The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-02
STA TE BOARDI
OF MISSIONS J;
Elect Officers and Distribute
Thirty Thousand Among Car
Dina Mission Workers.
THEoL Q aI e: INSTITUTES i. TIES
The Raleigh Saloons Close at.
2 49,, ~
THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTES
The Raleigh Saloons Close at
Midnight and City Commences
New Year With Dispensary.

(special to The Times Dis patcl)
RALEIGH. N. c., Jan. 1.-The North
Carolina Baptist State Board Of Missions
and Sunday schools this morning elected
officers and apportloned 100000 among 10
ministers In all parts Of the State who 40
missionary work. The officers arc J. e.
Ray, president; c. J. Hunter, vice-presi-
dent; L. Neal Johnson, recording sesa'N
tary; N. B. Broughton, chairman of the
Sunday School Committee.
Rev. Hight C. Moore, now pastor of the
Baptist Church at Chapel HILL was elect
ed Sunday school secretary to succeed
Rev. Il. Neil Johnson. and II he accepts.
will be expected to devote his whole time
to tho work.
THEOLOGICALI INSTITUTE.
The State Board endorsed tho plan OF
Rev. A. L. Brown, assistant corresponding
secretary OF tho Baptist State convention
for holding theological institutes, 1t Is
that q competent minister be employed to
hold4nstitutes in tho various associations
in the western counties. and that all min-.
listers be invited 10 attend and study
Bible methods Of preaching. The state
Board Is composed Of sixty OF the most
prominent Baptists In the State.
The postottice receipts In Raleigh tho
past year were $54.9SG.6i. us compared with
& s4SS1O.7i, during 1892.
Tho body of Will Joyner, colored, was
found on the railroad track at Cary,
four miles from Raleigh, this mornlns
about o'clock. The negro had attended
q party at tho house OF Bob Jones last
night aud went out In the yard early IN
tho evening, leaving his overcont nnd
hat, and did not return. Search was In
sttuted about midnight and the BODY
found. FL
BOARD OF TRAINED NURSES,
A Board OF Examiners of Trained Nurses
81 OF North Carolina has been organized.
under tho recent act OF tho Legislature
providing for licensed nurses. tho board
consisting OF Mrs. II. NJ. Lawrence, ReA
Hospital Raleigh. president: MISS M l.
Wytcho, of Watts Hospital Durham, sec
rotary. and Miss Constance Pfohl, wins
n-Salem; DIR. j, w. Long, Greensboro,
md 11r. ", S. Primrose, Ncwbern, "A
meeting Is to DO called very soon to adopt
n constitution and bylaws. The organizu-
ton is much on tho same order as the
stnte Board of Medical Examiners, LIZ
censes for trained nurses are not cons
pulsory,
A compilation OF the reports from all
tho eight orphanages In tho State shows
that the combined valuation OF property
is s3e5, 900 and that the 9iS children bellE
cnred for are maintained at cost OF
S5,l3.
80 DIspENsARY OPENS.
The Raleigh saloons closed at midnight
last night and the dlspcnsary began busl'
ness this morning With about $4,000 worth
OF stock. All the saloonkeepers report
having sold out their stock, Sales the
past fow days were enormous. and 1t Is
probable that tho dspensary viii do very
light business ut least until the big supply
many citizens have laid In at bargain
prices from the retiring suloonkeepers Is
exhausted
Postmaster BAILEY found q live copper
head snake being transmitted IN the malls
to-day. He accidentally stepped on tho
package and the presence OF the snake
was revealed, 1t was killed In short order.
It was addressed TO u party in Rales1t