The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-13
GOOD REPORT FROM TUSKEGEE SCHOOL Progress Is Shown In All the
 Departments FINANCES ARE STRONG Doctors Are Relieved of Fines for Failure to Report Vital Statistics. Seek Relatives of Oliver
 B. Warwick.

Montgomery. october 12.-(Special) the annual report of the operations of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial in- stitute, located at Tuskegee for the ednca ton of negro youths and pre- sided over by Booker T. Washington, principal. The activities of the whole year are gone over and every feature treat ted in brief Progress is shown in all departments and comprehensive plans are made for the year now being entered upon.
 On d contract for a better water sup ply, amounting to about $40,o0o, there has been spent s173s9, with two wells down and a third well begun A fourth is also to be dug. The supply of water will be about 100000 gallons of water a day. Principal Washington says that the wisdom of this expenditure is shown by the fact that there has not been a case of typhoid fever during the entire school year. Work Is also well along on new kitchen and dining rooms, costing so far s40.s65.
 It Is noted that the completion of the new agricultural building, the gift of Mrs. E. M. Anderson of New York, will add greatly to the facilities just here and help to extend instruction in this line to negroes who desire to know how to farm.
 The enrolment for the year was 1494, less than last year. but with high CT average attendance. The students came from 95 states and 19 foreign countries.
 Much money was spent on the ex- tensive work among the negroes, run ming to conferences of negro farmers and demonstrations. The school also brings in many negroes every year for special instruction. Tn ese are teach CTS and others at work, and are not given as students. In this way the school has touched at least 100,Oo negroes outside the students on the rolls.
 It is shown that the current expenses of the year were S201, ,4S3.11, coming from endowments $61.618.82, state and other funds s26,375. Receipts have in cluded $39,534.s5 for Improvements, $28,692.35 for endowments. s142,s27.4O in unrestricted legacies. The endow- ment fund is now s1,s3s, s,34554. General expenses were met from gifts and in terest-
 The sch ool has spent for permanent improvement during the year s198,- SS7.7s; for current work, $25s.F35.os. The plant is now valued at $1,117, ,656 26. It is recommended that the endowment be increased s8,000, 900, this being added to the present endowment of s1,33s,- 34554
 Relieved Of Fines.
 Dr. Joseph Guy and Dr. W. H. Minchener, both of Crenshaw county, have been relieved Of fines of s10 each for failure to report vital statistics. Two other doctors were tried at the same time and demurred, which action was sustained. As the first two had pleaded guilty the governor remitted the fines In order to put them on the same plane with the others. The costs, however, he could not remit. The gov ernor has also remitted the forfeiture of $100 against Sam Gullette of Jack son county, who was on the bond of Duck Bailey, the latter having been cau auBnL duQ punlSneO.
 Relatives Sought.
 Relatives of Oliver B. Warwick, na- tive of Alabama, who went to war in 1898, and was killed in the Philippines, November 26, 1899, are sought by Lyon & Lyon, lawyers of No. 141S F street. N W, Washington. He served as captain Of the Eighteenth U. 8. infantry in the Spanish American war, and was a West Point man.
 Cotton Comes High.
 M. Cody local banker, has figured out that by reason of the price of cot ton the returns to this section will De three quarters of a million dollars in excess of what they were last year. Now a bale of cotton runs to about $65, then it was 345.
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