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Sylvan Valley News
Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
J. J. MIxTER, Manager.
BREVAKD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. MARCH 1907
VOL. XII-NO. 13
NEW LAWS ENACTED.
Summary of the Work Done by
the Recent Legislature.
MANY RAILROADS CHARTERED-THIRTY COUNTIES ALL? WED TO IM
PROVE THEIR ROADS-IMPORTANT RESOLUTIOK&-INSURANCE
LEGISLATION—A MASS OF MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES.
Transylvania Lodge No. 143,
Knijlils of Pythias
Regular convention ev
ery Tuesday ni^ht in Ma
sonic Hall. Visiting-
Kni ;-hts are cordially in
vited to attend. T. W. WHITMIRE C. C.
Brevard Telephone Exchange.
hours:
Daily—7 a. m. to 10 p. na.
Sunday—8 to 20 a. m., 4 to 6 p. m.
Central Office—McMinn Block.
Professional Cords.
W. B. DUCKWOR.TH,
ATTO R N E Y-AT-L A W.
Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Building^.
ZACHARY Sc BREESE
ATTORNEY3-AT-LAW
OHices in McMinn Block. Brevard, N. C.
GASH GALLOWAY,
LAWYERS.
Will practice in all the courts.
Rooms 9 and 10, McMinn Block.
D. L. ENGLISH
LAWYER
Rooms 11 and 12 ^IcMinn Block,
BREVARD, N. C.
Miscellaneous.
DENTIST.
(Bailey Block.)
HENDERSONVILLE, - - N. C.
For the month of Xoveiiil>er and
I>ec‘einber only I will make a first
class set of teeth (best rubber)
FOR $?.00
guaranteed to fit or no pay. Al’
Dental work reduced in proportion
for that time only.
Teeth Extracted Without Pain.
The JEthelwold
Brevard’s New Hotel—Modern Ap
pointments—Open all the year
The patronage of the traveling: public
as well as summer tourists is solicited.
Opp. Court House, Brevard, N.C.
HOTEL BBEVABB.
Cor. Main and Caldvell Sts.
BREVARD, N- C.
■Remode’ed and newly furnished,
Linder maiiajjement of experienced
hotel caterer. Central location, wide
verandas, livery connected. The
Best at reasonable rates. Write for
particulars.
R-I-P-A-N-S Tabules
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind
The 5-cent packet is enough lor usual occasions.
The family bottle (60 r*e»its) contains a supply
for a year. All druggists sell them.
H. G. BAILEY, G. E.
CORRECT SURVEYS MADE
Maps, Plots and Profiles
Plotted.
Only the finest adjusted instan-
ments used. Ab-jolnfe accuracy.
P. O. Brevard, N. C.
The important laws enacted by
the legislature are summarized by
the Raleigh correspondent of the
Charlotte Observer as follows :
THE IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS.
The following are the most im
portant resolutions which were
adopted:
Requesting congesss to vote for
the Appalachian Forest Reserve
and asking the Governor to go to
Washington in the interest of that
measure.
Endorsing the second Hague
Peace confcrenee.
Endorsing the Jamestown Expo
sition, ax^propriating $20,000 more
to it and allowing the North Caroli
na building to be sold and the pi o-
ceeds used hy the commission.
Making a $5,000 gift to the cruis
er North Carolina.
Urging Congress to improve the
ux:>per Capo Fear river.
Also urging it to prohibit polyg
amy.
To secure a change in the consti
tution so Senators will be elected
by a direct vote of the people.
Bills were passed eliminating
whiskey from the following coun
ties : Burke, Lincoln, Catawba, Mc
Dowell, Madison, Cherokee, Macon.
Cabarrus, Cleveland, Rutherford,
Northampton, Stanly, Scotland,
Cumberland and Mecklenburg.
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS.
Thirty counties were allowed to
improve their roads and very large
bond issues allowed to be voted on
' or this T)urpose in the counties of
Franklin, Forsyth, Durham, Row-
.in. Wake, Granville and Buncombe,
ranging from $100,000 to $300,000.
At no session of the Legislature
have charters been granted to so
many railways; the following is
the list: North Carolina Union ;
Southport, Northern & Western;
Raleigh & Winston-Salem ; North
ampton & Hertford; Western Car
olina, Bladen & Northern; Rock
ingham & C^aswell; Randolph &
Cumberland; Graham County,
Washington & Vandemere ; Nanta-
hala, Dover & Southbound ; Tucka-
.^eegee, Elkin & Alleghany; Vir
ginia & Eastern Carolina ; Virginia
& Carolina Southern ; Deep River
& Farmers Creek; Alleghany &
Piedmont Southern; Southwestern,
Greensboro, Seaboarl & Great
Western; Mattamuskeet, Kinston
& Catrolina; Monroe & Smoky
Mountain. Bills were also passed
allowing Buncombe, Henderson and
Rutherford counties to subscribe
stock for a competing railway be
tween Asheville and Rutherford-
ton; to allow the consolidation of
the Aberdeen & West End, the
Ashboro & Montgomery and the
Jackson Springs railways; to al
low the conversion of the Wilkes-
boro & Jefferson turnpike to a
steam or electric railway.
FOR SCHOOLS.
In the way of schools and school
matters, bills passed incorporating
the Stonewall Jackson Training
School or reformatory. To estab-
j lish a reformatory.
To establish a manual training
school in the mountains.
To establish a teachers training
school in the East.
A school of Technology at Spray
To aid the Elhannan Orphanage
at Marion.
To allow elections to be held in
townships or school districts upon
tlie subject of compulsory educa
tion.
To require deaf mutes to attend
the state school at Morganton and
to limit the attendance to North
Cai'olina children.
To require 16 weeks attendance
each year of children between ages
of 8 and 14 years.
To provide a safe and adequate
water sup])ly for all schools, public
and private.
Creating a system of iDublie high
schools, the number for each coun
ty to be fixed by the state superin
tendent of public instruction, to be
not less than 1 nor more than 4.
RAILWAY MATTERS.
A gr(^iit deal of atteniion was
given railway matters, and the fol-
lov/ing are the important bills
which passed:
To fix the maximum imssenger
'ate at 2]/^ cents pej^* mile.
To regulate freight- rates and x^re-
vent unjust discrimination.
To x>revent x^^^^^ic drinking iii
X)assenger cars.
To require railways to keei) x^as-
senger cars clean.
To allovr conductors and station
acrents to arrest drunk, disorderly
or boisterous persons.
To allow railways to construct
belt lines at towns.
To require one director and one
incorporator of all railways to be a
citizen and resident of this state.
• To allow the corx:)oration commis
sion to require union depots in
t >wns of 2,000 persons.
To require street railways to pro
vide separate accommodations for
negroes and whites.
To x^revent stealing of goods in
transitj and also to prevent stealing
of brasses and other railway x^rox>-
erty.
To greatly enlarge the powers oi;
the corporation commission.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES.
Other important bills of a mis
cellaneous character are as follows :
To restore dentists to their form
er dignity as doctors.
To allow judges and magistrates-'
to exclude all persons except those
concerned in trials for felonious
assault: to receive, buy, hold or sell
real or personal estate.
To regulate sales of leaf tobacco
on warehouse floors and require re
ports to the agricultural depart
ment.
To prevent usury and extortion.
To extend for two years the time
for settling the state debt.
To promote public decency by
punishing people for using indecent
signs, w’ritings and pictures in
public.
To allow the governor to appoint
si)ecial police for water power,
transportation and construction
companies.
To provide for the care of the
mentally deficient by providing
special institutions for them.
To prevent the sale of adulter-
ated or misbranded foods, drugs,
medicines or liquors.
To incre^e the number of state
challenges in all cases less than
capital.
To allow the governor traveling
expenses.
To allow judges to send criminal
boys under 16 to the reformatory
or county home.
To extend the crime of vagrancy
S3 as to include keepers or inmates
of disorderly houses.
To prevent and punish trusts and
combines.
To authorize the state board of
health to provide for preventive
treatment of tuberculosis by means
of a hospital in Moore county.
To regulato the Vv^riting of pre
scriptions by physicians.
To protect electrical power trans
mission lines.
To require the x^^iiitentiary to
Xmy its debt bonds of 1899, amount
ing to $110,000 and to pay $175,000
of its earnings into the treasury to
go to the central fund.
To sexmrate tuberculosis x^ris-
oners.
To require the commissioners of
agriculture and the board of agri
culture to be practical farmers.
To amend the lavv^ regarding re
moval of cloud on titles
To ijrotect primary elections and
conventions and x^^'^i^i^h fraud
thereat.
To x^^y fees to officers and
witnesses where no true bill is
rc"nd.
To extend time for obtaining land
'^raats.
Te regulate Gsteox)athy and create
a State board of examiners.
To x^i’otecc hotel and bearding
house keepers.
To prescribe the hours of service
Tor railway emx:>loyes ox)erating
To establish state board of equal-
izaMon for the assessment" of n al
esi ate.
To regulate the hours of labor ol
children in factories.
To amend the landlord and ten-
int law.
^o so amend the general road law
that county commissioners can let
the working of roads by contracts
by sections.
To enable the state to make
proof of the possession of whisk
licenses, issued by the government
xU X)rosecuting offenders.
To limit the poll tax to $2 in cities
and towns.
To proyide for the display of the
*tate flag on all court houses,
schools and other public buildings.
To exclude minors under 18 from
pool rooms, bar rooms, etc.
To prohibit corporations from
;>reventing public improvements by
other corporations by preventing
occupancy of land for right-of-way.
To place all telephone lines under
the corporation commission.
To promote the oyster industry.
To punish fraud in giving worth
less checks, drafts and orders.
To create the office of fi^ h com
missioner.
To require express companies to
pay claim for loss or damage to
property.
To secure immigration in North
Carolina { appropriating $10,0C0*
half from the state, half from the
agricultural dejmrtment.
To secure a statue of Zeb Vance
to be placed in statuary hall at the
capitol at Washington.
To fix the salaries of state officers
and to require fees to be turned
into the state treasury.
To make general election day a
legal holiday.
To make the i)ension appropria
tion $400,000,an increase of $125,000,
There were bills, of course, car
rying increased appropriations for
all the state institutions, some
forty in number.
INSURANCE LEGISLATION.
A great mary insurance bills
were introduced but only a small
percentage of these passed. Those
which did pass are as folio"ws :
To amend the Revisal by allow
ing companies having over $100,000
caxjital to invest the excess in such
manner as the insurance commis
sioner approves.
To regulate the use of the reserve
of life companies by allowing it to
be used for re-insurance, to be
available in case of the insolvency
I of the comT)any.
To define fraternal orders.
To prohibit the application of the
iron safe clause to buildings and fix
tures.
To prevent the diversion of funds
in insurance comx:;anies for political
X)urposes.
bo submitted to and approved by
the insurance commissioner before
the com’pany can issue said policies,
this act to be effective July 1.
To allow the insurance commis
sioner to enix)loy an actuary and
accountant to calculate and check
up the books of the insurance com
panies.
To im]>ose a general ]ienalty for
all provisions of the insurance law^
for which no si)ecial penalty has
been imx^osed.
To x^rovide for the volunteer fire
men of the state in case of injury
or sickness, due to service at fires
by levying a tax of % to 1 per cent
apon the premiums of fire insur
ance companies, but in order to
secure this the town must comply
with the fire waste law.
To declare that the agent of a life
insurance company is the agent of
the comx)any and not of the policy
holder.
State OF Ohio, City of Toledo, {
Lucas County f
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the
city of Toledo. County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of One Hundred Dollars for
each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use ot tla!l’s
Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 6th day of De-
<rember, A. D. 1880.
(Seal.) A. W. Gleason,
Notary Public.
HaiPs Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally,! and acts dir^^ctly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the sysiera.
Send for testimonials free.
F. J. Cueney & Co., Toledo, O. •
Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take
HalPs Family Pills for constipation.
Five women bull fighters were
hurt in the ring at Jaurez, Mexi
co, just across the river from El
Paso. The brutes evidently re
sented the use of hatpins as
weapon s-
You should be very careful of your
bowels when you have a cold. Ne'ar-
ly all other cough syrups are consti
pating, especially those containing
opiates. Kennedy’s Laxative Cough
Syrup moves the bowels—contains
NO opiatps. Conforms to National
Pure Food and Drugs Law% Bea? h
the endorsement of mothers every
where. Children like its pleasant
taste. Sold by Brevard Drug Co.
To require fire insurance compa
nies to furnish blank proofs of
loans in case they demand such
proof.
To require registration of trained ( To i-egtilate the form of life in-
nurses.
To xu'otect makers and dealers in
mineral waters.
surance contracts by requiring the
form of all policies under $500 to
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