The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-01-08

escape was given Deputy Young by
some one on the outside.
According to the tentative program
which has been blocked out by Presi-
dent A. C. Crowder of the Mississippi
Life Underwriters association, for the
social end of the annual meeting to be
held in Jackson, men of considerable
note, both in the political and official
life of the state, are set down for
speeches.
At a meeting of the stockholders Of
the Planters Bank of Leland, it was
decided to liquidate, and all funds due
depositors were placed in the Bank of
Leland. This move was brought about
by the uncertainty of the future, and
it's president, ]. w. Thompson, wanting
to be relieved of the responsibility as
well as to be in a position to give more
attention to his personal affairs.
The attorney-generals department at
Jackson is engaged in a double-barrel
investigation, the taking of dispositions
in the cotton seed trust suit having
been resumed, while at the same time
Assistant Acknowledgement Ethridge
returned to the formality of taking
evidence in the pending suits on the
bonds of p~enitentiary officers, to re-
cover the shortages due % the alleged
speculations of Lawrence Yerger, for
mer secretary.
Mrs. Elizabeth Marshall Hebron,
wife of d. n. Hebron, distinguished
for her literary attainments and hon
orary life president Of the Mississippi
Federation of Women's clubs, which
recently held its annual convention IN
V%icksburg. passed peacefully away at
her suburban home, Sky Farm. She
was surrounded by her family n
friends. Mrs. Hebron was the daughter
of the late Hon. Thos. A. and Mrs. LIE
titia Marshall.
DR.. S. f. Love, charged with the
killing of ]. S. Carmichael, station
agent for the Delta Southern Railway
at Morgan City, was given a prelim-
mary hearing before Justice H. w.
Cooley in Greenwood. They convinced
Justice Cooley that the defendant act
ed in self-defense, and he promptly re-
leased him from custody. The prose
cution was represented by County AT
torney Kimbrough and Attorney Car
ricbael. brother of the deceased,
while Hill & Witty conducted DR.
Loves defense.
As the result of a horrible mistake
DR.. Charles c. Meek, a prominent
young physician, is dead at his home
six miles south of Columbus, taking
tremendous lose of chloroform from &
bottle supposed to have contained
elixir of bromide. He had been SUI
fering from a severe headache during
! the early morning and had been inhal
: ing the chloroform as a remedy. II
decided to take a dose of he bromide
: and the two bottles being of the SAM
7. size the chloroform was taken instead
of the bromide.
? An unusual aspect assumed by tn
; farm labor problem in Mississippi /
the steady migration Of negroes fror
: the delta back to the hills. The nov
. ment has started within the past weel
: and threatens to assume proportion
somewhat alarming to the delta plan
ers. who, for the past three years, nav
7 had an abundant labor supply, OWN
! to good crops and the high price
y cotton. No labor agent influence ha
been used, but hill farmers state ths
. they can get all the farm labor the
! want from the delta, and fill up a
, the empty cabins, if they choose to e.
3 courage the negroes to return.
. The taking of dispositions in the co
= tonseed trust suit being prosecuted
the Encouragement, which has he
the boards in the encouragement
!" office for the past several weeks, WI
brought to a temporary halt when A
v torney-General Collins announced
y rest for a fortnight. W. r. Smith-V
" niz. former oil mill manager, who hi
+ been under fire for a round week, w
the last witness, but it was stated
II the Encouragement and his assistan
( that he will probably be recalled VIII
the series opens again about the N
: die of January.