The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-07-31
Meeting of North Carolina Policy
Holders Called.
Warned Not to Surrender or Abandon
Their Policie--More About Terri
bic Railroad Wreck Near Hamlet
Dr. Walter \. Montgomery Elected
To the Latin Profe~-orship in VII
liam and Mary College. va--Char-
ter Granted
Messenger Bureau.
Raeligh. -. c. Julv -

A1'eH. ~ l., Win an authorized cap
ital stock OF sloo 600. OF which amount
slo,loo IS paid in. The incorpo-ators
are ". E. Stubbs and W. L. Oden ~
Belhaven and A d MacLean OF Wash
ington. y. {. The Clay Printing Com
pany, Hickory. \. c. with 8. .op0 sub
soribed by J W and J. NJ. CLAY. ]. 4
Martin. and E. Lyerly, authorized SIS
Voo. The company will do Il general
book bindery and printing business
and stationary.
Hlgh Point announces itself again
through the Southern Live Stock In
surance Company. more especially for
the insurance Of horses and mules. The
total authorized capital stock is $3.50
900 and OF this amount $50 900 is sub
scrlbed by +. VI. and " +. Armtield
r. I. Boyles. Editor j. J. Farriss and
others.
State Auditor B. F. Dixon spent to-
day at HillsborO where be delivered
an educational address. DR.. Dixon has
a record outside the auditors office
by his earnest and direct work among
the schools of the state.
DR.. Walter A Montgomery. a grad
uate OF John Hopkins University and a
son OF ex-Justice Montgomery of Ra-
leigh, has been elected to the Latin
professorship in William and Mary
college, Williamsburg. Va Dr. Mont
gomery at present il professor in
Sewanee Grammar school, having also
held the chair of Latin at the Cniver-
sity Of Arkansas and been an instruc-
tor of Greek in the University of Mis-
sissippi
II IS only a matter Of a few weeks
until the new atheletic park of the A.
q NJ. college will be enclosed. A field
for bail playing, football. tennis and
other games will be included in the
arrangement as we'll as finely or
dered quarter mile cinder track.
Hon. J. R. Young insurance COM
missioner of the state has just issued
the following call to the North Car
olina policy holders of the Mutual
Life Insurance Co, and the New York
Life Insurance Co.
AT the request Of policy holders. |
have decided to call, and do hereby
call, conference of the policy holders
residing in North Carolina of these
two insurance companies to meet in
the city of Raleigh. n. c., on Wednes-
day, the 18th, of September, 1906. at a
place to be hereafter designated. for
the purpose of considering plan OF
action to be followed in the ensuing
election of directors of those two COM
DanieS the said election TO be held in
New York December IS. in accordance
with the laws of New York recently
adopted. | take this occasion to ad
wise all persons holding policies IN
these companies first not To abandon
or surrender their policies and second
not to give proxies TO any person or
committee until after the conference in
Raleigh shall have taken place. II II
be possible for North Carolina policy
holders TO unite and cast theiE votes
solidly it will be much more effective
than if the votes are scattered among
various candidates. | further suggest
that at such conference the prOpriety
of selecting committees to represent
the North Carolina policy holders At
those elections be considered. and that
the proxies of those who cannot attend
in person be given to our own COM
mittse." ~
MS call 0I Commissioner i''AN
will closely touch the personal interest
Of many Of the people Of the state. 1t
was found in the filed statements of
the two companies. whose affairs are
thus TO be considered by the policy
holders within the state that the fol-
lowing figures apply 20 their specinc
business at the close OF the year ending
December 81. 1905, for the Mutual Life
Insurance Co. New FORK, policies
1877. amound Of insurance in force,
s15107.114. New York Life Co. poll
cies 6.051, amount OF insurance in
force S11.111. 49l.
The CORPORATION commission returned
this afternoon on a belatet train from
the scene of the terrible wreck near
Hamlet. There was possible no state
ment from the commission until an eX-
ecutive session was held TUESDAY al
,ernnn. While the commissioners
were silent on many points asked BY
the correspondent Of the Messenger
there have cone from outside sources
much that seems to be Of character
more distinctive than mere talk Just
what the burden was in regard to the
matter with the Raleigh Offices, IL Is
nearly prustrared BY the continuous
handling of the gruesome details from
the scene of death and disaster as they
came over the wires. He vas COM
pelled by his indisposition 70 lie down
to avoid fainting and when he left with
the members Of the commission ms
coalition nervously was the subject of
some comment. Many people have
come 10 Raleigh who seem inclined 10
believe that no miracle could have In
tervened 10 have saved from death the
great number Of passengers IN one of
the coaches which was the temporaT:
habitat Of negroes on cheap IMP
Much talk hAs been occasioned oT the
work as il was conducted BY the IN
tertakers about the scene Mr.. fao
Brown the Raleigh urdertaser and EN-
balmer went TO the wreck acting On
orders from superintendent jerks OF
the Seaboard road, and was questioned
hsr hv the local under