The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-04
THE PRESIDING
ELDERS MEET
Arrange for Special Missionary
Meetings in Every District in
the Conference.
LADY FALLS AND BREAKS ARM
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Movement Backed By Young
Mems Industrial Club for
Y. NJ. c. A. Building.
LADY FALLS AND BREAKS ARM
Especial to The Times DIspatch,

SSpecial TO The Tmes- Dispatch,
RALEIGH. N. c.. January al a
meeting of the presiding eldcrs Of ~.
North Carolina Conference held bora i.
was decided to push the work, of mis-.
sions, and with this end in view s,.-
cial missionary meetings will be hold i,
every district OF the conference wttnin
the next two months.
Mrs. Howell Cobb. wife Of tho ,ror,,-
etor OF the Marlborough Hotel. fell from
n shair while standing In 1t to sdiust 81
picture on the wall and broke her arm
ihere ~ also "a movement. backed By.
the Young Mems Industrial Club. for
the erection of modern Y NJ {, A.
building. no association to be formed
however, until the building is provided
as u homo for 1t. The past year ha.
been probably the most prosperous in
the history OF. Raleigh. Two new banks
the Wake County Savings Bank and thu
Raieigh Loan and Trust Company. have
been successful launched rho deposits
In all the banks have increased pbe-
nomenally. big life insurance COM
pany, the Atlantic, has been organized
with 100000 capital. There has been a
considerable extension OF the street rail-
way lines and great Improvement In
the car service. Glenwnod. Il splendid
suburban property northwest OF the city,
has been successfully opened MP and
provided with electric cars. sewerage,
lights. There has been big improve
ment In the train service In and out Of
ping is Increased several fold. an cspe-
ctally important factor In this connec-
ton being the shoo-fly train between
Raleigh and Weldon. Then there Is the
extension OF tho Raleigh and Southpof,
Roard TO Fayetteville. bringing trade
here from another new territory.
Treating the situatlon as TO the care
of the insane the report of the State
Board OF Charities. just presented to the
Governor, state that there were. No
vcmber goth. 2o2s patients I'm the three
State hospitals. and furthermore tina,
two-thirds OF the patients In the hos
pital al Raleigh and 81 per cent. of those
in tho hospital at Sforganton are chronic
thus crToking the Institutions with i'm
curabes instead of receiving patients in
the early stages of insanity, when cures
might be effected.
The report urges that the State should
care for all their insane. They find that
private hospitals charge from $500 TO
$1,000 for each patient. while in the
State hospitals the pay patients pay
OF these pay patients, If excluded from
the state hospital. would not be able to
meet the heavier cost In private hos
pitfalls. They find seventeen full pay
and fifteen part pay patients II, the
Morganton hospital and twelve in full
and three IN part ut the Raleigh hos
pita. No pay patients in the Colds
boro hospital
Treating the state penitentiary the re-
port says: For the fiscal year. closing
November Goth last, there were 600 con-
victs in the penitentary, 1870 being adj
mi,ted during the year. Six We're under
thirteen and forty-one under twenty-one
years old these being. the report states.
treated lust as the hardened criminals.
and receiving no special instructions
Tho receipts OF the prison We're shown
10 be for the year sl6o,96O, and the dis
burscments sl4s,717, leaving q balance
OF sl2,242. But OF the disbursements,
s45.74s was paid for North Carolina
bonds and the prison holds; sio4,6oo OF
these bonds. besides the sale of the
cotton and the peanut crops, were not
counted in these receipts.
The sale of postage stamps In the Ia
leigh postoflice yesterday aggregated
$780, the biggest sale in the history OF
the office on n single day