The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-06-11

900. Payment was refused because of
a clause in the policy which provides
that it shall become null and void if
the insured shall come to his death while
in the act of violating the law of the
State, or in attempting to violate the
same, it being alleged that the deceased
had forfeited his policy under this clause.
On the evidence of the killing submitted
to the jury, a verdict was returned for
the w. o. w.
Members of the Mississippi delegation
in Congress have been asked to frame
and secure the passage of a bill as
quickly as possible to remedy the dis
covery recently made that the harbor of
Pascagoula is not a legal port of entry.
The Federal government is now spend
ing an appropriation of $1,O5O,O0o on
the Pascagoula harbor, with the view
of securing a depth of nineteen feet in
the river anchorage basis and a depth
of twenty-five feet through the pass,
and none of this work will be suspended
on account of the recent discovery.
An cold folders contest" was held at
Hattiesburg under the auspices of the
Daughters of the Confederacy, and the
proceeds devoted to assisting some of
the veterans to attend the reunion in
Memphis.
Preparations are being made for an
o1n hnrafo oo1ahrofion Of Tho Eourfb Of
July at Natchez, to be held Monday,
July S. The celebration will be held
under the auspices of the local lodge of
knights of Columbus.
United States Senator George Cham
berlain, of Oregon, was rendered a pup
lie reception at Natchez. Senator
Chamberlain is a native of Natchez, and
among the guests were many of his old
schOOlmateS.
A fire was discovered in one of the
jury rooms on the second floor of the
Lincoln county court house. Though
we'll under way when the alarm was
turned in, Brookhaven's volunteer fire
department soon had the flames under
control and prevented the spread to the
rest of the building. Lincoln county
has lost two court houses by fire within
the last 81 years.
June 80 will no doubt be a memorable
day in the history of old Yalobusha, as
the cornerstone of the new agricultural
high school will be laid with appropriate
ceremonies at that time.
One of the many late projects for new
railroads in Mississippi is a line pro-
posed to be run from Clarksdale to
Friars Point. The line would not be a
long ne-no more than fifteen miles
both towns being in Coahoma county
and the two county seats, that being
one of several counties in Mississippi
into two court districts.
On July 1 the third district levee
board will award contracts for 900, 600
yards of levee work. Plans are on file
the office of Captain Clark Smith at
Vicksburg.
w. B. Scurr, a civil war veteran of
Grenada county, died at his home after
short illness. He was a member of the
Fifteenth Mississippi Regiment during
he civil war, and conducted himself
.lways as a brave soldier.
Because the engineer of a westbound
assenger train paid no attention to a
newspaper waved as a stop
ignal at Dixon station, Hattie Owens
filed a suit in the Kinds county
curt, asking for damages, actual and
in the sum of $4,000.
and the sun came forth and
ave to the United Daughters of the
and the people of Green
lie and the delta a bright day for the
,remonies attending the unwilling of
lie handsome Washington county Con-
monument, unveiled at DON in
onfederate park, which forms a part
the Washington county courtyard.
he monument is a handsome one, with
arble base mounted by a figure of a
soldier from an Italian sculp-
r.
An early morning fire at Glendora de- =
royed seven stores, with their con-
nts, entailing a loss of between $685.
10 and $4,000, on which there was
2 900 insurance.
The county board of education To-
ted the agricultural high school on q
e donated by the town in East Boone
lie, situated partly in the corporation
aits and the greater part on the out
e of the town limits. The town of
heller, six miles below Bonneville,
Ide a game fight for the location.
Miss Vera WEIGH, of Wren, was killed
and her escort, Mr.. Grady,
Amory, died from fatal injuries re-
we'd by the falling of an immense oak
,e at Greenbrier church, ten miles 3
of Aberdeen, during a terrific
nd snd rain storm The sad fragpdv