The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-07-08
Mississippi News
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The summer school and training
course of the Maben High School
opened with a fairly good attendance
Of teachers from Webster and Oktib-
beha counties. A feature of the school
to which everybody is invited is a Sc
ries of lectures on psychology, while
the general public as well as the
school will be entertained by lect-
ures from ex-Gov. Vardaman, Presi-
dent Whitfield of the l. /. and c.,
State Superintendent Of Education J.
N. Powers. Congressman T. U. Sisson
and other prominent men of the state.
The school will contain eight weeks.
Corinth and Alcorn counties claim
to be able to produce in MI. j. P.
Walker the champion cabbage raiser
OF the state. Walker has a cabbage
which measures eighteen inches across
the head and weighs 25 pounds. MIR.
Walker has marketed, from his small
garden in the most fashionable resi-
dence section of Corinth, 225 cabbages
and has kept a record of each cab
bage, 100 of which averaged eight to
twelve pounds, 100 twelve to twenty
pounds, and twenty-five from twenty,
to twenty-five pounds.
M. r. Cocker, after nearly two years
illness, died at his residence near
Potts Camp. He was IS years old. and
a highly esteemed citizen. He was an
eX-Confederate soldier, belonging to
Company d, i5d Georgia regiment, and
was wounded at the battle of Bakers
Creek, Miss. and although entitled
to a discharge on account of the Sc
we're wound he served the Confederate
cause until the val was ended.
Miss Hazel Hogan, a bright Young
lady, daughter of Mrs. ]. B. Hogan Of
Starkville, happened to a painful, seri-
Gus and unusual accident. An A.. A.
College pennant was hanging in ner
room fastened to the wall with an ord
mary dress pin. Miss Hazel ierked
the pennant and the pin flew fore
most through the ball Of her eve. She
was taken to an expert oculist Of Co
lumbus and he pronounced the sight
entirely gone and removed the eyebalL.
AT BraXton a white man and Jim
Braddle, a negro, engaged in a dis.
pute over a debt Of $3.50 that the ne.
gro claimed the white man owed. The
negro disputed the mans word, re-
sulting In a fist fight. Other negroes
took part. The white men became en-.
ragged n took Jim Braddie and
whipped hin. Not being satisfied US to
the whipping given the negro, a mob
was raised, the negro having made his
escape, and pursued him under the
cover of night. In their pursuit two
men lying in ambush, supposed to be
negroes, shot into the mob, instantly
killing Luther Buckley.
Portrait tablets of Col. WoGdso
(Union) and Col. Higgins (~Confederate)
have arrived, and will be placed in the
Vtcksburg National Park at once
AHSSS II t"O VI IL HQIlDCI Ol IdDBSIS
of this kind. and they will make very
ornamental additions tt the already
large collection of imposing memorials
in the park.
Congressman Ben Humphreys of the
Third Mississippi district, has gone 10
Minnesota for his health. The con.
gresham is far from well. but hopes
to ecover his strength entirely by
early fall, when he will return to Mis-.
sissippi to make some speeches in the
delta, reciting his work in congress
and asking the people for reelection.
State Senator Theodore Bilbo spoke
at Hickory to an audience of about
$50 people. He was forced to speak in
open air, as the of the public
hall refused to allow him to use it.
The trustees also refused to let him
speak in the schoolhouse.
A good roads picnic will be held
July q. Charles w. Thatcher, the
good roads apostle, will entertain the
crowd with an address on good roads
1t will be no political affair, and nc
speeches will be allowed which beal
directly or indirectly on politics.
An address by DR.. W. S. feathers
director of public health and santa
ton, under the state board of health
was one of the features Of the ses
sion of the Mississippi Travellers AS
ISOLATION. The association has done
much to secure legislation looking to
ward improved sanitary conditions il
hotels, railway stations and other pub
lie places, and DR.. feathers made val
liable suggestions regarding other i'm
provements along this line.
st. Johns celebration by the Ma
sonic lodge and the laying of thu
cornerstone for the new and hand
some school building which will b.
erected at a cost of $4,000, were i'm
p~ortant features of the barbecue givel
at Shelby. After the speaking all par