The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-02

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Contractors who are boring a well for
Port Gibson, having gone down nearly
q thousand feet for water sufficient to
fill all requirements in the way OF q
gushing well, are now at a standstill,
having struck another rock, which will
necessitate a delay until proper material
arrives to bore through this rock. A ru-
NOR has circulated about town that Oil
had been reached through this boring.
After careful investigation by leading
citizens, the indications for oil are good,
and an actual test will be made.
Constable Abe Lofts, who fell from
the Southern Railway coal chute while
in search of miscreants, died at the Co
lumbus Hospital. At first the unfortu-
nate mans condition was regarded as
quite critical and immediate operation
was necessary. The attending physi-
clans seemed to nave been successful in
their work, but a change to the adverse
condition set in.
Oscar Grace of Jefferson Davis county,
reports the farmers very active, and his
information is that they are in as good
shape to make general diversified crops
as in any other year that he can recall.
| They have an ideal farming country and
turn out as fine a grade of the leading
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the State, but nave long since discarded
the all-cotton system for the only kind
of small farming that pays.
The Mississippi Intercollegiate Ora
torical Association, composed of the
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical
College, Millsaps College, University OF
Mississippi and Mississippi College at
| Clinton, Miss, has about decided to hold
it's annual oratorical contest in Column
| bus at the Industrial Institute and Col
lege chapel in May. .
At a meeting of the Pastors Union
of Jackson a resolution was adopted
declaring that hereafter the pastors be-
longing to the union will not Officlate
at the marriage of any couple where one
or both parties nave been divorced, no
matter what the grounds for the di-
vorce may have been.
That the Wausau Lumber Company,
of Wisconsin, will build at Laurel one
of the largest saw mills in the state
of Mississippi, but that work on this
enterprise will not be hurried until the
! condition of the lumber market shows
signs of permanent improvement, is the
assurance reiterated to the people of
| Laurel, by w. H. Bissell, the president,
who, with a party of eighteen other
| Wisconsin lumbermen who are interest
| ed in Southern properties, spent the day
in that city.
Superintendent of Education John R.
| Ellis announces that 100 boys OF Laud-
| erdale county have entered the corn club
| contests, and that the interest is wide
| awake. He will announce the prizes to
be awarded shortly, and expects that
| the number of contestants will be great
lv increased. Prizes will be given for
the best yield per acre, and for the best
ten ears of corn raised.
The movement launched in Meridian
some months ago by the ladies of that
city, looking to the establishment of a
| public library, is meeting with the sue
cess that was anticipated at the time.
A regular campaign of education is be-
ing carried on by the social clubs, and
the people are beginning to awaken to
the great need of such an institution.
The most enthusiastic meeting ever
held in Water Valley, and possibly in
North Mississippi, in the interest of
scientific agriculture, was held at Water
Valley last week, when $50 member of
the Girls Club, 800 member of the
Yalobusha County Farmer Boys Corn
Club and 800 farmers met to consider
the work for the coming year and to
listen to a lecture on the subject of
scientific agriculture by DIR. S. A. Knapp.
A special city election, held at Laurel,
to ascertain wishes of the voters on a
proposed ordinance to exclude live stock
from the streets of the city, attracted
much attention, and ruled against such
ordinance, the vote being 207 for and
324 against.
The series of meetings which have
been conducted at the Methodist church
since March II by Rev. w. B. Pinson of
Vilonia, Ark, nave closed. Large con-
gregations attended each service.
The spring reunion of the Ancient and
Accented Scottish Rite Masons has been