-j\. 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-