The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-03-20

Poplarville.-Suit has been filed in
.ircuit court against the New Orleans
Northeastern Railroad company for
5000 by Melvin Wheat for making
him pay fare from Picayune TO Pop
when he claimed that he gave
the conductor a ticket OF leaving New
Orleans to Poplarville.
Meridian-The first step toward
elimination of plans for the erec-
ton of u new city hall will be the
sale of the old city hall property AT
outcry Tuesday, March II. The
city hall and Jail property is expected
to bring about $4,000.
Pontotoc.-United States Deputy
Marshal j. W Wright and deputies
have captured an illicit whisky still
in the southwestern part of this coun-
ty, on Indian creek. They captured the
still. which is about forty gallons ca
pacity. besides about 1900 gallons of
beer and four men. who were running
the still.
Laurel.-The New Orleans & North
eastern railroad and the Alabama g.
vicksburg railroad, two Of the com
panies opposing Mississippi's 100000,
900 railroad merger suit. will be or
dered by Chancellor Samuel Whitman
to produce certain records in court
demanded by the state. This demand
was fought by the two companies
named, the Southern railway and the
New Orleans Terminal company.
Clarksdale.-At one of the most i'm
portant meetings in its history, the
Yazoo-M Mississippi Delta Levee board
has reelected it's former officers and
transacted business of unusual mo
ment. The board memorialized the
Mississippi legislature to enact as q
law the measure already passed by the
state senate authorizing the board to
issue bonds to the extent of sl,00o.0o
for use in levee work.
Oxford.-W. s. Vardaman. United
States marshal for the northern dis
| trict Of Mississippi. has named his
deputies with headquarters, as fol-
lows. Thomas r. Schrimsher. Aber-
deem; James w. Wright, Calhoun
City; Rufus f. Walt, Clarksdale; Lu-
Their V. Carpenter, Corinth; Charles II.
Thomas, Kosciusko. All have quail
fled and entered upon the discharge OF
their official duties. The deputy 70,
Oxford has not been appointed.
Gulfport.-A local horticulturist dis
covered a sooty formation on his or
ange and peach trees, sent a specimen
to the state horticultural department
for a chemical analysis, and the chem
list has diagnosed the trouble as being
crimson scale, one of the most formid
able of all diseases of that kind. The
only effective method Of treatment, de
clared the chemist, consisted Of a fu
migation produced by burning under
each tree where the disease was pres
ent a composition of scianide of pot
ash and sulphuric acid
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are beinf
made for an early start on the Sun
flower river lock and dam at Gallo
landing. The present river and harbol
bill provides for an additional appro
priation for $50, 900 for this lock ant
dam improvement, and there Is al
ready some funds on hand for pro
noting the improvement for that sec
ton Of the delta country which, it !
claimed, will be materially benefited
: by this lock.
Columbia.-A double tragedy wa
brought to light with the finding G
the body of Miss Clara Polk, aged l!
with a bullet hole through her hear
and that Of DR.. John J. Stringer, age
AZ, a few feet away, at Oakvale, Miss
sixteen miles north of this place. Tn
coroner's jury returned a verdict ths
Miss Polk had been killed with a r.
volver in the hand of DIR. Stringe
who had ended his own life DIR. Strinl
er, a married man with several chi
dren, had been paying attentions Il
! some time t o Miss Polk, who was tn
daughter Of Oakvale's mayor.