The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-05-21

agement will be paid some ten or
fifteen thousand dollars per year.
Here, too, may be seen a fine lot of
the stalwart young manhood of the
country. but instead of khaki they
are uniformed in white. The Exposi-
tion, as the reader remembers, had to
be called off on account of the war,
yet the property is being well cared
for and this Naval Training Station
may mean far more to our common
wealth than we can now conceive.
One of the moving spirits at Gulf
art is Ed Blakeslee He is sort
I. : caneraI authority en-. al matters
advertising for the section. I find
that his advice is sought about just
how to get new enterprises on their
feet and on most matters that project
themselves into the future. He is
good authority on ''how to make
things CO." He is level headed, ju-
dicious, discreet and persistent and
is about as quick to see the howness
End whyness of things as the next
one. Blakeslee brought the Missis-
sippi Press Association to Gulfport
this year He went to Hattiesburg
last year when the matter of the next
meeting place was practically tied out,
but Blakeslee turned the trick with all
his cards on the table. He has been
untiring in arranging for the Press
meet and is also one of the leading
factors in planning to take care OF
the Mississippi Bankers Association
which is to meet here the following
week. This section has most val
liable asset in Blakeslee and the peo-
pie are showing their appreciation of
him.
This letter is being written Sunday
night and the Press Convection does
not meet until Tuesday. The reader
may surmise as to how country
editor and his wife can put up at
the Great Southern. This was ar
ranged last year by Ed Blakeslee
through an advertising proposition,
which, however, serves to show the
liberal spirit of the Great Southern
Hotel management and that they
know the force and pulling power of
newspaper space.
Somebody has said that 'this is a
great place to live after you have
made something to live on" Per-
haps that is true, yet we see folks
working and struggling here just as
at other places. 1t is true that many
of the well fixed in life own homes
here and live here only part of
the year, some in the winter and
others in the summer. We saw the
handsome home our own liberal mind
ed and public spirited citizen, Mr..
j. T. Thomas, has rented for himself
and family. 1t is beautifully located
and said to be very elegant on the
interior. Mrs. L. L. Scruggs, has pur-
chased most desirable property just
east of Biloxi.
Much entertaining is planned for
the Press. Col. r. H. Henry Of the
Clarion-Ledger owns a beautiful home
on west beach Gulfport and is al
ready here. The Colonel takes ad-
vantage of the fact that he is q sort
of retired journalist and his silvery
locks to say sweet and gracious
things to the ladies and the better
looking the woman the more effusive
the Colonel is in the use of his ad-
jectives. He is sort OF privileged
character with the newspaper fra
ternity. There is hardly one in the
state who has attended more Press
meets and who takes keener inter-
est in Press happenings.
was about to forget to say that
it is raining here too. It has rained
almost every day since we arrived.
Today, there was downpour. It will
quit after while, it always has.
q While the Government was in
charge here, the army and naval Of
fieSrs set in motion work which, it
it were continued, would make this
locality m0squitoless. They were al
most annihilated during the war and
th4re are very few here now.
nv Z enjoyed the hospitality today