The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-02-18
A YOUNG MAN CALLED
TO DIFFERENT JOB
Greenwood Banker Goes To Planters
Bank at Clarksdale. Brother
Succeeds Him at Greenwood.

The Sentinel is believer in th'
sterling integrity of Mississippi
manhood, and realizes fully the fore,
of the trite statement that soon tht
duties and the responsibilities o.
citizenship which are being borne b!
those who have passed the meridian
of life must soon be assumed b!
those yet in the morning of their ca
reers, hence the success or failure, th'
triumphs and the achievements Of
every citizen any where in the State
indeed the United States, is a matter
of interest and concern to everybody
else.
In running over the list of the
many splendid men which the writer
chances to know in Mississippi, he
feels that it is not amiss just at this
time to note the high compliment
paid Mr.. Calhoun Wilson, of Green
wood, recently by certain New York
bankers, as we'll as citizens of Clarks-
dale, when he was asked to go to
Glarksdale and become executive vice
president of the Planters Bank, thus
relieving for this year, and perhaps
for several years, Mr.. w. P. Holland,
who has been regarded as one of the
States bank wizards. Mr.. Wilson ac-
cepted the responsibility not alone
for the big salary offered, but be-
cause he felt it his duty at this criti-
cal business period to place his SER
vices at the command of the State
and at the place where he could ac-
complish the most. The disoI dered
financial condition of the country, it
is said, has been. peculiarly severe
on Clarksdale and vicinity, there
fore, it was realized that exceptional
executive ability, cool calculating, in
tuitive business judgment as well as
q deep sense of the needs of the pub
lie and genuine human sympathy
were what was needed in directing
head of that big delta banking in
stitution at this time. All this was
found in Calhoun Wilson. He went
there since January /, and his d.
reetion of affairs shows that no mis-
take was made in calling him to that
delicate and highly important task.
Mr.. Wilson is a son of Hon. Geo. A.
Wilson, Of Lexington, and has been
the real executive force in the Will
son Banking Co., of Greenwood, his
distinguished father being the presi-
dent, since the organization of that
popular Greenwood institution. The
writer knows something about how
such a great number in Greenwood
regretted to see this exceptional
young man taken out of the local
bank there. However, his brother,
George Wilson, who is now at the
helm in the Wilson Banking Co.,
seems to be walking right in the path
which enabled the elder brother to so
fayorably impress himself on the
business world even beyond Mississip-
pi.
Calhoun Wilson is fine character,
and an exceptionally fine citizen.
While being busy man and bent on
making a success of what has been
committed to his care, he delights in
being a real man and in showing that
genuine human side that marks the
life Of any man who ever amounts to
much in the world.
The Sentinel congratulates the
Planters Bank of Clarksdale in Sc
curing him and feels sure that he
will prove to that live, pulsatii.g and
dynamic section all he has proven for
Greenwood, a similar and equally as
dynamic a section.