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8 THE STATE LEGISLATURE. WHAT THE LAW MAKERS ARE DOING IN RALEIGH. A Synopsis of Some of the Bills In troduced and Passed for Bene fit of our Readers. A favorable report is made on the Senate bill making 10 years' separa tion a cause for absolute divorce. Sev eral lawyers appeared in favor of the bill, which covers only a few cases,one or two being perhaps notable. Many bills of this kind have been introduced in past years to cover a particular case and only a few years ago there were some notable instances of this. The Senate Committee on judiciary by a vote of four to two gave a favor able report to a bill making ten years consecutive separation a cause for ab solute divorce to residents in North Carolina for that length of time, where no children have been born to the couple. Among the bills of interest intro- duced in the Senate during the day was one by Senator Turner, which provides that the salary of the Gover nor of North Carolina be increased to 5,000 a year. This would not affect Governor Glenn's salary, as the salary of a Governor cannot be raised during his term, but would apply to the sal ary of the next Governor of the State. Senator Webb introduced a bill which will please all who may have to sit on juries. It provides that the County Commissioners of the various counties may, in their discretion, pay jurors not exceeding two dollars a day. Senator Drewry, of Wake, introduc ed a bill providing for the issue of a half million dollars in thirty year four per cent, bonds not to sell at less than 104, the funds to be used to enlarge the Capitol for executive, judicial and legislative offices and for a State Li brarv of Hall of Records. The mat ter of the enlarging and full charge of j purchaser make a full detailed inven tory oi the goods, and unless the pur chaser remands and receives the names and addresses of the creditors with the amounts due them, and shall notify each one of these immediately of the proposed sale. The penalty is a fine of $100 to $500 or imprisonment of 60 days to two years, or both. Other bills passed: To provide for the summoning of jurors from adjoin ing counties or any county in the same judicial district in trials of felonious or certain civil cases; to make married women engaged in merchandising or manufacturing with knowledge and consent of husband liable for debts contracted in such business. To authorize the town of Oxford to issue bonds for a sewerage system. To increase pay of jurors in Ruther ford county to $2 per day. To place the solicitors of the State on a salary of $2,500, amended so as to make this from fees, the excess to go to the State Treasury, and when less than $2,500 the salary should be the fees received. The Legislature is going to be even more liberal than was expected to the Confederate veterans. The committees on pensions will, it is learned, recom mend a bill carrying $ 450,000 annu ally, this being an increase of $175, 000 over the present annual appropri ation. The committees from the first manifested a very liberal spirit. The bill in regard, to taking a whet on trains provides that any person who shall drink any intoxicating liquor, in the presence of others, in anyT first class passenger car, shall be guilty of a mis demeanor and liable to a fine of from $10 to $50, or 30 days' imprisonment. Bills passed: To prevent the quash ing of bills of indictment because of non-payment of taxes by a member of the grand jury, or because one of the grand jurors was a party to a suit in court; to give the State two challenges for each defendant in the trial of cap ital cases. NEWSY ITEMS FROM SALEM TERSELEY DISHED UP BY WAY OF OXFORD. Mr. D. N. Hunt Writes of Removals, Accidents, Schools, Roads,County Commissioners, Temperance. Many changes have been taking place in out township of recent date, and many people have changed homes for this year. W. J. O'Brien and family are at the C. F. Crews place, J. E. Grissom at the Wilson place, Wm. Faucette at the Knott place, L. G. Blackwell at the Ellis place, C. J. Breedlove at the Blackwell place, U. J. Brooks at our place and quite a number of others at different places. To all these and others we extend best coming down a steep hill, the harness broke in two places at once and 1 reach ed out with right hand and caught the hind wheel to keep buggy off the horse, this jerked me across the side of buggy and broke a rib. I have been at home for a week, but hope to be out soon. Auctioneer R. J. Hart, who has been sick some time, is improving and he will soon be at his post again with "Uncle Zack" at the Johnson. Mr. Clarence Breedlove is happy now as he has gone to housekeeping, and you can hear him sing "Rock-a-bye baby in the tree top." Well, such is life. "What is home without a baby?" Mr. W. W. Fuller is with the bag factory at Oxford. A good road meeting is called by representative B. S. Royster and Sen ator A. A. Hicks for the farmers and others to meet at court house in Ox- wishes. The removal of C. F. Crews ford February 5, at 1 o'clock to discuss and family and also of P. W. Knott is road building and the issuing of bonds. CREEDM00R DISPENSARY. the matter is to be vested in the Lieu tenant Governor, Speaker of the House )r j p Sanderford Puts Himself two Senators, named by the Lieuten- D , . .... ant Governor, and three Representa- 011 Kecord Against it. tives named by the Speaker ct the Editor of the Public Ledger: There House. has been right much said for and The bill to rid Littleton of a wine against a dispensary for Creedmoor, snop was endorsed by senator uaniei, and i desire a little of your space to ot Halifax, and benator .Folk, of Y ar- give public expression to some of my renton, ana was passed, lhe trouble there is that at an election for prohibi tion this carried, but the manufacture and sale of wine was allowed. A man there manufactures and sells while parties club in to buy a gallon, then divide it to drink. This has been a great annoyance to Littleton and the male and female schools there have been annoyed by this. The bill as passed xids Littleton of its wine shop; which j s said to have sold 2,000 gal Jons of wine last year. in tne senate wiien committee re Clt K KDMOOK DISPENSARY men, women and children, I believe as good as there are with me, and more than they all, God, I verily believe with me. I wrant to put myself on record against a Dispensary. Yes against whiskev in every way, believ ing that prohibition as it now exists in our community, and with the laws views on this important question. The that now exist, that it is much better only thing I can say for a dispensary than a dispensary. We had no such is, there's money in it Some of the disturbance in Creedmoor Christmas things I can say against it are: It is as we read of in JLouisburg, a Dispen an attempt to elevate the liquor busi-. sary town,even if there was 94 1 2 gal ness out of its proper sphere. If it is; Ions whiskey brought here On one train a bad immoral business for an individ-i by express, the large majority of it be- ual to sell whiskey it is for the town, ing for people oft from here, nor at for the Dispensary. Whiskey bought, Bennehan as there is no express office from a Dispensary legally chartered;! or express agent there. , C il ' i "11 1 1 . rri ' . i i ii upon request oi tne majorityvwiii make lhe question lias been asked, are men as drunk, as big ioois, as that we better than the people ot Oxford, bought from an individual, therefore Henderson orRaleigh as they have Dis- the sanction ot town authorities nor pensanes? iso I don t think we are. a loss to our township as they made us Tnis is a meeting of great importance good neighbors. Mr. Crews was the so iet us turn out ;n .reat numbers ------ - and use our influence and put forth every effort to begin at once to build good roads in Granville county. The issuing bonds,nor is getting the money so much to do, but let us see that the money is properly used and equally divided in every township, and lets get right at it for the time of some of us will have expired before very long. every There may be other important things beside roads discussed at this meeting. Our public schools are in good con dition, and our faithful teachers doing good work. District No. 1 is being taught by Miss Ethel Breedlove; No. 2 by Miss A. Daniel Marrow and No. 3 by Miss Kate Parham. The colored teachers are also doing good work. Salem Township furnishes fifteen pu pils for the Oxford Graded School to wit: C. F. Crews 3, Mrs. Irene Day 3, C. R. Hester 3,R. J. Hart 1, G.W. Hart 1, D. N. Hunt 4. Among these the Hester children are some of the leaders of the school, as they get close to the highest mark and get on the honor roll most every time. In conclusion we wish to thank the county officers who have just retired from office for their faithfulness in the discharge of their duty. As to the County Commissioners no one who is honest can say ou have filled your pockets with the people's money. You have been honest, faithful and true. The rich and the poor alike have been treated with courtesy and given a hearing before your court. "Well done thy good and faithful servants. To the new Board we congratulate you, and ourselves, "go and do likewise." Let your great mission be to build good roads all over Granville county and let the main roads be built as rapidly as possible. Give James B. Elliott a force with implements and put him on the roads in Northern Granville and then send him to Salem. Have the road machine, the scraper, run over acknowledged leader in church work, in Sunday School, in politics, in edu 1 .1 . 1 ,1, cation and in other things that were for the betterment of our county. A good and true Christian man or woman is one of the greatest blessings a com- in unity can have. J bad man or a bad woman is one of the greatest curses a community can hav- You can find both of these classes in almost community and you know just as well who they are as if I were to write their names here for you,a,nd they know who they are also Mr. J. H. Breedlove has had anoth er serious accident. About a month ago a loaded wagon ran limb, and for more than a week he could not walk even with crutches, but he is better and can get about some now. Mr. J. A. Cottrell, who was se riously hurt some time ago, being run over by a wagon, can get about again, but is not well. Squire John Wilson was hurt a few days ago from lifting a log. This poor scribe had an accident also. More than a week ago we were I '. . ' demands a'' greater 'mount of 1 POTASH '. - s than any other cultivated plant. This is explained in "Tobacco Culture," a valuable free book for tobacco growers. This book also contains much useful information on many tobacco questions. Why not write for it now? GERMAN New York 93 Nassau Street. KALI WORKS Atlanta. Ga. 1224 Candler Building or Report Of the Condition -OF- THE BANK of GRANVILLE -AND- OXFORD SAVINGS BANK, At Oxford, N. G., at Glose of Business Jan. 26th, 1 907. (From report of N. C. Corporation Commission.) KESOURSES. LIABILITIES. Loans and discounts, $210,089.02 Capital stock $ 60,000.00 Overdrafts secured, 2,210 12 Undivided profits, 22,900.85 Bonds and securities, 3,021.91 Deposits, 191,047-70 Office furniture, 1,848.68 Rediscounts, Cash and due from banks, 56,778.82 Bills payable none, OXFORD SAVINGS BANK. OXFORD SAVINGS BANK. Loans and discounts. $157,716.94 Capital stock. $ 16,300.00 Office furniture, 380.62 Undivided profits, 4.077-40 Due from banks, 34,881.45 Deposits, 172.601.61 Total, $466,927.56 Total, $466,927.56 Stafccounty and City depositary. Invites Your Inspection ot i Slaetment aid solicits Your business. None is Stronger and None has a More honorable Record. E. T, WHITE, J. M. CURRIN, H. G. COOPER, J. (i. HUNT, President. Vice-President Cashier. Insurance. SAVINGS BANK PAYS 4 PER CENT. ON TIME DEPOSITS. all the worked roads in the county the ports were called for. Senator Graham, enactments of General Assembly can't but iust as good and iust as able to de- nrst of Ma hY a11 means. One other of the committee on pensions, read the makft it a moral business! Rut! there's oi.,anr nwn mnr.l 9 thnPWoro word, Brother Commissioner, as I following letter irom Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, regarding the purpose of the Ijreneral Assembly to vote her a pen- where is the mouev side of it to the sion as the widow -of that illustrious buyer? Is there money in it to him soldier. anj to his? How prone we are to look aju! uuuu ,t. v j.d.iia.ui. atomy one siae oi a question, was 'My dear Cousin: Yours of the when we claim to face the issue square JitH, apprising nieof the introduction M If it will give us great things in of a bill in the Legislature to allow me the way of streets, lights, water, etc. a pension ot fciuu per month, was cer- isn't there bound to be a definite ratio they money in it, some one will say- Yes theirs.' I believe they did the best there always has been to the seller, but they could as they saw it, and took a step forward from open saloons to a Dispensary, not from prohibition to a TV T 1 . 1 1 -dispensary. asK men while our neighbors go forward shall we turn loner, as l can not meet with or meet you. It has been said that advice that does not cost any thing is not worth anything, but this is not true. The best advice you ever had was from a true friend who charged you nothing. iow, when distribution or election comes up before your body jtamly a great surprise. 1 most warm ly appreciate this loyal tribute to the name of my hero-hu&baud, and tender my heartfelt thanks for the proffered .honor and benefit, but I do not feel j 1 j T 111 , i mat x wotua De lustanea in accenting T J 1 o it. I am informed that the laws in backward and show ourselves to he worse than the people of Oxford, Hen- sucil as road superintendent, road fore derson or Raleigh? Still I know that inan bridge builders, rock hauler.ian neither of these towns set themselves ltor or taxhsters m every instance, if . - . ixi. - l , I 1 1 some up to be models for us, at least I have Ult3re 1S consistent cnurch member, .i I , .. . . l j.1 l -j l .i , removes the not seen it so stated, either in the civif. 11 vvoimy ciinsuan, give mm the pret- i - ' i .. , . . - . cieiice uv,ury time. j. tnniK tins is your duty. As to the noble Royster and Hicks. who are now at Raleigh representing us, we snail expect much of them, as between profit to us and loss to one eiser borne say it temptation to blockading and to the moral or religious Jaws. It is said it patronizing of blockaders. Is that will increase our business that farm class alone to be aided by legislation, ers carry their tobacco to Oxford not even to the temptation and distruction on account of prices, warehousemen. s-iV n lrvn..v J.nn t.'Ll I 1 1 , i 1 ,1 . a. xaiizci uas, a xiioie ftusceijuuie uuvers ur mace, nut tneir ronneen is jorth Carolina limit all pensions to class, even the youths of our county? their excuse to go where they can get the.v are capable of doing much. Let those who have not $-500 of personal Remove the temptation frojn the block- whiskey still it is said you can get all t'lem stancI strong for temperance and property, and as I do raot come under ,er by taking possession of his business the whiskey you want in Creedmoor give whiskey a black eve every time this law, I respectfully request that and his nrofits vourself. a.nd that, to b I anrl it's wnrso than it wa lto1 o TVo it comes UP. Let them mafcf it. lint trr the bill be . withdrawn. I would also suggest that the pension which has been so magnanimously proposed in my behalf be appropriated to the re lief of the destitute widows of Confed erate veterans. It would also please me far more to see our honorable As sembly take measures for a reforma tory for the good of the State. "Trusting that I have not been un gracious or ud appreciative, I am, with Jove, your affectioaate cousin, "M. A. JACKSON." The honor of having received such j a letter was feel in fflv referred to hv ' Senator Lovill, of Watauga, a Confed erate veteran, and on motion of Sena tor Webb, of Buncombe, it was order ed that the letter be made part of the journal for publication, as it breathed so noble a spirit and was a valuable contribution to history. This order was made, and this pension bill was allowed to be withdrawn in accordance with the request of Mrs. Jackson. The Senate was much affected by the letter and by the remarks which followed its reading, and there was intense interest during the entire proceedings. Royster: To regulate the conduct of Dispensary commissioners and em ployers. " ' To prohibit the sale of liquor in two miles of Bullock church in Granville county, also to establish a dispensary at Creedmoor. The bill in regard to the fraudulent sale of merchandise in bulk passed. It pjovides that such sale shall be fraud pittied class, that you say will have it pensary. Can you reconcile those two anyhow, no matter where, or how low statements? I can't. Some that signed ne nas to stoop to get it; you will re- a petition asking for a Dispensary say- move a part ot his evil doings in ob- "to those that sio-ned for Dispensary A il ! ! ..1.1 I . . . - '. Laming it, Dy legalizing it, but he can are in tavorot whiskey would be false." get it, more conveniently and more of lhe only definition I know for a Dis zj. ri" i i "j m -i . cirgarette sellers and cigarette smok- any- it if he wants it. It will be more con venient then to get whiskey will it' Yes, and I say convenience is and al ways has been conducive to habit, then a Dispensary will encourage the drink nabit will it? Yes. but we are in for the money and don't want to stop to count the cost to the user, we only want funds to run our town, and if we get a Dispensary we expect to get it, Are we willing then to sell the morals of our town and the surrounding com munity for a few dollars comparatively to have an up-to-date town? Some will say we are not doing any such thing. I hope you are not, but you are bound to admit you are at least putting them in jeapordy, taking great risk tor the profits you hope to obtain, tor unless there is drinking done by someone we can't get the money hoped for and calculated for out of it. Then who have we, or do we calculate on doing ourj drinking and making our business profitable? The man or the boy from some other town or commu- uilj, vi il ue you or your boy or me or my boy? If it should be yours or mine which side will the profit be on ? -fi.!s cLciLeu in tne outset tins is an important question and I for one, even if I were the onlv one. and I am p-lnd j - , o ers. it is an easy matter to decide the ngnt irom the wrong in almost thing. The good people, the christian peo ple, are usually on the right side of ulent and void unless the seller and to say I am not, having a number of pensary is a place where a municipal- anJ question; the bad, the wicked peo- lty or town is selling whiskey. jSow then if I sign a petition for the estab lishing and opening such a place what am I favoring.'' h or the information of some who may not know, I will say if a Dispensary is established in Creed moor by the Legislature, and if it is ever abolished the Legislature will have to abolish it, and if established by a vote of people of Creedmoor it can be abolished by the people the same way, out am inrormed that the present bill before the . Legislature is for the Legislature to establish it and not by a vote of the people. I want us all to force the issue squarely and fairly,and show our hands, lhat is one reason am writing this and I want the folks a 1 1 T j. 1 rri lu kiiow . wnere stano. i nere are some good men on the other sides. I don't believe that all good people think the same way. I know some good Methodist, some good Baptist, some good Presbyterians, some good Chris tians, they don't think alkie and know some good men opposed to a Dispen sary, and l know some good men in avor of a Dispensary, and may God lelp each one in arriving at a clear conception of our duty and give us the moral courage to do it. Yours against a Dispensary, J. F. SANDERFORD. pie are usually on the wrono- side of . - - any question, lhe man who loves whiskey wants its eveen, in his coffee and in his lemonade. The man who does not like it knows the evil and sees what it is doing for others and he wanf s it no where. The point is simply this, we, as law makers and as executers of the law must strive for divine aid to know and to find out what right is anc what oar duty is and then we must have backbone enough to carry these con victions out. Our friends and relatives will be in terested to know that our second son. William Gibbs, who spent last year in Texas is now in New Mexico buying and taking up Government land he is 50 miles from his post office, Texico, and it takes two days to make the trip, He lives in a tent and writes that there are wolves, panther and deer around him, but no dears. He says the land is rich and the people are coming there in great numbers. As to another dispensary for any point in Granville county we say down with it. One is enough for us for the next 100 years. If there is nothing more worthy of our people to boast of than the amount cf whiskey they drink let their deeds be unknown to the world. D. N. HUNT. VVlftiite GoodlSo It is our good fortune and the advantage of the buy ing public that we are enabled to show the largest and handsomest lines of WHITE GOODS EMBROIDERS AND LACES. that we have ever shown. By buying early last fall we secured T3 X that if we had to buy now wonld show a considerable advance. SPECIAL SHOWINGS. Are our embroideries at 5,8, 10, 12 1-2 and 15 cents. Val laces at all prices and a larger and more va ried assortment than we have ever shown, insertions to match. German val laces so popular for langerie waists and underwear all in match sets and at all prices. WHITE GOODS. Have stepped to the foreground and this is going to be a "White Season" and our line is going to be sold at not what they are worth to day but at our usual small prof ts on what we bought them for. The variety all told embraces about everything yon could expect to see for the coming season. niLLINERY! If you are in need of hat, ribbons, feathers, or any thing in the Millinery line we are offering special prices and as to hats you can get them now at half price. As to Cloaks we have a few left on hand in both la dies, misses and children, and you can buy them now for less than they cost us as we do not want to carry a single garment over. We will take pleasure m showing our goods whether you buy now or intend buying later. Come and see what is going to be worn. There is a steadv advance on all lines of merchandise so advise early buying. Yours very Truly, L, aura d Is k Easloe.