The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-20
GETS PERMISSION
TO INCREASE RATE
Lighting Company Will Give
Raleigh Much Better
Service.
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INSTRUCTION FOR FARMERS
Institutes Begin Tours. and Will
Cover State Thorough
ly.
INSTRUCTION FOR FARMERS
Especial to The rimes-pispatch.l

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Raleigh. N. c., July 1s.-After con-
sidering the matter for more than a
week, the Board of Aldermen has
voted to grant the Carolina Light and
Power Company. which controls the
electric light, power and street rail-
way business here, an increase Of SAYS
per lamp per year for the street lights
throughout the city in order that the
company may install an improved
magnetic light in the place Of the
rather antiquated and lower power
lights now in use. This increase Will
make the lights cost the city $50 each
The first commissions issued to
North Carolina National Guardsmen
under the new regulation, which pro-
videS for the examination OF men
elected to Offices in companies by
boards Of examiners established at
convenient points in the State, have
been given TO D. E. Penland. first
lieutenant, and H. Z. Johnson, as Sec
ond lieutenant, Company X. Asheville.
Two guardsmen elected to these posi-.
tons several weeks ago were exam
ined and failed to pass. A number OF
other commissions have been issued
by the Adjutant-General. including F.
NJ. Carlish, second lieutenant, Com
pany a. Second Infantry, Tarboro;
Armistead X. Tayloe, first lieutenant
and assistant surgeon, Washington:
w. H. Allen aide on the staff of Com
mander Il. C. Daniels, Naval Reserves.
New Bern: w. r Hampton, lieutenant
Fourth Division Naval Reserves. Ply,
mouth, also ]. s. Norman. lieutenant
junior grade. Plymouth Division.
Crops Impaired.
That the crop conditions in Wake.
Nash, Franklin and IIdgecombe coun.
| ties are very much impaired by the
continued rains is the report made by
Ben Moore an observant travelling
man who has just completed bust.
ness trip through large sections OF
each of these counties. He thinks
that the yields of cotton, corn and to-
bacco especially, are deterIorating I'M
der the present adverse conditions.
Farmers Institutes.
With the starting Of the central
party at Carthage and the Western
party at Hendersonville to-day, all
/ five of the farmers institute parties,
which will go into every section OF
North Carolina during the summer and
fall are in the field with reports
| from all OF them of unprecedented at
tendance and Interest All phases of
farming and farm interests are betnS
demonstrated and exploited by some
of the best informed agriculturalists
in the State. Then, too, there are wo-
men pre-eminently equipped for hold,
ing institutes for farmers wives and
daughters and giving instruction IN
domestic science and an endless va
riety of household matters that bear
especially on farm life Women tak'
ing part in these institutes for the wo-
men are Mrs. #. L. Stevens, MRS. w
N, HUT, Miss Minnie Jamison, Mrs
y Hollowell. Goldshoro: Miss Lille Jam
ison. Durham: Miss Josephine RHINE
hart Prominent men taking part ~
the regular institutes are DR., Roberts
State Veterinarian, Mr.. Rlackford, o.
Ohio. tobacco specialist; Frank PARK
err, Or. r. l.. Stevens, ]. L. burgess
state Agronomist DR. Chrisman stat
Veterinarian; s. q, Shaw, ass'stan
horticulturist; Prof, Newman, of I'M
Aehair ac assrtai,sanra, A s. NJ cnllasA