The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-05-16

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Tate. 1921
Tippah -. .......... 1,463.5 50
TishOmingO .......... 1,4l2.O5
Tunica. ............ 1,4Ol.33
Union ............. l,348.24
Webster. .......... 1904
OOuSn ......... ci0.33
This money goes to the counties at q
time when it will do most good in the
matter of paying for the expenses OF
school terms now about to be closed,
and a similar distribution will be made
in October.
President B. G.. LOwrey, of Blue
Mountain college, who is managing the
campaign for raising Mississippi's part
of the money for building the Tri-State
Baptist Hospital in Memphis, is meet
ing with gratifying success, and it is
predicted that the Baptists of Missis-
sippi, Tennessee and Arkansas will soon
not only of this particular denomina-
ton but of the people generally of the
three states.
The county tax collections will be
kept rather busy during the current
month, as all privilege licenses must
be settled before May 81. This applies
to privileges of all forms, state, county,
city and levee board. The state treas
ury will probably receive a half mill
lion dollars in privilege tax payments
when the collectors make their June
settlements with the state.
The two companies of the Mississippi
National Guard who were detailed to
help in the rescue and emergency work
1T Purvis, did c%reditable work. The
were on duty q fortnight, and &C.
cOrding to the official figures the cost
of the expedition will be in the neigh
borhoOd of 81, 500, including rations and
per diem, and this out of an emergency
fund Of only So, 900 to the credit of the
National Guard.
Suit has been brought at Clarksdale
by +. q. BObo restraining the levee
board from taking any action whatever
under what is known as the depository
law, passed by the recent legislature.
The complainant assails the constitu-
tionality of this law.
John Joseph, a negro who murdered
Branch Archer, q white planter, at
Port Gibson, vas run down and killed
in a swamp near the mouth OF Bayou
Pierre. Joseph refused to surrender
and was shot TO death by three members
of a posse which had stuck to his trail.
Col. S. S. Bulls, Of Olean, n. Y.
purchased the Vicksburg Street Rail-
way and Lighting Company under a
court decree for $4,000.
Water Valley has just completed q
new $4,000 public school building.
which will seat 1000 children.
1t is announced that the Aberdeen
and Tombigbee railroad will be built
rom OkOlOna, Miss, to P~ickensville,
Ala, via Aberdeen and Columbus.
will begin Jan. l, 1909.
The grand jury of Coahoma county
les indictments, these being
argely against those engaged in the
illicit retailing of whisky, poker play
,rs and crap shooters.
The principal railway lines operating
n Mississippi are reducing their forces
VI employees in the freight departments
to the decrease of traffic.
Citizens of Newton and Scott cOun.
les have organized a b~i-county fair as
4ociation, the object being to hold a fair
or the two counties.
The states convict farm in Sunaower
county has in cultivation about $500
.cres, one-third of which is. in corn,
'ardens, potato patches, sorghum, etc.
Mrs. Louis Wright, residing near
died of cocaine poisoning.
opposed to have been used by a dent
st in filling her teeth.
Mayor j.. D. Donald of Hattiesburg
made out a. wits against Charles
'ool, city marshal, and A. T. Powers,
councilman. charging them with viola
ion OF their official oaths because they
7ere members of the Business Mems
Athletic Club, which was recently
up as a blind tiger.
A basket dinner and picnic was given
t Newton in honor OF the old soldiers,
he annual meeting of the Patrons
amp, Confederate Veterans, being
eld there. About 200 veterans and
900 people were present.