The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-12
RAILROAD
!. DIRECTORS
Governor Reappoints the Board.
Of the North Carolina
Road.
COMPANY REINSTATED
Bank Chartered Escape of
Convicts From the State
Farm.
(speelal.to rhe r,lmes.p lspatch.l

Especial TO The Dispatch)
RALEIGH, N. CT July 11.--There was a
N session OF the council OF state this eve
/. Ming. after which Governor Aycock an
nounccd the rcappolntmcnt OF the present
board OF directors of the North Carolina
4 Railroad for the ensuing year, the meet
Ing for reorganization to be held at Bur-
siington. July 14th. #
The board consists OF Hugh O.. Chat.
\ ham. OF I5lkin; T. Banks Holt, Graham
i s. NJ Michau. Goldsboro; Or. VI. FL
Turner, Raleigh;kC NJ Cooke. Jr....s VIII
\ mington; George p. Pell, Winston Sa lem;
1 G.. s.. Penn. II cidsvilfe; w. II. Villains.
Newton, and ]. r.. 11cLclland tState'ss
s proxy. S5s he
4 COMPANY RErHs,rATED
sSs Adjutant- General B. s. Royster made
an order this morning relnstatirg the
Reidsvile military company In the North T
Carolina National Guard as Company 8G.s
Third regiment. It was disbandcd some
! months5ago for failure to come up to the
Z requirements at the last inspection. The
4 officers are Captain Gladstone and Lieu
tenants q. w. Burton. Jr., and VIZ H
I F'oy. 5s 5@$i ;sS
The Secretary lof State has chartered
[ the Bank OF Robson. at Lumbcrton, with
thorized, 10 do "a general commercial and
savings bank business The primo pal In
+ corporators are Thomas Gresham, II. n.
I sNIcAllIster, w. j. Pevatt and A. r. Nc.
v Cachern. ,3s VII MI
81 Over fifty county superintendents OF
& public schools have arrived already to
& attend the convention OF county superi n-s
4 tendents. to be held this week In con-
nectton with the summer school at; the
AGRICULTURAL and Mechanical College.
State superintendent of Public Instruc-a
i ton ~ y. Joyner says the reports coming
stn from the county superintendentss how
that considerable rcducti on is being made
in all parts OF the = ia te in the percent.
age or illiieracy for both the white and
Z colored races. Tho eports show only
from about 3 to 40 per cent. Il y ferea s
y the last census BY Uncle Sam gives the
percentage as 10. This, Of course. includes
& all over twelve, while the reports Of the
Z county superintendent include only from
+ twelve TO twenty-one years ~ Sg5
TRUSTY CONNECTS ESCAPE. us
B Two white trusty sconyicts oscar ped from
4 Caledonia farm yesterday. One was -. HI
Wright, serving two years from Guilford|
z countyfor bigamy. md the other Charles
z AIobley, sent up from G ham TO- serve
one year for housebreaE king They were
allowed to go off without a guard and
never returned.
1)T2 IVY Setl u e1Ao 49, y
livered an address before the eachers At
the Agricultural and Mechanical Summer
n school N Al Utilization and Nervous Elk
Il haustion his v purpose being to show;
{ the bad effect OF present-day strenuous
3 ness. & ;83 b 5sS
/ Judge Garland s. Ferguson convened
the&July term of the Wa ke county supe-5
rior Court this morning. to- continue two
weeks. There are ninety-one cases on
\ the docket. but all except forty-eights
have already been cont nued !. The most
r important case, that of State vs.. K. s.
i Finch and We. McBee for conspiracy In
the receivership proceedings against the.
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad,
is among those continued by consent.