The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-06-15

j {. Perry, l. =. owen. MRS. D. e, rAyhe
E. L.. Sanderson. F. Sabin. Co. j.. T. Thomai
and r. w. Jones. w. A. Winter. Mrs. Maggi,
Walker. d. A. Williams. S. r. Tatum. j. F
, and W. d. Singleton.
Ordered 4th day of June. 1917.
Tuesday Morning.. June S. 1917.
Ordered that the Board appropriate thu
Esum of 500 for the use and benefit Of tbs
Grenada Company of the National Guard o.
Missis sippi. as provided by Chapter 245. Sec
ton 70, Acts of 1915 and the Clerk of this
Board is directed to issue warrant to tn,
Commanding Officer of said company for saio
amount.
Grenada. Miss, June 5. 1917.
In consideration of the benefits of having
the Memphis Hikhway built through my
place. l hereby donate a right-of-way thru
veyed and staked by Engineers of county
MRS. E. ". HILL.
Witness: Mrs. J. 5. Hill.
In the matter of building a dump across
Black Greek bottom east of Leiore Station
on the road from Holcomb to Lefore;
We. your Committee appointed to view
an dinvesrigate and report as to whether il
is practical and to the best interest Of the
county 20 build a dump across said Black
Greek bottom. beg to report that We ind
same practicable with some necessary
changes. and recommend that the Clerk be
ordered to advertise for bids to build said
dump; said bids to be received at the next
meeting of the Board. and that a committee
of the Board be appointed to make necessary
changes and lay out and mark the -ight-of-
way through said bottom for said dump.
Respectfully submitted.
W. A. ODOM.
J. (. CARPENTER,
Committee.
Ordered tina, the foregoing report be re-
ceived and approved, and that W. v. Horton
and W. A. Odom be appointed a
Of this Board 10 make necessary changes
and lay out and mark the right-of-wsy thru
said bottom for said dump.
Ordered that the Clerk of this Board ad-
~vertise for bids to construct a dump across
Black Greek bottom east of Lefore Station
on the road from Holcomb to Lehore. accord
ing TO plans and specifications on feel in the
Chancery Clerks Office. Bids 20 be received
at the next regular meeting Of the Board.
The Board reserving the right TO reject any
and all bids.
Be it r~ememberd that this day there came
on 20 be considered a petition containing the
names of a majority of tie qualified electors
of the Gore Springs Consolidated School Dis
trict. praying for the issuance of bonds of
said district as set forth in said petition
and the Board having found and determined
that said petition is properly presented and
that it contains the names OF a majority Of
the qualified electors Of said district it is
ordered and ordained by the Board
that notice be published in The Grenada Sen
tinel. a newspaper publishe in said county,
and having a general circulation therein. for
three weeks next preceding the regular July.
1917, meeting of this Board. of the proposal
of this Board to issue bonds of said Gore
Springs Consolidated School District. in the
sum Of 6 1000. according to law. as provided.
In the matter Of condemning certain rights
of-way for construction of good roads in
Grenada county. Mississippi
1t appearing to the Board that this Board
at its regular May. 1917 meeting. duly pass
ed and entered upon its minutes an order
declaring that it was necessary TO condemn
riehts-of-way for new roads in District 4.
of said couny. through the lands of the fol-
lowing named landowners, to-wit: W. r.
Baker. J. p. Daley. j. S. Hill. Mrs. Rosa
Thomson and j. F. Thomson; and it fur
ther appearing that in its said order, Tues
day, May %, 1917. was fixed by the Board
as the day upon which it would go upon,
and assess damages for said rights
of way and it further appearing that each
of said named landowners were duly and
legally notified five days before said date
of the intention of the Board to 20 upon.
condemn and assess damages for said rights
of-way through their lands as provided in
orders of this Board; and thereupon the
Board did, on Tuesday. May %. 1917. pro-
coed in a body to go upon the hereinafter
described lands of said named persons, and
did assess the amount of damages suffered
by each of said landowners by reason of TAX
ing for public use for public roads rights
of-way through their several lands, being a
strip of land as same have been surveyed
and staked off by the Engineers, marked
out by the Committee of the Board and
adopted by the Board through the lands of
each of the following named persons. to-wit
A strip of land so feet wide through the
lands of W. r. Baker. beginning at a point
where the road crosses dividing line between
the lands of r. W. Jones estate and W. r.
Baker; and running thence "a degrees AS
minutes west to line between lands of ". X.
Baker and ;. c. Minis. Sr. also a strip so
feet twide. beginning at point on above
right-of-way just west of Baker Greek. and
following approximately the Baker plantation
road running in a northwesterly direction
to line between W. X. Baker and J. p. Daley
lands. at Station Il and 25; a strip of land
40 feet wide through lands of J. P. Daley,
beginning at Station IA and 25 on line be-
tween W. r. Baker and said J. P. Daley.
running thence in a north, northeast and
northwest direction to Station l04 and 35 !;
a strip of land 30 feet wide through lands
Of j. ;. Hill. beginning at Station 104 and
35 on line between J. P. Daley and said J.
:. Hill lands. and running thence in a north
erly and northwesterly direction to line be-
tween lands of j. s. Hill and Mrs. Ethel
Thomson; a strip of land 40 feet wide thru
land of Mrs. Rosa Thomascn. beginning on
line between Mrs. Ethel Thomason and Mrs.
Rosa Thomson lands and running thence
in a westerly and northwesterly direction to
line between Mrs. Rosa Thomson and j. F..
Thomson; also a strip Of land 40 feet wide
through land of Mrs. Rosa Thomson known
as her house lot, running in a northwestern
direction to line of A. j. Thomason's land ;
a strip Of land through lands of J. F. Thorn
ason. beginning at line between Mrs. Rosa
Thomson and said J. F. Thomason's lands
and running thence in a n~orthwesterly direc-
tion to line of Mrs. Rosa Thomson, known
as her house lot and said Board fixed said
damages for said several rights-of-way
above described as follows:
To W. R, Baker the sum of $3.50; J. p.
Daley. IS: J. S. Hill. s25; Mrs. Rosa Thorn
ason. 500; J. +. Thomson, SIS.
And duly reported the findings and ac-
tons in the premises to the Board at its
regular June. 1917. term; and thereupon it
is ordered that said report findings and as
of damages be approved and
adopted by this Board and the Clerk is d.
rected to issue warrants drawn on the
Special Road Fund in favor of the several
named persons for said specified amounts in
full payment and satisfaction for any and
all damages accruing to and suffered by
them, and each of them by reason of the
condemnation of and taking for public use
the above several rights-of-ways through
their said lands.
Ordered that W. W. Koonce be employed
to build and supervise the construction of
bridges for the county, at and for the sum