The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-12-14
RALEIGH LETTER.
GORMAN News BUREAU, |
Raleigh, \. C., Dec. 4 1903. J
LEFT over from last week.

1
The event in Raleigh this week is the
meeting OF the Baptist State Convention
at which there are some seven hundred
/ delegates in attendance.
| The fifteenth annual meeting OF the
| Baptist Missionary Societies, auxiliary
| to the Baptist State Convention, also
meets here this week and as there are
| $50 of these societies it is thought that
at least three hundred representatives
will attend thus bringing together one
| OF the largest gatherings OF Christian
| women workers ever assembled in the
State. They will begin their sessions
Thursday. 18th instant, which will con-
tinue over to and include Sunday.
The Baptist State Convention. which
| will be the seventy fifth. will assemble
Wednesday 9th instant represents sixty
associations in this State, which include
over eighteen hundred churches and
about one hundred and eighty thousand
members thereof, and it is announced by
officials that the Convention will not
have a debt to meet.
Raleigh has been taxed to Hospitality
provide homes for all these visitors, but
1t is stated that homes have been pro-
vded, principally by the citizens who
could do so throwing open their private
homes to receive them
The Methodist delegates to the North
Carolina Conference at Wilson, which has
just adjourned, express much pleasure
over the in every way successful Confer
ence. The Conference paid in full the
home and foreign missionary assessments
The Conference elected an especially
strong delegation to the General Confer
ence OF the three clerical delegates Rev.
IL IS PF,.,,,< ~
College, and Rev. DR.. L. n. Ivey, editor
of the Raleigh Christian 1drOcate, were
elected on the first ballot, and Rev. DR.. J.
d. Pegram on the next ballot. The lay
delegates elected are Joseph G. Brown of
Raleigh. Ex-Gov. T. J. Jarvis OF Green
ville Hon. Henry Page of Aberdeen and
j. +. Bruton of Wilson.
4 visitor at the Conference states that
much satisfaction wasexpressed over the
ending OF the famous Gattis- kilgo case,
which was decided by the Supreme Court
refusing to order a new trial by revers-
ing the decision OF Judge Moore of the
Superior Court who nOn-suiting the
plaintiff Mr. Gattis' character was
passed by the Conference after q state
ment by his presiding elder. DR.. Kilgo
was the recipient Of many congratulate
tons on the part of his clerical and lay
brethren. His prompt election as one o.
the delegates to the General Conference
was manifestation of the spirit of those
composing the Conference of his church.
1t is stated that Dr. Kilgo was never
more popular in his own denomination
than he is today The Conference organ,
the Raleigh Christian ADV ate, for in
stance. says: ''Presdent kigo and the
trustees of Trinity College have been vim
Dictated by the law of the land. The case
was stubbornly fought by both sides from
beginning to end. 1t excited Statewide
interest. There were those who We're
sincerely opposed to DR.. kilgo and the
defendant trustees. There We're others
who, moved :y some concealed force,
gave way to prejudice and passion and
subjected President kilgo to as bitter and
relentless persecution as ever assailed a
man. We are glad to say that through
all this persecution President kilgo has
had the endorsement OF the District and
Annual Conferences, and that he was
never SO strong in the confidence and af-
fections of the Methodist people of North
Carolina as he is today"
Superintendent of Public instruction
Joyner makes an interesting statement
relative to the per centage OF illiteracy
among the white children in North Caro-
lima, in commenting on a recent news
statement appearing in some OF the pa
pers a few days ago. He shows that
there has been improvement in the per
centage since the Federal census was last
taken. From the reports of the county
uperintendents it is shown that, for the
year ending June both, 1905, in Sc coun-
ties out of 81, there We're 1880 litter
ate white children reported between the
ages of twelve and twenty-Ona years,
this out of a total white population in
those counties of 1872 1000. The remain
ing eleven counties did not re. Ort their
iliterates. This is a per cent. of only
3.6, or 36 to the thousand. between the
ages of II and 81. The figures referred
to as being printed recently, based on the
L. S. census of 1900, showed 166 litter
ates to the thousand, between the ages
OF 10 and Il, or 162a per cent. Quite a
difference
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