The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-09-10

News

l lHC SNIOOl OtIu Va xNCW wi tOuits
has given Decatur until the adjournment
of the next state legislature to build
the agricultural high school authorized
by the legislature in the fall term OF
1908. The legislature authorized each
county to build an agricultural high
school, but on account of the suit OF
the negro Going, of Jasper county, who
%enjoined the county from collecting the
tax to build an agricultural high school
in that county, On the grounds that no
| arrangements were made for the negro
children, Decatur had intended to post
| pone action in the matter in the hope
| that the case would be decided before
| they were required to build the school.
Prof. L. r. Massey, superintendent of
education of Jasper county, has been no
titled by the state board of education at
Jackson that the agricultural high school
of the county has been established. This
school, which was located at Bay Springs
last year, was enioined by citizens of
the county who opposed the tax levy to
support and maintain such schools, and
the state board of education has been
compelled to withhold the 81 600 which
was appropriated to the school by the
state until the case was decided by the
Supreme Court. The school will open
Oct. IS.
The people of Meadville, among whom
will be found the very best elemen of
citizenship, are taking steps to efface
the effects of the feud outbreaks which
have rent them asunder during the past
few months, and hope to work it out
among themselves. To make a start i'll
this direction, a mass meeting has been
called, the object of which is to endeavor
to insure and establish peace in their
community.
J. B. Sanford. one of the most estima-
bic citizens of Cohoama county, died at
Clarksdale. The deceased was a Confed-
crate veteran, having served with loyal
ty and istinction throughout the four
years of the struggle, and although an
Alabamian by birth, had been a resident
of Coahoma county for the past thirty
seven years.
Meridian is now almost assured of a
population of 50, 900 as the result of eX-
tending the corporate limits, taking in
several of the most prosperous suburbs.
A1tpnat har on oraa coyarinn -D0 anral
has been added to the city.
The A. & NJ. College will begin the
term of 1909-10 on Wednesday, Septem-
Der Is. The secretary states there have
been an unusual number of inquiries this
year from all sections of the State, and
he has sent out 300 more catalogues
than ever before. This Increased in
quiry and investigation means an in
creased number of students.
Land Commissioner Gillespie was oc-
cupied several days in going over with
Major Smylie the list of land redemp-
ton cases attended to during the month
of August, and finds that there was
something like $3.50 collected in fees and
damages from some three hundred cases
that were pending, the bulk OF which
were from Harrison county, and af-
fected property in the immediate vicin-
ity of Gulfport. These lands became de-
~linquent for taxes back in 1906, and had
run on until the last limit of time that
4 loy- could ha ra1aanonH without IN 1y!n0
to b. virtually repurchased, which would
mean to the owners considerably more
than they cost originally.
Rice farming is going to be introduced
into the PontotOc section next year, and
several Pontotoc business men have
gone to Stuttgart, Ark, and other rice
centers in Arkansas to investigate the
crop there and gather information pre-
paratory to planting several hundred
acres near here.
Completion Of the details for the con-
struction of the Shaw & Southwestern
will be consummatcd OF the re-
turn of Hon. J. c. Walker, president of
the enterprise, who is now in the East.
This railroad will be of great benefit both
to the town of Shaw and the counties 1T
will traverse, opening up as it does a
vast timber and farming section, and put
ting Shaw in direct communication with
Greenville, and at the same tim greatly
reducing freight rates.
Congressman r. U. Sisson, with his
corps of agricultural experts and educa-
tional speakers, invaded the Second Dis
trict of Yalobusha county, and if the
by farmers and the interest
by them is a criterion, the
young congressman should be highly
elated over the smiles of approval and
handshakes and the ovation which
he received from the producers of wealth
of this county. The leading farmers and
business men of Water Valley and vi
cinity planned a barbecue at Copeland's
pasture, two miles west of town, which
was attended by three thousand people,
and the visit of these gentlemen marks
an epoch in the agricultural history of