The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-06-23
CONDITIONS VERY
SATISFACTORY IN
COUNTY POORHOUSE
GRAND JURORS SUBMIT REPORT
AND ARE DISCHARGED FOR
THE TERM.
Find Jail in Good Shape and Have
Word of Warning for the Work.
house keepers-Find Sixty. One
Bills During the Term

The grand jury Saturday moving
submitted their report to Judge Tur-
ner and were discharged for the term.
During the session they found sixty
one true bills. In the report o. the
conditions of the various county in
situations, they had word of warn
ing for the men who are in charge of
the county workhouse. Some one in
authority, they declare, has been al
lowing some OF the prisoners to go
home on Saturday and remain there
until Sunday, and say that this prac-
tice should be stopped Immediately,
and the blame placed where ii be-
longs. They relate the shooting or
one of the negro prisoners by Lee
Zimmerman, who was deputized to
arrest the escaping convict by Over
seer Akin, and recommend that the
county pay the bill for amputating
the Negroes arm
Conditions at the poorhouse are In
excellent shape, and the jury recon-
mends that only one change be made
the building of a new smokehouse
and the digging of a cistern. They
give an exhaustive report of the sup
plies which are at the poorhouse,
showing that conditions there are in
excellent shape under the manage
ment of Mr.. Erwin.
At the county Jail everything has
been running smoothly, and they de-
clare that the conditions are perfectly
satisfactory.
The report of the jury states that
they found the guardians bonds and
the clerks bonds to be solvent The
part of the report relating to the poor
house is as follows:
farm satisfactory. We found I~36 in
mates of the county farm: White,
males 2, females IL; colored, males
II, females II.
The farm and growing crops are in
good condition. There are 35 acres
in corn, 80 acres in wheat, 2 acres in
sorghum, 6 or 7 acres in meadow, and
10 or II acres in pasture. There are
sufficient implements to run the farm.
They have 500 pounds of side meat
and sixteen hams, and flour to run to
wheat threshing time. There are six
head of milk COWS, eight yearlings
and four calves; there are twelve
shoats and four brood sows forty
or fifty bushels of wheat, and sixty
or seventy bushels of corn; eight or
ten tons of hay, forty young turkeys
and four old ones, and plenty of chick
ems. The buildings are all in good re-
pair, except the smokehouse, which
is in bad shape. We recommend
that a new smokehouse be built and a
cistern dug. We we're very much
pleased with the new waterworks and
closets and baths, also the wash room
was very complete and handy. The
building is CO concrete and the whole
system is a much needed improve
ment and Is satisfactory.
We found conditions at the county
workhouse to be satisfactory so far
as the work being done, treatment Of
the prisoners and food is concerned.
The report was signed by the entire
thirteen jurors, as follows: o. B. Par
sons, foreman; S. E. G. Jack, l.. H.
McMeen, R. P. Fitzgerald, D. T. Fitz-
gerald, T. M. Johnson, J. T. Digger,
C. L. Cheek, G.. W. Tindell, c. e. Nc
Even, D. L. Morrow, and E. n. B.
Reaves.
The number of bills found this term
were fourteen less than those found
by the jury at the February term Of
court