THE COMMONWEALTH. HaUfRX COUNTY ROAD LAW.
E. H1LLIARD, Editor
Published Every Thursday.
J. E. CRUTCH Fl ELD ,
Local and News Editor and Business
Manager.
Entered at the. riostoflice fit Scotland
ck, N. C, a Second-Class Matter.
Thursday, July 18, 1907.
GOVERNOR GLENN TO THE JUDGES.
Passed by the Last General
Assembly.
The railroad passenger rate con
test is exciting more interest in
North Carolina than any other pub
lic question. Governor Glenn has
addressed a letter to each Superior
Court Judge in the State, instruct
ing them to charge grand juries to
present all railroad employes and
railroad authorities who charge
or demand more than 2 1-4 cents
per mile for passenger fare on roads
more than sixty miles long. The
law passed by the last Legislature
makes such act a misdemeaner, and
the law is being violated by the
Coast Line and Southern railroads.
Governor Glenn in his letter to the
Judges declares that it is his duty as
Governor of the State to see that all
criminal laws are enforced. Judge
Tritchard's injunctions as Judge of
the United States District Court are
to be ignored by the Superior Court
Judges, and this looks like a cla?h
between the courts.
The people of the State will ap
plaud Governor Glenn's action in
the matter, not with prejudice
against the railroads, but in their
appreciation of his endeavors to have
the laws enforced.
Most of the people of the State,
whatever their opinions about the
railroad rates, believe that Judge
Pritchard has made a mistake.
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.
The board of aldermen for th
city of Raleigh recently repealed the
ordinance against selling soft drinks
on Sunday. The ordinance was re
pealed on the ground that there was
complaint that drug stores were al
lowed to sell soft drinks on Sunday
while others were not.
The News and Observer truthfully-
said that the board of alderman took
a step backward in repealing the
ordinance. The board should have
forbidden drug stores from selling
the soft drinks on Sunday instead of
opening the privilege to all.
Charlotte will soon decide a sim
ilar question, and the Charlotte News
is fighting against the desecration
of the Sabbath, making it a question
whether the Sabbath shall be regard
ed as a holy day or a holiday.
V e believe, like the News and Ob
server and the Charlotte News, t" at
town and city ordinances should not
permit any traffic that is not a ne
cessity to be carried on through the
Sabbath; and in the matter of soft
drinks we believe that the same or
dinance should apply to drug stores
that applies to other places.
PROGRESSIVE 'GREENVILLE.
Greenville is nothing if not pro
gressive. Perhaps no town in the
State is showing a more progressive
spirit, and no people are more co-operative
than the people of Greenville.
It is pleasant to note the progress
that the town is showing. The
Reflector speaks hopefully, yea conr
fidently, of things there as follows:
"Greenville is now launching on
the flood tide of development, and
if our people continue to be conser
vative and take advantage of the op
portunities for progress as they pre
sent themselves, the growth of the
town is going to be wonderful. Such
a spirit of co-operation between the
town and county as has existed the
past year -counts for much. Pitt
cotmty has a noble people, and the
inwj they are taking in educa
tional advancement and material
progress will rank her in the lead.
The county feels a pride in her cap
ital town, and the town feels a pride
in the county. We are all one and
the same people, and with a united
spirit and concerted effort nothing
can hold us back."
When the baby is teething it is cross
and restless; it becomes feverish, and
in many cases vomits a groat deal and
oftentimes cannot even keep cool wa
ter on the stomach. All the delicate
little organs of the stomach are effec
ted, bringing on colic and diarrhoea.
Cascasweet for babies and children
An act to amend chapter one hun
dred and eighty sixty, public law of
one thousand nine hundred and three,
entitled "An act to provide for work
ing the public roads and highways of
Halifax county.
The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That section two of
said act be and the same is hereby
expressly repealed and the following
inserted in lieu thereof: That there
cVmii Wpafter be elected by the
board of township supervisors here-1
inafter provided for at their regular
meeting in June, one thousand nine
hundred and seven, and at their reg
ular meeting in June of each and
every year thereafter, one or more
superintendents of roads in each of
the respective townships in the coun
ty, which said superintendent, or su
perintendents, shall be paid such com
pensation as may be fixed b the said
board of township road supervisors,
and to be paid out of the township
road fund, and -who after June, one
thousand nine hundred and seven,
shall hold office for one year, or un
til his successor has been elected and
qualified, as provided for in this act:
Provided, further, that the said su
perintendent or superintendents of
roads may at any time be removed
by the board of township road su
pervisors, after having been given
ten days' notice and a hearing, when,
in the opinion of the board, there
exist good and sufficient causes for
such action, and for malfeasance and
misconduct in office he may be re
moved by them without further no
tice than may be necessary in order
to give him a hearing.
Section 2. That section three of
said act be, and the same is hereby,
expressly repealed and the following
inserted in lieu thereof: That it shall
be the duty of the said superintend
ent or superintendents of roads, with
the advice of an under the super
vision and direction of, the board of
township road supervisors, and sub
ject to the approval of said board,
to supervise, direct, and have charge
of the maintenance of and building
of all public roads in his township,
and he shall give a good and lawful
bond satisfactory to the said board
of township road supervisors, for
two hundred dollars as a guarantee
of the faithful and honest discharge
of the duties of his office, which bond
shall be registered in the office of the
register of deeds and filed with the
clerk of the superior court and it
shall be the duty of such superin
tendent of roads to submit to said
board of township road supervisors
a quarterly report, or as often as
said board shall desire a report, con
cerning the work in progress and
moneys expended, and he shall sub
mit a quarterly report on the condi
tion of the public roads and bridges,
and plans for their improvement.and
he shall include tn this report an in
ventory of the tools, implements,and
other equipments on hand.
Section 3. That the eighth sec
tion of said act be amended by
striking out all after the word
"out" in line eight of said section,
and adding in lieu thereof the fol
lowing: "under the direction, and
supervision and with the approval of
the said board of township road su
pervisors." Section 4. That the ninth section
of said act be amended by striking
out the word "annually" in line
four of said section, and inserting in
lieu thereof the word "quarterly";
and by adding after the word "quo
rum" at the end of said section the
following: "The said board of town
ship road supervisors shall have
charge of the maintenance and
building of all public roads in their
respective townships, and shall have
full and complete control and super
vision of all work done thereon.
Section 5. That section twelve of
said act be amended by striking out
the words "county commissioners"
in line twenty-six of said section, and
inserting in lieu thereof the words
"board of township road supervis
ors," and by striking out the word
"commissioners," in line twenty
eight of said section and inserting in
lieu thereof the word "supervis
ors." Section G. That section fifteen of
said act be amended by striking out
all of said section after the word
"hereunder" in line eight of said
section and inserting in lieu thereof
at the end of said section the follow
ing: "That all accounts against the
road fund of the several townships
shall be itemized, and verified, ac
cording to law, by the superintend
ent of toads and passed upon and
approvedby the board of towhship
road supervisors, and filed by the
secretary of said board, and when so
approved the chairman of said board
shall i3sue and sign his warrant upon
the treasurer for the payment there
of, said warrant to be countersigned
by the secretary of said board, and
charge the same to the proper town
ship road fund.
Section 7. That section twenty-one
of said act be amended by striking
out the words "said county", in line
twenty of said section and inserting
in lieu thereof the words "the state
of North Carolina"; and by striking
out the words "to be used in build
ing bridges, culverts, or free high
ways and public roads" in lines
twenty-one and twenty-two of said
sections and inserting in lieu thereof
the words "to do either public or
private work."
Section 8. That section twenty-
three of said act be amended by
striking out the words "county sur
vevor" in lines two and three there
of and inserting in lieu thereof the
words "board of township road supervisors."
Section 9. That section twenty-
six, as provided for by chapter seven
hundred and thirty-six of the laws
of one thousand nine hundred and
five, be and same is hereby express
ly repealed.
Section 10. That all laws and
clauses of laws in conflict with this
act are hereby expressly repealed.
Section 11. That thi3 act shall be
in force from and after its ratifica
tion. In the General Assembly read three
times and ratified, this the 2nd day
of March, A. D., 1907.
Francis D. Winston,
President of the Senate.
E. J. Justice,
Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives. Examined and found correct.
Cox, for Committee.
The University College of Medi
cine, of Richmond, Virginia, is re
flecting credit on Virginia and the
South by maintaining standards as
high as Northern Colleges, and re
fusing to avail itself of privileges
because of "the backwardness of the
South."
On the 18th of April we printed in
full the Halifax county road law
passed by the last General Assembly.
We secured a copy of the law from
Secretary of State at some expense,
but we were triad to eive it to our
Halifax county readers as a matter
of special interest to all the people
of thj county. By request of a
number of subscribers we are print
ing it again in this issue.
There is good improvement in the
postal laws. Since July 1st it has
not been necessary to place an extra
ten cent stamp on a letter for special
delivery, it being only necessary to
write on the letter "Special Deliv
ery." This is followed by the privil
ege of pasting printed matter on a
postal card, and also the privilege of
writing on the side which bears the
address. The writing must be con
fined to the left hand third of the
card.
Tern DIxoa's New Book..
The publishers have announced
that "The Traitor," Mr. Thomas
Dixon's new novel, will be out the
25th of this month. Considerable
interest centers about it, for it will
tell of the breaking up of the ku-klux-klan
and the birth of the new
South. It is the third of the trilology
of stories dealing with the South af
ter the war.
" 'The Traitor,' " writes Mr. Dixon
in his preface, "is the third volume
of 'The Leopard Spots' 'Clansman'
series of Southern novels.
"'The Clansman' ended with the
political triumph of the 'Ku-Klux-Klan,'
or 'Invisible Empire.
" 'The Traitor' opens with the or
der of dissolution by General For
rest, the commander-in-chief, after
the elections of 1869 and treats of the
periods of the klan's degeneracy into
the fierce neighborhood feuds which
disgraced the piedmont section of
the South.
"The race problem is not discuss
e I in this book except incidentally
as a motive in the deadly struggle of
loyal and scalawag white leaders for
tne mastery or doutnern lire, it is
a story of love and hate, heroism and
treachery among my own people in
the days that tried men's souls."
The story is "dedicated to the men
of the South who suffered exile, im
prisonment and death for the daring
s irvice they rendered our country as
citizens of The Invisible Empire."
makes the stomach right and allays in
flammation nnd- nvovpnt.s irrifntim-i
Cascasweet makes the baby happy and ne treasurer of the county shall pay
well, bold by E. T. Y hitehoad & Co. said warrant when presented and
State of Ohio, City of To:.f.do,
Lit a s County.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath he is
senior partner of the iirm 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 bv the use of Hall's Catarrh
Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this Gt-h day of Decem
ber, A. 1). ISM.
A. W. GLEASON,
(Seal) Notaey Ixalic.
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ally, and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Send
for testimonials free. Sold by all drug
ists 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for
constipation.
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NOTICE.
Having qualified as executors of
the la.st will and testament of Rebecca
I Purrington, deceased, late of Hal
ifax county, N. C, we hereby notify
all persons havincr claims acrainst the
j estate of said deceased to present
tnem tor payment to us or to our at
torneys, Kitchin & Smith, on or be
fore July 12th, 11)03, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their re
covery. All persons indebted to said
estate will please make immediate
settlement.
July 11th, 1907.
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VY. It. Bond,
, 7-11-Gt Per Kitchin & Smith.
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Notice.
Having qualified a a.:!-.:- ; f
of Elizabeth Goodridi, Cw 1 : ",
01 Halifax County, N. C. : -
notlfv oil - Ivn : ' l,' 1
against the estate of
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immediate settlement. ' "
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