The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-02-10
BEAUTIFUL, HOME-LOVING GRENADA.

Grenada town made up of good people who love then
as to its duty to the humanity and that endeavors to square its
actions with the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments
Grenada, a town born of a marriage ceremony religiously and
sacredy performed-a fact which has unquestionably served
to lead the minds of her people along the lines of virtue and
kindness. 'e anu
Grenada town famed for its stablity. in business and for
setting the pace for many of the best things that have con-
tributed to the material and moral development of Mississippi.
Grenada has been noted for the breadth of vision of its mer-
Of a live and let live policy. The town has ASP passed ed through rvg the
crucible. She was once swept by a cyclone, but she got herself
together and triumphed over that tragedy.
was the central point from which radiated many war activities s.
The Federals regarded Grenada with a jealous eye. It's location,
even after the war made the town the object of the wars
wrath and much of reconstruction perfidy. But out of that
came a 9ester G aedfdi G and a more resGlute citizenship:
very flowers of the community. Darkness, as it were, lowered
literally encamped here and demanded the last debt which any
human being can pay. But out of that came new resolutions,
place and worthy of the men and women who were carried to
the cemetery in that awful period.
Then on top of that came fires. The one perhaps in 1884
was the most destructive, Thousands of dollars We're sacrificed
TO the flames. Then there was another very destructive fire that
swept away a large part of the business district in 1890, we be-
Today the community is face to face with graver responsible
lltles than ever were faced before. The responsibilities of Gre
NADIA are no greater than those of any other community, but
they are far more serious than we have ever before been called
upon to meet. This is a fast age. This is a day of telephones,
telegraphs, fast mail, fast trains, automobiles and airships. We
need to have two thoughts where our fathers were called upon
Tor one. We must move rapidly of else we are run over. We
rents, we will rise equal to the occasion and in place lac Of + i LETTING ne
condltlonS WhOly control and direct us, we will shape conditions
as they should be.
Nature has been lavish in what it has done for our country.
1t has been more than generous in what it has done for Missis-
slppi and especially for Grenada County. We have almost an
ideal climate. We have an abundance of water, rich soil and a
store house of materials capable of being wrought into what
ever is useful to humanity.
The luxury of our luscious fruits and the bounty of natures
charms are exceled only by the richness and the
1ulness OF the cordially and generousness of our citizenship.
Mlssssippians are always thoughtful of others, but Grenadians
are doubly so. Mississippians are always kind, but Grenadians
are thrice so. Grenada is a diamond amid a galaxy of pearls.
Grenada serves as a rainbow Of hope and good cheer to the bal
of the State and as an index of what we may expect if we
earnestly strive to use wisely what has been at iii doors Ma
ture has laid a flower basket at our doors laden with roses of
almost every hue. We are awakened in the morning by the
of the hooking bird and are soothed at eventide by the S
nHmming bird and the breezes which watt to us the voice of the
waters on the south, or winds from the north which tell r
is of the rgors of our northern %neighbors. If we were in quest
# a place in our own land where our first parents fingered in
I'll the purity and beauty of innocence and where the dawn of
he first day made every tree, every flower and every creature
augh in alteration of Hin who rules above and guides below,
We would come to Grenada with that directness that the wond-
little bee goes to it's hive. &c
LIVE STOCK BOARD.
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