The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-12
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
IN NORTH CAROLINA
Gratifying Progress Made in the
Campaign for Betterments.
ICE MISSION is ORGANIZED
Prominent Young Women in Raleigh
Engage in Charity Work-Sim-
mons-Pritchard Controversy
is Waxing Warm.
ICE MISSION is ORGANIZED
(specia1 Dispatch to Tho Tlmes. !,

Especial dispatch to The IineS.)
RALEIGH, n. c., July ia bulletin
just issued by the State Superintendent
If Public Instruction shows gratifying
progress in the campaign being waSed
throughout the State for better public
chool houses, consolidated districts and
.ocal taxation. Ten counties are taking
steps to unite their schools and many
,thers are voting local taxation No less
han fifty rallies, a which some OF the
oest speakers in the State will address
he people, are to be held within the next
two weeks under the auspices OF the
Executive Committee of the North Caro-
lima Educational Conference. Governor
Aycock chairman.
The American Association of lnstruc-
tors of the Blind adjourned at $3.50 o'clock
this afternoon. The convention has been
very. successful. While here the mem
bers swere the guests of the North Caro-
lima School for the Blind. There were
about seventy-five among them: some
# the most distinguished educators In
the country.
The North Carolina Four Club League
is having bad start on their new sched-
ue of games. rains having interfered
with all games the past two days The
change from six to four-team league
made necessary by the failure of the
b X
league Then, too the loss of Charles
ION will seriously lower the standard OF
games. The outlook is not encoura glng
or much more league bail in North Car
DINA.
THE COLLEGE A FRAUD.
The Nashville Law College requested
the Superintendent of Public Instruction
q few weeks ago to appoint six North
Carolina students to free scholarships.
| Announcement was made and over fifty
applica tions for appointment have been
received Now comes the statement
from the State Superintendent that an
investigation shows the college to be a
fraud, and he will make no appointments
to free scholarships. Notices to this eff
feet are being mailed to all applicants
for appointment.
The intense heat which has prevailed
in this section for the past two weeks
| has brought about the organization in
| this city of an Ice Mission Band, OF
| which many of the foremost young wo-
| men of Raleigh are members. the pur-
| pose being to provide ice for the poor
| sick. A great deal of ice is being dls-
tributed by them through physicians and
pastors. who issue certificates of the need
| Of patients for such hep.
| The controversy between Senator Sim
|
Executive Committee. and Senator Pritch-
| ard, chairman of the State Republic
! can Executive Committee, is waxing
| warm. Senator Simmons is out this
| morning in a long reply to Senator
Pritchard's recent denial of his tSim-
| monsD charge that it is the secret pur-
| pose of the Republican party manage
ment to stir up dssensions among ths
| Democratic party leaders until the eve
| Of the fall elections. and then test the
ccnstitutionality of the recent franchise
| amendment. and thus cast the entire ne
! gro vote. Simmons declares that he has
| the most reliable authority for his posi-
| ton and asserts that many prominent
independent Democrats are promoting
| the Republican scheme some being of
| fared Federal patronage for their SER
| vice The fight being made against Wal
| ter Clark for Chief Justice by large
! element of the Democracy is pointed al
| as one Of the phases of this fight.