The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-06-03
GiDes Spanish
Barbecue At
Glenu2i1d Farm
Mr.. John Borden Host of Some Two
! Hundred and Fifty. Fine Dinner.
A Cet-Acquainted Affair.

A Spanish barbecue" for Monday
May 30th appeared on some three
hundred or more invitations sent out
last week by Mr.. John Borden, OF
Chicago, and the director, Mr.. w. A
Campbell, Of his already somewhat
renowned estate of 5000 acres, five
miles south of Grenada. The name
Spanish" was something new as ap
piled to barbecues in these parts anC
naturally excited more or less com
ment and just a bit of curiosity. AnC
just here it might be well to state
that the dinner revealed the fact that
a Spanish barbecue" was a barbe.
cue where the meats and other edi.
bles were prepared under the direc-
tlOn of Spanish chef. Charles
Gotta, who operates famous res.
taurant at Santa Barbara, California
and Mike Bonniete of the same city
were brought here by Mr.. Borden tC
well did they perform the arts need
ed in making ready the bounteous
repast which appeared on the tables
The place selected was one about
two miles from Elliott, back towards
the Bougue river among many his
toric trees of which the beech pre-
dominated. 1t was a shaded dell. A
lovely spot in which to commune
with nature and for man to forget
himself for awhile 1t was an ideal
place to think over things of the
past; to enumerate the blessings of
the present and to mediate upon
friendships and what it means to have
congenial friends and kind and con-
siderate neighbors. There are few
spots where Nature proclaims itself
more strongly than out among the
trees and along the creek-sides where
the birds hold sway and where their
voices reverberate on the morning
air and where this same feathered
tribe help sing daylight to sleep.
A Pullman sleeper was standing on
the side track at Glenwild station
which had brought down the day be-
fore the following friends of M
Borden from Chicago to share in the
barbecue and to learn with him
something of these Southern folks in
which he had shown so much faith by
investing in a big tract of land and
in improving the property as if he
expected it to bear his name for gen.
erations: Messrs. Norris Bokum, Ad-
olson and Wilton Stillwell, William
Blake, Chas. A. Fernald, Herald
Scott, George Thorne, William Phelps
Thomas Kinds, Hugh Blythe, and
Robert Hamilton. Another gentle
man, new TO the community. Mr.. r.
n. Wood, formerly of Fernwood.
Miss, was present-he has been in
charge of the celebrated herd of cat
tie which Mr.. Borden recently bought
and has accepted a position at Glen
wild and will have charge Of the same
herd there.
To 90 with the splendidlv prepared
dinner was grape juice. COca-C Cola
coffee and the very best water. The
most perfect decorum was observed.
The blessings of heaven were invoked
on the occasion and the food by Rev.
J. r. Cunningham of the Presbvter-
an church before the assembled
guests began to Dartake of the dinner.
There were plenty of the dusky
sons of Ham to aid the Spanish
,ooks and to do the other hundreds
II little chores so necessary on such
>ccasiOns-these Northern visitors
night not have known it but a South
arner would feel somewhat lonesome
1t barbecue, picnic or fishfry. un-
ess there were darkeys around to
complete what the Southern man re-
'ardS as necessary part of the pro !
ram.
Besides the local citizenship and |
he gentlemen already mentioned |
rom Chicago, representatives were !
present from Duck Hill, from Char
eston and Water Valley.
1t was a happy thought in Mr. Bor-
EN- to have the barbecue. 1t helped
nm to get to know something more
# the citizenship with whom he has
n some measure cast his lot. All
resent were glad to get TO know
1r. Borden. and especially were they
lad to welcome him as well as his
,hicago friends to Dixieland, to
,renada county. The latch string is
n the outside to them. Grenada
ounty is glad to welcome the indus I
ry of the North to its borders ]
orthern push and industry married :
Southern sentiment where nature .
as lavished her rarest charms and
ianted her choicest blessings, will {
esult in making better people of
9th and in developing business" on t
S highest and best planes, which is t
OF away from the many but towards '
lie many. ,
After the dinner and as the crowd
altered around negro band which /
ad been dispensing some stirring /
usic, somebody thought of speech
J and Judge w. A. Roane was pres =
ut, so it was natural for him to be {
llled upon. He responded very fe-
,tously. He thanked Mr.. Borden
! behalf of all who had eninued the