The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-20
ITO THE TENNESSEE COAL FIELDS
johnson City Ssutbcrl Railway to be
Built.
Compulsory Vaccination Can be Or
dered for the Public schools by
Boards Of Hcalth-Coiored Baptist
State Convention to Meet In Dur
ham-Othcr Raleigh News Notes.
Raleigh. y. g., June Ia.
Messenger Bureau,

Raleigh. y. -, June Ia.
The state charters the Dixie Brew
ing Company. of Charlotte to make a
beverage OF that name. and other soft
capital stock $s0.os0. the stock
holders being W. r. Elliott. of Char
|gotte; g v. Rainey and w. T. Gatliu,
of Atlanta The Hickory Electric Com
|pahy amends its charter. extending the
latter 30 years. and increasing its capt.
tai stock 10 $4,000.
In the Superior court here today, as
Isoon rs the session began. the case
]. Rowan Rogers and l. l..
lSorrell, was called, but was postponed
for Il few hours. The attorneys for
|iiogers and Sorrell ask that subpoenas
be ut once issued for the resident at
ltorneys for Kflgo and Duke. the de-
lIenuenats in the case Of Gattis against
iKilgo. these attorneys being Pou and
Fuller. Armistead Jone X Son, and
douglas & Simms. This ease arises
Ioat of the statement OF regular jurors
lin the Gattis against Kilgo ease hat
lone of them had been approached 10y
Rogers and asked TO do what lac could
Ifor Nilgo. Rogers has for some time
been the crier of the United States dis
ltrict court here.
The North Carolina colored Baptist
Estate convention is To meet at Durham
July 1917. W. Cartwright, OF Eden
ton is its president, and IL Is auxiliary
TO the National convention which II
1.-THE largest negro organization in the
world, having, it is stated. over three
million communicates, and which does
.o-l l.. 49,, ..,.s-. A,rf
Americ7i and Africa and which has its
Iown publishing house, nj Nashville,
Employing 40 persons, and printing all
Tits books, including Bibles. In North
ICarolina the church has 115,U0 COM
innuicants and Rev. l.. L. Christians Is
tits state missionary. He says the
| hurch is teaching the negroes The les
So nof self-reliance, an dto depend
upon themselves and not upon others.
Tie Johnson City Southern Railway,
(which the state has just chartered,
lwill be built aud operated 10y ten
ISouthern railway and will give h In
known rs II quick line TO the Tenncs-
isec coal fields. This means the build
ling of the DAD from Marion north
WESTWARD, work on which was stopped
la good many months ago by the fail
lure of the firm which had undertaken
Ito construct it.
y matter coming before the attorney
General is as TO the power of the board
Iof health Of Washington county, &c
make vaccination regulations for the
public schools. In Il letter to Or. Rich
lard l.. Lewis. secretary to the state
Hoard of health, the superintendent OF
Health at Washington county ays that
There was smallpox in one township
and that the board Of health ordered
compulsory vaccination in that town.
lship and i'm any others in which small
Ipox might occur; requiring that In
such cases teachers and pupils must be
Ivaccinated i'm order to attend school,
land that violations Of the regulations
would prevent any teacher from doing
duty. The movement was unpopular
land he school board showed Il hostile
latitude. DIR. Lewis referred the let
tier to the state superintendent of pub
llic instructions, who passed IL on to
I.I'n attorney general. The latter de-
lcides that the sanitary committee of
ANY county may a such regulations
land provisions for the vaccination of
its Inhabitants and make such ar
arrangements as IcUu security 10 TIE
public health, the public safety being
q ri"St law. and matters regarding
the public health being always consid-
cred Il held for the largest public
Ipower. The attorney general says he
lis clearly of opinion that the board Of
Health has ample power to order COM
vaccination in any township
Iwhere smallpox exists. This ruling
Ivi!l settle hat question not only in
Washington county but in any other
where it may arise.
J Yet another school question has been
upon by the attorney general.
this being whether a school committee
lwhOse term expires the first OF July
lean make Il contract with n teacher to
teach during July and August. The
attorney general says the statutes in
|express terms forbids n school com
Imittee rom employing n teacher whose
term Of employment extended beyond
the term OF Office of such committees.
State Entomologist franklin Sher-
man is preparing a special bulletin of
the agricultural department Oh the
pests which affect injuriously the cofn
Icrop. there being twelve of these of
marked importance and no end of 9TH
Iers Of minor importance.