The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-24
.SUNDAY-SCHOOLS
GROWING RAP IDLY
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Baptists Show Increase Of 10000
Members in Five
Years.
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PREPARING FOR ASSEMBLY
Noted Workers and Speakers
Will Be Present at Wake
Forest.
PREPARING FOR ASSEMBLY
.,a,,s, r. The Times Dispatch.

rspecial to The Times Dispatch.l
Raleigh, n. c.. July ga fine re.
BORT of the progress OF the Baptist
sunday school work in North Carolina
is told by Secretary j.. L. Middleton,
of the North Carolina Sunday School
Association. He says there has been
an increase of $4,000 members In the
Baptist Sunday Schools of the State
during the past five years. The nuns
her OF schools has increased over AZ
per cent, and there are over 10 per
cent more Of the rural schools now
running the year round than was the
case five years ago. Eighty now
schools have been organized within
the past three months. He is Just
now stirring up interest in the North
Carolina Baptist Sunday School AS
sembly that Is to open at Wake Forest
College August S for four days ses-
sion, during which there will be lee
5. lures by number of the most noted
Baptist Sunday School workers in and
out of the State. He says the indi-
cations are for an attendance that will
tax the capacity of the college build.
ings and the hospitality of the town.
To Change Standard.
! On July IS there Is to be meeting
OF the oil committee Of the State Boart
Of Agriculture. to which Is delegated
/ by the board the power OF fixing tn,
standard of test to which illuminating
oils must conform under the operation
OF the state illuminating oil inspectiK
act. The purpose is to change TIN
standard of test SO that there will re
main res!dium Of only s per cent
undistilled when the oil is subjected t,
800 degrees centigrade temperature.
There is afoot a movement amon
] the officers OF the North Carolina Ma
tional Guard to form social club tina
will have 10 do especially with tn
maintenance of club house at Cam
Glenn, Morehead, where the annua
lregimental encampments are held.
|. is understood that the movement ha
: so far advanced that the erection of
! suitable and very convenient clu
Q house will be completed before TIL
n 1911 encampments. The location
which is said to be especially desira
:, bic, has already been agreed upon.
- Given Up by Dondsmen.
e The citizens of Apex. a prosperou
$. town of this county, have made it s
disagreeable for the bondsmen of "
r. H. Roundsville there that they hav
~ delivered Roundsville over TO tn
ie United States Commissioner Nichol
", and the latter has committed him I
n Jail to await the next term of tf
n Federal court. Roundsville Is tt
ip Apex merchant who is charged wit
e. writing slanderous letters to nun
= Der of the best neople-men and WI
: men--of the community. The pros
le cutlon claims to have evidence in II
n way of the identification of handwri
n ing that assures the conviction
', Roundsville. He has retained Q:
a. d, Governor Aycock for the defense. T
- - Is said to be worth $4,000 or NOR
al He had arranged his bond by pledgir
r his own property to the bondsme
III Now no one can be found to pose
,e bondsman even with the property
n. the defendant to protect him.
~ In discussing the situation as to 7
closing of the Peoples Bank OF Cha