The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-05-17
Proceedings Regular May Meeting.

Grenada, Miss, May 9Th, 1918.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen
met in regular session on this the
9Th day of May, 1918. Present:
Mr.. R. Horton, acting Mayor, Mar
shall, Recorder, and all the Council.
Minutes from last regular meeting
read and adopted.
DR.. Ferguson offered the following
resolution, which was unanimously
adopted:
The vacancy at this table, and the
absence of that gentle voice we have
so often heard, reminds US that fit
ting respect for the distinguished
dead impels us to place on record
some memorial of his labors, some
token of our esteem and regret.
1t is always sad and sorrowful to
witness the removal of our dear ones
from this earth, the bitter pangs of
anguish fingers a long while and on
ly through the mercy and loving kind
ness Of God can we find relief. The
subject of this tribute. Maj. B. F.
Thomas. was for more than SO years
an honored and useful citizen of
Grenada County, he was a Southern
err, a Democrat, and a Confederate
Soldier, he belonged to that charac-
ter in the generation, the last of
whom are now passing from public
action. His striking figure still
seems to be lowering about the May
or's Office. He was too good for the
office of Mayor.
1t is the friendship of such a char
acter as dear old Maj. Thomas that
makes life worth living. His noble
qualities have been a stimulant to us.
loved him in life and we respect
his memory now that he is dead.
AS man he was a model father, his
devotion to his wife and children was
rarely beautiful, and his life from
day to day lived out before his fam
lily was along the highest planes and
was most beneficient in it's fruitage
to all who had the happiness to share
his confidence. He was a quiet man,
modest to the last degree; unpre-
tentious, and most winning in his
manner.
He said to a friend some twayears|
ago that the end of life with him,
perhaps would come about the close
of this term of office. He fell short
about 81 days, a close prophecy in
deed.
The grave has covered the form and
c~ountenance of. him we revered for
his many splendid Qualities that are
seldom met with in this world of ours
AS a member of the fraternal
bodies he was faithful to the pros
poets of our orders, just to his fell
low man and true in every relation
of life. He fulfilled every duty and
died beloved by all who knew him.
He was honest, not only by choice, F.:
but by nature. He could no more
harbor an ignoble thought than he
could have dwarfed his stalwart form,
or denied to another a right a claim
for himself. Of the service of this
distinguished son Of Mississippi some
enduring memorial should be made.
be it !
Resolved, by the members of the
City Council of Grenada, Miss, that
these resolutions be spread upon the
Journal as a mark of the esteem in
which this body held the late de-
ceased, and as a token of u rev.
erenve for his memory.
Ordered that the Board purchase
Maj. Thomas desk from Mrs.
Thomas, for the sum of $4,000 for
the use of the Mayors Office.
Ordered by the Board that the po-
lice officers of the City be and they
are hereby directed to enforce vig-
prously the vagrancy laws of the City
Of Grenada, to the end that all per-
sons shall be required to conform
thereto in every particular.
Ordered that the 8 General Fund {