The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-01-23

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THE GRENADA SENTINEL
O. F. LAWRENCE, Editor and Publisher
GRENADA, MISSISSIPPI
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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF GRENADA COUNTY
ANNOUNCEMENTS. For Alderman, East Ward
The Sentinel is authorized to an W. R. SCHULTZ
nounee the following as cano mIiae. az IL W. f. JACKSON
the action of the Democratic party:
W. S. p DoTY E. c. LAMB (for reelect0n)
j. H. BROWN j. K. P. HANDY
For Alderman. City at Large H. B. PEACOCK
FL J cR RRAk For Marsha, a
For Alderman. West Ward ": A. MehEoo
We" e l. H HeDAS1ES ME Powell
The Lord is good unto them that wait for him. to the soul
that seeketh him.-Lam. 3, 25.
No matter how small a sin is, examine its tracks and you will
find that they point straight toward the pit.
Every mans life is a failure who does not try to do something
to leave the world richer than he found it.
The man who expects to get to heaven ought to pay his sub
scription for the local paper and not tempt the poor mortal OF
an editor to swear. Honesty counts with st. Peter.
An ordinary womans waist is thirty inches around. An or
binary mans arm is about thirty inches long. How admirable
are thy works, oh, nature!
When you see a banana peel resting on the sidewalk and a
fat man unconsciously approaching it. the indications point to
an early fall.
Some very learned man is credited with having recently said
that a quart of whiskey has been worth SIS. all the time but
that the people were just now finding it out.
Senator Pat Harrison hit the Susan B. Anthony-by the way
that name ought to kill ia solar plexus blow IN a statement
given out at Washington last Saturday.
The railroads of the United States have had donated to them
by the government, S155 ,5O4,O 600 acres OF land, an amount
equal to five states as large as Mississippi.
The worst thing that. can befall a young man is to fall hope
lessly in debt, and to a young married man it is doubly danger
Gus. Young man live within your income. If it is not more than
Il tuppence! The old maxim, 1T is not what you make, but
what you save that makes men rich" is as true as gospel.
A few days ago a rather bashful young woman went into a
store carrying three chickens. She inquired the price Of chick
ems and at the same time put them on the counter. The clerk
didn't know the chickens feet were tied, and asked if they
would lay there. She bit her handkerchief and said: No. sir;
they are ROSTERS.
Little boy to his papa: Papa what is a profteer, that some
thing that I heard the preacher talk about today" Father:
Hush sonny, er, er, a prohteer, is err, q man that adjusts his
business to conditions regardless Of what conditions are.
Grandmother sitting close by: Listen. a proiteer is a man
whose profits make tears |
Those, and they are very, very few. who are raising a hue
and cry about denying the ballot to women in Mississippi, are
rnlstaking the clamors. of a few women, and very few compare
cent of the white women of Mississippi care a tinkers damn
about the ballot. OF course if it is thrust on them, they will
he equal to the duty.
1t is officially stated that there are $4,000 graves Of Ameri|
can soldiers in Europe. 54,015 lie beneath the soil in France
2,O73 are resting in the soil of Great Britain; 403 sleep in Bel
STA; liz. are buried in Luxembourg; rs sleep in the soil of Sunny
Italy and the bodies of 1858 rest in the soil of Germany, the