The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-24
M'CULLERS
CASE UP
As A SPECIAL ORDER BEFORE
JUDGE PEEBLES..ELECTRO-
CUTION OF JOHNSON
NEGRO FAIR open TODAY
(By w. J. Martin.l

Raleigh, n. c., Oct. 23.-F'riday of
this week will yield up his life in
the electric chair here, Norval Mar
shall, the negro who startled the
State some weeks ago by criminal
assault on Mrs. Chaplin, fourteen
miles from Warrenron and then
shooting heI faUner and the deputy
sheriff while resisting arrest. 1t was
q case in which there was grave dam
ger of lynching one while and in
which there was a record trial, con
viction and sentence in that he was
sentenced to death on Tuesday after
the crime had been committed on
Friday previous.
The remains of the 1amented John
T. Jones, wellknown roofing contrac
tor, of this city were carried today
to buckingham, Va, for interment
beside the remains of his wife. He
has three children with relatives at
Buckingham where they have made
their home for quite a while. Mr..
Jones left an estate of probably $780,
OOO
There were nine events constitut-
ing the series of races for the State
fair just closed and the purses award
ed totaled $4,000 and the races are
declared to have been the most thor
oughly satisfactory and successful
the State fair management has ever
held. w. C. McMakin, was as usual,
in charge his assistants being j. w.
Burroughs, Durham; E. E. MCGOWAN,
Durham; W. II. Scarborough, Wen
dell; w B. Durham, Paul H. Lee.
JRo. s. Jones, J. w. Arrowsmith and
w. p. Bachelor.
The North Carolina Negro State
Fair opens Tuesday morning of this
week in the State fair buildings, Flo
raj Hall and an adjacent wing of the
fair buildings being set aside for the
exhibits which are promised to be
well up to the standard set by pre-
vious North Carolina negro fairs. 1t
is expected that there will be big
excursion of negroes here Wednes-
day from Norfolk, Elizabeth City,
Edenton and other points. This will
be the thirty-third annual negro fair
Sunday afternoon there was big
mass meeting of Sunday School
workers of Raleigh at Tabernacle
Baptist church as a sort of preamble
for the training school for Sunday
School workers that will be in prog
ress in this church for the benent
,
all this week. The workers in schools
of other denominations are invited
to participate and many attended
this preliminary meeting and 1nd1cat-
ed their pcrpose to continue through
the series. The training school organ
lied Monday afternoon and there VIII
be afternoon and evening sessions OF
the school with lunch served at 3
o'clock in the church for the con-
venience of the business men and al
so the ladies attending. Rev. j. Il.
Watts, of Richmond, Va. Rev. Harvey
Bauchamp, Dallas, Texas. Miss Mar
garet Frost of Nashville, Tenn, ana
E. L. Middleton, State Sunday School
Secretary, will be the principal par
ticipants in the direction of the train
ing school, Each of these gentlemen
addressed the mass meeting yester
day afternoon and elected much en-,
thusiasm for the work being 1naugu'
rated.
With the election of DR.. Ira M
Harday, of Washington, n. c., as su
perintendent and Mr.. Dal Wooten, OF
Kinston, as treasurer, the board Oh
trustees for the proposed North Car
olina School for the Feeble Mlndeo
have just taken another lang strlde
toward the establishment of this IN
stitution provision for Wn1cn was
made by the last general assembly
The purpose of the board of tres
tees is to have the main building
ready for the institution to ope1
about October /, 1911. The State ap
preparation for the school was $50,
900 and the town of Kinston contrib
uted the site and other special con
cessions in order to have the schoo
located there. DR.. J. Y. Joyner, State
superintendent of public instruction
is chairman of the board.
Judge PEBBLES convened thre
weeks term of Wake Superior cour
today for civil cases the calendar be
ing a right congested one. He vii
take up a special order the hear1nI
of the mandamus sought by DR.. =
J. L. McCullers against the WAX
county commissioners to require then
to recognize his authority as count
superintendent of health, his appoint
ment being through the State boar
Of health, after conflict between tn
commissioners and the county boar
of health The judge reserved hi
ruling after heaTlng argument pr
and con.
Commissioner of Agriculture W.
Graham announces the appolntmeI