The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-12

endeavOr to settle the tract with truci
farmers and fruit growers. jackson
county carried off the principal aware
at the recent state fair, and its mag
~nifieent exhibit of fruits, vegetables an(
agricultural products received praise OF
all sides.
The grand jury of Franklin county
adjourned without returning any indict
ments in the Newman-Pritchard feut
cases. 1t is understood that the jury
took the view that it would be impos
sible to secur conviction and that a
trial and a hung jury would put the
county to burdersome expense.
W. t. Burnett has filed suit at Vicks.
burg against w. T. Hindman, who runs
a saloon upon DeSoto Island, just across
the line i'll Louisiana, claiming $1,000
for alleged damages in failure of de-
PENDANT to pay him a fair price for trans.
ferring his saloon patrons to and from
the saloon. Burnett claims these patrons
have to pass over his land before reach
ing the saloon.
At the annual meeting of the Missis.
sippi Baptist convention, held at Vino
ma, the question of caring for superan-
nuated preachers was one of the most
important brought up for disposal. A
plan was submitted to the convention by
DIR. j. L. Johnson, in which he proposed
to first raise a fund for the care of aged
ministers. and allow them to make their
homes wherever they may see fit, instead
of establishing a home for their sus-
tenance.
Bonneville has shipped 1000 boxes of
chrysanthemums. Many were shipped to
New Orleans for decorating on Taft day.
These boxes contained on an average so
blooms to the box. The soil in that Sec
ton seems specially adapted to the pro-
duction of these fine blooms, and quite
a number of ladies are engaged in grow
ing them.
There is nc longer any doubt of the
Mississippi Western getting into Natchez
at a comparatively early day. The new
road is expected to do a very great deal
in helping the people to overcome the
effects wrought by the boil weevil and
bad weather combined.
DR.. W. d. Hunter, chief of the bureau
of entomology, United States depart
ment of agriculture, will deliver an ad-
dress before the Southern States com-
missioners of agriculture, at Jackson, on
the agricultural problems peculiar to
Mississippi.
George G.. Tucker sold at Pace rs
of cotton for $9,250.5O. The seed
out of the rs bales netted Mr.. Tucker
the sum of $1,684, the cotton and seed
a total of $1O,934.5O.
The price of cotton seed was ad-
Vanced by the HazlehWrst Oil Mill and
Fertilizer Company from $26 to $2S per
ION. Owing to the short cotton crop
the county, cotton seed is very scarce.
In his charge to the grand jury at
Jlarksdale, Judge Sam Cook dealt seri-
,usly with the action of the mob which
hanged a negro who aided his
to escape after committing a
He told them to leave no stone
lnturned in an attempt to find the
of those who composed the mob,
nd to deal with them according to the
aW.
President Taft received a joyous well
ONE at Columbus when he came to visit
he birthplace of Secretary of Va Dick
nson and brought Secretary Dickinson
With him. The president held a recep-
ion at the old home of Gen. Stephen D.
zee of the Confederate forces, as the
uest of the son of the house, Blewett
Lee.
Some of the most prominent farmers
nd citizens of Copia county appeared
efore the board of supervisors to urge
ction by the board in creating a county
commission of agriculture to combat the
oil weevil. The board decided to ap-
oint a committee to begin a house-to-
ouse campaign, urging the farmers to
ut and burn their stalks at once.
A most important general meeting of
md owners and citizens was held at
reenwood. The matter under consid-
.ation was the plans of the Tallahatchie
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