The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-11
COURT BUILDING
TO Be REMODELED
Various State Departments Will
Be Given Fireproof
Quarters.
WORK BEGINS THIS FALL
Wake County Now Has Three
Women Serving on School
Boards.
WORK BEGINS THIS FALL
Especial to The Times-pisnatob :,

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Raleigh. n. c., July 10-The Council
OF state Will award the contract July
- Tor the complete remodelinE of the
ola supreme Court building as soon ms
the state ofhcers who are to have quar-
ters In tho new nrcproof building w
cate. The remodeling will cost about
$4,000, and will equip the place for the
corporation Commission on the street
moor; the Department of Education
ana the Commissioner of Labor and
Printing on the second floor; the De-
partment OF Insurance In the third and
the state Board of Health on the fourth.
starting on the basement floor there
VIII DO constructed through the five
noors a series of flreproof vaults for
the use of the several State depart
nents to protect books and other
records. 1t is hoped TO have the build
ing vacated and ready for the re-
modelling to begin In tho early fall.
Judge James S. Manning has pur
chased n lot on North Blount Street
ana VIII eroct thereon a handsome res
ldence. His family Will not come from
Durham to Raleigh to live until the
Blount Street residence Is completed.
Ex-Governor Kitchin, his law partner
mas purchased the handsome residence
OF the late Captain j. j. Thomas. Mt
the corner OF Mcdowell and jones
Streets and his family will come to
Raleigh from RoXboro In the early fall.
Agreement Reached.
Inc Seaboard and Southern authori-
ties, In conference with the Cor
poration Commission to-day, agreed
upon n schedule for assuring connec-
tons between tho Seaboard south
bound and the Southern westbound
trains that are due to arrive In RAJ
leigh at 4:o5 P. NJ. Under the new
agreement either train will wait on
the other as much as ten minutes If
~ haf
gers who want to make the connec-
ton
Governor Craig has announced n re-
ward of $50 for Henry Jenkins. who
Is wanted for the murder of ]. r
Glenn on the night of June 26 In Wake
County. Glenn was well-known white
man and Jenkins is negro \ shovel
handle was the implement used. The
men had quarrelcd at a sawmin, and
the negro followed the white man after
he left the mill.
Women on School Hoard
the Wake County Board of Educa-
tion has taken the lead for North Caro-
INA In the matter of the appointment
OF women on the local school boards
under the authority of the special act
OF the last Legislature authorizing the
membership OF women for these boards
and committees Wake now has three
nrt HoH mney Mrs
Miss Lizzio Smith. House Creek town
ship; Mrs. l.. l.. Doub. Marks Creek
township Tho women have proven in
the past their effective activity and
capacity for promoting the interests of
the schools
The Wake County commissioners are
proceeding with their plans for the
purchase of a suitable farm close to
Raleigh for new county home that
will be equipped with central heating
plant and other comforts, for the aged
and INDECENT, the present county home
u n h.a ~. ..-s.
are proceeding also with the plans for
n new 100000 county courthouse over
the protest of j. w Bailey and Others
who insist that no such expenditure
should be made, when the county ac-
tually owes for the present courthouse.
that Will be torn down. and for the
one that preceded il. \ vote of the
people Is being demanded by Bailey
but the commissioners have authority
to Issue bonds and build without "a vote
Of the people. and the members will
persist in this course.