The Grenada sentinel., 1906-12-22
Greater Mississippi
BY II. T.. BLAKESLEE

than ever of the good work being done
by our State for those unfortunates who
having arrived at decrepit old age and
without family and friends, find them
selves without the means of support.
The home is splendidly situated, well
furnished and admirably managed. Ths
capacity is not just what it ought to be,
but at the present time additional build
ings are being erected and in q short
while many more can be cared for. There
were those who contelded that it would
be impossible to get the veterans to 60
to this home, but that contention has
been exploded long ago. Provisions are
made to care for aged c7aples, and sew
eral who have trod the path of life to-
gether for years are there to pass pleas
ant1y the remaining weeks or days, as
the case may be. 1t is an institution
that appeals to all and one that will be
people.
The newspaper men are taking advan-
tage of the good times and number
have issued attractive editions for
Christmas. The Greenville Times gets
out a 00-page paper with several hun
dred illustrations of industrial and agri-
cultural scenes in Washington county
that is one of the handsomest ever issued
in the South. 1t will be worth thou
sands of dollars to Greenville and the
surrounding section of country. The
Eupora Progress issues an excellent trade
edition, with colored cover, that reflects
credit upon the editor as well as the
town it represents. The Greenwood En-
terprise, Marks Review, Yazoo Sentinel
and others sent out big editions filled
with good advertising and reading mat
ter for holiday shoppers. The newspa-
pers of the State are rejecting the pros
porous times being experienced and web
they should, for there is no more i'm
portant factor for good times than hon
est and conscientious work by a live and
wide-awake newspaper.
Some weeks since the writer called
through the daily press for information
concerning peat .bogs in the State, the
same being asked for by Massachusetts
concern for some purpose unknown Up.
to the present time more than dozen
such bogs have been reported, varying
in size from a few acres up to two
hundred. The greater number are In
the eastern central part of the State,
but some are reported from both the
northern and southern counties A rec
ord of this information has been re-
corded in book kept for that and sim
liar purposes, and will no doubt be
found of value in the future, if. not right
now. Peat is valuable for certain pur-
poses and Mississippi is well supplied
with it.. - q
Two hundred and ten Thousand pounds
of beef has been contracted for by the
trustees of the insane hospital at Jack
son for The ensuing year. This enormous
contract amounts to $50 pounds per
day. Armour & Company land the prize,
as they did last year. 1t is to be re-
gretted that it was not possible to get
this meat in the State and thereby en-
courage our home people to raise more
stock. Even if it were necessary to pay
a little more per pound, the difference
would have been made up. in haying the
money left at home. When such indus
tries are properly encouraged by our own
officials there will be greater interest
taken by those who are inclined to raise
stock.
W. B. Finney, of Madison county, for
merly a citizen of Valparaiso, Ind, and
who moved to Mississippi four years ago,
has made an excellent record for rals-
ing cotton the present year. He sold
bale in Canton few days ago that
weighed 655 pounds at 20 cents per
pound and was raised on one and a quar-
ter acres of land. 1t was good long
staple. and the seed readily brought so
cents per bushel The bale of cotton
and seed netted Mr.. Finney $4,000. He
has model farm, and a whole lot more
good citizens like him would be highly
The hardest proposition man In
public life runs up against is to 90 rlght
when he is reasonably sure that the
public will not understand and csnsure
him for the action. In selecting men
TO fill the various offices next year
select those that you believe viii do
what thev believe to be right, regardless
Of what public opinion will say. We
need men of that character to maintain
1ur past excellent record for honesty In
handling affairs of both county and
State. Elect only good and true men.
Our friends Brown of the Guntown Hot
Times. Anderson of the Ripley Sentinel,
Newman of the Baldwin Home Journal
md Boone of the Bonneville Plaindealer
ire still hunting increasingly for products
With which to eclipse each other. Pity
,ut what we could get more rows like
his.
Harry Bailey of West Point added ad-
litional laurels to his poultry farm at
he Birmingham poultry show, captur-
NO three out of possible four first
premiums. This is highly creditable
ecord for Mississippi chickens and en-
,hasizes the fact that there is an open
NO for good money to be made in a
poultry business here if intelligentiy
handled.
Mississippi has twenty million acres OF
and that needs labor to make it produce
omething of value. We need good white
,eople from the densely populated States
lear us, and need them badly.