The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-05-20
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ElZl0 COmm0r1OrQ, ID years Olu, WIN
was placed in jail at Aberdeen Tor
breaking into the sore of Lam & Car
ter Hardware Company and stealing
two pistols and one dirk, made his es-
cape . The jailer states THAT h boy
was in a cell by himself, locked up,
and that he began crying and disturb
ing the Oyher prisoners, and one or
the trust.e s went and told him he
could stay down stairs with him. Soon
after the trusty was asleep the lad
stole the key out of his pocket and
searching the pockets of another pris-
oner, relieved him of $3.50, then let
himself out into the Jail yard, after
which it was easy for him to climb
over the high fence which surrounds
the Jail.
With the election of officers, trans
action Of unfinished business and Sc
lection of a city in which to hold the
next meeting, the most interesting
convention ever held by the Mississippi
State Bankers Association came to a
close at Natchez Tuesday. B. w. Grit.
fifth of Vicksburg, who for nineteen
years has been SECRETARY and treasurer
was elected president by reclamation.
The East Mississippi Four County
Medical Association met at Houston.
Interesting papers were read by DR.. c.
B. McCown on the status of tubercu-
losis and DR.. R. M. Sadler on his OBJ.
s~ervations while attending the inter
national congress on tuberculosis at
Washington in 1909. These papers
wsre freely discussed.
Edgar Pratt has mysteriOusly disap
peared from his home at MiZe, a small
station on the Gulf and Ship Island
road. Bloody clothing resembling that
worn by Parrot when last seen, to
gether with human bones, was found
about one mile from Mize, and the lit
tie town Is In great excitement, 1t be-
ing the general belief that young Par
ret has been murdered.
Greenwood was the Invest town in
the state Tuesday when the first ses'
| sion Of the knights of Pyth'as had
their suspicious opening at the court
house, when Chancellor Commander
w. NJ. Hammer of the Lefore Lodge
No. 46, delivered the address of wei
come in behalf of the local lodge, and
Hon. W. NJ. Wilmington turned over
the keys of the city to the many Wis
iting knights, to which the grand chan
cellor %eloquently responded.
Mai. Thomas Harrison, aged Go
brother-in-law of the late Gen. Stephe1
D. Lee, brother of Governor James L
Harrison, was found dead in front o.
the elevator door on the fourth floor o
the Hotel Gilmer, in Columbus. The
assumption is that Major Harrison re
allzed his serious cond' ton and wa!
irving to ring the elevator bell so he'll
could reach him. He was in his nigh
clothes when found.
At the recent state convention OF tn
Daughters of the C%onfederacy at CO
lumbus the banner for historical wOrl
was awarded the Stonewall jackson
Chapter of Swan Lake. One OF tn
smallest chapters in the state, one o
the youngest and one whose member
are perhaps most widely scattered o
all, the Stonewall Jackson Chapter
presented to the state historian twer
ty-six original essays, three reminis
cences and many valuable historlca
clippings, making a record for goo
and faithful work that few chapters 1
the general organization have bee
able to touch.
For House, Barn ana Roof Paints
Single Stains. Wagon and Implement
Paints, Wall Papers, Rubber Roofing
write to Farrell Calhoun Paint & Wa
PAPER Co., Wholesale and Retail, aga
S. Second ST., Memphis, Tenn.
Samples sent on request.
II is the sense Of the Clarksdal
Business League, which met with Gel
eral Agent w. H. Moser Of the Missi
sippi Valley Transportation Compan.
that the Clarksdale and Friars Poir
railroad will be built, so as TO have d
rect connection with the MISSISSIPPI
Valley Transportation Company's lin
of fast freighters and barges from tn
lakes to the gulf.
Walter S. Johnson, q prosperot
farmer, So years old, living near Lexi
was shot and instantly killed by his sc
in-law, j. M. Moye. On returning hon
and finding his wife absent, Mo!
armed himself with a shotgun ar
went to the Johnson home, where |
became engaged in q quarrel with +
! wife's father.
There is a stirring among the cant
dates who aspire to succeed the Ho