The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-10-19
! MISSISSIPPI MATTERS
! NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By KATE MARKHAM POWER.

II any penitentiary warden in the
South can make a better showing un'
der equally difficult circumstances and
surroundings than Warden Parchmani
of our own State prison, he is certain
ly entitled to the blue ribbon with a
premium attached. His report, just
completed, shows that the prison cot
ton crop will be 1925 bales. 1t is esti
mated that nearly 1000 bales will be
required to meet the expenses OF run
ming this vast and complicated prison,
leaving close on to 1000 bales a clear
profit. In addition to this splendid
cotton crop, and, despite the unfavor'
able conditions for a corn crop, the
farms have made enough good corn,
with hay, etc., to carry them through
h year by using some corn left from
last year. In addition to all the regu-
lar farm and garden products which
have been successfully raised and SO
prudently harvested, there has been a
marked increase in the number Of the
value of the States stock-a most i'm
portant gain. Two of the leased farms,
Dulaney's, in ~IssaqueIa, and Marks,
in Sharkey, will not be les sed at all
this year, and the acreage has been
lessened on the Randolph and the
Shelby places, in Washington county,
and the McLaurin place, in Sharkey,
by almost 800 acres each. The con
victs who have been working the land
thus abandoned will be sent to the
new plantation, in Sunflower county,
where Mr.. Parchman hopes to have
1000 acres cleared and ready for plant
ing by January. During the past year
the board of control cleared off every
Indebtedness and turned into the State
treasury $9,74S.35. The gross ex-
pense of maintaining the convicts dur
ing the past year was only 1859, 1925. 20.
The increased number of convicts will
add considerably to this sum for main
nan during the coming year. The
board OF control and Warden Parch-
man deserve the appreciation and
thanks of every citizen of Mississippi
because of their wise, careful and eco
administration of the affairs
OF the prison. 1t was once a heavy
burden, financially, to the State. but
is now a little more than ~self-sustain.
ing.
An important meeting was held re-
Gently in the Office of the State Super
intendent of Education, by a number
of the leading educators in the State.
purpose was the organization OF
the Mississippi School Journal Com
pany, with a capital OF $4,000, $4,000
or which was in hand. The Board of
Directors is as follows: E. L. Bailey.
Jackson, President; NJ. Rose, Aber-
deem, Vice President; G. w. Huddles-
ton, Jackson, Secretary and Treasurer;
e. f. Boyd, Kosciusko, j. NJ. Taylor.
Fort Gibson; G. M. Lattimer, Clinton;
and Robert TORY, Yazoo City. The
board will at once employ a competent
to assume control of their publi-
cation-a man who Yields an able pen
and whose heart is in the school work.
with the great army of teachers in
the State who are hungering and
thirsting for a good school journal at
home there should be no trouble in Sc
curing at once subscribers enough to
make the venture a finncial success.
Then, with a good man in charge and
the teaching force ready and willing
uphold him and D him.
Mississippi's school journal should
stand second to none.
The Meridian Star makes a state
ment in a recent issue which we be-
lieve to be correct. 1t says that the
five years following a creditable
exhibit of Mississippi at the
st. Louis fair should see the assessed
of property in the State in
crease over one hundred million dol
lars. The Star expresses the wish, in
same issue, that some e~nterprising
same issue, that some e~nterprising
in East Mississippi would plant
few acres in broom corn and see If il
would not avail to make a bank ac.
count quicker than the staple crop
The harvest in Southern Illinois
tthe room corn country has been
short for several years, hence the price
has u away up.
So many children have m%atriculated
at the Meridian City Schools that it
has been necessary to ask for largely
increased facilities for their care dur
lng the present year. Every room in
every building is now so over-crowded
with children as to make it impossible
'or the teachers to do them Justice.
such %crowding is bad for the physical
part of the child as well as the mental
md moral. Meridian has always had
lust cause for pride in her splendid
school system-a system that has
as a model for, and an inspira-
Ion to, most of the graded schools in
hississippi-and we believe that those
n authority will be wise enough To
the needed assistance at this
time in the growth of the
Meridian schools.
The Codhomidn, in it's anxiety to get
some kind of a factory for the employ.
nent of its hands, guarantees that the I