The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1911-07-07

For several days the committee
sent cut S13Jy the trustees of Turner
Normal College to purchase a site for
that institution in or near this city
have been holding sessions daily in
an effort to get themselves out of
what appears to be pretty bad mud
die.
When it became known to the peo-
pie of Shelbyville that the trustees
had voted to move the college, they
got busy as they had never done bo-
fore. Propositions came thick and
fact, and not only that, ut thor
ough investigate nwas made as to
the right of the trustees to buy land
and establish a school, The ablest
lawyers i'm Bedford County were een-
suited and the charter was exam
ined which revealed the fact that I'M
der the charter the trustees could
not do what they had voted they
would do This information was
made known to the real estate men
and then the hustling began. The
sale of the property that had, been Sc
lected for the Turner Normal College
makes an interesting story A few
years ago the real estate dealers dis
covered that the territory north of
Mt Nebo and west of the Tennessee
Central railroad was equal in beauty
and convenience to any locality
around Nashville, so they drew a dead
lime at the railroad and a desirable
point south toward Mt Nebo. This
line was just south of the Heffernan
site. No Negro could buy property
in that select territory. The word
| was passed down the line, Thus far
shalt thou come, and no further
But when the state began to look for
site for the Negro Normal they Sc
! lected and bought right in the midst
of this chosen territory ana the para
disc that had been selected for white
people only, at once became contain
mated with Negrophobia. Then came
the Turner Normal proposition and
hope again beamed out for the real
estate mer, If they could locate an
other Negro college in that vicinity,
why, they would have a better oppor-
tunity than ever to sell their proerty
at fercv prices. But just when every
thing looked rosy, another cloud in
the nature of a state charter arose
and their high hopes are blasted.
The trustees and the real estate
! men are now resting on their
= oars, each Waiting to see what move
the toher will make. There does not
seem to be the least probability of a
lawsuit for all parties agree that
they We're acting in good faith, and
it is believed that all that can be
done will be to drop the matter foI
the time being 1t is not believed
} that the trustees VIII demand that
the forfeit they put up be returned
to them, as the amount required was
very little, but just what will be dCnt
is not known.
In speaking of the matter, Presi
= dent Jones said:
81 wish to say in this connection
trat after a second sober thought, an,
$ due consideration our trustees have
I come to see that We acted hastily
4 and abe now endeavoring to restore
D ourselves to our normal conditions
: and we expect to open school this fail
a at the Some old stand in Sholbvville
e "Tuncr Normal has grown b,
; 'elps and bounds with in the last fiv
! or six years, as everybody knows, an
IS in all such cases with institution
t its kind needs more and great
L er aid
t The news of the decision of tn
e purchasing committee to abandon tn
S further negotiation for the Nashvill
Y property is heralded with the grea
est delight by the citizens of Shelb!
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