The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-05-16
|DORMlTORY AND J
LIBRARY BUILDING
CORNER STONE LAID
AT GRENADA COLLEGE MCkfen'.
MAY IL. CONTENTS OF Cox
NER STONE.S BRIEF COL
LECE HISTORY AND CA.
PACITY OF NEW
BUILDING

the corner stone of the new dormi.
tory of Grenada College was laid.
It was the plans of President
Countiss to make this function a
somewhat pretentious one. He had
hoped to have one of the Bishops of
the church and other dignitaries
present. But the contractors reach
ed point rather Unexpectedly that
made the laying Of the corner stone
almost imperative at once. other
wise the work, which has been great
ly hindered because of the war and
the scarcity Of labor, would have
been practically at standstill for
several DAYS. Accordingly President
Countiss had the announcement made
at several cEalrches of the town. Sun
day, however, owing to the rain and
the threatening weather of the after
noon only limited number of Gre
nada's citizenship were able to be
present.
Weather conditions made it neces-
sary to hold the greater part of the
ceremony within the College Chapel
where some songs were sung, a
prayer was offered by Rev. r. A.
Tucker and Rev. T. M. BrOwnlee
read an appropriate Scripture lesson.
DR.. Countiss then made a brief talk
reviewing in a few words history
Of the College since it was acquired
by the Methodist church in 1888.
The Presidents of the institution
since that ~date have been: Rev. T.
j. Newell. Rev. J. w. Malone, Rev.
W. NJ. Mcintosh. DR.. w. L. Clifton
and DR.. ]. R. Countiss. DR.. COuntiss
made due acknowledgement of the
many donations recently made. to
the College and endeavored to show
what a great service could be
wrought by those who wanted their
money to render a lasting. service to
the world II they would invest a few
thousand dollars in this building and
in the better equipment of the Col
lege.
The tin box which was to contain
the different deposits that were to be
placed in the corner stone was then
set upon the table and Mr.. Countiss;
proceeded to lay the different items
therein which were: Copv Of the New
Testament: Methodist f pis cop
Hymnal: copy of the Minutes of the
North Mississippi NJ. E. Church,
South. Conference held at Clarks-
dale in 1918: List of students of the
session of 1918-1919 and also a list
Of the faculty: a copy of the Sunday
School Magazine: New Orleans Chris
tian Advocate. the Nashville Chris
tian Advocate: copy of The Grena-
da Sentinel of Nav 9. 1919: a COM
mencement invitation 1919; an en-
velope containing kodak picture of
buildings and grounds; coin upon
which was cut the name of A. G.
Tomis. stone contractor; a coin upon
which the name of Eugene Countiss,
the ten year old son of President
Countiss and wife was cut; copy
Of Children's Day Program at the
Methodist church, May IL. 1919;
the names Of the following small
girls: Eva Mae Brownlee. Ruby Lock-
EFT: Louise Smith. Lucy Talbert,
Constance Jones and Kathrine
Todd; officers Of the Methodist
church in Grenada: envelope of E.
A. Penn & Son: envelope and letter
R. w. Sharp; picture or card show
ing main building Of College; en-
velope showing the names of Gas.
Heath and C. E. Lockett.
The exercises were in line with
the ritual corner stone laying of the
Methodist church.
President Countiss explained that
the building was to contain 53 iv-
ing rooms, all to have connected
baths: in other words there are to be
81 bath rooms in the building. It is
to have chapel which jim itself is to
cost $4,000 and is to be named for
Mr.. H. L. Wilson of Shelby, who
gave $4,000 to the erection Of the
building.
All the bath rooms are to have
tile flooring and the living rooms are
to have hardwood floors.
The Library will be one of the
possible and will be a
work Of art in all its parts. This is
to be named for one Of the donators.
It is contemplated that the different
living rooms shall be named for the
different donators- and President
Countiss expressed the hope that
there will be donators enough to pay
for each room and to furnish names
for each of them.
The total cost of the building isl
fixed at $135,OOO.OO and it require
about $4,000 to furnish it.
In watching the huge stone lower
ed to its place. the mind could not
resist the temptation to look way
down the vista Of time and speculate
a bit upon what would be thought
and said 100 wears from now il the
oornor c<nuo should he removed and