The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-06-30
OUR COLORED SOCIETY
ms and Outs Of the Local Colony
and It's Friends.

Il Duu DuChHST uSpdlLSu VI A.e
last evening to remain permanently.
He will take a position secured for
him there by friends.
The revival services that have been
going OH at Shorter Chapel A. NJ. q.
church the past week will close Sun
day night. Mrs. Wright, the evan
gelist and Miss Flossie have given
good service to the great benefit OF
the church. There has been one con-
version and four reclaimed. There
will be three services Sunday ,-10:30
a. M, 3 p. M, and 1880 p. m. At .
will be young peoples meeting led
by Miss Flossie. Mrs. Wright will
preach both morning and evening.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
devotes page to the twenty-third
annual commencement of Booker T.
Washington's institute at Tuskegee,
and incidentally notes: Among those
on the platform were Director of the
United States Mint George e. Roberts
and wife, Leigh Hunt, with Mr.. and
Mrs. Perkins and daughter of the
Hunt party, large number of Mont
gomery people, H. " Cashin, J. r.
Bush, Charles r. Douglass, Mrs. j. B.
Bruce and Mrs. Allen, missionary
| from Liberia" 1t does not appear that
Mr.. Roberts was present other than
as visitor, but the Advertiser notes
that "Mr. Hunt is visiting the school
| to secure ten young men to aid him
in a cotton raising enterprise in the
| Soudan, Egypt" The Advertiser re-
ports the commencement exercises
very fully, and then tells some very
| interesting facts about the graduates.
They were SO in all, 81 girls and So
boys. All but two were processing
Christians, a record that would
shame some of our UNCONVENTIONAL
colleges in the north. They have re-
| ceived diplomas for work in the lit
eral y courses, but twelve have receiv-
ed instruction in agriculture, IL in
carpentry, in brick masonry, 10 in
| printing, IA in sewing, 2 in nurse
training, one in painting, in archi-
tectural drawing, n bookkeeping,
in millinery, in laundering, 1 in up
holstering, 2 in blacksmithing, / in
shoe-making, 2 in domestic science,
are graduates of Phelps Hall BipIe
Training school, in wheelwrighting,
3 in tailoring, 1 in the machine shop.
Forty of the seniors have completed
trade. The Advertiser gives in con-
densed form a glimpse Of the extent
of the work Booker Washington and
his school are doing. During the
year, the total number of students en-
rolled in the normal school has reach
ed 1901; 1904 boys, 493 girls They
represent SO states and territories
and nine foreign countries. Alabama
has 507, Georgia 204. ,MississiBniils1l 7 !,
South Carolina 81, Texas SO, Eouisi-
ana 70, Tennessee 65, Florida 54,Ken-
lucky 26, Arkansas 25, Virginia %,
Africa 7, Cuba IA, Porto Rico Is. In
addition to these, 1923 have been
taught in the Tuskegee town night
school, about 200 in the training
school and enough in Miss Davis
Thompson's Plantation school to
make the total for the year about g.
600. The figures that follow will give
some idea of the amount and variety
of work done by the students during
the year. Nearly 1000 acres of land
have been cultivated. The machine
shop and foundry have had 122 men
enrolled. The work done by them
amounts to $15,798.71. OF this, 81.
423.40 was to students for labor. They
made 1880 pounds of sash weights.
castings for $50 iron beds, in all, ST.
O1O pounds Of castings for the year.
In the machine shop, "A machines
: were repaired. Two seven-horse DOW.
er steam engines have been nearly
completed. The large academic build
ing and Douglass hall have been fit.
, ted out with steam radiators, both
!. rooms and laVatories. Thirteen steam
y engines, one high-speed 125-horse
power, and IL steam boilers have
ben cared for by students, without a
serious accident, during the year
} The harness shop has done S2,339. 65
{ worth of work. The brick yard made
2,lO1,437 bricks. The value of ma.
ter1al and work done in the carpenter
Fshop represents $4S,364.34. The saw
mill turned out about 100000 feet of
lumber; 221,7S2 feet of this was
dressed; 100000 feet ripper and
363,6O0 laths made. The tailor shop
did $3,O31.66 worth of business. The
blacksmith shop $2,13S worth. This
included keeping properly shod lis
mules and horses belonging to the
school. Brick work and plastering
report $2S,2s0.20 worth of materials
and work. The shoe shop did s2.65o
: worth Of work. 1t made $40 new pairs
Of shoes and repaired 1923 pairs. The
printing office did $500 worth OF
work and has on hand now work for
two months. The tin shop did about
$4,000 worth of work.
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