The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-10-01

o%sitlon, the plan proposed for memorial.
izing the general conference through the
annual conferences ought to have great
weight in determining the action of the
central body. If the Capitalization
scheme or chain urged by the committee
should become an accomplished fact, it
would include those hospitals already es-
tablished and maintained by the Meth
odist connection. These are the Wesley
Memorial Hospital, in Atlanta: the
Barnes Memorial Hospital, of st. Louis,
and the Galloway Memorial Hospital, at
Nashville.
Advices have been received by the pris-
on authorities of the arrest near Birm-
lngham of Joe Saunders, who escaped
from the Mississippi penitcntiary about
four years ago. Saunders is IA white
man and was sent up from Newton coun.
ty for burglary. He is a desperate char
a%cter, and after his crime in Newton
county for which he was sent to the
nenltentiary he surrendered only aftel
being shot down by the sheriff.
Kinds is the leading county in point
Of personal property valuations, with a
total valuation of $5.462, 175. compared
with that for 1908, of $5,212,245, the in
crease being $249,93O. The value of
banking property ard capital employed
shows up well with a total of S1,275.6o5;
of capital employed and merchandise, ST.
| $50 EOn n,1 no nif,l n,,plAxnI - .--.
featuring, $259,245.
The enthusiasm and interest displayed
over the agricultural high school propo-
sition in Pearl River county, which is so
pronounced that it has cid to provision
being made by the local authorities for
an additional $4,000 in order to in
crease the facilities, is especially graft,
flying to the educators and the practical
men who have laid the foundation for
this advance.
In a decision handed down N the case
of the State of Mississippi ". Tn.
Royal Insurance co hpany, ct al, Chan
cellor J. Q. Robins, # Tupelo, upheld the
constitutionality Of the Mississippi anti
trust act. DcmuTrers to certain portions
of the compliments bill were sustained.
The suit, which is against a number of
fire insurance companies, involves So |
600 damages which the state seeks to
recover against the defendants.
Since the organization of the Corn
Club of Mississippi for Boys the record
for the yield per acre has been held by
Il Newton county boy, Henry Harpera ~ |
name. The county is proud OF this fact
and is encouraging all to participate in
the contests for prizes.
BY concerted action of the city and
county authorities, half a dozen social
clubs and Il number of locker clubs"
recently started at Nicksburg, were noti-
fed to stop the Use of liquor altogether.
The outcome will be watched with in,
terest.
The Jones county assessment figures
for 1909, show a decrease compared with
ne Injuries u IJop, VI P'o'V~p, Nv
is rather less in proportion than the de-
crease in valuation shown from some of
the other large counties.
President Beatty and Secretary Mason
of the Oktibbeha Fair Association, are
working indcfatigably for the success of
the fair, which opens at Starkville Oct.
6, and are making strenuous efforts to
have all arrangements completed by that
time.
On Oct. 9th there will be held in New
Albany the district Knights of Pythias
meeting with Tallahatchie Lodge No.
1O5. There will be different ranks con.
ferred. both at the afternoon and night
sessions.
Murray +. Smith, Il leading lawyer of
Vicksburg, ana a politician of statewide
reputation, died Monday after an illness
of several weeks.
Authentic reports from the cotton
growing sections south of this place esti-
mate the damage to the cotton crop as
n very material one, as a result OF the
heavy equinoctial storm OF the DIST
Much of the staple was blown out of the
bolls. the plants blown down and broken
off, and the crop reduced to perhaps a
of a bale to the acre.
Prof. E. r. Lloyd, director of Farm
ers' Institute from A. and Nj. College,
and r. S. Wilson, state agent OF farm
demonstration work of the agricultural
at Washington, with others,
are holding n series of very interesting
in Holmes county. The large
attendance and interest manifested IN
these meetings indicates a deep interest
on the part of the farmers.
The hottest fight of both a legal and
nature that the Delta country
has seen for years was begun at Tut
,r;lor xrbap n Ia roe number of the req