The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-11
FOR PROHIBITION OR D|sl l'EhsARY
Question of an Election NOT Yet
Settled
Local Tax School Districts-Delegat y
Appointed-Annual Meeting =. C
Historical Society-Shyster Law
yers and Claims Against Railroads
For Good Roads.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. y. c., October 3.


the continuance Of the movement for
local tax school districts and remark
ed today that requests for these were
coming in numerOusly from wake
Urban, Franklin, and other counties
| in this section. Speaking about nDra-
ries for the rural schools he said that
applications continued to be received
daily. Three libraries were granted
tday for Mecklenburg and two for An
son.
The corporation commissioners. who
are attending the annual convention Oh
railway commissioners at Wasnlngtcn'
are expected to return Saturday. U.s.
ually at the close of these conventions
! the railways give a special trip To
the commissioners to some point or
! interest, but this year there will be no
such tour
| The Rich Fork Telephone Company
of Davidson county, gets charter, the
capital stock being $1,000.
A charter is also granted the Bad
Debt Collection Agency of Statesville,
capital stock $4,000. Frank A. Hamp-
ton and others stockholders. The com
pany is given the right to change its
headquarters to Charlotte.
! AS yet it has not been settled wheth-
| er an election on the question OF pro-
hibition or dispensary will be held here
this year or not At one time it SEEM
ed certain but there has been some
trouble about the names on the pe1i-
tions The committee Of the board
of aldermen tells the prohibition COM
mittee of which Rev. Sylvester Belts
is the chairman, and Jack Miller tee
secretary, that it Will at once examine
the petition and file an early decision
as to what course it will pursue.
Grand Secretary Woodell Of the Ode
Fellows, reports new lodges at Sller
City and Whittier.
The physician attending Secretay I.
TX Bruner of the board Of agriculture,
today said his condition was improved
It was found that Mr.. Bruner had been
sick since early in last June and that
he had two attacks while in Europe,
but continued in his active work there.
: Willie P. Mangum Turner, who for
| several months has been editor OF the
: Raleigh Evening Times, will locate
at Lexington for the practice OF law
+ and expects to leave here for that
t place next Saturday.
2 Governor Glenn appoints the follow
ing delegates from this state to the
conference between representatives OF
= textile industries and organized labor
Dor, which is to be held at washington
October 14th: Caesar Cone, B. F. Me-
: bane, J. L. Scott, Jr., and S. B. Tan
d ner.
The annual meeting of the North
" Carolina Historical Society will be
e held here next Wednesday afternoon
: and evening at the Raney library as
. sembly rooms. Alfred M. Scales Is
4 lpresident, and Clarence H. Poe the Sec
f retary.
r Among today's visitors here was At
y torney Frank S. Spruill of the Atlantic
O Coast Line, on his way home from
Y Rocky Mount, where he investigated
the fatal railway collision early Sun
4 day morning which cost the lives o
l. an engineer and his fireman at Soutt
p Rocky Mount The yard or switch ell
9 gine was pushing a long line OF Goa
n cars out and when il reached ID
5 switch on the lead track it was toun
% that the switch light was out. I'M
~ fact ought have itself to have cause
Iu the engineer to have stopped and sc
t ont a warning signal, this under nc
: only the rules of the road, but unde
the decisions of the supreme court.
n Attorney Spruiu talked most intel
x estingly about the practice of numoe
60 of shyster lawyers have in the matte
1g of claims against railways. There al
n certain ones Of this gentry in TarlCt
;, towns in the state who make II the
is daily custom to go from merchant
merchant to ask if freight is oVerd'
n or lost. in order that they may Drlr
penalty suits. etc These men run
once to the relatives OF any persC
killed, or to any injured persons
ds order to get fees contingent upon &
G. recovery of damages. Attorney Spru
lii illustrates the case very we'll by an @
Of currence in which he figured qu'
n recently In one case man was Kill
ch and he settled with the widow, payi
~ her s1,7O0. Another man was Kill
Y, and in this case the Administrative 6
Is, lawyer The latter did not fve m
Htes work, all OF it having been DC
at by the railway attorney, the law!
he wanted the check made TO his orr
Il. and this was refused and it was dra
US to the order OF the administratl
nd When it came In the lawyer had
power OF the attorney fixed on 1t