The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-19
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Commissioner of Agriculture Blakes-
ZEE reports that a great deal of his time
and attention has been of late devoted to
the details of organization of boys corn
clubs, there having been quite a wave
Of advancement in this respect. There
have been nearly q dozen of the county
,lubs organized the present season, with
more in sight, and he is giving all the
time possible at his command toward
the encouragement of this great practi-
cal movement.
The Cumberland Telephone and Tele-
graph Company is preparing to take up
another large piece of construction work
in the country tributary to Jackson, that
of building a new line along the Ala
bama and Vicksburg railroad, between
! Meridian and the capital city. 1t is the
intention of the company to carry on its
business over its own pole route.
The meeting of the stockholders of the
| Mississippi Central Railroad was held
| at Hattiesburg with a large attendance
of stockholders of that company. Re
garding the proposed extension of the
| road south from Hattiesburg to some
point ON the coast, either Scranton, Gulf
| port or Biloxi, no action was taken,
| and although the directors and officers
are very much averse to talking for pub
lication, it is believed that the matter of
the extension will be taken up at the
spring meeting of the directors.
State Superintendent of Education
Powers is very much gratitied at a re-
| port received from Prof. K. B. Waldrop,
superintendent of education for Chicka-
saw, reporting progress on the agricul-
tural high school building. The school,
which will be equipped and ready for an
eight months term as soon as any other
county in the State, and will be under
the charge of Prof. A. c. Cobb, a grad
uate of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College.
In all parts of the commonwealth the
farmers are getting busy with their crop
preparations. Acreage plans are being
devised, orders placed for seeds and fer
t~ilizers, new work animals purchased
and the farmers hope to get started on
the actual work of pitching the crop
somewhat earlier than usual.
An enthusiastic Boys Corn club was
perintendent Neal and the county teach
ers. Addresses were made by Prof. +.
R. Lloyd, of the A. and NJ. college, and
Superintendent W. II. Smith, of Holmes
county.
nj. =. Hillhouse, who shot and killed
Q. Arnold on the street at New Albany,
Christmas Eve, was granted bail by
Chancellor j. Q. Robbins a few days ago
in the sum of $4,000. Hillhousc has
been in failing health for several months,
and it is believed by many that he will
never live to see his trial.
Adiutant General Fridge has received
the handsome silver loving cup of the
Southern Interstate Rife Association,
which was won by the Mississippi rifle
team at the New Orleans shoot last
Thanksgiving Day, by a very narrow
margin, over the team representing
Louisiana.
Lafayette county has eighty white
public schools, and for the first time III
it's history the county has a local tax
levy for schools. The term has been
heightened and good educational senti,
ment prevails.
A boom in the building of new store
houses and residences unparalleled in
the history of the city is now on in
Laurel.
Senator McLaurin is urging his bill
to make an appropriation of $25O,ooo
for revetment at Marengo Bend, near
Natchez, to protect Natchez, Miss, anu
Vidalia and adjoining farmers in Louis
lana from a threatened cutoff of the
Mississippi river.
By agreement, j. S. Giffen, charged
with the murder of George w. Wright,
pleaded guilty on trial at Greenwood,
and was sentenced to the penitentlary
for life.
At a meeting of representative physf
clans from Lee, Chickasaw, Monroe and
Itawamba counties, in Tupelo, the East
Mississippi Four Counties Medical So
ciety was organized.
A cyclone sweeping a path scarcely
100 yards wide wrought death and de-
struction at the village of Cedar Bluff.
Clay county, at dark.
Meridian has secured the location
there at once of an industry having a
capital stock of $500 900. The munich