The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-01
TITLE rivalry
FOR INSTITUTION
Few North Ca |olina Cities Seem
to Care fol Confederate
I1pmc.
TRUSTEES ARE DISAPPOINTED
They Had Hoped for Favorable
Bid From State
Capital,
Especial to The Times.Dispatch.

lSpeclal 20 The Times DiSpatch.1
Raleigh. n. C.. June 3o.-colonel
Ashley Horne. OF Clayton, who is the
president OF the board OF trustees of
the proposed North Carolina home for
INDECENT wives and widows of Con-
federate veterans. said to-day that tho
time for the reception of bids from
towns for the location OF the home
Will be up July /. and that surprising
y few proposals have been received.
10 expects 10 call the board together
sIth!n the next ten days. when the
|ids In hand viii be examined and as
loon thereafter as possible the pro-
ocsed sites will be inspected He had
fe'y much hoped that Raleigh would,
IN ough it's Chamber of Commerce.
mike an attractive offer. but nothing
liz yet in hand from the Capital City
colonel Horne says the homie will be
needed Tor this purpose not more than
htteen or twenty years longer. and il
the property was in Raleigh the State
could readily utilize II for other pur-
poses. The best bid thus far is said
10 be from Fayetteville. The State has
appropriated $4,000 for buildings, and
the city that gets the home liz cx-
pected 10 give the site and possibly
other aid.
Governor Craig to-day granted fur
ther thirty days reprieve TO Claude
Blackwell, who is under TWO years'
sentence in Charlotte for tho killing
OF DR.. Meieenheimer. in room OF
hotel. The reprievc IL In order that
counsel for Blackwell! may have FUR
ther time 10 prepare and present their
case for pardon. This last reprieves
Is until August l.
The Forsyth Country club. winston
Salem. received "A charter to-day with
$4,000 capital authorized and 5000
subscribed. by W. y Reynolds. George
r. Dwire. p. H. Hanes. T. H. Hancs.
Jr., and r. o. Apple for a country cluh
that shall he equipped with standard
country club features, including golf
links. Other charters are 10 Tho
Wilmington Law school tIncorporatcd)
capital $4,000 authorized and 5000
subscribed. by Harry T. Rodgers. VII
liam +. Jones and Walter c. Benson
for conducting Law school and con-
ferring the degrees OF the profession:
The Fa!r"iew Cemetery Co. OF Albre-
marie. stanly County, capital $4,000
authorized and $500 subscribed. by
J. V. Ewing. 4. &. Heath and others
There is an amendment for The In
dependent Scales Co, OF Asheville. pro
viding for an increase of the capital
to $4,000. James p. Sawyer is presi-
dent OF the corporation.
His Address Commended.
Secretary a. ]. Maxwell. of the Cor
poratton Commission. received to-day a
letter from f. +. Clark, who has re-
Gently been reappointed by President
Wilson as chairman Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. commencing
reFy highly Mr.. MaXwclrs recent adj
dress before the North Carolina Mcr-
chants Association at Wilmington, pro-
posing the establishment OF a steam
boat line from Wilmington to New
York as means OF getting relief for
North Carolina from the much com
planned OF freight rate DETERMINATIONS
against North Carolina shippers. In
commencing the position taken by Sec
rotary Maxwell. Chairman Clark asks
that additional copies OF the address
be sent him.
Secretary Elias Carr. Of the State
Department OF Agriculture. is just back
from a trip through the Eastern sec
tlon OF the state, and says he found
crops rather unsatisfactory in Edge
conbe County, but as fine as they could
he In Pitt and some OF the other coun-
ties of that section Cotton IN Edge
combc suffered from lice during the
recent cold rains. Cotton and tobacco
In Pitt County around GreenviIe are
especially fine. There are fine crops
all along the railroad from Tarboro 10
Norfolk he says
Captain T. r. Parker, OF the division
OF farmers Institutes just back from
Western Carolina, says he saw fine cot
ton fields as far west as the Hickory
section. and the corn and wheat crops
all through Western Carolina including
the Asheville and Toxaway sections.
are the finest they ever have had.