The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-05-05

sAAS CAty, whiic PidyluB al the cotton
mills accidentally fell into the pool
and was drowned. There were only a
few small boys nearby and they were
helpless, not having any mean Of
reaching the boy.
Yazoo City, B. P. Golden received,
a letter from Gov. Theo. G. Bilbo, in
forming him of his appointment as
treasurer of Yazoo county to serve IN
til the election of a permanent officer,
in about six weeks. The office of
treasurer was vacated by the death Of
w. D. Kennard here recently.
Biloxi.--A military company will be
formed at Pass Christian within the
next few weeks, unless present plans
do not miscarry. Arrangements are
being made to form p~latoons at Wig
gins and Long Beach for the Gulfport
Company. Biloxi's new ompany will
be mustered in In the near future.
Charlottesville members of the
Methodist Church OF this city have in
augurated a campaign for tha erection
Of a new $500 0 ch.fch building in
this city or the site of the present
Church. The board of trustees have
already employed an architect to draw
plans and specifications for the new
building, work on which is proposed
to begin at once
Jacksonville latest association of
men formed in Mississippi has Just
been organized, made up of alumni Of
historic and classic Harvard Univer-
sity. This organization is known as
the Mississippi Harvard Club, a num-
Der of whose alumni have been CORE
spending for some time past with a
view to perfecting an association in
the Magnolia State.
Pontotoc.-Pontotoc county took an
other progressive step when the board
OF supervisors ordered the Second dis
trict of the county into the good roads
system and the system in operation.
Thirty thousand dollars of good roads
bonds will be sold at an early date
and as oon as the surveys and esti,
mates can be made by a competent en-
gineer the contract for grading and
graveling these roads will be let.
Coldwater.-The news Of a tragedy
which occurred in the Bowman COM
munity, eight miles east of here, has
just been received. Mrs. Ed Sowell.
who has been partially insane for the
past year, killed her son and then end
ed her own life. A single-barreled
was the weapon used. The
boy was Z years old and was the only
child in the family. Mr.. Sowell was
ony a short distance from the house
he heard the shots, and upon en-
tering his home he found the body
Of his son on the bed and that of his
nearby. Mrs. Sowell has been in
health for several years, and her
has been seriously affected for
some time.
Senatobia.-Returning home from
the field where he had been at work,
Soween, living 10 miles from Sen
found his wife's body in a pool
Of blood at her bedside and that OF
her 16-year-old son on the bed. The
had been shot through the heart
with a shotgun. Mrs. Soween's body
showed that death had been
se~lf-inflicted. The theory is accepted
the mother, mentally unbalanced
from continued ill health, killed her
son while he was asleep on the
bed and then, with a stick which was
found nearby, pulled the trigger of
the shotgun and sent a charge through
her own brain. A verdict to this eff
feet vas rendered by a coroner's jury
which viewed the bodies.
Milwaukee, Wis.--The organization
Of the Foster Creek Lumber and Man.
Company OF Madison, Wis,
with a capital stock of $500, 900, by
Madison, Chicago and New
York capital, marks the first large log
cling and numbering enterprise put un-
der way in Wisconsin in many months.
The company will operate in Missis-
and WINS approximately $1,000
acres Of timber lands In Wilkinson
on the main line OF the Y. & M.
v. Railroad. A double band mill, with
resaw, costing between $500. 900 and
100000, will be established in Will
xinson county, Miss, during the sum-
mer and fall. 1t will cut on an aver
age Of 80, 000, 900 feet a year, accord
ing to present estimates.
Jackson.-Z. A. Brantley, state game.
and fish commissioner, has not yet.
completed his selection Of county
game wardens.' There are from four
20 a dozen applicants in each county,
while hundreds Of men have applied
Tor the position of beat and district.
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