The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-12-08
RALEIGH news

1 his oXDfanaClOu VI LIS dSL1OA anu
UT in procuring the continuance of
n' ooSo wednesday through showing
T,1dge Connor and other court Of.
rc what appeared to be q tele-
H. W., to him from Smithfield telling
&c that his wife was very i'll and that
hilL INST come home at once when in
10 eo.+ioation made after Mr.. Abel had
va for his Johnson county home show
lC that there had been no telegram
" uooived here for him. Mr.. James HI.
I pom was present as counsel for him
ID explained to Judge Conner what
10 message from Mr.. AbelIs home
anne over the telephone and not the
es'IIooranh line. Furthermore, that
soon as he was told over the tele-
- Bone by his daughter that Mrs. Abel
pos 90 ill he determined to go at once,
MD wrote a telegram to Smithfield
sor hack to meet him. Then, us
mo the same telegraph blank the
most convenient paper at hand. he
roduced to writing the message he had
roceiyed over the telephone. He in
sicts that only the great anxiety he
Tas under over news from home caus-
al him to fail to explain to the judge
that the message was not telegram
Then he handed it to him.
With this explanation of the matter
Judge Connor ordered the dismissal
If the rule against Mr.. Abel to show
cause as to contempt and explained
that when the message was handed
n him. Wednesday, he had not other
idea than that Mr.. Abel presented it
AZ a telegram just received. Then,
ALLOWING a statement by District At
torney SeaWell that he understood
that Mr.. Abel or his friends were
Naming his as acting through malice
or some such thing in the case and
that there was no such actuation,
Judge Conner declared that no such
thing should be imputed to the dis
trict attorney, but that this conduct in
the Premises had been commendable
in every way.
The interesting sessions was held
today by the North Carolina Primary
Teachers Association in addition to
visits by the two hundred and more
teachers here to some of the princi-
pal city schools during the early morn
ing. At the morning session there
was an address by Mrs. T. Edgar
Johnson, of Salisbury. on Adaptation
Of Course of Study to the individual
Child" At the afternoon session Miss
Pannill addressed the association on
"The Educational Value of Play" and
Miss McAllister, of Greensboro dis
cussed "Play as a Factor in the
School," ALSO there was a demon
stration in health supervision by Al
len ]. Barwick, chief clerk of the state
superintendent of public instruction.
At the night session DR.. II. NICK Tuck
.sr, of Raleigh discussed 'The Human
Brain at Birth and in. Martututy."
There was also talk of special inter-
est by Miss Noteworthy, of New York
on "Child Study and Athe Culture The,
ory." The Association will elect Of
ficers and adjour to morrow.
The secretary of the state charter
ed two corporations today. The Ivey
Whole sale Millinery Co. Charlotte,
capital $125,000 authorized and $10,-
900 subscribed more especially for pa
per box making. And The Galloway
Dairy Co., MeckIenburg county seven
miles from Charlotte, capital $4,000
by 4. H. Haddon and others.
Rev. H. NJ. White. father of Rev. w.
McC White, pastor of the First Pres
byterion church of this city, died at
his home in Winchester, Va, yester-
day aged II years, he had been i'll
OF pneumonia several weeks and his
son had been with him week or lon
ger.
The Federal courst has a hung jury
in the Chas. Howard case in which
the defendant, a procurement farmer of
this county is accused of blockade dis
filling. The case was given to the
Jury last evening and it is still out.
There is a second case against the
same defendant awaiting trial. Judge
Connor today sentenced Essie Greg
DRY, woman, to two years in the At
Ianta prison for breaking into the post
Office at Stovall.
The State Board of Education was
Ii session from II a. m. to z p. M, to-
gay considering the Mattamuskeet
Lake drainage proposition in Hyde
county IN which the state is the lar
geSt holder of loke bottom and swamp
involved. Following adjournment the
following official statement was is
sued.
The Roper Lumber Company ap-
pealed from the first order of the
court establishing the drainage dis
Lict and finally agreed that it would
TlCndraW it's appeal upon condition
tnat the plans, surveys and estimates
Oe submitted to and approved by an
uuluonal expert. This stops progress
10. the execution of the plans of the
drainage of the lake until after the
report of such expert. It had been
earnestly hoped that the whole mat
ter could be closed today as Deem
Uer l. was the time fixed for the ptlr-
toSe. 1t would have been closed but
NJ Cne appeal by the Roper Lumber
~? j.: 0. Wright, the expert of the
OOnlCed States Drainage Bureau of the
Department of Agriculture, was pre-
oslt and says the plans adopted are
0uGlrelV Oro oTI oaaAnd.