The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-14
COUNTIES WORK
FOR GOOD ROADS
Organizations Formed in Various
Sections of State-Holly
Case Argued.
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Raleigh, y. C. December l3.-Dr. ,To-
seph Hyde Pratt, State geoiogist, and
secretary of the North Carolina Good
Roads Association, here to-day, says
the movement for the organization OF
county good roads associations to CO.
operate with the State association is
progressing finely, there being now or
sanized and actively at work, twenty
seven of these county conventions.
with arrangements made for the or
ganization OF many others in the near
future. AS an indication of tho
rapidity with which this work Is be-
ing advanced. Highway Engineer w.
L. Spoon is to-day in Randolph coun-
ty organizing an association He or
gSnized one in Castor county yester-
Nay, and will be in Rockingham to-
morrow for the organization of a
Richmond county association. On Fri
day he and DR.. Pratt will participate
in the organization of an association
in Mecklenburg county, also one in
Wadesboro. for Arson county, Friday.
Then, on December 80, there is to be
an association formed for Madison
county; January ., one for DupIin
county, and on January .. one for PEN
der county Other dates are being ask
ed for by counties yet unorganized,
and 1t looks as If 1t will be only short
while now before practically the whole
State will be covered by these county
associations, cooperating for the fur
therance of highway construction on
a systematic basis
The noted case of Timer Holly the
Guilford county negro. in which the
right of a trial Judge to impose as
! "a n f.,, lie,
ceny in case such as his, which Is
being resisted to remarkable degree
for a pauper case, was argued in tho
Supreme Court oday on appeal, after
figuring in habeas corpus proceeding
before Associate Justice Plat -
Walker, of the Supreme Court, last;
evening, in which the petition for the
Writ was denied. fiolly's case is one
In which he was charged in five counts
OF larceny, and other offonses In tho
round up of the trial, all the eases
except one went off the docket, and the
.rial Judge, in view OF the bad record
the prisoner had. imposed a sentence
Of five years, whereas the immediate
iase in which the sentence WAS im-
posed involved the larceny of goods to
the value of only $40, for which the
statute prescribes that the punishment
'IldlI lloL eNGtttl plc tai iIlllti HIS
served the one year and Is now serving
on the second year, stern & Stern and
4 lson & Swift are the counsel now
ragged in the fight, Which Is to test
tae right of trial Judge to extend
sentences, as 1t is charged to have
been done in this case. Attorney Cen
eral Beckett Is representing the state
in support OF the ive-year sentence
There are five other cases UP for an
Gument this week, the calendar beins
for the Sixteenth District. These cases
conclude the arguments for the term
and the court will take recess for the
Christmas holidays, and until the con-
vening of the spring term, in February
early next week.
L. c. Brogdon and ]. a. Bivins, OF
the State Department of Education
so tomorrow to Winston salem tc
take part iii a district convention OF
county superintendent of public
schools, in which twenty counties n
that section are expected to be repre-
sented The whole scope OF the work
OF superintendent in the direction OF
the work Of the public schools in the
counties comes in for discussion in
these conferences,