The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-12-17

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and is under IS, may enter the contest.
The pig must have been born on or since
Oct. l, 1909, and must be registered.
Pigs to be shown On first day of the
county fair, when they are to be
weighed, and their weight divided by
number of days in pigs age, the owner
of pig making the greatest gain per day
to receive $25; second, $3.50; third,
$3.50; fourth, IS.
Dewitt Lundy left today for his trip
to Washington, which came to him as a
prize offered by DIR. Knapp of the govern
ment agricultural bureau at the recent
state fair at jackson, Miss. The trip
will be of two weeks duration and the
time will be spent mainly in Washing
ton, ID. c., seeing the sights there.
Upon his arrival in the city a guido
will be turned over to this young man,
and will devote his entire time to him,
showing him the various points of in
terest in and about the city OF Wash
ington.
Miss Susie Powell, president of the
Rural School Improvement Association
OF the state, addressed the teachers of
Lee county at Tupelo. She delivered
an impressive lecture, explaining the
methods of improving and systematic
ing the work of country schools and
making the work in these schools as eff
1ective as the work done in the graded
schools of the separate districts.
The people of the Delta are begin.
ming to awake to the necessity for i'm.
proved drainage. Gov. Noel having in.
timated that he will recommend for con-
sideration a bill authorizing the organ.
ization of the Black Bayou drainage
district if a bill is agreed on, the Bust.
ness Mems League of Greenville has
taken tie matter up with the people
and the members of the legislature from
Washington county.
What promises to be a sensation
among the negroes of Mississippi was
sprung by Bishop E. Cottrell of Holly
Springs, before the Mississippi confer
ence of the colored Methodist Episcopal
Church Sunday, when he bitterly ar.
raigned the negro secret orders, which
to a large extent predominant in the life
and activity of that people.
Miss Laura Taylor, one of the mott
young ladies of Eupora, met q
most horrible death by being practically
cremated. The unfortunate young lady
was sitting in her room when it is sup
posed she was seized with a spasm of
and fell into the fire.
Sheriff j. o. Baugh of Coahoma coun-
ty raised several points of questionable
character in the New World" district
in search of blind tiger whisky, and
quite a quantity of beer and
whisky. The negroes were arraigned
before Justice j. B. Killebrew and were
$40 each and were given a severe
LIN ASPCiO VI Soulty IItdlIH OllCcI
w. Hamilton of Lauderdale county
shows that pellagra is prevalent in the
to an alarming extent. The re.
port shows that during the past eighteen
months ending December 1 there have
been a total of as cases of the new dis
ease. Of this number 81 have proven
fatal, 6 have recovered and ~ are now
treatment.
j.. E. Branton, a prominent planter OF
Washington county, has finished picking
l field of cotton which has made a most
remarkable yield. This field comprises
i've and one-fOurth acres and the total
yield of cotton is over $500 pounds.
enough for two standard weight bales
Der acre. At prevailing prices for cotton
md seed each acre of this land, which
vas planted in the Simpkins variety of
will yield him a gross return of
bout SITS.
DR.. R. j. Brown killed two hogs that
in the aggregate 6S2 pounds.
Another citizen of Iuka killed two that
600 pounds, and Will Also
a farmer living ten miles east
If Iuka, killed eighteen hogs from one
zen and brought six of them to Iuka for
ale. They weighed 1871 pounds and
him the sum of $160.
Congressman Dickson of the Sixth Mis-
district has written a letter to
he papers of his bailiwick in which he
els the farmers that he will render
hem every possible assistance in build
ng up a market and creating a demand
or their cane syrup-the best in the
of molasss that is to be had in this
ection of the country, and which seems
o find its natural element in the coun-
les to the southwest-those now in
ested with the boil weevil.
Claims for back taxes alleged to DO
by the banks of Vicksburg, extend
lg- back to 1903 and running up to
eyeral thousands of dollars, were filed