The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
Mississippi
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the most interesting of many years from
it's celebration of the 400th anniversary,
of John Calvin. Two of the most inn
portant actions of the presbytery were
overtures to the general assembly. First,
requesting the assembly to make u
change in the church government per-
hitting a term eldership; second, af
overture requesting the assembly to in
corporate in the confession of faith the
following deliverance of the Jackson gen.
eral assembly of 1902, which reads as
follows:.. 1--WE are persuaded that the
holy scriptures, when fairly interpreted,
amply warrant us in believing that all
infants who die in infancy are included
in the election of grace, and are regen-
Grated and saved by Christ through tho
spirit"
John R. Ellis, Meridian, president;
JAS. w. Bell, state university, vice pres
ident; w. g. Williams, Newton, treas
urer; John T. Connell, Gulfport, sec.
rotary. After selecting the foregoing
officers, the twenty-fourth annual meet
ing of the Mississippi School Teachers
Association, in session at Natchez, dis
cussed the advisability of adding a press
committee to the list of association COM
mittees, without adopting the idea, in
stalled officers and adjourned, leaving
the selection of the next meeting place
to the executive committee.
Over three hundred people attended
the seventeenth annual session of the
Double Springs Memorial Association,
which convened four miles from Maben.
1t was a union gathering of all denomi'
nations of the Christian religion. Ala
bama, Ten4essee, Georgia and Louis
lana were represented. The graves Of
both cemeteries were decorated.
1t is expected that more than six hun.
dred members will attend the nnuaI
convention of the Mississippi Retail Mer-
chants Association, to be held at Hat
tiesburg, on May IS and 10, and the
gathering will be of exceptional interest
because of the fact that a number of
matters are slated for discussion that
will probably be brought before the Leg
~islature at its next session in the form
of a memorial asking for remedial leg
i~slation.
Charles Scofeld, secretary for the Mis-
sissippi Western Railroad, the projected
line from Meridian to Natchez, am
ounces that the locating engineers are
at present working in the interior Of
Smith county, and will run the perma-
nent survey into Meridian in less than
three weeks.
The Okolona Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION, organized with an authorized
capital of $4,000. Several new homes
are already projected, and great things
are expected to result from the efforts
of the association to stimulate home
building and improvement.
Valley Bank, of Rosedale, declared a
dividend of 200 per cent. on its capital
stock out of the earnings of the past
two years. This bank enjoys the dis
~tinction of having paid it's stockholders
over 1000 per cent in dividends during
the past eight years.
Henry Mccarthy, news agent on tha
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, is
alleged to have been caught by the
Utica town marshal selling whisky from
the train. Mccarthy was tried before
Mayor Collins and ined $3.50 and sixty
days on the county farm.
All the steel fixtures for Jones coun.
tvs two new $4,000 courthouses have
arrived. 1t is supposed all the furni-
ture and everything will be in by June
1. The courthouses in Ellisville and
Laurel are among the handsomest in the
state.
The rural schools of Oktibbeha coun4
tv have Just closed the most successful
term in the history of the free school
of the county. There has been
a better average attendance, less fric-
ton and more enthusiasm among teach
ers and pupils.
Congressman Richmond Pearson Hob
son and the party of a~gronomists who
are touring the Sixth Alabama district
under his chaperonage spent Sunday in
Columbus. Congressman Hobson deliv-
cred an address at the First Baptist
Church on "The Mission of Man and tha
of the Nation"
Robert Wade, a young man of Port
while engaged in loading a can
non to be shot in honor of the Confed-
crate Memorial Day ceremonies, was
blown almost literally to pieces by the
accidental discharge of the cannon.