The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-29
MANY ROAD BILLS
WILL Be OFFERED
Legislature Will Devote Much
Attention to Subject of
Improved Highways.
FAIR DIRECTORS TO MEET
Argument Begins in Suit Against
the Standard Oil
Company.

Raleigh, ". c., December SD. a.
Mcdonald. member of the House in the
approaching Legislature, has prepared
general road bill that he is to press
for enactment into law. 1t provides
for a half million State bond issue for
road building, the fund to be applied
to building roads from each county
seat to the county line In the most
direct route possible, the State road
engineer to have hand in the local
ing of the roads In each county. The
indications are that there will be a
great variety OF general road law bills
offered. the one TO command most at
tention, probably. to come from the
North Carolina Good Roads Assocla-
ton, whose officers are preparing to
submit through DR.. Joseph Hyde Pratt
a bill that Will best advance the road
Improvement work for the state.
The directors of the North Carolina
state Fair are to meet here January 3
to round up the affairs for the year
Just closing, and to determine upon the
policies and permanent improvement
expenditures for the coming year, to
take care OF the 1911 State fair. The
expectation is that one or more add
tional concrete buildings will be erect
ed this year, carrying out the policy
of permanent improvement. of which
the splendid agricultural building
erected last year was the starter. 1t
is understood that the report Of secre-
tary Pogue will show very good fnan-
cial success for the 1910 fair, in spite
OF the rain that came In for Thursday
and Friday
The Hardwood Log and Lumber Com
pany, Durham. was chartered to-day
with 100000 capital, by l.. James and
others, for general lumber and build
ing material business. Other charters
were to the Locus Club Company, of
Locus. Stanly county; capital. $1,000;
for social purposes; The Bland Farm
ing Company. near Vanceboro; capital,
$4,000. by j L. Bland and others.
Counsel began argument to-day In
the noted case in which the Standard
Oil Company is being prosecuted by
City Attorney Walter Clark and Attor
ney-General T. w. Beckett for violation
of the North Carolina anti-trust law
by cutting prices for oil to an abnor
mally low scale, in order to drive oul
competition, so that higher prices may
be maintained thereafter. The argu.
ments for the trust are being made by
James H Pou. j. \. Holding and w. b
Snow. Prices of oil in Raleigh are now
alleged 10 be below the cost of produc
ton, and IL is charged that the stand
ard is supplying the higher grades OF
oil at the lowest prices, as an addi-
tional handicap for legitimate competi-
ton. On the other hand, the Standard
claims to have shown that prices OF
oil are still too high In Raleigh. as
with Richmond. Norfolk and
Baltimore prices. and that the cuts
that have been made are only in line
with the decreases that have been
made in other parts of the country,
and that higher rates in some neigh
boring North Carolina towns are due
TO additional cost of delivery
that are really satisfactory to the
dealers in those towns They claim
TO have shown this by the States own
Secretary of state j. Bryan Grimes
has reappointed E. B. Norvill, of Cher
okee county, as enrolling clerk for the
session of the General AS
sembly. He has served as enrolling
clerk now for number of sessions,
and his experience and efficiency have
come to be regarded as almost indis-
2ensa BILE. The work of the enrolling
department. has been under the imme-
iiate supervision of the Secretary Of
State since 1901, and this change has
developed quite a saving for the State, |
Il is said, in addition to bringing about
a system that has brought the work of
The department to high degree of ac-
,uracy. In economy the State is said
TO be getting the bills enrolled in dupli- |
cate and with much greater accuracy
and more accessible volumes than ever |
before