The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-19
CROPCONDITI0NS
SATISFY FARMERS : ! /
Rapid Improvement Reported
and Banner Yield of Corn
Expected.
TO ISSUE HEALTH BULLETINS.
Valuable Historical Correspon-
dence Entrusted to
State.
Valuable
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Raleigh N. e.. August 1s.-Director
T. B. Parker. in charge of the North
Carolina Farmers Institute work, Is
Just in from the series OF 1875 or more
institutes held during the past six
weeks in the middle and western Sec
tions OF the State. He says that he
found crops improving rapidly through
out the territory he traversed. with the
corn crop tho best in the history Of the
State. Cotton he found to be somewhat
late. but developing rapidly. The fruit
crop is much better in the west than
was at first thought 1t would be. Farm
ers he found to be In most hopeful
mood and farm life conditions are Inn
proving with really marvellous rapidly
In farming methods, home surround
ings and equipment. The next event
in institute work Is the State Farmers
Convention. to be in session at the
Agricultural and Mechanical College
hero September 80. Thereafter there
will be number OF county Institutes
in the eastern counties
State Superintendent OF Public In
struction J. Y. Joyner Is Just now
pressing the work on couple OF bull
letins to be issued by the department
that Will be designated Health Talks"
They are designed for use by the pub
lie school teachers in the schools In
making plain. practical talks on veri-
Gus health topics. The topics will be
arranged in the bulletins to furnish
material for talks OF from Ave to ten
minutes each on diseases and their pre-
vention. The bulletins are being pre-
pared subject to the approval OF the
State Board OF Health, so that they
will be professionally and scientifically
correct. as we'll as especially fitted for
the uses OF the practical teacher.
AT Elizabethtown Friday, state Su.
perintendent OF Public Instruction ].
Y. Joyner will deliver an address In
connection with q big educational rally
that promises to attract an immense
crowd from throughout that section.
The teachers institute FOR the county
is In session there. and the rally will
mark its close.
Loan to state Society.
Major z. j. Hale, the editor OF the
Fayetteville Observer. has entrusted to
the North Carolina Historical Commits
sion, through Secretary r. D. W. Con-
nor, OF the commission. all the valuable
collection of correspondence and man
uscripts left by his distinguished father.
E. j. Hale, who was for years and
years editor OF the Fayetteville Observ-
err before the Civil War. These papers
have been through four fires In their
time. and many OF them are badly dam
aged by Are and water. The elder
Hale was CONFIDENTIAL adviser and
spokesman for Governor Vance while he
n IT, los ,cE
with public affairs, both In the State
and the country at large. for half q
century and longer. In this collection
OF letters there are 396 that bear Inn
portantly on the history OF the State
and the Union. as written OF by some
OF the most eminent men. including ten
Observation-Disclosures Manly. Holden
Graham, Ellis, Fowle. Caldwell. Swain
Vance and Worth; also by Judge Ruff
I'm, Judge Ashe. Judge Pearson and a
great number of others. This is the
eleventh collection OF private paper:
that the commission has succeeded In
inducing the owners to entrust to Its
keeping, much to the enrichment OF the
historical archives of the State.
Charters by State.
Two new corporations for Coleridge
N. c.. were chartered to-day-the Cole.
ridge Manufacturing Company, cap
ital $500. for making bent chair stock
and other furniture materials, and the
lEColeridge Telephone Company, capita
$4,000, for general telephone business
]. NJ. Caveness Is the principal stock.
holder In both corporations.
charter was issued to-day for tho
Roanoke-Chowan Telephone Company
OF Woodland. Northampton county
with $4,000 capital for establishing
telephone lines in Northampton. Hert
ford, Chowan and BERTHE and othe;
counties. including communicating
lines for Woodland, Jackson. Lasker
Rich Square. Conway. Severn, MUIR.
freeshoro, st. Johns. Ahiski, winton
Menola, Rosabel. Kelford. Lewiston
Aulander. Windsor.
Another charter is to the Philadel
phia Amusement Company, Salisbury
capital $4,000. by NJ. L. Jackson ant
others. for theatrical purposes.
Commissions were issued to-day tt
M. N. Sawyer, Elizabeth City: w. *
Jacobson, Washing ton. and L. n. Cut
Ter, Newbern. as commissioners from
this State to the Atlantic Deeper Wa
terways Convention to be In session II
Providence, r. T.. August 81 to Sep,
TENDER g.
Colonel r. Il LeinsterSts back from
Hartford. where he mustered in tn.
new division OF naval reserves jus
formed there. with w. B. Hudson a!
lieutenant. and John G. Nichols a:
lieutenant. Junior grad. He says tn,
division starts out most auspiciously
with the heartiest sort OF support OF
the part OF the town and tho count,
authorities, both OF which make. an
nual appropriations toward the sup
port of the division.