The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-05
MANY 'TOIlN
CHARTER
"a Large Number Follow Pas
sage OF the Watts Bill.
AN AMUSING SITUATION
Many Of the Would-B T owns Have No
Population and are Remote from e
postofflcs, but There 10 Some
Dlstilsry IN Operation.
tsp,c,sl 70 me Times. p.spateA.)

RALSM 5feSHia, n u Earoh IA rather
amusins condition prevails In The Cen
oral Assembly Just now. The Watts bill
combining both the manufacture and sale
Of whiskoy to incorporated towns having
boen passed and ratified. q hood OF bills
are now being introduced to incorporate
towns. Thore have been probably half
hundred such bills introduced In the
past three days. An illustration Of tho
character Of these places asking
corporate existence Is Churchland, David
son county, q bill for the incorporation
OF which was introduced yesterday. It
Is admitted that there ore not q half
dozen families there or postofhco IN
two miles Of the place. but there arc
two government diaullories there, IN
der tho circumstances tho name Church
land" Is not one OF the least curious cir
lcun,stances OF the cuse. 5
Ono bill OF this character has already
passed ana boon ratified. It incorporates
Williams, Yndkin county, wherc the IA
nous Old Nick dlatillery has been To-
Gated since tho Revolutionary period.
There ID nothing there except tho Will
I iiams homestead. the dlstllery and the
dwellings OF the men working OF the dis-
tillery ana on the plantation. Dir. N.
Glenn Williams. present proprietor, Is
named in the hill as mayor. Hc Is O.
tive Committee. It Is hardly proba bio
that many OF the bills for now towns
now pending will become law.
n State Insurance Commissioner James r.
Young announces that receipts In his
department during February were $780,
1924. the largest collections for month
since tho establishment Of the depart
ment. During the past eleven months
OF the fiscal year SIZE, 64s35 has becn col
lected, gain OF s22,s 1915 over the cor
responding period Of last year.
Captain r. q. Phelps has been re-
appointed commandant OF cadets at tho
North Carolina College OF Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts here.
The House Committee on Corporations
will report favorably a bill requiring all
foreign corporations desiring to do bust
ness In this State to pay. before fling
their charters with the Secretary Of
State, 10 cents for every $1,000 OF au-
thorized capital stock, and In no case
loss than 80. or moro than 400 This
is not to apply to corporations already
doing business In the State. s8
Mr.. ". G. Harris. son OF Colonel J. G.
L. Harris. OF Raleigh. Is critically III at
tho State University. He Is member
Of the base ball team for the coming sea-
son nd was hit by pitched ball Thurs
day. He now has o slight hemorrhnge
on tho brain. He Is an exceptionally
bright young man, and Is only sixteen
years old.
The secretary Of State to-day char
tered four new stock companies. all for
Elizabeth City the aggregate Of the
capital stock authorized being s375, 900.
and all four companies having the same
stock holders The com anies are the
Elizabeth City Sewerage Company. capi-
tai 100000; Elizabeth City Gas COM
pany. capital $4,000; the Electric Light
and Power Company, capital 100000, and
the Elizabeth City Water and Power
Company. capital s100 900. The stook-
holders in ell four companies arc Daniel
B. Banks and Milton ". Oftett. OF Bal
timore. and Cornelius NJ. Terebee. OF
Elizabeth City.