The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-01-11

appropriation bills which come befor'
each Legislature, and as everybod,
should be interested in the A. & M
College, we give In detail the amounts
asked for by this splendid school fol
our boys. In considering the textile
schools cost, its immediate need (st
as to have our own boys ready to take
charge of the various departments in
the cotton mills now building and pro
jected), and its great value to a State
that would be a manufacturing cen
ter, must be considered also. The sup
years is $101. 344.S2, and the textile
school deficit is $26,320.14 (this was
borrowed by the board of trustees
There is a deficit of $4,000 in the col
lege and student labor accounts. An
appropriation of $159,330 is asked for
new buildings, improvements, etc., as
follows: New chapel, $4,000; new
dormitory. $4,000; new mechanical
building. $685. 900; scientific building,
$4,000; additional equipment for tex
tile school. $4,000; infirmary, 10000;
three experiment stations, yearly, $751;
900; new barns, $ 5000; permanent i'm
provements in mechanical department,
$500; quarters for working boys.
$4,000; house for director Of textile
school. $1,000; bachelor quarters,
$4,000; gymnasium, $4,000; improved
hrpedc of oott1a ond porao eS mn. v
M. c. A, 500; equipment of English
veterinary and preparatory depart
ments. $1,150; equipment agricultural,
horticultural and biological depart
ments, $3.50; printing equipment,
$1,000. OF the amount requested to
make up the textile school deficit,
President Hardy says: THE Legisla-
ture appropriated $4,000 for the tex
tile school and dormitory; the board
instructed that $4,000 should be put
into the new dormitory, $4,000 should
be set aside for the equipment, and
$4,000 should 60 into the building.
BY authority of the board Of trustees,
the building was afterwards completed
at a cost of $32,464.69. This excess, to-
gether with what has been paid for
salaries and labor, for which no pro-
vision was made, and for boilers, steam
main heating system, w~aterworks and
equipment for fire protection, and esti-
mated expenses to run up to January
l, 1902, make the Indebtedness Of this
s26, 320.14. The board
deemed 1t wise to borrow the money
to complete the work rather than to
have the enterprise fail for lack Of
equipment and support" |
Death is upwelcome at any time, in
any place, and his coming always
brings bitter grief to many hearts and
homes. But when the Dark Angel
comes not alone, but seemingly in
flights. and hovers close about an erst-
while happy home, the agony of it's
presence cannot be told in words. Only
a few weeks ago the Columbus papers
mother of Senator Meek, at his Column
bus home. Scarce had the earth been
above the faithful mother heart
when it was opened again to receive
the body Of her son, Col. Meek, a man
who has been greatly loved and hon
ored in Mississippi. Only one night of
darkness and lonely grief divided the
devoted wife from the husband of her
youth, and then senator Meek's wife
Joined him in the other world. In less
than a week after her parents death
Miss Meek, a daughter of Col. and
Mrs. Meek and granddaughter of the
aged lady, passed from the scenes of
earth to join her loved ones. So far
as we can learn, pneumonia was the
dread disease that proved so fatal to
this delightful home circle in Column
bus.
A similar instance occurred in Yazoo
City when Miss Rebecca purvis died on
the 10Th and her mother on the 31st
of December. In this instance 1t was
thought that the shock of the daugh-
ter's death was more than the feeble
strength of the aged lady could bear.
A number Of State papers are won.
dering what is to be done with the
great surplus now lying idle in the
vaults of the State treasury. What
better use could be made of a goodly
part of it than in adding to the facili
ties Of the States educational, humane
and benevolent institutions-in build
ing a home for veterans, in putting
State hospital on such q footing thai
our sick and wounded need no longer
be carried to New Orleans and Mem
phis for treatment at our neighbors
expense? Some of it might be wei
invested in much-needed help for oul
orphan children. A goodly amour
must be spent In properly fitting vi
our splendid new Capitol. Mississippi
is getting to be a great State now, an
her housekeeping" should be on
scale commensurate with her impoI
lance and her position In the sister
hood of States.
The board to locate the four arm