The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-12-12

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the Confederate soldiers of Holmes
county was unveiled at Lexington with
appropriate and impressive ceremonies.
The monument stands on the court
house lot on the public square, and is
n OF the most beautiful monuments
OF the kind in the state. 1t was erect
ed a cost of s $500, and the money was
raised by the chapter Of the Daughters
OF the C~onfederacy of Lexington. 1t is
81 feet high and is topped by the statue
of a Confederate soldier supporting a
gun.
A letter has been received from H.
E. Reynolds, president of the Aberdeen
& Tombigbee Railroad company, stating
that a contract for the construction of
the line from Okolona, Miss, to Pick
ensville, Ala, has Deer awarded, and
that work will soon begin. The fran
chise under which the company is ope-
rating was purchased from the old Co.
lumbus, Memphis & Pensacola Rail
road company.
Mrs. Marion Hooper escaped from
the East Mississippi insane hospital
n night lest week. Obtaining a lead
pencil with which to write a letter and
shaving the lead into powder, she
BACKED her face and disguised herself
as a negress. Tying an old shawl over
her head and taking a marke. basket
on her arm she escaped from the hos
pital grounds and wen: to Meridian,
where she was captured and returned
to the institution.
While the current quotation for cot-
ton seed among the Mississippi mills
is SIS per ton, many of the mills are
paying much higher prices, and, as the
end of the season approaches, the usual
scramble for seed is about to take
place. Transactions at SIG and SIT per
ton are quite frequent. In some parts
of the state-the number of plants is too
large for the seed territory, and it is
these mills hat are Offering the top
notch prices.
No resolutions were adopted by the
Louisiana-M Mississippi Farmers insti-
held at Natchez, but it is generally
believed the lessons taught the farmers
by the expert directors of federal and
state experiment stations will bear fruit |
and Investigation will be followed in
the districts invaded by the boil weevil.
Becoming overheated while fighting
forest fires, Alison Crosby, a farmer
living near Bay Springs, fell into the
fire and vas burned to death. Mem
bers of his family, becoming alarmed
his absence, instituted a search
and discovered his charred body. He
was about 70 years old.
A plan is being perfected for a union
If the Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
oama and North Mississippi confer
,nces in a joint preachers institute to
De held at the Seashore camp ground,
[une -, July 9, with bishops and we'll
Inown speakers to discuss the various
.spects and obligations of the minis
erial life.
Already some of the people of Vicks-
'urg are calculating the cost in dollars
nd cents that the closing of the sa-
oons will mean in that community. 1t
claimed that for the first year after
he statewide law becomes operative
mere will be a sheer traffic loss and
entail loss of at least $40, 900 or $50, 600,
Thile the public revenues will depre-
late in like proportion.
The members of the North Missis-
ippi conference were cordially enter
aimed by the good people of Water
alley last week. 1t is a fact worthy
t note that in the fall of 1870, thirty
light years ago, the North Mississippi
difference was organized at that place
nder the presidency of Bishop d. S.
United States Senator A. j. Nc
taurin has effectually set at rest the
rumor that he had expressed
willingness to Gov. Noel to resign
is seat in the senate in exchange for a
lace on the supreme bench next year.
Fire at Lexington destroyed property
alued at $40, ZOO. About SO per cent {
t the value of the property was in
lred. New buildings will be erected
once. ,
The Mississippi state conference of {
e Daughters of the American Revo- {
held a two days session at Me- =
dian. There was a large number of
dies from throughout the state in at I
ndance.
The Clarksdale and Six Counties i
edical Society held a very interesting
I'd profitable meeting at Clarksdale.
he counties composing the associa-
On are Bolivar, Sunhower, Coahoma,
allahatchie, Quitman and Tunica.
In the circuit court at Eupora Wal
r Cooper was convicted of the muir.
r. of Sam Hightower, and Judge
clean imposed a sentence of ninety.
years Imprisonment.
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