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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-10-24

said committee. The report which
appears below, was adopted as tht
sense of the meeting. Mr.. Nasor
was sick and unable to sign the re-
port but it is understood concurreo
in it, Mr. Mitchell did not sign il
because he did not approve one par.
agraph;
TO the recess meeting of the far
mers, merchants and other business
interest of this trade territory.
We. the undersigned, who were
/! named by you at meeting in the
Court House in Grenada on Saturday
afternoon of last week in response to
above resolutation, beg to say that We
have discharged that duty as best
we could during he limited time al
lowed us and the unusual weather
conditions that have prevailed.
Your Committee made inquiries of
responsible persons at Winona, Cof-
feeville, Duck Hill, SeAtobia, sand
several other points and it is our
judgement that, with the exception
of Charleston and in some instances,
HolcOmb and Sentobia, cotton prices
are and have been at Grenada what
they have been and are to adjacent
points
Your Committee secured a depend
able citizen of the County and got
samples of five bales of short staple
cotton and sent this citizen with the
cotton samples to Charleston, where
he tried the market in the afternoon
after it had closed, and the same
samples We're submitted to Grenada
buyers the next morning before the
market opened. The prices reported
to your Committe showed that the
Charleston prices exceeded the prices
offered in Grenada for the same cot
ton by 12 to 2 cents per pound
There We're four bids bYfour diff
ferent buyers made on the cotton
i'll Charleston, they were: Dogan &
Andersn; Delap; Parish & Lavena.
The cotton was bid on in Grenada by
the Newburger Cotton Co. and C.. W.
Kosman. Mr. j. w. Taylor for the
ThreefOOt Bros. was not in the mark
ct. The bids in both towns We're for
a ''clOse out" sale
We have given no little thought
during the past week to the matter
of he price paid for cotton in this
market and are free to admit that
it is our judgement that the market
here is not as good as it seems to
us it ought to be- Too frequently
there is seeming lethargy and in
difference manifested by those who
buy cotton here. Just why this is
true, or seemingly true, we are un-
able to say. Our Investigations give
warrant to the conclusion that there
is a sort of understanding between
some of the large buyers as to who
shall and who shall not buy in this
Certain it is that there is
a sort Of" cotton compress
lines" or limitations which buyers
dare not override.
Continued on Page 81
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-10-24
DISASTER RELIEF
PLAN PERFECTED
American Red Cross to Pro.
vide Local Help.
Committees Soon To Be Ap-
pointed in Many Com
munities.

Do you belong to the Disaster Re-
lief Committee in your town?
If you do, or if you are appointed,
1t means that you are considered
brave, considerate, even-tempered
and strong. To be appointed to this
committee is one Of the highest hon
ors that the American Red Cross can
! bestow upon you; for the Disaster
Relief Committee, recently explained
by Harry l.. Hopkins, director of
Civilian Relief, Gulf Division, Amer
lean Red Cross, is the great body of
straight-thinking, quick-acting, de-
pendable persons, organized in each
community to meet disasters which
arise, be they floor, fire, famine, ex-
plosions, shipwreck, or earthquake.
In the thirty-eight years since the
American Red Cross was first or
ganized in 1881, it has participated
in $50 disaster relief expeditions at
home and abroad and has expended
or directed the expenditure of twelve
and half million dollars. This COW
ers the period up to June 1st, 1919,i
the end of the fiscal year. !
America averages a dozen disas-I
ters a year Latest statistics COM
piled by the Gulf Division, American
Red Gross, show twelve disasters,
and the Red Gross gave relief in ev-
cry one!
In this immediate territory there
were grave disasters in recent years
the Gulf States storm in 1906. the
Mississippi cyclone in 1907, the Mis-
sissippi flood in 1912 and the second
flood in 1914. Then there was an
other flood in Natchez in 1916. and
more floods and the boil weevil men
ace in Alabama in 1917. In fact,
1917 was a bad year for disasters in
the South, for during the summer the
at Village Springs and Car
bon Hill and New Hope, Alabama,
brought about much suffering. Ev-i
in this vicinity remembers
the Lake Charles, Louisiana, storm in
1918, in which the Gulf Division Red
Cross furnished such great aid, and
at which time Harry L. Hopkins, di-
director of civilian relief, went to
Lake Charles and directed the erec-i
ion of the tent city. A total of
s23, 900 was expended in this disas-i
,er alone. And in 1919 the Corpus
Christi, Texas. storm was robbed of
much of it's horror through the.
prompt action of the Red Cross.
Of these ten disasters in the Gulf
Division in recent years, the Red
Cross has given supplies and spent
money to the extent of approx
100000. ~
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-10-24
FARMERS WRITE ABOUT DELCO
LIGHTS

The Seminal calls attention to the
ad Of the Delco Light people which
appears in this issue. The Delco
lights are destined to go in almost
every farm home, ere long, and un-
dOubtedly they arc source of great
CONVENIENCE and comfort to every
home that uses. them. ---..--s
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-10-24
MR. NOSE COLLINS DIED OCT. S

Sincere regret is felt in Grenada
over the death of Mr. Nose Collins
brother of Mrs. G. w. Jones in Gre
NADIA, which occurred at his home al
Jamestown Oct 5. Mr.. Collins was
born at Hardy, this County and was
about 65 years of age. He is sur
vived by wife and one son. Mrs.
Jones and her son, Mr.. j. c. Jones,
were present at the funrai.
Intended for last week.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-10-24
ATTHE OPERA
HOUSE

Seminal readers will notice that
some splendid attractions are being
billed for the Opera House in Gren-
ada. The management is endevoring
TO please the public by giving the
best that is on the road. 1t is
worthy of note. too, that the crowds
are increasing in number, all the
while.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-10-24
PROF. BOND HERE SATURDAY

Prof. W. F. Bond, State Supt of
Education, will deliver an address at
the court house Saturday morning at
II o'clock in the interests of the pro-
posed amendment to the Constitution
in regard to a change in the distribu-
ton of the school fund
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-10-24
DIR. ROSE SUNDAY NIGHT

Next Sunday there will be held
only one service in the Episcopal
Church, as the rector, Rev. Edward
"A. DeMiller, will be away. The Rev.
l.. S. Rose of Greenwood will preach
and conduct the ervice on Sunday
night, services to begin at 7:3Q r. n
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-10-24
CONSIDERS COTTON AND
COTTON SEED PRICES

MEETING CALLED TO LOOK IN TO THE MATTER OF
COMPLAINTS ABOUT GRENADA AS A COTTON AND
COTTON SEED MARKET. COMMITTEE OF FIVE
NAMED REPORT ONE WEEK LATER. REPORT
SPEAKS OF GRENADA COTTON MARKET AS FIRE.
QUENTLY EXHIBITING SORT OF LETHARCY AND
INDIFFERENCE. ON TEST CHARLESTON LEADS
COTTON SEED PRICES ABOUT RIGHT HERE.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31
When Jesse James Lived at Tuscaloosa
And Operated His Goat Farm There

and took a notion he wanted to 1--we
down on the gulf coast, SO he bought
mile and a half frontage on Perdido
bay, in Baldwin county, with a bluff of
from 20 to 40 feet above water all the
way. There was about $500 acres in the
place, and DR.. Spinney gave it out that
he was going to raise goats and sheep
down there. 1t was part of the old
Suarez Spanish grant of colonial days.
He lived down there for awhile, and
then sold the place to Capt. Daniel
Partridge of Selma, who owns it now
DR. Spinney used to come in here
and trade with me and sit around and
talk sometimes. He always seemed at
ease and very -possessed--always
had an eye for a goodlooking woman,
and he was nightly taken with but
as NJ. Rudyard Kipling says, that Is
another story
Il knew he was Jesse James along
toward the end of his stay here at
MISUNDERSTANDING the information
drifted back here from Selma, but I
never mentioned II. Doc Spinney, of
reluctant to discuss his honors in the
train robbing line, 1 though .itx W oafld.
be indicate in me to mention such
little episodes that he was evidently
trying to forget in the pastoral occu~
patton of promoting goat-fights.
III never forget that picture
though, of Doc Spinney perched on a
rail fence, those long black whiskers
floating in the breeze. holding on with
roth hands while he whooped and
yelled with delight at a half a dozen
olllygoats trying to butt each other
into kingdom come"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31
Clearing House Banks
BY Associates rress

New York. August 30.-The actual
condition of clearing house banks and
trust companies for the week shows
that they hold $S3,oS6,470 excess re-
serve in excess of legal requirements.
This is an increase of s35,S49,160 from
last week.
The statement follows. Actual con-
dition:
Loans. discounts, etc. Increased s1s,-
345.000.
Cash in own vaults. members federal
reserve banks, decreased s4.40S,000.
Reserve in federal reserve banks, of
member banks, increased s3S,33S,00G
Reserve in own vaults, state banks
and trust companies. decreased s1S2,-
900.
Reserve IN depositaries. state banks,
and trust companies. decreased $780,
900.
Net demand deposits increased s2s.-
$4,000.
Time deposits increased s16.743.o00
Circulation increased $4,000.
Summary of state banks and trust
companies In Greater New York not
included in clearing house statement:
Loans. discounts, etc. decreased
$44.43e.70o
Gold decreased s1.71s.7ec.
Currency and banknotes decreased
$760.100.
Deposits with federal reserve bank.
New York. decreased 1890. 500.
Total deposits decreased s37 0s1 500.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31
BRITISH STUDENTS
ARE NOT ISOLATED
Americans Find University Conditions
Much Different From Those Ex-
listing at Home

London, July 8.-(Correspondence Of
the Associated Press.)-Officers and men
of the American expeditionary force who
have been studying in British universities
find there is less chance that a student
will become isolated in English UNIVERSE
ties than In those of America
Comparing the educational institutions
of the two countries, one of the Amer
leans says that man specializing in
professional course in an American COL
lege is likely to find himself shut off
from social pleasure and sport. The
writer was surprised to find that men
studying law or medicine at Oxford or
Cambridge have time for such diversions
"A man with anti-social inclinations is
far more apt to be isolated in an Amer
lean university than seems possible at
Oxford writes Lieut.. Weith Lorenz of
New York city, a Harvard graduate, To
the Oxford student publication. The
Isis
Apart from the fact that the Oxford
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UNSETTLED STATE
OF GOODS MARKETS
! IS CUTTING PRICES
Some Prices Made Recently
by JObbers Are 10 Per
Cent Under Agents
Quotations
BY Asseeiated Rrnss


New York, August so-Unsettled gen
erai conditions are affecting the cottoo
goods market unfavorably and jobbers
are offering many staple domestics I'M
der agents current asking prices. While
the 1oobers say that stocks are light
with them ana the retail trade is good
they manifest doubt of their ability to
pass current primary
Market values on IT, isumers during
the balance of the season or for the
coming spring
Some prices recently made by jobbers
are 10 per cent under agents current
quotations.
Wide print cloths have been stead
and have advanced a little during the
week and some of the sheeting con-
structions are firmer and higher Fig
ures OF experts of the sheeting construc-
lions are fir1ner and higher.
Figures of export recently to hand
showed that the value OF goods ship
ped out of the country in the last fis-
cal year was $50 900 in excess of the
shipments for the calendar year of 1918,
and totalled s232, 900. For the time be-
ing the export demand is hampered by
exchange and freight conditions.
Production in the mills is expected to
be Of larger volume after the holiday
as the high wages now prevailing have
led to many vacancies on the part OF
operatives and considerable indifference
to work during the heated term
Prices are as follows:
Print cloths, % inch 64x64s 1ee: 64x6os
MIC; 2Sh inch 64x6fs, 171sc; brown sheet
ings southern standards % and &c; den-
inns z.2o, southern indigo 2715c and 4oc;
tickings, or, staples 45c: prints 1sc;
staple ginghams 21c; dress ginghams CSC
and 271kc.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31
SELMA

Selma. August 29.--(SpeciaD-Ed
Smitherman. employed by the Belcher
Lumber company near Plantersville.
as sawmill operator. suffered the loss
of his right arm late Thursday after
noon. when he felt against machinery
in the MILL His arm was severed from
his body. Prompt medical attention
saved the man from bleeding to death.
and he was brought to Selma late
Thursday, where he is reported to be in
favorable condition. Smitherman has
a wife and eight children.
uneral services for MIS-. SEmma
Evans Mckee of Troy were held at 10
o'clock Friday morning from the resi-
dence of Gen. c. w. Hooper. Inter-
ment was in Live Oak cemetery. and
the following acted as pallbearers:
George Craig, Clifford Morrison, Adgate
Bibb. w. S. Monk, Fl. H. Callen and Paul
Stewart. DIR. Robert NJ. McCaslin of
Montgomery was in charge of the SER
vice.
Surviving are . daughter. Mrs. James
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college is smaller as a rule than even
a class of a typical American university,
the tendency of nearly everyone TO in
dulge in some form of athletics keeps
a man from living unto himself at Ok
ford. In America. apart from the fresh
man year, class sports either do not ex-
list or there is nothing like the interest
shown in them which is displayed in con-
tests such as the Fights between the
colleges at Oxford.
Another feature of oxford life which
tends to prevent men from becoming
isolated is the institution of teas, which
when given by men for men is unique
10 the American student. But besides
being the most social Of meals, it seems
to afford an opportunity for friendship.
You can ask a man to tea long before
you have reached the stage of acquaint-
anceship which would enable you "a in
wife him to dinner in America"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31
MARVELLOUS TALE
ABOUT MOSQUITOES

KEN, Russian Poland, July A.
American railway forces and other
allied troops operating on the MUIR
nansk front this summer found the
Arctic mosquitoes worse foes than
the bolsheviki.
NAfter the war is over" one
Yank recently told the correspond
emit, "we're going to come up here
and organize nm expedition to hunt
these mosquitoes for their ivory.
They're not like ordinary mosque
toes. They buzz mp. bite piece out
81 your leg and then fly AWAY into
the trees and eat ft.o
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by GiRRARp HARRIs

Clinton brothers of Tuscaloosa are two
walking encyclopedias of history per-
tanning to this county and city and re-
markable in their knowledge of people
and events. Mr.. Peter Clinton, whom
of thousands of university boys for forty
years back, specializes on his recollec-
ton of people, while mis- brother Mr..
Thomas Clinton, is, since the death of
DR.. w. S. Wyman, probably the foremost
authority in all Alabama concerning the
Indians of this locality and the early
history of this section. He has pen
chant for clipping bits of historical in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31
MOTOR CARS PUT
UNDER A GUARD

Milan, August 12.-During the recently
announced general strike the municipal
authorities ordered all motor cars and
trucks parked in special reservation
30 that there would be no danger of
their f'e!ng Communicated by the strk-
ees. AS result of the order more than
1000 automobiles of all types remained in
the reservation under special guard I'M
til the termination Of the trouble No
one was allowed to use motor vehicle
during the disturbances.
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Before deciding school
consider the advantages of Cecia
full Its ample gardens poultry $50
T -
me buildings stately and beautiful and the
ana thoroughly up to-date particular.
The Academic Department
Catholic University Washington George Peabodvl
College for Teachers Nashville, Tenn.
AL the departments the
as music center is well known the and
the BEST in
and water coors sculpture, pottery and china.
classes ancient modern
history literature and expression all presided
excellent
fed which St Cecilia
Apply for beautiful
MOTHER SUPERIOR
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31
Germans Arriye at Vera Cruz

Mexico City, August 1.-Two hun
bred and forty German immigrants ar
rived on Spanish steamship at Vera
Cruz on August 10. their destination
being agricultural lands in Chiapas.
according to reports from the Vera
Cruz correspondents Of the Mexico
City papers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31
HUNTSVILLE

Huntsville, August 2s.-(speciaD.- the
Doll weevil has showed up in the ex-
IRENE southwestern portion of Madison
county and so far has caused onlv a
slight damage. His presence was no.
ticed about the middle of the present
week when farmers began to notice small
cotton bolls falling from the plant No
serious damage from the insect is expect
ed this season. From time to time dur
Ing the last four years weevils have been
seen In the same locality but they have
failed to advance or even to appear
the following season
Cotton is reported to be opening in the
southern part of Madison county and
the first bale of the year is expected
during the approaching week
Watermelons grown in Madison county
are unusually fine and plentiful this
year and they are selling at the highest
prices ever known. The growers are
reaping harvest as they are finding
a ready sale for their product at from
30 cents to dollar and half from their
wagons.
Mrs. Lula Vaughn, At years old, died
last night at the city hospital after a
long illness. One daughter. Mrs Fred
Smith of Huntsville survives her.
The city schools of Huntsville will open
September and run nine months. The
school board and faculty anticipate the
largest enrolment that the schools ew
er had.
Madison county's quota to be raised in
the next general Y. NJ. c. A. drive for
funds is to he $4,000 according to ]. NJ.
Graham. secretary of this city, who has
just returned from Birmingham where he
attended conference of the campaign
managers for this state.
The automobile tourist season is grad.
ually opening up and already the move-
ment southwark of the Jackson highway
is beginning. The main rush Is expected
about month from now.
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/ Alfred of Troy, and two sons. Mrs
Mckee was the widow of the late Har-
vey Mckee, and a sister-in-law of
Mrs. Matte Mckee of this city.
DR.. Frank Willis Barnett of Biz
mingham will fill the pulpit of the
Broad Street Presbyterian church Sun
day morning at IL o'clock. Rev. Jo-
seph Dunglinson, pastor, is spending
several weeks in North Carolina on a
vacation
Recruits for the United States army
will be accepted in Selma from Au-
sust 80 to September 2 when Lieuten-
ant Hinton of the Seventh engineers,
and a recruiting party will establish
headquarters in a tent at the post
office. Lieutenant Hinton will also is
sue lapel buttons to be worn on the
lapels of the coats of ex-service men
IN. button is known as the Victory put
ton, and can be secured by presenting
be open to the public at the recruiting
quarters.
A display of machine guns, scrapnel
and high explosive Shells hand gren-
AIDES, and othe war pharaphenalia will
be open to the publ cat the recruiting
tent.
The party is now at Demopolis. The
personnel Is as follows: Lieutenant
Hinton, Sergeant Bache, Sergeant
Peters, Sergeant Wennes, Sergeant Pep
persack, Sergeant Bloxum and Sergeant
Collins of the Fifth army division,
Camp Gordon, and Private Quilliam
from the main recruiting office, Bir-
mingham.
Judge A. D. Pitts of the federal dis
trict court has returned from Mobile,
where he has been busy securipC av;
dence against alleged profiteers in the
Gulf City
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Cannot Recall Heroic Act

Mercer, Pa, August 27.-Cited for bra
cry IN action and unable to recall the a
when his commanding officer thong
worth While reporting, is the odd positi,
IN which \. Eugene Sampson of n
wilmington, Pa. finds himself. 81
seant sampson of Battery d, s2Sd F'ie
artillery, according to the citation. W
unteered for a mission of in1norta n
while his command was under fire
the Argonne. The mission was executl
successfully, says the citation, but Sc
geant Sampson explains that he was
busy helping push back the Germal
that he cannot recall the incident.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-31
CENTRAL COLLEGE FOR
YOUNG WOMEN

TuscaIoosa, Ala.
Sixty-first session opens September 10.
1919.
All college courses. also . Junior col
leges course two years above the high
school, Academy course of IA and 16
units prepares for entrance to college or
university.
Music, Art. Expression. Domestic
Science and Domestic Art. A fully
equipped Business school, Shorthand
Iypewriting. Bookkeeping and Commercial
English. Open all the ear
j.. H. Norman, Mus. Doc. director of
-nusic.
Fine buildings. cos ling $2I5,oo0. 90.
Several thousand dolls rs being spent in
improvements.
For attractive eatalog. address M. w.
loosa, Ala.