The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-11-11
The Choctaws in MIssIssippi.

State perintendent of Education
Whitfield will embody in his biennial
report to the legislature a report from
II. S. Halbert of Newton county on the
condition of the Choctaws of Missis-
sippi, Mr. Halbert's report is not only
of interest as setting forth accurately
their education, condition and general
progress, but also because it gives som
highly interesting data concerning the
work accomplished by the Dawes com
mission, which visited the Indian coun
ties of this State last January. The
report of Mr.. Halbert recites that dur
ing the last two years seven schools,
some of them public and some private,
have been maintained for varying pc
RODS of time among the Choctaws of
Kemper Neshoba, Newton, Leake and
Jasper counties, the public schools
being taught by white and the private
schools by ChOctaw teachers. The In
dian schools are not as well equipped
as they should be, but this, Mr.. Hal
bert states, must be in measure as
cribed to the ignorance and poverty of
the Indians. Speaking of the progress
in civilization that has been made by
the Indians, he says comparison OF
their present condition to that o.
twenty wears ago shows that on ac-
count of the introduction Of civilization
and Christianity as civilizing factors
among them there has been marked
Improvement among the majority Of
the Choctaws. still we must not for
get" he says, shat our Mississippi In
dams are people just emerging from
a half-savage life and speaking an alien
language"
Chickasaw School Fund Distribution.
The auditors office is now making
the semi-anual distribution of the
Chicllasaw school fund, which was due
to be made on November l. The dis
tribution is the same this time as it was
at the May distribution, 1899. There
is the sum of S25. 761.75 of interest to be
divided this time between the counties
in the Chickasaw district, and the coun-
ties take according to the number of
educable children in each. Following |
are the counties composing this district
Alcorn. Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw,
CLAY, DeSoto, Itawamba, Lafayette, |
Lee. Marshall, Monroe, Pamela, Pom
totoc. Prentiss. Quitman, Tallahatchie,
Tate. Tippah, TishOmingo, Tunica,
Union. Webster, Yalobusha. These get
the same amounts as they received at
the MAY distribution
Gov. Bob Taylor delivered his lecture,
Love, Laughter and Song" in Bran
don recently to large audience of
and Jackson refugees. Gov
NIcLaurin introduced him in very com
nlimentary terms, and suggested that
If the Democratic nomination for vice
president should come South, Bob
would fill the bill.
The Aberdeen Examiner is in its
thirty-fourth year. and Major ). A.
Tomas has been in continuous editorial
for thirty-three and one-halt
years No other Mississippi editor haG
been in harness so long.
The merchants of Hazlehurst have
,een much complimented on what has
,een STYLED "a novel scheme to please
heir farmer customers" -greasing, free,
m WAGONS that bring cotton to town.
Ne have often thought that the mer-
.hants of all our cities and towns should
Ia many other things to please their
inner customers, especially in those
sasons of the year when the female
members 90 to town to DO their shop
~ Merchants might associate in
he he erection of free stock sheds, and in
,rovidino a room where the madam and
he children could dust, and battle, AMI
est, aud lunch.