The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-03-18
Mississippi News
OHIO OODDO

food the examination TO ehler Nese
Point Military Academy, he was among
he twenty-six who passed n was en-
.ered a student of that institution. lie
was the only Mississippian who guam
led. John S. is the youngest son OF >.
;. Smylic, a native of Copiah county,
out for several years a resident OF hat
,iesburg, and a grandson of the late Kew.
Angus McCallum, a pioneer minister OF
the Presbyterian church i'll South MIS-
where he has a large family
John comes from good old
Southern blood and has in HIM the max
ING of a loyal defender of his country.
A meeting of the faculty of the MIS-
sissippi Medical Association was held at
and it was UNANIMOUSLY de-
cided to build a magnificent new college
with hospital attached. The new ouiid-
mos will be constructed at a cost OF De-
tween $4,000 and $4,000, and will be
ready for occupancy by the opening OF
the next session. The new college VIII
he modern in every particular, occupy
the site of the present college.
Never in the history of the circuit
court of Tunica county has the docket
been so small as this term. Since whisky
has gone out, the homicides among the
negroes have fallen off to such a marked
decree that there are few murder cases
these DAYS in court, there being only
three on tbs docket. Heretofore the
usual number ranged from twenty to
twenty-seven.
The newly appointed Yazoo-Missis-
sippi levee board met at Clarksdale for
the purpose of organizing, eleetlng W.
NJ. Carruthers president. Thomas ID.
Rice of Tallahatchie county was elected
secretary and treasurer, and c. l.. Lo-
max of Greenwood, attorney. Major l..
G. Dabnev was reelected chief engineer
and W. l.. Head his assistant.
F. s. White, agricultural agent for the
Frisco system. was in Nettleton with his
car Monday, March II. He lectured at
10 am. and ? pm, in the Knights OF
Pythias hall. The farmers appreciate
Mr.. Whites visits, and he was greeted
by the largest crowd this trip than ever
before.
There never has been as much plow'
ing lone up to this time before in the
history of Oktibbeha county. Prof. W.
L. Hutchinson, director of the A. and Nj.
College experiment station, says his
plows were running all winter, with a
very short in.ermission. The farmers
of the county generally are well up with
their work, and corn planting has al
ready begun.
Anticipating the enactment of the su
preme court commissioner bill into law,
it is stated that quite a number OF law
yers of the state are out with thell
lightning rods and hopeful that the ap
pointive current may be detected thell
way The bill lacks several steps as ye'
before it can be classified among thu
laws of 1910, but there is no doubt o.
it's ultimate approval by the governor
The managers of the cottOnseed OF
mills are getting ready for the shutdown
for the season at jackson. There ar
four of these mills, and all are OF
high capacity, and have handled an
crushed between them about $4,000 ton
of seed. which is rather below the recor
for 19OS-19O9, which went above 5000
tons.
Twenty people were injured in a col
lision at Philip, eighteen miles abov'
Greenwood, IN the Yazoo and Missis
sippi Valley railroad, when the passen
ger train ran into a supply train.
iagman that had been sent back to fla
the passenger was called in, and tn
passenger train crashed into the suppl,
train without warning.
d. G. McLaurin of Hattiesburg, VIII
runs a dray, seems to give his attentio
to delivering beer and whisky to tn
illicit dispensers of same. Justice Davi
takes the position that such is not
legitimate occupation, and fined him tn
limit of the law. The case was appeale
to the higher courts for final adjudics
ton.
The gloom cast over the cOmmunlt
by the closing down of the MISSISSIPPI
mills at Wesson indefinitely has not q
minished. Gov. Noel has promised
recommend to the legislature to pass
special act as quickly as possible a
thorizing the Wesson mayor and boar
of aldermen to use $500 of the city
funds for the relief of the distresst
women and children there.
At the February meeting of the boa
of supervisors, an appropriation of s.
600 was made, the money to be u.s.
in building a Confederate monument
the court house square at Hattiesbur
A committee of U. d. C.'s met a lii
committee of Boys in Gray" and
lected the spot on which the monume
will stand. The contract has been !
and work is now in progress.