The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-12-08
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the legislature made special appropria-
tions have been completed. The annex
TO columbus has forty-seven rooms, and
they are all occupied-two to each
room. The infirmary is a handsome
building, admirably constructed for the
| purpose, and will accommodate fifty or
more patients. The annex and infirm-
ary cost $4,000, and the cost of light
ing, heating and plumbing will be
about $1,000 more. There are 473 girls
now in the collage, and 400 of these
have rooms in the dormitories. If the
accommodations were doubled SO would
be the attendance. We heard sympa-
thetic young miss express the wish
that every girl in the State could be
in the Girls College,"
Liberal as were the appropriations to
the l. L. and c. at the last session, they
were not sufficient to supply other
pressing needs, the most urgent of
which is new laundry, the one now in
operation being in low cellar, with
antiquated and badly worn machinery.
More than 5000 pieces go to the college
laundry edcn week.
A library building and music hall
are also needed. There are 25 pianos
in the buildings, and 1873 music pupils.
A nice start has been made for a
library, some 1000 volumes having been
purchased.
The industrial departments are full
to overfiowing. There no in the sew
ing class, 132 in stenography type
writing and telegraphy, and so in all
the others.
The kitchen and dining rooms are
among the most important and inter-
esting features of the college. large
bakery furnishes the best of bread
They were baking biscuits for dinner.
1t takes just 1000 to go round, and no
surplus. School girls usually obey the
scriptural injunction to ''eat what is
set before them" Those at the college
have specially good appetites. which is
the best evidence of good health.
The health of the college is in good
hands. In SO large a number there are
always few sick, but at the college
they have the best medical attention
and nursing. Three were quite sick at
the date of our visit.
1t was special privilege to attend
the chapel exercises on Sabbath morn
ing, and to see nearly 500 young women
unite in the service.
The Industrial Institute and College
is the first and greatest school of its
kind on this continent.
On Monday morning we dropped in
on the white public school. Franklin
Academy, of which Prof. j. VI. Barrow
has been principal for twenty-seven
years. This is the oldest, and recog
nized among the best public schools in
Mississippi. 1t has an enrolment Of
about 600, with IA teachers. We visited
some of the class rooms and were
specially pleased with the performances
of the little tots of the first grade.
Columbus is steadily improving com
mercially and otherwise. She has q
fine system of waterworks. You don't
have to filter mud. We dropped in or
circuit court, Judge E. O. Sykes presid
ing. The panel was being drawn for q
murder case. The prisoner was attiret
in the hight of fashion-patent-leath
shoes, red necStie, etc. The courthouse
is an old but very substantial building
1t needs overhauling and remodeliDg
The acoustics are very bad.
Columbus needs new city hall. She
has two good hotels, and her two news
papers-the Dispatch and Commercial
are ably conducted and well sustained
Leaving Columbus at 2:30 Monday W,
reached Tupelo, via Artesia, at p. m
Mr.. Frank L. Kincannon, the popular
circuit clerk, took us to his hospita bl,
home. This is the home also of Hon
j. c. kincannon, railroad commissioner
They are brothers of President A. A
! kincannon of the !. /. and c., and tn,
father of this splendid trio, Majol
James Kincannon, resides at Verona
He was gallant Confederate, and tn,
: Tupelo Journal has the benefit of hi
graceful pen.
{ Tupelo hasimproved immensely sine,
our last visit. We first knew it as ;
small and unpromising village. 1t il
now a substantially-built city of 2,1O
population. 1t has two banks-anC
there is nothing nicer in Mississippi
than the Tupelo Bank building. Their,
are four hotels, an oil mill, a cottor
: mill nearly completed, capitalized a
s150,0O0, 90-inch compress. handsom,
: union depot, several wholesale houses
, that do an immense business-those o
r Clark, Hood & Co. and j. j. Roger
> amounting to several hundred thousant
dollars year. Among the profitabl,
industries are an ice factory, spok,
, factory, cotton scale factory, laun
r dry and an ale-bottling establishment
1t has an electric light system owned
! by the city that furnishes light at 33 \
per burner per month, and for mucl
, less where many are used. 1t has alsC
, big fish pond-29 acres-stocked TIVE
Z years ago, and now affording trout o
: large size. The pond is supplied by
: fine artesian wells. Season tickets Civ,
7 fishing privilege twice week. If tn,
! catch is over five mounds o5 cents il