The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-26

- tAe1 -1e1IioIy Nnlc0 voices the
universal sentiment OF our people.
Nnere2s, bayld Scnenck and
Joseph II. Morenead, as presidents or
the GuIItord Court House BalI4e
Ground Association. gave largely ana
ctNotediy OF tHeIc tune ana means
70 the preservation OF the Gulltoru
court house BaIt4e Ground, and rem
aered distinguished service 10 the
state ana NalIon py arreSJug the at
lenuon OF n IXlng Il upon
tae nerolc OeeQS OF the American pa
trlotS upon mat historic scene OF con
met between the American revolu-
tlonary ana british forces; anu
whereas the untrIng efforts OF the
said baViC Scnenck ana Joseph ri.
M~orehead MADE possible the Iulnli-
ment Of the wishes cherished by
many. that at GullIord Court House
Battle Ground their children anu
their chlldren's children mig
throughout al! time read in bronze
n marble the deeds Of Valor ana
~self-sacrllce OF their ancestors ano
tread the soil made sacred by the
blood OF martyrs TO the cause of free
dOm; whereas said services merit pup
lie recognition mo an expression OF
the appreciation Of a grateful peo-
pie: now, therefore. be it
RESOLVED by the Serate, the House
concurring:
First, That the State of North
Carolina, through its General AS
sembiy, give public Acknowledgements
or its dept OF gratitude for the serV-
ices Of these distinguished dead"
AicIver Statue.
The most Observation-Disclosures
leader in the history OF North Caro-
lima was the late Charles D.. Me
Iver.
During The year The committee in
charge OF the fund for erecting q
statue Of DR.. McIver, placed its order
with Mr.. f. w. Ruckstuhl, and the
statue will be unveiled some time in
the early part Of the year 1912.
Emma Hearne Switzerland Tablet.
A weIl-deserved tribute was paid
to the work of a faithful teacher
when a tablet was unveiled III the
auditorium of the Mount Olive graded
school, March, 1911, to the memory
Of Mrs. Emma Hearne Switzerland
The tablet was erected by the Tween
tieth Century Club of that town
which Mrs. Switzerland organized.
The inscription is:
In MemOriam
emma Hearne Switzerland
Erected by
The Twentieth Century Il
1911
Portrait of Augustus Leazar.
on May so, 1911, in the auditorium
OF Pullen Hall, at the North Care
lima College Of Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts, the Leazar Literary So
ciety presented to the college a por-
trait Of Augustus Leazar, soldier,
teacher, legislator, and author Of the
act OF founding the college.
DAUGHTERS of the Revolution.
Several patriotic and historical So
cieties nave been at work whose
activities we're not limited to any par
ticular period Of our history.
The Daughters of the Revolution,
during the year, presented medals for
essays in North Carolina history to
the city schools Of Edenton, Raleigh,
Elizabeth City, and New Bern, and
awarded a scholarship for historical
work TO a pupil Of the Edenton city
schools. They have also continued
the publication of the North Caro-
lima Booklet.
The Nachovia Historical Society.
The Wachovia Historical Society
made a number of additions TO its
collections Of particular interest in
illustrating the industrial life Of the
5 Morayian settlements. Quarters are
now being prepared by the society for
the care and preservation OF the
: Of the MoravTaE Church in
f North Carolina.
5 North Carolina Historical Society.
: The North Carolina Historical So
: ciety, in addition TO the program car
ried out at its regular meetings, has
/ made a tentative study of the life
/ Of the negroes of Chapel Hill with
f a view to a publication on the sub
iect at some future time. The so
ciety acquired during the year twenty
bound volumes of North Carolina
newspapers, and issued two volumes
of the James Sprunt Historical Pub
locations
: Trinity College Historical Society.
During the year the Trinity College
Historical Society published Tn
, Memoirs Of ". ". Holden being
: Volume II OF the John Lawson None
graphs. The society has added mate.
= rally to it's collections, notably TO It!