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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
10 KEEP - .MACIIAS
PENSACOLA PEOPLE WANT GUN-
 BOAT TO STAY.
New York for Repairs-Ala. bama Couple ElOpes and
 Weds

Pensacola, Fla. Dec. 14-(Special)- Strenuous efforts are making by Mayor c. c. Goodman and prominent citizens of Pensacola to prevent the gnnboat Machias being sent from the Pensacola Navy Yard to New York for the com pletion of the work which Is now be- ing done.
 The Mayor has addressed letters to the Senators and Representatives of Florida in Washington. as well as prominent men there. urging upon them to use every endeavor to have the order revoked and thus allow the re- building of the vessel to be done in Pensacola.
 An immense amount of money Is to he expended on this vessel. and 1t is desired therefore to keep her here and allow residents to do the work and thus aries. Some months since an order was issued by the department transferring many of the vessels here to other yards for repairing. but through active ef- forts of Florida's representatives, this order was revoked and 1t is now hoped to havo the last one changed.
 Alahamians are Welded.
 MT. Frank Little. age 21 years. and Miss Rosalie Little. age IS years, were married here last night by County Judge Bellinger. the young couple hav- ing eloped from their homes In Ala bama.
 The couple arrived in the city at a late hour from the north and at onco proceeded to procure a marriage license. In this they found many obstacles. the office having beeen closed and tho Coun- ty Judge could not be found. Finally he was located at lodge meeting, and consented to return to his office. where the necessary license was procured.
 In the presence of couple of wit nesses the young people were welded and went their way rejoicing. They volunteered no information, excepting that they had eloped from their homes in Alabama. and chose Pensacola as the point to become united.
 New Methodist Manister.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15

Miss Jessie Lott will return tomor- row morning from Nashville. Birming- ham and Montgomery. where she has been visiting friends.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15

Miss Marie Richard is expected home next week from Indianapolis, to spend the holidays with her parents, Mir. and Mrs. F. E. Richard.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15

MT. W. A. Lott. Jr., came down to- day from the University of Alabama to pass the holidays with his parents.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
Meeting of Policyholders.

w. D. Robinson, of New Orleans, a
policyholder, has issued a call for a
meeting of the policyholders of the
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Com
pany and the Mutual Reserve Fund Life
Insurance Association in the States of
Mississippi and Louisiana, to be held
In the parlors of the New Denechaud
Hotel at New Orleans, Thursday, Nov.
7, at II o'clock noon, for the purpose of
taking such steps as may be necessary
for the protection of their interests and
their legal rights as policyholders.
requested to send representatives or
proxies and their names, addresses,
numbers and amounts of their policies.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
Treasury Empty.

The first of the month, which means
pay day to officials and employees of the
State government, found the State
treasury well nigh empty, with not suf-
ficient funds to liquidate the warrants
presented by those to whom issued.
The bottom of the strong box, which
has heretofore been ready to meet all
demands, has been reached, and it will
take some smart financiering to meet
all the obligations which are likely to
be presented the treasury department.
In addition to the executive, admins
trative and judiciary warrants due for
September, comes the draft for the sum
of $3.50, 900 to cover the pension war
for the fall distribution, and this
is a heavy demand on the treasury.
There is still a good large part of the
last issue of bonds awaiting bidders,
but there seems t o be no demand for
this paper except in blocks of $500 or
Whereabouts, and this is soon swal-
lowed up.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
THOUGHT 1T WAS A BOMB.
Presidents Party Frightened by q
Bouquet of Flowers.

Pine Bluff, Ark.-It was learned here
today that the occupants of President
Roosevelt's special train we've badly
frightened last Friaay night as the car
was passing through Holley. a small
station near McGehee, when a large
bouquet of flowers was suddenly thrown
through the open window by some pa
triotic citizen. The Bouquet came
through the window so suddenly that 1t
was thought that a bomb had been
thrown, and for a few seconds President
Roosevelt and his party were badly
frightened. An admirer Of the presl-
dent Cad pl epared a huge bouquet and
upon learning that the train would pass
through Friday night he stationed aim
self near the track. AS the train pass
ed he saw no one o deliver the flowers
to, but seeing an open window threw
them into the car. The bouquet fell at
the feet of a group of occupants of the
car, who for a second thought an effort
was being made o blown up the car by
an assassin, but it was soon learned
that the flowers were thrown for an
Other
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
FOR GREATER
800. MISSISSIPPI
Devoted to the Agricultural, Commercial
and Industrial Development of the States
Incompatible Resources Of.cial Organ OF
Department Of Agriculture and Commerce.
BIT II. e. BLAKESLEE. JACKSON.

The fair season is now in full blast
and Mississippi is holding more this fall
than at any time within the past fifteen
years. The fair is an educator second
to nothing in an agricultural, horticul.
tural, stock raising and q general way.
The renewal of the fair spirit means a
great deal for our great State, and it is
believed that next year will again show
a healthy increase in the number OF
counties that will have fairs. Baldwin
was the first to pull off her event, and a
letter from Charlie Newman, the hust-
ling manager, brings the information
that it was a great success from every
standpoint. A preliminary fair was held
last fall, and the good people of that
section decided to make it permanent.
Baldwin is on the line of Lee and Prem
tiss counties, and in a splendid section
of the State. This fair should by all
means grow better from year to year.
Columbus, Starkville, Grenada, Yazoo
City, Forest, Ellisville, Hazlehurst,
Brookhaven, Mt. Olive, McComb City and
other points are holding during the
month, and the prospects are generally
good. With proper handling there is
every reason why the county fairs shohld
prove a success and be of i~ncalculable
benefit to the communities surrounding
them. There is one danger that should
be carefully watched and guarded
against, the past experience of fairs be-
ing used as a warning. Don't let the
racing feature o~vershadow others until
there is little if anything but races.
There is a tendency all the time to
gradually increase the purses for races
which necessarily decreases the prepi-
ums offered for agricultural and other
exhibits, until the fair is little more thar
a racing event, and then its career is
ended, SO far as Mississippi is concerned.
The sentiment of our people is against
such an event until it cannot be con-
Quoted successfully at any point in the
State. Racing cards predominating all
else has killed nine-tenths of the fairs
that have failed in Mississippi. Aovfd
this rock in the future.
The close of the fair season will wit
ness the fourth event of the Mississippi
State Fair at jackson, November 5th to
10th, inclusive. Everything is being got
ten in shape for the largest fair ever held
in the State, and present prospects point
to it being that. Of course, a disastrous
storm akin to that of last season would
make a change, but with normal c'ndi-
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
t,on, tho prospects of the State Fair arc

lions the prospects of the State Fair are
several times as promising as ever be-
fore. The big building for agricultural
and horticultural exhibits is nearing
completion, and will be turned over in a
few days. 1t has twice the capacity of
the building erected last season, and all
space has been applied for. The chicken
show will be better than ever, between
one and two thousand birds already ap-
plying for space. A strong effort Is be-
ing made to bring the exhibit of stock
up to the standard, this feature not hav-
ing been what it should in past years.
Hogs and dogs will be here in large num-
hers. The Liberal Arts Building has all
been taken thirty days before the open
ing of the fair, and it will be full of in
teresting and instructive displays. The
racing card is a little more elaborate
than last year, covering the 9TH, 8th,
10th, 18th, 18th, 18th, 14th and 18th.
The special features will be far ahead of
last year or previous years. A general
programme will be issued In a few days.
Prof. Baldwin and his air ship, the Cali
fornia Arrow, will be on hand and make
ascensions daily, weather permitting.
This is the ship that. made successful
flights at the st. Louis fair, and has
been improved a great deal since. 1t is
not simply a balloon, but an air ship
that salts several miles and is under the
coytrol of Prof. Baldwin, starting from
a point in the Fair Grounds and return
ing to the same point. The 9th has beer
designated Farmers Union Day, a spe'
cial programme having been arranged.
The State Union will have an exhibit
and headquarters in the main ASricul-
tural Building. On the 10th there will
be a game of football between the Uni
versity of Mississippi and the University
of Louisiana. Other athletic sports will
be interspersed in the programme. On
the Sth and 9th there will be a general
demonstration of road building machin-
cry by the manufacturers, and under the
supervision of the Mississippi Depart
ment of Agriculture and Commerce. Au-
dubon Day will be celebrated, Noel and
Holmes County Day, Hattiesburg Day
and many other features of a local and
general nature, including the bloodhound
demonstrations already announced.
A resolution was passed by the direc-
tors of the State Fair this month pledg-
ing the earnest efforts of the manage
ment to the elimination of all games Of
chance or betting on races or other de-
vices, and calling upon the authorities
of both Kinds county and the city of
Jackson to aid in the enforcement of
the law along these lines. The manage
ment of fairs cannot be too particular in
this respect, it being their duty to pro-
tect visitors from the horde of undesir-
able parties that are always to be found
where large crowds of people are congre-
gated. Keep them clean and deserving
of the patronage of the best people ev-
erywhere.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
ASTOUNDING FERRY STORY.
Confes i)l of Loot to Shame Insur-
ance Officials.

New YorN.-Anthony N. Brady, part
ner Of Thos. f. Ryan, took the witness
stand today before the public service
c. mmission and told the astounding
story of the Wall and Cortland street
ferries railway deal.
The road cost him about 5000 900, but
when the late VIM. G. Whitney forced
him to sell the franchise he was paid
by the Metropolitan Securities Com
pany 1865, 6O7. 10. of which, by private
agreement, S25o,OOO was retained by
Brady to compensate him, while the
balance was divided into five equal
parts and distributed by Brady's per-
sonal check to the following benefi-
Charles: Thos. F. Ryan, VIM. c. Whit
ney, p. A. B.. Widener, Thos. Dolan,
VIM. L. Elkins.
A spellbound audience listened to this
amazing confession of loot, which far
transcribed any revelation that was
brought out by the insurance investi-
CATION. Nothing to palate the damn
Tng facts was offered by Mr.. Brady,
and when Delaney Nicol sought to
place Mr.. Ryan in a better light by
cross-examining the witness he merely
brought out the facts more clearly.
A quarter of a million was a high
price for the franchise. That and three
quarters of a million more, represent
ing $715,6O7 of pure loot, went from the
pockets of the Metropolitan stockhold-
ers into those of the five men named and
hoe avor cipoo hoap accounted for
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
MINSTREL MAN COMPLAINS
To Commerce Commission About
Southern Rates.

Washington.-Al. G. Field, owner of
the well-known minstrel troupe, has
filed complaint with the interstate COM
MERGE commission against the Southern
Railway Company aud a number of
other Southern roads on the ground
that the adjustment of the old party
rates granted to theatrical and like
companies is unlawful. He claims that
full individual rates are charged for
his company, forcing him to pay "a
cents per mile more for his entire COM
pany than formerly. He also charges
that special rates are still granted some
companies.
Mr.. Field says his company is ''sub-
serving a public interest, being in a
sense public servants and benefactors."
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12

Yews
Mississippi Weather.

The following data, covering a period
of nineteen years, have been compiled
from the weather bureau records at
sixty-two observation stations in Mis-
sissippi. They are issued to show the
conditions that have prevailed in the
State during October for the above
period of years, but must not be con-
strued as a forecast of weather condi.
tions for the month:
Mean or normal temperature, "a. The
warmest month was that of 1900, with
an average of SO; the coolest month
was that 1895, with an average of GU.
Some of the highest temperatures re-
corded were as follows: 80 at Brook
haven in 1900 and 100 at Leakesville in
1904. Some of the lowest temperatures
recorded as follows: % at Tupelc in
1903 and "a at Duck Hill in 1904.
Frost-The average date of the first
killing frost in autumn over the north
ern half of the State is Oct. 81; over the
southern half, exclusive of the counties
bordering on the gulf. Nov. 5, and over
gulf counties, Nov. q.
Precipitation Average for the month
81 inches; average for number of days
with .O1 inch or more, 4; the greatest
average monthly precipitation was 5.46
inches in 1900; the least average month
~ precipitation was 90 of an inch in
1889. Some CT the greatest monthly
amounts of precipitation recorded were
as follows: 1928 inches at Water Val
ley and 1901 inches at Bonneville, in
1900. No rainfall was recorded at II
stations during October, 1904.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
Monuments to Southern Women.

An era of monument building in
mississippi is expected to follow the
State reunion held at Meridian, for
much of the business on that occasion
was devoted to the perfecting of plans
for State and county monuments. The
State legislature will be asked to con-
tribute largely to the cause, and the
boards of supervisors of all the u
ties will be called upon to contribute to
a fund for a State monument as we'll as
for the erection of pillars in each coun-
ty, commemorative of the women of the
C~Onfederacy.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
Yellow Fever Disappearing.

New Orleans, lathe most striking
absence of yellow fever in Central
American countries in several years
was the gist of a report made public
today by DR.. John N. Thomas, United
States marine hospital service inspector,
just returned from an inspection of
Central America. 81 believe ! can say
positively he said, that there has
not been a case of yellow jack in any
Central American country, except Qua
temala, this year. In Panama there
has not been a single case of genuine
yellow fever"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
A lady who ought to know what sh

A lady who ought to know what she
IL saying, US that there is a
reaction from the extravagant living
that has marked the last few years.
"Only the extremely rich can stand
the strain" she says, and even those
who can are beginning to ask them
selves, is the game worth the GAMBLER
Great ~profusion at a dinner with ex-
tremely rare viands does no neces-
sariIy mea that the dinner Is going
to be more enjoyable than a simpler
meal. The same argument applies to
many other things, and people are be
ginning to find 1t out
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
Farmers Union.

The members of the Farmers Union
deny that their organization is a trust,
savoring of unfair combinations and
agreements against the regularly or
gained compress and warehouse COM
panies. They say that by having these
farmers and producers warehouses
available in which to hold their cotton
for a favorable final delivery market,
they carry put in effect the first law of
nature, which is n of self-preserva-
ton.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
DOOM OF THE MIDDLEMEN
Cotton to Be Ginned and Compressed
on the Plantation.

SOttOAA w ~ NSAAAVA 0Atk SOnARA O0Sc~s
on the Plantation.
Atlanta, Ga.-That the time is not
far distant when the cotton planters OF
the South will sell their product direct
to the spinners of Europe and America
instead of through the middleman, in
bales ginned and compressed at the
plantation with methods in which loss
has been reduced to q minimum, was
indicated by today's discussion before
the International Conference of Cotton
Growers and Spinners.
Spinners representing hundreds OF
mills and millions of spindles told the
planters that they were not only willing
but anxious TO buy their cotton direct
from the planter, just as soon as the
planter can deliver direct Big plant
ers and representatives of the Farmers
Union told the %spinners that already
they were organized, had built a chain
of cotton warehouses;, and had per-
fected a business system in which the
spinners could purchase an almost UNI
limited supply of graded cotton, and
were ready to eliminate the Anticipated
method of selling through a middle
mar
But" said Herr Arthur Kuttler OF
Vienna, Austria, 'if you planters wish
to trade direct with US you must not
fix the price arbitrarily at 10 scents, and
you must give us better service than
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12

Walter Wellman will be jeered at
TOR making a second failure Of his
projected airship journey to the pole,
but as he very justly observes, it was
not suicide he contemplated, but
actual discovery of the pole, and
when it looked like n more than
the other, how many Of his critics,
asks the Chicago Daily News, would
do otherwise than stay on solid
ground?
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12

A lawyer in a New York police court
testified that he nd never done any
thing wrong in his life. And yet, up
to date, he has not received an offer
to go into vaudeville or had a bid for
the National museum or Smithsonian
Intuition as one of the greatest Of all
living curioSities.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
Died on His Train.

A. E. Quinley, conductor on the Mis-
sissippi Central, was stricken with ILL
ness when his train stopped at Brass
deld, and went to a drugstore, where he
had a prescription filed. He took one
dose of the medicine and started his
train toward Hattiesburg, but died
before the train had gone ten miles.
Mistakes Carbolic Acid for Paregoric
BY taking asdose of carbolic acid,
thinking she was drinking paregoric,
Mrs. Estes, a well known lady Of
Grenada, came neal losing her life
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12
Big Land Deal.

The sale of the plantation of John w.
Eldridge, in Coahoma county, for a con-
sideration of S425, 900 has been made to
Chicago parties as trustees for pur-
chasers whose names are not known but
who are believed to be a syndicate OF
English capitalists.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12

New Orleans and Galveston both
meet the ships that bring in immi-
grants with a brass band welcome,
II this doesn't turn the tides south.
ward it is likely that something SUBJ
stantial, like 40 acres and a mule to
every head of a family, will be added
TO the glittering inducements.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12

Capt. Roald-Amundsen. being a wise
person, will have his polar bears thor.
oughly broken to harness befor riding
them to the north pole. Also he
should require with each bear a writ
ten guaranty that it would not eat
man meat under any circumstances.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12

DR.. Wiley says: eff we admit as a
physiological fact that an animal
should live four times as long as it's
period Of growth. the time may come
in the far future when the average
length of human life, instead Of the
exception, will be three-score and
ten" Then life insurance rates can
he; reduced.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12

The suggestion to establish a school
of cotton grading and classification in
connection with the A.. & NJ. College is
one that deserves careful consideration
at the hands of the new legislative body.
Such an institution is badly needed. Why
should the cotton producer depend alto
gether on some one outside his profess
sion to grade his cotton and say where
it should stand in classification? AS a
part and parcel of agricultural legisla-
ton, let the classification of cotton take
its proper place. During the past few
years there have been established a num-
Der of schools for this purpose by out
side parties, and they have received the
most liberal patronage, although the in
struction received was of the most. SUI
p~erficial kind and almost of no value at
all. Make this a feature of the A. & M,
and the benefits to be derived will be far
in advance of the small sum of money
required.
There is a well defined movement on
foot to dredge Yallobusha river if the
government can be made to see the ne
cessity Of the same, and make it carry
freight, as it undoubtedly would if it
was in Massachusetts or other Northern
or Eastern States. A delegation of
Grenada citizens recently called upon
Hon. B. G. Humphreys, member of the
Rivers and Harbor Committee of the
National Congress, and enlisted his ac-
tive aid in the work. Mr.. Humphreys
has done a great work in getting COOP
GRAFTON in drainage matters, and it is
to be hoped that the next few years will
secure for Yallobusha river an appropria-
ton sufficient to make it of service as
a carrier of freight.
The plant recently erected at Laurel
for the purpose of using waste pine
knots, stumps, etc., offers IN attractive
proposition to the farmer who desires to
clear his land of stumps. The price paid
for the stumps by the ton is said to more
than cover the cost of dynamite, labor,
uh0AAhS oIN oCitS 0hROhSS COS ~
get them out and to market. 1t has al
ways proven pretty expensive to clear
pine land of stumps, but with a market
that offers even the cost of clearing, it
is a good proposition. There is an open
ing for such plants in other parts of the
State, and it is to be hoped that a num-
Der will be built during the next few
years.
President Clarke's campaign for the
old-fashioned cotton pens and suggestion
that cotton is more valuable if left to |
season before ginning, is attracting a
great deal of attention over the State.
Mr.. Clarke says that the lint will show
an appreciable growth if left on the
seed for some time after picking, and
be stronger aud better in every way.
This is a matter that is deserving CT
consideration at the hands of our people.
!
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12

A girl says she is not acquainted
with a man who met her on the street
c and claimed her as his wife. This
Is a rapid age, but at has no man
should marry a woman who isn't &C.
Quainted with him without telling her
ANYTHING about it.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12

Huge sTms Of money were carried
through the streets of New York re-
Gently In an open wagon and without
protection. Crooks will feel like
suing the authorities for damages for
not letting them know about it until
next day.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-12

Prince d'Abro of Egypt says that In
his country people are slow to Eager
and never strike until some n
strikes them first. How in the wcTld
do they ever get up fights, then?