The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-03-26

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the telegraph table and struck him over
the head with some blunt instrument.
lie was then tied securely while the
pair searched the office for money and
valuables. Becoming enraged at their
failure to find the money one of the
pair placed a pistol at Shingleton's side
and proposed to kill him, the other sug-
gested that they tie him on the track
and let the train do the work. He was
then tied on the tracks, but fortunately
q few minutes before the train was due
he was rescued and released from his
dangerous position.
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 members of
the Girls Club, 300 members of the
Ialobusha County Farmer Boys Corn
Club and 300 farmers met to consider
the work for the coming year and to
listen to a lecture on the subject of
scientific agriculture by DR.. S. A. Knapp.
Candy Wilson was hanged at Fayette,
thus vindicating the murder of the fish
erman, Kelly, which occurred at Rodney
Landing last Christmas. Wilson con-
fessed his guilt on the scaffold. Just
before the black cap and the moose were
adjusted the sheriff asked Wilson if he
cared to pray, and the condemned man
knelt on the trapdoor of the scaffold and
prayed earnestly for mercy from the Al
mighty, not only for himself but for all
the townspeople.
The March term of the Criminal Court
of Warren county was convened at
Vicksburg by Judge John N. Rush. He
charged the grand jury to probe into the
fact that some persons had internal reve-
nue. licenses for the sale of liquor, to
investigate the locker system and to
determine if near beer" will produce
intoxication. There are sixty-eight per-
sons and firms in Vicksburg now selling
near beer"
Holly Springs is proud of the excel
lent record the public school is making.
A reunion of old students is planned in
connection with the commencement,
which will be held May 1921. At this
time it is hoped that every former stu
dent of the school will be present, if pos
sible.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders and directors of the Merchants
and Farmers Bank held at New Albany,
a dividend of 1858 per cent was de-
10 per cent being paid out to
stockholders and the balance carried to
Reuben Walker, aged II, a prominent
veteran, died at his home
It Mount Pleasant. He was one of the
pest known men in the State. He was
lieutenant of Company f, Seventeenth
Mississippi, C. S. A., during the Civil
War, and was a brave soldier.
The season over the traps will open
April 26 with the Mississippi State tour
ley. Professional shots will compete +
or prizes at targets, and the affair will
,e open to the world. There will be
hree days of shooting, with $500 added
n cash prizes.
Farm work is progressing nicely in
county, and if the weather is
the farmers may be expected
o be ahead of the average season with
heir spring blowing. Labor is plenti-
ul and contented.
The Lowndes County Boys Corn Club,
f which Hon. S. M. Nash, county super |
of education, is the official :
cad, has gotten down to work and now
as an enrolment of forty-six members.
rof. Nash is busy distributing seed to
he members of the association and he
opes to nave the membership reach the
undred mark.
Robert Cotton, a wealthy planter, and
is family of seven. residing near Ma
ell, were poisoned by eating fried eggs
.'ntaining arsenic. The negro cook made
mistake, getting a tin box containing
for black pepper, sprinkling the
,ntents over the fried eggs.
The P~resbytery of East Mississippi
cid a called meeting at West Point and
ranged the time of the stated spring
from March 80 to Tuesday,
pril 81, at Nettleton.
The patrons of the Batesville Farm
s Union warehouse sold about 800 !
of cotton, getting on an average |
8 IA cents. |
The postoffice at Holly Springs was
lrglarized, the total loss amounting !
about $500. |
George Wong, a Chinaman of West |
pint, was tried before United States
'mmissioner L. E. Oldham at Oxford |
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