The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-17
MERCHANTS WILL
MEET AT RALEIGH
Annual Convention of North
Carolina Association-Other
News.
Especial to The Times.Dispatch.

tSpec' to The Times Dispatch.l
Raleigh. y. c.. June ls.-Tucsday
morning the annual convention OF the
North Carolina Merchants Association
Will meet in Raleigh. and the mer
chants OF this city arc making prepa-
rations for the entertainment OF the
the president and the secretary OF the
state association--E. Z. Broughton
being president and L. l. Harris. sec
rotary. Special committees have been
named TO look after reception. barbe-
cue. automobiles and variety OF
other means of giving the visitors the
time OF their lives.
There will be addresses Of welcome
by Mayor James l. Johnson and Presi-
dent ]. B. Pierce. OF the local Mer-
chants Association. and response By
Il. Q. Everett. OF Durham. There will
also be an address by Hon. Z. j. JUS
t!ce. OF Greensboro. on "Transporu-
ton and Business Laws" There VIII
DC executive sessions on Wednesday
for transacting the real business OF
the convention. At an open session
on Wednesday night there Will be an
address by Ed to- Norman II. Johnson,
of the Merchants journal. on The
Strength and Weakness OF the Assoc!a-
ton" Leon Williams. OF New Bern.
and E. II Munson. Wilmington, Will
tell of loca! benefits of merchants as
sociations. and there Will be important
reports from standing committees
the legislative committee through Dr.
Charles Lee smith, OF Raleigh; I!-
nance, through ID. NJ. Jones, Elizabeth
city; transportation. through j. y. Nc
Capsland Charlotte. insurance. through
Archibald Nochois. Ashevilie; arb'tra-
ton. through Frank r. Brown, OF
Salisbury. The association will be in
session until Thursday evening.
Stockholders in the jefferson Stand
ard Life Insurance Company have Just
received official notic-a for a special
meeting of the stockholders in this
city June 81 for the special purpose
of finally settling the question OF
changing the location OF the home
office OF the company. this question
of change of home Office having been
sprung at the meeting last Friday.
when the proposition to merge with
the Greensboro Life was finally killed.
At the meeting June 81 there is also
TO be taken up the matter of filling va
canc!es on the board of directors. and
thereafter a general reorganization of
the company is expected.
The judges OF the North Carolina
Supreme Court have served notice on
the State Building Commission that
has in hand the erection of the quarter
million dollar f'reproof buili.ng al the
head of Fayetteville Street, that IL the
court is not allotted more room in
the new building the court will not
move from It's present quarters. The
courtroom. library, rooms for the Jus
tices. clerk of the court and attorney
general constitute the principal fea-
lures of the third and fourth floors of
the new building. as 1t is being con-
structed. But the judges claim that
in order 20 crowd the Departments of
Education and Insurance on these
floors also the courts quarters are
being made Inadequate; that there is
no law to force them to occupy the
new quarters If not adequate, and un-
less something is done to give the
court the room required the quarters
in the old building will be retained.
in spit. of the dangerous menace of
Ore that the old building has. Chair
man Ashley Horne's trip to Raleigh
yesterday, the first since his desperate
illness. was in hopes OF getting an
adjutment of the difficulty By the COM
mission, but absence of some of the
commissioners prevented action, and
the matter goes over until some time
in October