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

sion, shall pass a bill redistricting the
State so as to comply with the provt
sions of said act of Congress.
1t becomes my duty, therefore. to
submit the subject for your considera-
ton, and to recommend the enactment
of a proper law governing the subject
matter.
BRANCH EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS.
The Board of Trustees of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College, act
ing under the provisions of Chapter
81 of Acts of 1900, located the branch
experimental station at Mcneil, Of the
New Orleans and Northeastern Rail-
road, in Pearl River County. For in
formation regarding this matter, your
attention Is directed to the report of
Hon. H. M. Street, Chairman of the
committee to locate same. From the
liberal donations made by the people
OF that section, l feel encouraged to
believe that public attention Is being
attracted toward practical industrial
lines, n from the encouragement in
the location of this station, l I'm con-
strained to the belief that your honor.
able body would do wisely to locate
other experimental stations, one in
the delta, and l respectively recon-
mend that you consider the matter
and act as your judgment approves,
looking to the interest of the farming
classes of our people. The difficulties
encountered at Mcneil will, by a rea-
sonable appropriation from you, be
overcome and place the station in po-
sition to demonstrate to our people
what can be done in an agricultural
way in the pine woods.
O1~-ot- 49, -.-..
make appropriation sufficient to carry
this enterprise to successful ends, and
to locate another similar station some
where in the Yazoo-Mississippi delta.
SCHOOLS.
Under the term Common Schools
are embraced all the schools of the
State to which the general FUND ap-
%propriated by the legislature for free
schools Is distributed. These schools
are divided into two classes, namely:
Separate school districts and rural
schools.
The report Of the State Superintend-
ent of Education, recently issued,
shows that "a of the towns in Missis.
sippi are organized into separate
school districts, and it is gratifying to
report that they, as a rule. have COM
modious, handsome and suitable build.
ings, and that during the scholastic
: year ending 1900 the enrolment was
. approximately 8 $4,000, and for the year
1901 they enrolled in the aggregate
. 1876 pupils. The average number of
: days taught in said schools during the
a last scholastic year was 1893, or more
than eight scholastic months. It fur
Their appears, from the Superintend
u, ent's report, that the total amount oil
money collected for these schools fol-
/, the last scholastic veal was $412,
449.S3, and | estimate the same
amount for 1900. These are gratifying
4 statistics, and show that the citizens
OF h towns are progressive, and arr
- keeping we'll in the van of the grea
educational movement now in progress
In this country. 1t will further appea'
= from the above that the approximat
' per capita per annum of all the fund
"a received was $11.55 on the total enroll
ment.
1t may be interesting to extend thi
Al line of statistics to the State college
for the last two years. The averag
amount per capita per annum expent
ed IN the students enrolled in thes
OF institutions Cor the last two years wa
as follows:
State University s129
- NJ, College a :
Alcorn A. N. College. 81
~ Add the appropriations of the Las
session Of the legislature for repair
and improvements on these instit,
lions, the above figures will stand:
A State University .S196
A.. q NJ, College. ......... 1913
W Alcorn A. ( NJ. Coilege.. IS
-. The approximate total enrolment
"a the rural schools for the scholast
years 1906 and 1901 was 691, TAP, whiC
would make a per capita allowant
~ out of their share Of the $2,0 900. 900 a
~ propriated by the legislature for Il
IA said W % years Of $2.62 per annum.
is. STATE LANDS.
ge The report Of E. H. Nall, Land Cor
ed missioner. for the two preceding fsc
years shows larger sums collected f
the sale of lands of the different hol
ings of the State than for any simili
~ period in the history of this depal
O5 ment-which sales, exclusive of Il
different college lands, amount to Il
90 sum of $1S2,0S1.33. and that he h
collected $3.50 in fees incident to Il
sale of said lands, together with s
In rents, making the grand total !
ceived by him for the two years SIS
661.33.
LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION
1903.
II The Louisiana Purchase Expositic
30 which is to open in the city of
Louis, Missouri, in 1903, promises
Iju. be n of the most extensive and co
viii prehensive exhibits of modern tim
lat. of the natural possessions, scienti
nal anu INDUSTRIAL progress of the age, +
only of the States of this Union,
Ter, Of foreign lands as we'll.
There is, perhaps, no section viii
the possesses more varied and natural
deu sources than Mississippi, or which
fers greater Involvement to CAPT
18th seeking investment, or the immigra
erg. hunting a home; and yet the State
rat. Mississippi has never seemed to flu
-, anDreciate tho inheritance Of innurri