The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-13
Mississippi
Yews

tracted meeting which was to be inau
gurated, they became impatient after
waiting three hours and dispersed. Late
in the evening it became apparent that
the absence of the pastor, Rev. j. Wat
son, was due to certain expressions made
by some OF the members who had at
tended q meeting of the Holiness de.
nomination, who said that this was the
first time they had heard the true gospel
%expounded. These assertions, reaching
the ears of the pastor, disturbed him
considerably. 1t is said that after hear
ing these remarks Rev. Watson said
he was utterly astOnished. For eigh-
teen years." he said, Il have been serv-
ing them, and if this was the first time
my members had heard the teachings of
Christ proclaimed, it would have been
different. 1t is indeed strange that at
this late stage they should belittle my
humble efforts"
A man giving his name as Dan Lewis,
and claiming to represent the Prudential
Life Insurance Company, with head
quarters at Jackson, was arrested 2
Brookhaven on the charge of trying to
pass a draft. He had been trying to
pass drafts drawn on a man in Jackson
at various places, and succeeded at Cot
feeville. In the meantime the bank at
that place had been notified and when
he presented a draft the cashier tele-
phoned the Coffeeville bank to know if
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and they Immediately ordered his arrest.
The Inter-County Teachers Normal in
stitute opened at Holly Springs with a
full attendance, under the management
of County Superintendent of Education
J.. P. Horton. The object of this insti-
tute is to prepare teachers for their
work in the best and latest methods of
instruction. The institute will last four
weeks, and much practical good is ex-
pected to result from this gathering Of
teachers and their discussion of methods
and plans of teaching.
John Mcdaniel, a negro, was convicted
of killing H. B. Bracy, a white man,
and was sentenced by Judge Roane to
be hanged at New Albany September 10.
The negro's testimony convicted him,
saying that he, while acting as brake
man on the st. Louis & San Francisco
eastbound freight, in February last,
made the man crawl down the side of
the car to jump off, and that he shot
down the side of the car where the man
was, but did not aim to kill him. The
jury was out only thirty minutes.
Mrs. Lucy Green Yerger of G~reenville,
State president of the United Daughters
of the ~Confederacy of Mississippi, an
nounce that the State chapter will place
a memorial window in the Church of the
Redeemer at Biloxi, the worshiping place
of the Davis family years ago, to the
memory of Mrs. Margaret Davis Hayes, |
who recently died in Denver, Colo. This
work of the State chapter of the U. d.
c.. is recognized as peculiarly appropriate
and thoughtful o. the part of the State
officers.
Tom Watkins and Walter Casey, two
prisoners under sentence of death, made
their escape from the county Jail at
Cleveland. The men were convicted at
the May term of court, and sentenced to
hang on the 14th and 18th of June, re-
spectively. An appeal was taken in
each case, and they were waiting the
action of the Supreme Court.
The Baptist church at Perkinstown
was struck by lightning and burned to
the ground. A protracted meeting was
in progress and a large congregation was
the building when the bolt descended.
All escaped unhurt. This is the third
in this vicinity to be struck by
lightning within the past few months.
Blind tiger raids are becoming fire.
]uent at Clarksdale, two tiger keepers,
both women, having been caught during
the past week, and both with the
The two negroes were fined
Zach 500 and given a thirty-day SEN
;ence.
Ed Hinson, living in the eastern por-
ion of Meridian, received notice that a
,and of twenty had organized into a
christian society" and would take him
and whip him if he had not moved {
" Tuesday night. Officers in the neigh ]
are on the lookout and quiet Y
The contract for the erection of the I
government building at Gulfport on the
tie selected some time ago, was awarded {
o Moore & Co., of Nashville, Tenn. The I
specified that the building shall l
e completed within a year. /
The first open cotton hollis of the sea- s
in this section (C~larksdale) are re- s
orted from A. j. Simmons, of the Omega /
lantation, six and a half miles east Of Y
Zig creek, in Coahoma county.
Iona Vines, late Of Alfalfa county, who :
obbed the postofice at Niles in 1907, .