The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-02-04
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Judge j. b. Chrisman, for twenty years
Judge of this circuit, died at his home al
Canton, aged SO years. He was n OF
the most prominent men i'll the State. In
1902 he gained considerable notoriety
by thwarting the efforts of a mob to
rescue a gang of whitecappers who were
on trial in his court ut Brookhaven. The
mob had o~verpowered the sheriff and
broken into the coul room where the case
was in progress. The venerable judge
took in the situation at once, and, quick
ly leaving the bench, met the ruffians
and defied them to take the prisoners at
the bar. They quailed before his stern
eye and courageous manner, n skunk
out of the courtroom.
W. c. Cain. a farmer of Franklin cOun.
tv, gives some facts in regard to hog
raising that will be hard to equal any
where. Mr.. Cain states that he killed a
hog that tipped the scales at $50 pounds.
He got 12O pounds of lard, which, at the
present price, is 1920; 200 pounds OF
sausage, at 1919 cents per pound, $25.
leaving Il balance of meat which, at the
present price of dry salt meat, is worth
$50. The total of the above is $74.20.
Mr.. Cain also made the statement that
with only three acres of peanuts and
what peas the hogs could get in the field,
it cost him not over S. in cash to raise
and kill 1000 pounds OF pork.
Grenada is very much interested il
the proposition before the lower house
of congress by Hon. I. I. Sisson to make
a survey of lalobusha river for the
purposes of navigation. Every piece of
information and much data are being
collected to send Mr.. Sisson, so that he
be fortified against any probable
opposition. Old citizens recall the time
when steamboats, piled the waters of the
river regularly. \ steamboat was up as
high as Grenada as late as the sos that
Following some correspondence be-
tween Secretary Runnells of the Bust
ness League and Prof. Thomas l.. Bal
ley, secretary of the Mississippi Inter
collegiate O~ratOrical Association, the di-
of the league issued a formal in
~vitation to the association to hold Their
next meeting in Grecnville, the time set
being May -.
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umbus. on the charge of selling booze, it
developed hat some of the most con
patrons of local blind tigers arc
young boys. Three of the principal wit
lesses were boys IA and Is years of age,
md all swore that they frequently threw
n money and bought whisky from unli-
vendors.
One of the most important meetings
Yer held in Mississippi among the he
will be the midwinter session of
he bishops council of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church, Feb. 9, in
7icksburg. 1t is estimated that upward
# 1000 people will be in the city at the
ime, because of a number of important
uestions to be reviewed by prelates.
A shooting affray occurred at Hol
omb, eleven miles west of Grenada, be-
ween DR.. c.. c. Moore and Shell Guy,
rothers-in-law. DR.. Moore fired four
hots and Guy nine. Moore was I'M
urt and Guy had the small bore in
is left arm broken. The shooting took
lace in Moore's drug store. Both par
les are prominent.
Quite a great number of the farmers
f Lefore county have begun the raising
f produce. and especially are they be-
oming interested in the breeding of
1ules and horses. At present mules
ommand a very high price in the Delta,
nd it is believed hat this experiment
I the breeding of mules will be profit
BILE.
By a vote of 694 to, 9 the bond issue
f $780, 600 to. be given the Mississippi
liver Western RAILROAD by the city as a
onus to build into Natchez was the re-
ult of Mondays election. The $4,000
not to be paid to the road until they |
ave completed the same from Meridian
D Natchez and running trains into the
alter city over its own tracks. -
A bold holdup occurred in the northern
of Leake county, when William
Wider, a negro, met Nh. Lepord, a white
ian, on the public highway, pulled his
istol and ordered him to give up his
oney, which he very reluctantly did.
+. e. McGhee, who has the SEEMING
at Moon lake, in making an
ther haul over the same course where
e caught 9O3 alligator gar, eclipsed this
,cord Just 50, catching a total of 972
ar and $50 pounds of drum and buffalo
+ the same time. A great many OF the
ars were s and 9 feet long, and were
!, heavy one person could scarcely ham
10 one.
Coffeeville was visited by the worst
,nflagration in the history of the city.
i've stores were totally destroyed, with
ro,,ob Ioss estimate of 500. 900. The |