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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-02-13
Baptist Church Notes.

January has been a remarkable month
for the Baptist church. At the Sunday
services the capacity of the building
has been taxed to the extent that chairs
are used along the walls and aisles.
The Wednesday night prayer meetings
are the most wonderful the pastor or
any of the members have eve known.
The regular prayer meeting room has
been abandoned, not being large enough
to hold more than a third of those in
attendance, and the auditorium has
been nicely filled each Wednesday night
of the month. At the last prayer
meeting more than a hundred people
leaped to their feet in pledge TO make
February another such month. Not
only are there great numbers present,
but the spirit and enthusiasm of the
meetings as the people praise God in
song, study the scriptures and pray
with and for each other, is a delight to
all.
There were nearly 300 in Sunday
school last Sunday, and the rooms are
so crowded now that there is being no
special effort made to increase the
school, tho further organization and
Improvement in the work itself is be-
ing pushed all the time.
Sunday afternoon the pastor and a
number of the men of the church met
and organized the men into teams of
ten, that they may encourage and help
each other. Eight of these teams were
organized, and others will soon follow.
The leaders are chosen from the men
recently converted, and they are to use
their power in doing the most far
reaching work of the church. They will
| encourage each other to be faithful and
regular in church attendance, care for
each other in Sickness or trouble, and
work together to help others.
One hundred and thirty members have
been received from the recent meet
ings; eighty-seven of these have beer
baptised and four are yet approved fol
baptism. In less than a year the
church has received ITO members anG
the pastor has baptised LOG Of these.
Brother Roberts had once before, il
a Grenada, Miss, pastorate, baptisec
1O3 people in one year, but his congre
cation here rejoiced with him last Sun
day night when he went three above
that record in less than a year. 81
Slater is now the center of his most tri
umphant year in the ministry thus far
Slater (Mo.) News, Feb. 5.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-02-13
Bids Wanted.

The board of supervisors of Grenada
county will receive bids at their March,
1914, meeting tor the following all &C.
cording to plans and specification nov
on file:
To work all public roads in beat l not
included in present contract; also all
new roads in beat a.
To build wooden bridge across creek
in v. A. Bridger's field.
To build wooden bridges in beat l. as
shown in petition of j. A. Little ct al,
and to build steel approach to river
bridge nea Holcomb, dist. 5.
J. S. King. Clerk.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-02-13
For Sale

Nine-room residence on about
4 acres, in fernando; convenient
to high school, depot and town:
highly improved. Residence is
nearly new. Will sell cheap, IL
cash, balance at 3 per cent. ~
miles to Memphis; pike nearly all
the way. Address,
Lock Box 2,
23Jan4t fernando, Miss.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-02-13

The report of the chief of police of the city of New Orleans
shows 65 killed and 67o wounded as a result of the carrying of con-
cealed weapons in that city, for the year. What is true of New Or
leans is true of Mississippi, and includes much of other parts of the
continue.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-02-13

The failure of the Mercantile Bank & Trust Co. of Memphis last
Monday numbers another banking institution among the long list of
those that have been bled to death thru the dealings of some officer
of the institution in cotton futures. The populations of the presi-
dent of this bank will run up to about 100000. Could there be a
more forceful lesson for the necessity of prohibiting futures deal
ing? The collapse of this bank also emphasizes the necessity of
bank inspections that inspect and examine.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-02-13

We are glad to see so many young men from the farm attending
school. A farmer needs an education as much as persons of other
trades. The farmer of fifty years ago is not the farmer of today, and
the farmer of today will not be the farmer of twenty years hence. 1t
costs but little to educate a boy at the present time. Money spent
for education is well spent. Franklin said "a dollar in the head is
worth two in the pocket
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-02-13

The Southern Womans Magazine, published at Nashville, is a
very readable journal and if it continues along the lines it is started
on, it will be to the South what its name implies. 1t is very attract
lively gotten up and should appeal to the good taste of every in
curing mind and the best thought o. the country. We are pleased
to welcome the Southern Womans Magazine to our desk.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-02-13

There was no other course open to the city executive commit
tee except to order a second primary, when there was a demand for
it, where the candidate receiving the highest vote did not get a ma
jorty of the votes cast for that office.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-02-13

On Jan. 20 the voters of Alcorn county voted on the question of
tick eradication and decided by a majority of 2o5 that they wanted
to keep their ticks. The ticks won in II out of Id precincts of the
county. No date has yet been set for dipping the voters who cast
the tick ballots. They are in need of something.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-02-13
.NE.HNING OF RELIGION
From the Ohio State Journal.

From the Ohio State Journal
The heaven of the long ago seems almost to have disappeared.
1t was a beautiful religion somewhere, where there was no night, no
sorrow, no death, no trouble of any kind that afHicts terrestrial ex-
Istence. We used to sing it:
There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes tn night,
And pleasures Danish pain.
There was no more beautiful dream in all experience, and none
that lifted the heart to happier antcipations. 1t was a great conso-
iation to think of that region where all the joys of mortal life would
he given ultimate perfection. To think of that future abode was not
only a delight, but an inspiration. Dream though it might be, it was.
the cornerstone of a living faith. Here is another hymn and a no.
BILE one, indeed:
l will sing you a song of the beautiful land,
The far-away nome of the soul
Where n 10 storms ver beat IN that ghtterng strand,
While thu years Oft eternity roll.
Science and materialstc philosophy have crushed the truth out
of those happy lines. They clip the imagination Of all those objects
of sense that makes the life ION earth so happy, and erect in their
place a mystery glowing with spiritual delight. The earthly fancy
cannot grasp it. and SO fondless in the heart the old heaven o. long
ago.
1t is a pity it was ever pushed away from the human longing
purer. 1t was 4 great misfortune to humanity that that vision was
ever destroyed by plain, blunt, angular reality that brought heaven
down to this muddy earth, where men must wade and never dream.
For, in truth, religion is not a thing. not a substance with length,
breadth or thickness; it is a vision, a hope, an attitude of the spirit
that looks over and beyond science, literature, philosophy, plants its
faith n a divine mystery and locates its heaven within its infinite
boundaries.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-02-13

Don't fail to buy your goods from
Harris Bros.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-02-13

If you come to town, look for Harris
Bros. store.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30
TWO KILLED IN
train WRECK
One Crushed to Death and Another
browns in River.

MERGED, Cal, June 27.-One pas
senger was crushed to death and one
employee undoubtedly was washed
away in the MERGED river when two
cars of a Yosemite valley passenger
train left the rails Thursday night
and rolled down an embankment in
to the river. Nine other passengers
were more or less seriously injured.
The dead:
Stonewall jackson Harris, county
surveyor Mariposa county.
Missing:
A. C. Mahoney, conductor of the
train.
Surveyor Harris was crushed be-
tween two cars when he attempted
to leap to safety. Conductor Ma
honey is thought to have fallen
through the door of the baggage
coach when the car fell into the riv-
err.
A rescue train was made up yes
terday morning and the dead and in
jured brought to hospital here.
Search for Mahoney's body was
unavailing.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30

cost of bridge than the merely finan-
cial one. TIE most vicious assault
that bridge made upon me was the
smallnes s of mind that was gradual
ly forced upon me. 1t shows itself
in limited outlook, puerile and
fading discourse, and a volume of
cheap talk and "reminiscences. Those
"reminiscences! The Lord forgive us!
There may be merit and human in
terest in such "reminiscences as Ma
poleon's of Austerlitz and Lees of
the Wilderness battles; but what
possible virtue can be found in a
bridge fiend's ten-minute recitation
on how he played that last hand in
the game when So-and-So was his
partner, when it was game-all, and
he held six spades, etc.? Is there
anything in the universe more pif-
ling than this sort of air-jamming
And yet is it not what you are hear
ing, you accomplished bridger, about
six or seven days in the week."
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30
THE TRUST WINS.

Sioux City Tribune: In the pres
idential campaign Woodrow Wilson
found occasion to assail the progress
sive party because George w. Per
kins of the international Harvester
company was a member of it. Now
as president, he has appointed tC
the most important position ne has
had to fill, one Thomas D. Jones. 9
member of the board of directors OF
that same harvester company. He
has not only appointed Mr.. Jones
member of the federal reserve board
but he has written a strong appea
to progressive senators to confirm
the appointment.
Mr.. Bryan used to complain that
Colonel Roosevelt stole his clothes
while he was in deep water, but The
colonel never stole the livery OF
heaven to serve satan.
Jones may be all right; Perkins
may be all right; the harvester COM
pany may be all right; Wilson may
be all right, but can he afford tc
make the same kind of speeches in
his next race that he made in his
former one?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30

DR.. w. T. Hornaday, one of the
leading naturalists of the world,
and an eminent authority on bird
and animal life, head of New York's
famous geological park, is conduct
ing a nationwide propaganda
against the slaughter of useful birds.
1.-THE American people" he says,
must awake to a realizing sense of
certain facts that seriously affect
the cost of living. The 100000
men and boys who are slaughtering
our birds, are levying tribute on ev-
cry American pocket-book. He
says the codling moth and curculio
apple pests cost us about $S,250,000
year for spraying operations, and
100000 year in shrinkage OF
Sd1oS Ill IAC opp1C S1OPs 4AO NAAASu
bug wheat pests sometimes cost us
$2O,00O,O0O a year. The cotton boil
weevil costs the cotton planters $780,
100000 year. The tree-insect
pests cost the nation s100,000,O0O
a year. While the grasshoppers
cut worms, army worms, wire
worms, leaf hoppers, and other in
sects cost the nation annually more
millions than can be counted separ-
ately. He urges with all his great
ability, backed by thousands of en-
thusiastic followers, the enactment
of legislation that will put a stop
to the ruthless killing of robins.
blackbirds, doves, the bobwhite
quail, and insect-eating shore birds
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30

lowing morning. This means that
the morning milk is kept through
the heat of the day. When it
reaches the consumer, i24 hours or
more old, the meteorological count
is high. This explains, the depart
ment experts say, why milk from
dairies in which all the conditions
appear to be excellent is frequently
found to be bacteriologically bad.
The remedy recommended by the
department is to hold the afternoon
milk, properly cooled, through the
cooler hours of the night, and ship
it the next morning with the morn
ing milk, also properly cooled, with
out mixing the two. 1t is of course
essential to this plan that the train
schedules be adapted to it, but it is
felt that when the Importance of the
change is fully recognized this diff
ficulty will be overcome. Such pro-
cedure in cooling and handling
would materially reduce the posi-
bility of sour milk reaching the mar
kets.
Shippers are also urged by the de.
partment to see that the milk is
thoroughly cooled, as an important
step in keeping it's archaeological
count low.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30
What Ais Baseball.

Omaha World-Herald Baseball is
sick. Anyone can see that. Just
how sick probably nobody knows.
Most people hope not very sick, for
most people like baseball.
President Comiskey has diagnosed
the case, but we must accept his
diagnosis with some reserve and
probably some notifications. Comis-
key is president of the Chicago
Americans. His diagnosis is FEEDER
alitis. That is, the public interest
in the game has been seriously alien
ated by the wranglings of manage
ments and leagues, by constant
jumping talk and by emphasis laid
on salaries that has thrown into the
background the sporting features of
the pastime. And all this chiefly
through the example and principles
of the Federal league.
Mr.. Comiskey says that the three
major leagues this year are making
less money than the two did last
year. The leagues are making less
money because the players are max
ing more. Mr.. Comiskey probably
exaggerates the demoralizing influ-
ence of the new league. The entry
of this league has perhaps served
only to reveal condition-a mer-
cenary spirit-in baseball that al
ready existed. But in the main the
diagnosis of Comiskey seems to be
accurate. Baseball professionalism
has gone to seed. Too exclusively is
the game played for money-too ex-
clusively of contract obligations, toe
exclusively of local pride and spirit
that player should have, too ex'
clusively of the players personal in.
terest in the sport concerned in the
issue Of the game.
The public likes to see sport well
done. 1t likes to see display of all
the skill possible, but it does not
thoroughly enjoy games that are
merely machine work by highly de-
veloped automatons.
1t takes money to maintain high
class baseball. A recent statement
says that over 100000 fans pay
more than $1O,OOO,OOO every season
to watch the 5000 professional ball
players making up the more than fif-
ty major and minor leagues in the
United States. These athletes com.
bined earned salaries amounting tc
more than $6,O00,O00 a season
some star players are said to receive
more than $4,000 for six months
work.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30
Playing Bridge.

Owen Hatteras in the Smart Set:
81 can never in this world get back
the things that bridge has cost me.
Money? Not that, so much. But
time and opportunity and intellect
ual refnements and pleasures, and
the good society of worthwhile peo-
pie, and a thousand other good
things. Bridge has way of dulling
sensibillties. This must be so. How
else would men and women, quick to
take offense and slow to be appeased
in social and business life, calmly
submit to bullyragging and polite
scourging during game of bridge?
There is a bigger aspect of the
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30
TO ELIMINATE PARTIES!

It is not fair to voter in a pri-
mary that he should be made to de-
clare the ticket he wishes to vote.
The law should be changed SO that
when the voter goes to the polls he
is handed ballot which has all the
different party candidates upon it so
that he can go in and vote for the
party candidates of his choice with
out anyone knowing how he votes.
Fonda Times.
AS the Freeman-Tribune looks at
this matter, the law is all right as
it stands. There is no more reason
in permitting a republican to vote
for the nomination of democrat at
the primary than there would be in
permitting a republican to sit as a
delegate in a democratic convention
and help make the nominations
there. The primary is held for the
purpose of permitting voters who be-
lieve in certain principles to select
candidates who will carry out those
principles if elected. Then what
business has a voter who wants to
see those principles defeated taking
part in the nominations of men who
are supposed to stand for such prin-
ciples. Moreover, in close counties,
how easy it would be for few de-
signing democrats to vote for the
weakest republican candidates and
then defeat them at the polls in the
event of their nomination. The vot-
er in the primary should be made
to declare his party affiliation and he
should be permitted to vote only for
the candidates of his own party.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30

The MarshalltoWn Times-Republl-
can thinks the kindergartens OF Mar
shalltown and Webster City are
hardly the proper places to settle the
eligibility question of an eX-Judge 10
hold public Office. Well, perhaps
Bro. Norris will be willing to SUBJ
NIT the problem to the foundlings
home at Council Bluffs.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30
SHIPPING MILK.

With the advent of hot wealth 2r
the United States department of ag-
riculture is warning dairymen again
not to hold their milk before ship
ping it to market. A practice pre-
valent in some places is to take the
morning milk, combine it with the
afternoon milk of the same day and
ship this combination early the fol-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30

An automobile driver who recent
" returned to Webster City from a
trip through the northern part of
the state says great Improvements
are being made in the roads. All
the sections visited seem to have the
road fever and the result is that
better highways are being built. In
another year or two Iowa will have
many thousands of miles of as good
highways as can be found anywhere
where hard surfacing is not resorted
to.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30
Kenyon declares he never said

Kenyon declares he never said it
and that will settle it with every
body who knows Kenyon. Some
time during the primary campaign
it was reported that the senator had
made the remark that the election
of Maurice Connolly to the United
States senate was unthinkable. That
statement seemed rather harsh for
Kenyon to make and it was not CIV
en- credence by many of his friends
The senator has written a letter tC
Connolly, declaring that he never
made such a statement.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30

One good thing in connection with
the recent heavy rains in many parts
of northern Iowa is that large
number of the old wooden bridges
were washed out. 1t will now be
necessary for new structures to be
erected and nobody would think of
putting in wooden ones.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30
SENATOR KENYON.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Occasion
ally the mass of politics yields up a
statesman and sometimes the people
are so well satisfied with sincerity
as to keep him in their service.
While the typical politician is emu
lating the example of the weather.
cock by chasing himself around a
central and stationary spot, never
getting so far with all his wander
ings as to write an entertaining
book of travels, the constructive
statesman pursues his course with a
purpose in view. He is not respon-
sive to meteoric conditions. The
typical politician becomes SO accus-
toned to changing with the wind
that he occasionally changes in a
dead calm, surmising that the time
is opportune for shifting position
and that the wind may follow his
example.
Senator Kenyon happens to be a
republican. He adheres to the par
ty to support it., not to gain sup
port. He is of that stamp Of citi-
zen conscious of his power to
strengthen his country by being
strong himself. He is aware that
the patriots who founded the nation
did not make the nation, that every
day sees its creation begin anew,
records the growth and witnesses the
death of something in the system of
government. He is one Of the rare
men who feel that upon him, not up
on those whose life work has been
finished, rests the present RESPONSE
bility for the future. He knows what
many members of congress do not
know-that he is nearer those who
will inherit free government than
are the men who proclaimed liberty
in America and left to him trus-
teeship that he must discharge with
honor. The heirs of republican gov
eminent will not find that he has,
for his own purposes, squandered
any part Of their estate. TO the
masses of his fellow citizens his adj
hesion to one party-and he could
not adhere to two-is of great deal
less concern than his undertaking
attachment to principle. He has
not enemies. His breadth of view
allows him to comprehend that
among the great questions of the
present, the greatest concerns the
consequences that will follow the
course he now pursues. The people
are not insensible to wisdom made
evident by care and forethought.
Popular clamor may for the hour
turn the head of the insufficient
man in place who has managed by
some trick to draw attention to him
self. Men show their ability to Sc
lect and preserve the good by daily
demonstrations of their tendency to
forget those who have not earned q
place in memory. Other men in pol
itics might learn of Kenyon. Sena
tors are remembered neither for the
majorities given at their election ncr
for the multiplicity of their speech
es. All those whose names survive
have earned their fame by some con-
structive work. There are ninety
six senators of whom the average
man could hardly name a score, but
in any presence, if the list should
be required, the name of Kenyon
would be among the few most com
monty recalled.
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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30

1t may be that the new tariff law
will not prove as satisfactory as
Grafton a little more than seven
months, and compared with the cor
responding period of the previous
year, exports decreased upwards OF
$113, 100000 and imports increased
more than $23,O00,OOO, making a
difference unfavorable to US in trade
balances for the two periods of more
than $136, 100000. If that sort OF
thing continues it must have some
depressing influence upon business
and industry. Buying $23, 1000
more in seven months than former
Iy and selling $113, 100000 less
must have it's effect upon the en-
ployment of labor of various kinds
And in the face of this showing
strange as it may appear, the high
cost of living has not been material
ly reduced. If prices of the things
we consume were reduced to make
up for the losses in sales and the in
evitable losses in the amount paid
to producers there might be little
harm. But if the same high level
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-06-30

of prices is to prevail and our sales
decrease while our purchases in
crease there must be some differen-
ces in prevailing prosperous condi-
tions in due course of time. There
can be no other legitimate result.