In 1884, the national legislature authorized three hundred dollars for the survey of the town. That year, the local “Garnet Memorial School” for girls was also incorporated and formally granted ownership of one hundred acres of land previously donated to this institute by former president A.F. Russell. Named as officers of the school were H. R. W. Johnson, C. L. Parsons, R. H. Jackson, John O. Hayes, S. N. Williams, S. J. Campbell, J. S. Washington, W.D. Coleman, James M. Strother, B. K. McKeever and Spencer McMillan.
At a T. W. P. leadership meeting in January, 1905, a Col. Slight of Brewerville issued an impassioned plea against the use of government funds for political campaigning, arguing that because of such bad political practices “God had turned his back” on the country for the last thirty years.
Footnote: Karnga, 1909, p. 37; African Agricultural World, March 1905; Cassell, 1970, pp. 264, 379; Dormu, 1970, p. 67; Dunn & Holsoe, 1985, p. 43; African Agricultural World, February 1905; African Agricultural World, January 1905).
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