The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-12
.Mississippi
News

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Smith and Jasper will get together dur
ing this spring and summer on the prop
osition of forming a fair and exhibition
association. 1t is held that an exhibit
of the resources of the two counties III
one exhibition would astonish not only
the world outside that section, but the
people who are citizens and yers
of the two counties. The natural re-
sources of that section would astonish
the citizens, were they known, while
they are practically unknown to the
world outside, and such Il fair is needed
in order to advertise to the world the
realities which are known to the people
who live and move and have their being
in these two fine old counties.
The new $12, 900 school building was
opened at Quitman with one of the finest
programs that has ever been wit
messed at that place. Revs. J. NJ. Weems
and Holcomb both made beautiful and
impressive talks to the children and pa
irons of the school. The structure is
one of the handsomest in the State,
having eight large class rooms, a large
music room and an auditorium seating
600 people.
The Meridian Home Telephone Com
pany has begun action in eminent do
main against the Alabama & Nicksburg
Railroad Company. For some time the
Home Telephone Company has been at
tempting, it claims, to get permission
from the Alabama & Vicksburg Railroad
TO set its poles along the right of the
road between Meridian and Jackson, and
the refusal of the railroad people to
grant the privilege led to the filing of
the action.
Mrs. J.. II. T. jackson died of heart
trouble at her plantation home near Hud-
s%onville. Mrs. Jane Herndon Thomas
Jackson was born in Spottsylvania coun-
ty, Virginia, i'll 1928, and moved to Mis-
sissippi with her parents i'll 1886, and
continued to live on the same plantation
until her death. Her father was Charles
Thomas, who was prominent in law and
politics in Mississippi in ante-bellum
days. Mrs. Jackson was a of
strong character and convictions.
One more county has recognized the
existence and claim upon it of the Mis-
sissippi Old Ladies' Home, and has come
forward with Il donation with which to
help along the work. At the last meet
ing of the Coahoma county supervisors
that body passed an order donating 500
to the home, which will be available at
once, and it will come in time to fill
some gap in the e%xchequer of the insti-
tuition.
For the second time within a week
Fayette has been visited by fire, and this
time, as in the other, the building was
practically destroyed before any one
could get to it. The general merchan-
disc store of j.. II. Mcbride was totally
destroyed, and the first had made such
progress before it was discovered that
not a single article, item, book or paper
was saved, except was was in the safe.
An enthusiastic meeting was held at
Tupelo by the people of l~tawamba, Pom
totoc and Lee counties for the purpose
of making arrangements for a survey of
the proposed Tupelo, Pontotoc, Toccopola
and Fulton railway. The people along
the route manifest much interest and
from the encouragement given it is now
quite evident that the road will be built.
Governor Noel has issued a proclama-
ton offering a reward of $3.50 each for
the capture of the three desperadoes
who shot and fatally wounded Mr.. Her.
rim, a Waterman, while trying to raid
the hog pasture at the insane hospital
at jackson.
Messrs. X. S. Wilson and B. l.. Moss,
respectively state manager for Missis-
sippi and district manager for South
Mississippi, in the farmers cooperative
work under the bureau of plant industry
of the national department of agricul-
ture, made practical and convincing
to a meeting of farmers at
Brandon. The agricultural department,
through these men, proposes to pay half
the salary of a local manager, whose
duty shall be to supervise the cultivation
of five demonstration farms in each su-
district in the county.
An agricultural experiment station will
b established at C~larksdale, the board OF
supervisors having made an appropria-
ton of 500 per month for the mainte-
lance of same. This station will be in
charge of specialists appointed by the
and it's establishment is in
harmony with the present statewide
prevailing, looking to the improve
nent of agricultural conditions in the
South and the application of scientific