those who will be
n attendance. Prominent farmers
all over the county will be in at
enhance.
1t is announced that farmers insti-
utes are to be held at Forest on July
/, Harpervil'e on August 8 and Pu-
aski on August 4. All of these places
re located in Scott county, and it is
expected that there will be a large at
enhance.
DR.. Kane, a veterinary surgeon, who
ecently visited Goshen. in Rankin
ounty, where he went to investigate
malady among the stock of that sec
ion, reports that the disease is char
in its worst form.
From all over Mississippi comes tho
ews that the people are making war
n the blind tigers. The tigers have
bout as many lives as a cat, but they
re getting a ace for their lives now
/ almost every section of the State.
n some communities in the State
cannot exist for any length OF
me, owing to the state of public opin-
IN there, while in others public opin-
IN is rather ~listless On the subject.