The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-11-07
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progress, and, according to reports, is
making fairly good Roadway. Corps
of organizers have been at work among
the negroes for several weeks, and in a
number of counties they have sue.
ceeded in banding the colored farmers
together and pledging them to purposes
and principles similar to those of the
Farmers Union.
The coast counties again came to the
front in the awards made in the agri-
cultural section of the state fair, and
that, in the line of staple crops. Frank
Il. Lewis, of Jackson county, was
awarded the first premium for best all
round display of corn, also receiving
three cotton premiums. He had the
best and c~leanest pound of long staple
cotton; the best and neatest cotton
wrapped bale of cotton, and the best
upland staple bale.
The United States department Of
agriculture, bureau of plant industry,
has r~eorganized it's corps of field work
ers in Mississippi, and is forming plans
for the fight against the Mexican boil
weevil during the coming year. keep
cool, consider the question in a calm
and business-like manner, and be con-
fdent that the weevil is not going to
bring disaster to the agricultural in
tcrests of Mississippi" is the advice
that comes from the department at
Washington and is being transmitted
to the farmers of the state by the corps
of special agents.
At least n disastrous result of the
long drought in this section has been
seen in the record of destructive fires,
caused in many instances by mere
sparks, either on dry roofs, in the dry
grass or other places. There have been
more fires in Jackson during the six or
seven weeks since which hardly a drop
OF rain has fallen than in any other
period within memory.
A naval recruiting bureau has again
been opened in this city. There
has been no recruiting force in this
state for months, and the officers hope
to pick up a few likely young men to
take service as apprentice seamen or
hospital attendants, for whom there is
an abundance Of room in the navy at
present and will be for soae time.
Forty tons of Mount Airy granite, |
erected in the Mississippi
memorial at the National Park, at
Vicksburg, will have to come down.
The contract called for LaHarge &C.
.ent, at 81 so per barrel, and the con-
used instead Atlas cement, at
per barrel or less. 1t will require |
month to dismantle the memorial.
There is considerable improvement |
N the lumber business at Lumberton,
and business men say they feel the ris-
ing tide in business matters. The
of men at work is small COM
pared with other years, but the mills
their regular payday every two
weeks, and while the wages paid are
small, prospects are good for better
along that line.
President F. L. Peck, of the Missis-
iippi Central road, speaking of the
proposed extension of the line from
dattiesburg to G~ulfport, survey for
which has been made, stated that the
company was not in readiness to an
plans just yet, but intimated
hat the work will be taken up in q
'ery short time.
Luke Ard entered a plea of guilty to
he charge of ~manslaughter, and was
entenced to ten years in the peniten-
larry. Ard killed his wife at Jackson
q 1907.
Irwin Sellers, q prominent citizen of
,ovington county, was found dead near
is residence. The circumstances go
D show that Sellers was decoyed away
rom his home by a fire on his premises, :
ear his residence, and when he went
} put the fire out was killed. :
The gathering of cotton-growers to :
g held at Natchez on Nov. IL promises /,
be an event OF general interest :
the cotton belt. Notwith- .
the fact that the date con- 3
with meetings at Memphis and
t New Orleans, a large attendance of q
,tton-growers is expected. t
The Warren County Cotton growers 4
has petitioned the board of Il
lpervisors of Warren county to make s
appropriation to. help pay the ex-
,nses of an experiment station, as b
at the recent boil weevil con- C
'ntion by representatives of the gov u
t.
According to official reports two of y
9 J leading home or independent tele-
lone companies doing business in the Il