The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-10-10
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OF Jackson was shot and killed By w.
A. Sorsby, clerk in the Clinton post
Office. Fitzgerald had been to Clinton
two days checking up that Office, of
which Mrs. Cabiness is the postmistress.
Sorsby had been running the Office.
Fitzgerald checked him up short sew
eral hundred dollars and had started
back to his home in Jackson. While
on his way to the train and on the de-
pot steps, carrying a grip in each hand,
Sorsby appeared suddenly before him,
stuck a pistol to his side and fred be.
fore his victim could raise his hand or
utter a protest. He had been in the
service thirty years.
The cotton boil weevil has already
appeared in five counties in Mississippi
Adams, Wilkinson, Jefferson, Amite
and Claiborne. 81 predict that the
weevil will reach Warren county next
year," said r. S. Wilson. Mr.. Wilson
is the state agent for the farmers CO.
operative demonstration work, under
the auspices of the. national agricul-
ural department.. A meeting will be
held in Vicksburg on the l4th Of Octo-
Der, when an effort will be made to
arouse the planters of this section to
the gravity of the situation as to the
approach of the weevil, and to take
some steps that will minimize the ca.
lamity.
An immense factory for the manufac-
ture of paper out of yellow pine refuse
will be established in Hattiesburg i'm
mediately, with a capitalization of $780,
600. The grades of paper will be of
the heavier kind, and in connection
with the paper mill will be factories for
the manufacture of paper boxes of all
kinds. The enterprise was on foot over
a year ago, and had been put well for
ward when the financial panic came
along. The present enterprise is a re-
newal of the earlier company.
The Lauderdale County Farmers
Union passed resolutions calling upon
cotton growers to place their cotton in
warehouses and draw only 40 per cent
of its market value for the purpose of
paying merchants. The members
agreed to use cotton bagging and urged
each lodge of the union to require all
members to sign a pledge this fall to
plant from five to ten acres of corn for
each pillow, decreasing the cotton and
largely increasing the corn acreage for
1909. Resolutions were also passed
condemning the operations Of night
riders.
The stockholders of the proposed
Mississippi River Western railroad met
in Meridian and organized by the
adoption of a charter, the election Of
officers and a board of directors. The
meeting was very largely attended by
citizens from the various counties
through which the road will pass, and
enthusiasm in the proposition was very
pronounced. The capital stock is to be
50, 600, 900, and the president and secre-
tary have power to issue ST. SOC, 900 5
per cent bonds as soon as needed.
What promises to be the most nota-
BILE gathering of farmers ever held in
the South will take place at Natchez,
Nov. 24-27, inclusive. The prime pur-
pose of the gathering is to prepare the
farmers of the cotton belt east of the
Mississippi river to battle with the
boil weevil, and to acquaint them with
ways and means of minimizing the
ravages Of the pest.
Plans for the sawmill which J.. r.
Burkwalter is to install at Newton
have been greatly enlarged. The plant
will be of steel, following the latest
models of sawmill construction. The
original holding of Mr.. Burkwalter
was about $1,000, 900 feet of standing
timber, but this has been greatly in
creased by subsequent purchases.
R.. S. Wilson, the executive officer of
the federal department of agriculture
for Alabama and Mississippi, announces
that Prof. J. A. Evans of Shreveport,
La, an expert on the Toll weevil and a
most entertaining t~allier, will be in
Greenville on Friday, Oct. 16, Farmers
Institute Day of the delta fair, to dis
cuss with the planters the boil weevil
in ali its phases.
Ex-Governor Vardaman has been as
signed to speak in Tennessee and Ken
lucky for the national Democratic
ticket. His dates for Tennessee are
for the week of Oct. II to II and for
Kentucky the following week, ending
Oct. "a.
The Delta fair, to open at Greenville
Oct. IL and to continue one week, bids
be a big success. The outlook is
bright for a good exhibit and a large
attendance.
Aunt Fannie Barrett, colored, died
at Decatur, aged 104 years. She joined
the white Baptist church years ago,
and always retained her membership
therein.