The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-23

News

chairman of the committee appointed by
both houses of the State legislature to
make some suggestions relative to the
equalization of taxes, that the commit
tee will be called to meet in jackson
during the first week in September. This
committee is composed of Col. II. M.
Street, chairman, and six other members
of the house and three members of the
senate. 1t is provided that they shall
meet and formulate a plan by which the
taxes of the different sections of the
State may be equalized, and they are
allowed ten days for this work. They
can, if they see fit, hold longer than ten
days, but if they do SO it will be at their
own expense, as only an allowance for
ten days pay is made.
The city council of Vicksburg directed
Mayor Hayes, on behalf of the council,
to extend an invitation to President Taft
to visit Vicksburg on his Southern trip
next fall. Mayor Hayes was also all.
thorized to use every means in his power
to secure the United States army ma.
neuvers for Vicksburg next year.
w. M. Wagner and Dave King, two
Meridian capitalists, announced that all
arrangements are completed and plans
are now being drawn for a new seven.
story building to be erected at Twenty.
second avenue and Sixth street. The
ground floor is to be designed for bust
ness purposes n the remaining six
floors will be for offices. The building
will cost something over 500, 900, hav.
ing all modern conveniences.
Frank c. McGhee was indicted into
the office of circuit clerk of Lauderdale
county, the oath being administered by
Chancery Clerk w. r. Pistole. McGhee
was elected to fill out the ~unexpired term
of the late Gen. w. d. Cameron, who had
been clerk for thirty-fve years.
With his office in flames, o. o. Hamp |
ton, American Express company agent
was found unconscious and bound tt
his bed. The flames were e%xtinguished
by the fire department after Hampton
was descued, and from appearances the
had been looted. Hampton say.
he was struck from behind by some one
he could not identify.
At a meeting of the tent-holders of the
Oxford camp ground, it was decided to
have the camp meeting begin Sunday
Aug. 1, and continue one week. rs yet
the ministers who will conduct and as
sist in the meeting nave not been heard
but it is a meeting place well
in North Mississippi and a large
'rowd of visitors are always in attend
lnce.
The Tate County Farmers Union met
at Truslow, a few miles west of Sena.
and enjoyed an old-fashioned bas.
picnic. There was a large crowd
all parts of the county present. Ar
interesting address was delivered by Hon.
:. w. Boatright of Marshall county, on
The work of the union.
A tomato OF the POnderOsa variety, |
one and a half pounds and
Measuring eighteen inches around, is be.
ng proudly displayed by Deputy Sheriff
c. Taylor of Clarksdale, as a product
f his first attempt at gardening.
Hon. Walter Weaver and Gov. James
Harrison each received letters from
Ion. j. M. Dickinson, secretary of war;
that President Taft had prom.
sed him Columbus would be visited
the trip the president and sew
raj members of the cabinet would take
the Southwest and South in
september or October. Columbus is the
oyhood home of Judge Dickinson.
The board of Mississippi levee COM
nissioners held their regular seminar
ual meeting at Greenvlle, and the re-
ort of Secretary and Treasurer r. NJ.
'cott shows the board to be in healthy
ondition. On July 1 the treasury con-
aimed SITS, 936.12.
The fifteenth annual session of the
Mississippi Ch%autauqua assembly opened
to continue until the end OF {
he month. The program is regarded as
he best ever arranged for a meeting of
he assembly. Included among the prom. i
nent speakers to be heard are ex-Gov. |
nor Yates, of Illinois,; Ex-Governor 9
ardaman, of Mississippi; Prof. J. N.
overs, State superintendent of Educa-
on of Mississippi, and ]. B. Aswell,
superintendent of education in
ouisiana. c
Ollie Williams, the 20-year-old son of
!. C. Williams, who was murdered at :
is home near Stonewall last week, is in
le Clarke county Jail at Quitman, hav-
g, it is said, confessed to the commits t
ion of the deed. The elder Williams v
as shot down in his home, the muir. s
erer firing through an open door, four i
ullets having taken effect, producing t
cath almost instantly. f
The news butcher On train No. 10 of
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