The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-12
five HUNDRED
FARMERS / 1 /: meet
Splendid Success Of the State
Farmers Convention, liz
Session at Raleigh. #
Will ASK STATE SUPPORT.
THE First Train Over the Raleigh
and Southport Road Reaches
5. Fayetteville.
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% RALi11Gt !. NJ e, July 1.-THE Ear
,ners Convention here, which convened
4 yesterday for n (, tliree.days, session. 10
e. proving eminently 9Auccessful .5g There nre
i moro than nvg hundred farmers In ut
tcndunce!s the majority or them milking
their headquarters at the college bar
racks Technicg1 gfarln topics arc being
A considered, tobnGS gro wcrs, cotton splnnt-
crs, dairy farnefssand others having SEES
sioiis separate for the consideration OF
Il these special topics Then. at intervals.
y there are Joint sessions when addresses
are heard. Secretary OF State y. Bryan
Grimes delivered an address, on Ten
Years, Progress IN Agriculture." Or. u.
u b. Wilcox, OF tho United States Depart
,ncnt OF Agriculture, spoke on 55'' Mule
Raising state Vetcrlnarinnsl1nit Butler
on tho illumination OF the Gait 1,tek z :
Z and Mr.. Ed. II. Webster. Of TN. 1jnitaa
* States Department, on 'Dairyihs 4, !
AZ The convention will elect officers to-
morrow and there will DO q big barbecue
aud brunswick stew ns Il closing fea-
8ture Of the convention a resolution has
n been passed. calling on tho next Legisla-
ture to appropriate &l0OO for defrnylng
tho expense OF these annual conventions
or the farmers n e tile college. Also q
eaolVtlon#urglng the necessity OF nppro-
UElitlDUH ny hbC
States for road-huilding. iis53,
Governor Glenn went to AfcCuller's sta
tion on the Rnleigli2 ana Southport Road,
this morning. TO deliver nm address at
big Christian Sunday school picnic
3 held there. He returned TO the city. and
4 at g. o. clock went 4 to Smlthficld where
Il he delivers a Masonic address Z to-mor-
row. Friday. he will 80 to Atiantic City
X to spend Il few} days with Mrs. Glenn.
2, ~ hero
a Mr.. o. IS Thompson to-da y entered OF,
/; the duties Of ties clerkship to tho Cor
poration Commission, to which he was
4 appointed soma days ago to succeed u.
c. Jones, OF Tranklin, resigned. Mr..
I'll Jones hna opened Law Office at Frank
5 lin 81 N ~ a g5Sa&5s al II $g5
rho Wilkesboro- Jefferson Turnpike
Company. principal ONCE At North n
n NYilkesboro, files a ertificate with the
Secretary OF Z State. Increasing tho api-
tai from $4,000 10 Si25, 600. J. IL Finley
! ID president. Tho company Is building q
4 turnpike between Wilkesboro and Jeffer-
4 son.. the state being IN largo stockholder
f on the strength OF convict labor FUR
q TiSl1ed. 5 s 4SI5 h 4 M
aiis The Southern Star Wood Filler Com
4 pany. OF Greensboro, Is char tered, with
\ 5000 capital .Sa by5 II. HI Emmons. r. 3.
4 Sans and a. p. Grace ;sS VI s$s5
" ~ a telegram was received hero to-day
y from Fayetteville. to the effect. that the
\ first freight and passenger trains from
Il Raleigh over the Raleigh and southport
Road rolled into that historic old tow,
IS this afternoon and will be opern ted now
regularly. Through trnf flc@ a rra Eeneiitt
u With the atlantic Coast Line that rond
will now do freight and paaicnger bus
airess with Raleigh through the Raleigh
and Southport connection. i.3s9. sf
Governor Glenn issued a commission
this evening to 3. w. Edwards. OF sno "
Hill. as director Of the state Hospssai
for Insane at Goldsboro. to- I'LL Eout the
unexpired term Of the late Dr. r. Porter.
OF Rocky Point. So,
s5s8 Mr.. z. \ 8. Lathrop Is here from NJ
mtngton TO open a branch Office OF F. F..
4 Hatcher &: Co., OF Norfolk, i general brok-
erage and distributing business.