The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-09-03
Mississippi
News

IT, III
saturday was a great love feast and
gnia day for the farmers in the Mont.
psher section of Clay county. The Hon.
= I. Sisson, congressman from the
district, with his corps of government
experts, infused new life into the farm
ers. Hon.. Sisson, in a most eloquent
speech, announced the object of the
meeting, and was followed by Mr.. Boy
kin OF South Carolina, on Good Roads,"
Air. Campbell of Texas on "Demonstra-
ton" MIR. Phelps of Alabama on PLANT
industry" State Superintendent Pow
ers on Education" Superintendent
Early on Education" who greatly en-
lghtened and most satisfactorily enter
tanned the great crowd of more than
1900 people.
Arraigned for practicing medicine
without a license, in the city court at
Clarksdale and in the magistrates
court for getting money under false pre-
lenses, the "hoodoosim' of a negro Civ
ing the unique cognomen of Albert Obey,
has brought its professor into the tolls
of a twice broken law. On the first
charge the doctor" received a sentence
of thirty days and a fine of 500; on
the second, another thirty days sentence
and a fine of $1S5. There were several
complaints against Obey, on whom he
had tried his professional hand with IN
satisfactory results.
Over three thousand people lined the
banks of the Cottonpool, situated seven
miles from ~Starkville, to witness the
baptism Of forty candidates, men, women
and boys and girls. During the week .
great religious revival has been in pro-
gress at the Baptist church. The aged
minister, who has but one arm, strangled
three girls, but not badly. The bal
ance went through the ordeal without
any mishap. Rev. DR.. Adams, the pas
tor, is seventy, a Confederate veteran,
and was recently elected to the Legis-
lature to represent Oktibbeha county.
A charter has been issued to the Mis-.
sissippi Western Town Site Company,
one of the most unique corporations ever
organized in this State, domiciled at
Hazlehurst and capitalized at $4,000.
The purpose of the corporation is to
promote the building of towns along
the line of the proposed Mississippi
River Western railroad, after uniform
plans, with uniform width streets and
according to a regular scale, embracing
landscape gardening, park sites, etc.
M. T.. Bixler. manager of the Hatties-
burg Daily News. has launched a cam
paign for the formation of a South Mis-
sissippi Press Association, and letters
are being sent out to the editors of the
different papers in this section of the
State, inviting them to meet in Hatties-
burg September 81 and %.
The ninth annual reunion of the de-
scendants of Mr.. and Mrs. Terry Dalton,
was held at Bonneville, and proved to
be a very happy event, about one hum
dred of the family being present. Six
States, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee,
Georgia, Kansas and Arkansas, were
represented.
The State Farmers Institute and In
dustrial Convention, held at the A. &
NJ. College, closed with an able address
by r. A. n. Wesson, the lecturer for the
Farmers Union. The attendance upon
this institute was gratifying and deep
interest was manifested throughout.
The oldest white woman in Mississippi
has been discovered in Covington coun-
ty, in the person of Mrs. M. c. Nichols,
who has reached the age of ia years,
and is still hale and hearty, and appar-
emily good for several more years.
The teachers institute in session in ,
Bonneville enrolled 50 teachers. Wednes-
day afternoon of the second week was :
devoted to an agricultural rally" for r
the purpose of agitating the spirit OF t
Prentiss county in favor of the agricul- :
tural high school. 7
The Cumberland Telephone & Tele- /;
graph Company is making arrangements ;
to build a new distance line from JACK /;
son to New Orleans, traversing the right :
of way of the New Orleans Great North !;
ern road. .
Great interest is being taken in the
Winston County Fair, which is to open c
at Louisville on September %, and con- e
tinue three days. d
The postoffce at Carrollton has been =
robbed again, making the third robbery
in two weeks. The thief broke in through
the money order window, with a railroad
spike. He only got Csc from the stamp b
drawer. Nothing in the office was both I
cred but the small change. Q
A. P. Simms, the liquor man, whose Z
creditors forced him into the bankruptcy c