The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30

Apui eAonaAAu PeoPic YlSIteu OoluIIUuS
to witness the contests which were held
under the auspices of the East Missis.
sippi School, Masters association, The
occasion was a grand success in. every
way, and everybody was delighted. The
contests took place at the Industrial
Institute and College,, and the visitors
took dinner in the college dining hall, as
guests of the institution and the people
of Columbus, and q bounteQus repast
was served. 1888
After a. profitable three days session
at Vicksburg, the diocesan council of
Mississippi adjourned to meet at Green
wood, on April 18, 1910. Upon motion
of Dean William Mercer Green, of All
Saints College, the trustees of that in
~stitution were authorized to purchase
three or four acres of land adjacent to
the building. The finance committee
made a report, showing the excellent con-
dition of the diocese. Bishop Bratton's
salary was raised from $4,000 to $4,000
per dIIlulu, dIu pow ANNUALLY WdS al
lowed him for a typewriter.
Columbus was visited by a cloudburst
last week. For ten minutes it seemed
as if the clouds had parted and allowed
a perfect deluge to flood everything.
Hail as large as acorns literally covered
the streets during the flow. In fifteen
minutes it ceased, but bitches, cutters
and everything were overfowed. A dark
ness preceded the cloudburst.
Lefore Lodge No. 46, X. of p, OF
Greenwood, has sent the following in
v~itation to the representatives to the
Forthcoming session of the grand lodge
at Meridian, asking that the 1910 ses-
sion of that order be held in Greenwood,
and the two local representatives will
use every legitimate means to get
the grand lodge to come here next year.
The officers of the Marshall county
Sunday school convention have issued a
call for an institute to be held in Holly
Springs Sunday, May 80. 1t is proposed
to have a general rally of all the Sun
day school workers of the county at
Holly Springs at that time, insofar as
this may be practicable.
Clement A. Evans, of Atlanta, COM
,1opIor ,,oh.nf of Tho VFnifnd COnfpUQr-
ate Veterans, has accepted an invitation
to present to the United States govern
ment the monument to Gen. Stephen ID.
Lee, at Vicksburg, on June II.
Fl. D. Dyer, who conducted a piano
voting contest in Hattiesburg for a
of local merchants, was bound
over to the grand jury to answer a
charge of operating a lottery. The Sec
ton of the Mississippi code relating to
lotteries reads: "If any person, in order
to raise money for himself or another,
or for any purpose whatsoever, shall
publicly or privately put up a lottery to
be drawn or adventured for, he shall, on
conviction, be imprisoned in the peni-
not exceeding five years"
TIL truck farmers around Wesson
nave closed out all their cabbage to a
commission house for $3.50 per crate, |
o. b. Wesson, and efforts are being
made to get them to close out their to-
peas and beans. The truck raised
this season will be worth about $4,000,
and so encouraged are some of the farm
ers they say they expect to double the
acreage in another year.
President Whitfield, of the Industrial
Institute and College, has announced the
orators for the approaching commence
ment exercises at that institution. The
commencement sermon will be delivered
On Sunday, June 6, by DR.. c. D. Gray,
Of Atlanta, secretary of the Baptist
home mission board, and the baccalau-
reate address will be delivered the fol-
owing morning by DIR. j.. B. Aswell, ex-
State superintendent of education in
For the purpose of securing a colony
If German-American farmers and recog-
the advantages which will accrue
70 the trade of Greenwood plantations
INTO small tracts with thrifty white set
,lers located on them, a number of Green
wood business men purchased the w. C.
George plantation, consisting of 1850
acres, and will divide the same into
small farms.
Major-General Frederick Dent Grant
will represent the war department at
he unwilling of the Gen. Stephen D. Lee
in the National Military Park
It Vicksburg on June II. Secretary of
J.. M. Dickinson has notified Park
Chairman w. 7. Rigby that he cannot
but has assigned Gen. Grant to
come.
The twenty-frst annual session of the
Mississippi Bankers Association will be
leld in Columbus May II and 12.
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