Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-01-11
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By KATE MARKHAM POWER.
By KATE MARKHAM POWER.
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AS everybody is interested in the
appropriation bills which come before
each Legislature, and as everybody
should be interested in the A. & M,
College, we give in detail the amounts
asked for by this splendid school for
our boys. In considering the textile
schools cost, its immediate need $50
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 State
that would be manufacturing CEN
ter, must be considered also The sup
port fund asked for for the next two
years is S101, 1,344.82, and the textile
school deficit is $26,32O.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 $15933O is asked for
new buildings, improvements, ETC., as
follows: New chapel, $4,000; new
dormitory, $4,000; new mechanical
building, $25,OO0; scientific building,
$25,OOO; additional equipment for tex.
tile school, $4,000; infrmary, $4,000;
three experiment stations, yearly, $751;
600; new barns, $4,000; permanent i'm
proyements in mechanical department,
$500; quarters for working boys,
$4,000; house for director of textile
school. s1,500; bachelor quarters,
S25OO; gymnasium, s2,5OO; improved
breeds of cattle and mares, $4,000; \.
M. G. A., 800; equipment of English
veterinary and preparatory depart
ments $1,150; equipment agricultural,
horticultural and biological depart
ments, $3.50; printing equipment,
Sl,50O 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 go into the building.
By authority of the board of trustees,
the building was afterwards completed
at a cost of $S2,46469. 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, waterworks and
equipment for fire protection. and esti-
mated expenses to run up to January
|, 1902, make the Indebtedness of this
department s26,32014 The board
deemed it wise to borrow the money
to complete the work rather than to
have the enterprise fail for lack of
equipment and support"
Death is ui1welcome 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 its
presence cannot be told in words. Only
few weeks ago the Columbus papers
chronicled the death ofy~'5lii 5iiae --egaa stE, /
mother Of Senator Meek, at his Colum-
bus home. Scarce had the earth been
placed above the faithful mother heart
when 1t was opened again to receive
the body OF her son, Col. Meek, 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 Meeks wife
Joined him in the other world. In less
than 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 Colum-
bus.
A similar instance occurred in Yazoo
City when Miss Rebecca Puryis died on
the 29th and her mother on the 31st
of December. In this instance It 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 1t than in adding to the facili.
ties of the States educational, humane
and benevolent institutions-in build
ing a home for veterans, in putting a
State hospital on such a footing that
our sick and wounded ped no longer
be carried to New Orleans and Mem.
phis for treatment At our neighbors'
expense? Some I might be well
invested In muT help for QUIZ
orphan children.
must be spent in
our splendid neUIs
is getting to M
her "housekeepla-, s
scale comm mansurates &
tance and her position
hood of States. M
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