Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-07-20
HAVE MEDUcATioNAL RALLY
Account Of interesting Exerelses-
Speeches, Bounteous Dinner, Chill.
dren and Flags. :.

Ol the mOSL no
liable educational rallies ever held il
this education centered county, wal
at Surnmerfield. Under directions Of
their two teachers the $50 children
of the district school, marched witt
hags and banners from the picnic
grounds, half mile to the new schoo,
building, now nearing completion, and
entered, singing happy songs, the
large auditorium on the second floor
in which had assembled 800 of the
best men and women of the village
and community. Seated on the rost
rum were the following school off.
Gals OF the county and township:
Superintendent Thomas r. Foust:
County Board of Education, Dr.. w
t. Whitsett, Charles H. Ireland, John
Kenneth, and the three district trus.
tees, T. B. Doggett, John B. Smith
and John CaHey. Besides these,
County Superintendent of Health, DR..
Ross and County Commissioners OF
Agriculture, Mr.. Mcintyre, and Rev.
Charles Goode, pastor of Summer
field church, were there.
Brief speeches we're made by each.
the remarks of Mr.. Ireland and Mr..
Cafey being especially the cause of
much applause and enthusiasm. Col.
). A. Haskins, and other prominent
citizens in the audience were called
on and made suitable responses, all
except MI. Charley Wilson, who ex
pia1ned later that he was a little
deaf n did not hear the call.
After the speeches, adjournment
was had to the grove where a boun-
teous dinner al served by the ladies
of the community. For many years
the cause had languished, but
last year. a special tax was voted in
the district and now there is nearly
completed a handsome seven-room
building, capable of accommodating
300 pupils, with large auditorium IA
~cilities.
Adjoining the school is a plot OF
three acres of land. The people are
now not>satisfed at this forward step.
but are going after the new County
State High School that ,Guilford is
entitled to this year, making four in
the county, the other three being at
Jamestown, Monticello and Pleasant
Garden. It is understood that Gull
ford College and Gibsonville are CON
testing the location of the high school
with Summerfield. Summerfeld is
going after it right. With their brand
new $4,000 school building and it's
three-acre plot, another seven acres
adjoining is promised by Col. Hoskins,
making the ten acres necessary for
the State Farm Life School and the
County High School both.
Two North Carolina Charters Filed.
At the office Of Secretary of State
J. Bryan Grimes there were filed n
new North Carolina charter, and one
foreign corporation charter, by which
last District of Columbia corporation
has become domesticated in this state.
The list fellows:
Carolina Paper Box Co., of Winston
Salem; amendment of charter. Au-
thorized capital now $50, 1000; sub
scribed $4,000.
Pamlico Cotton OIL and Warehouse
Company, of Oriental, Pamlico
ty. Authorized capital, $4,000; sub
scSibed, $1,000. Incorporators: O. G..
Daniels, of Oriental; J. T. Dawson, of
Alliance; J. T. Sawyer, of Merritt; J..
j. 7. Dixon, of Alliance; A. L. Mid
yeti, of Oriental; Claude Haskins, w.
B. Num-, of Arapahoe.
One foreign corporation vas do
mesticated in North Carolina by the
filing of certified copy of charter with
the Secretary of state, as follows:
The w. O. Gottwals Co., of Wash
lngton, d. c.; manufacturers of office
fixtures and equipment, furniture, etc.
Authorized capital, $4,000. Incorpo-
Thomas H. Melton and Fred.
B. Rhodes, of Washington, D. c., and
w. 0. Gottwals, of Greensboro, N. c..
Fever is Under Complete Control.
DIR. w. S. Rankin, secretary of the
state Board Of Health, and DR.. Chas.
=. Nesbitt, city superintendent of
health, have issued the gratifying
that fever in Wilmington
is not only under absolute control.
but that the disease is now on the
wane and has been slice the middle
OF June, nearly a month ago. Men
ton has been made of the false re-
ports circulated throughout the South.
Railroad May Build Into RaIeiqh.
The Atlantic Coast Line bridge
over the Roanoke river at Weldon is
nearly completed and it is expected
trains will be run over it by the
of August. It has been we'll
Known that the Atlantic Coast Line has
had a contract with the Seaboard Air
Line to use it's bridge over the Roa-
noke river and whenever~an attempt
has been made to get the Atlantic
Coast Line to build into Raleigh the
has been made that as
long as it used The Seaboard's bridge
It would never huild here.
Is Granted Thirty More Dave