The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-11-02
By h. e. BLAKESLEE. JACKSON.

A"PPy $3.50
There will few leave this fall in ques
| of riches in other countries of promise
Mississippi is as good as the best, thu
only trouble being in the fact that w
have not known it all along. Little i
any effort has been made to develop
our until within the past few
years and things have rocked along IL
a happy-go-lucky way. But the change
are upon us, even at the present mo
ment. Then let's keep up the lick ant
guarantee a continuance OF prosperous
times. The farmers are organizing and
making an earnes effort to improve
their condition, and upon their pros
perity depends the prosperity of the en-
tire State. 1t is the duty of every per-
son, makes no difference in what line
of business, to assist in this work, a
business obligation as well.
In looking around for this satisfac.
tory improvement and the cause there
are many things 10 take into considera-
OAOhs u AC WIlOCl OClIChCo IlAdO III
of the greatest factors has been the re-
juvenated fair spirit, the building up
of county fairs and the State fair. 1t is
a fact that cannot be contradicted that
communities sustaining d live fair are
doing better than those that have moth
ing of the kind. 1t brings the people
together once a year in fraternal meet
ing; they see what their neighbOr has
accomplished, and after hearing how it
done are encouraged to make the
effort themselves. Mississippi has fur
nished multiplied thousands of the best
people on earth to make the Empire
State OF Texas what she is today to the
detriment of u own. Texas has fifty
county fairs and the great Texas State
fair at Dallas, more than twenty years
old, and the largest il the South. The
Texas legislature makes liberal appro-
priations to the support of this fair, as
do the legislatures of nearly every
Southern State, and find it the best in
vestment that can possibly be made.
The people demand IN outing at least
once each year and the fair IS both
entertaining and highly instructive.
Mississippi is awakening to the i'm
pOrtance of fairs and more are being
held this year than ever before in the
history of the State. The first at Yazoo
City was held last week and was a mag
cI1noncc Tho nonnln of that
splendid county took the greatest in
and the exhibits were up to a
high standard. 1t will be worth untold
of dollars to the people in
the end. Copiah county, the banner
trucking county of the State, held her
first regular fair the week before and
at its close a regular love feast was
held. Planters, stockmen, bankers,
merchants and all expressed themselves
as delighted with the initial attempt
and pledged their undivided support to
It's permanency. The reports from
every point are of a similar nature.
The writer hopes to assist in the or
y~anization of at least half a dozen new
ones for next fall. Greenville, Hatties-
burg, Greenwood, Kosciusko, Meridian
md a dozen other points are agitating
,he subject and it is to be sincerely
hoped hat tangible results will follow
he organization.
The great State fair begins next
at Jackson and continues until
Saturday, the 10th. Everything is in
'eadiness and the event promises to be
much better than ever before. The
'ailroads have all granted a rate of one
are for the round trip plus % cents,
md an attendance of near 100, 900 is ex-
Let the man who does not be-
ieve in fairs come for one or two days, |
tudy carefully the interest shown and
he instruction received, investigate for
himself and then pass upon the possible
to a great commonwealth like
Mississippi of a good State fair.
No city in Mississippi has experienced
more phenomenal growth than Hat
iesburg for the past four years. 1t has
.iscarded the swaddling clothes of a
ountry town and grown into an up-to-
ate city with all conveniences and ne
essities. Five and six story buildings
ave replaced those of a less preten-
ious nature, the streets have been
'aved, factories built and the popula-
ion pushed to above 10000. Hatties-
'urg is the delight of all loyal Missis-
ippians as a live, hustling metropolis.
A bale of cotton made into handker-
hiefs will bring the manufacturer
.mething like $1,000. The difference
81, $50 is lost to the South where lit
cotton is manufactured into the finer
but there is a change to take
lace that will save this tn us. The
a~ctories are gradually coming to The
elds and within a few more years there
ill be a different tale to tell.
Mississippi chickens swept the field
+ the Louisiana State Fair and brought
ack nearly all the cash prizes. This
a good showing for Mississippi to go
own and capture so much of the S15,-