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VOL. III.
RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1907.
NO . 41
LETTER FROM BILKINS.
JHlkins Takes a Sleigh Ride Bob in
Harness Again The Late Snow a
Great Temptation Betsy in Town
Getting Spring Clothing and At
tending all "Below Cost" Sales
She AVill Run a Country General
Store and Boarding-House at Bil
kinsville In thfe Legislature.
Correspondence Raleigh Enterprise.
Bilkinsville, N. C, Feb. 7th.
Deer Editur: I now seat myself
tu writ you agin. Hit seams the
peepul ov this naburhood can't git
erlong without hearin' f rum yore
corresphondent once in a while.
The late snow storm, mixed with
hale wuz so temptin' that I had tu
take Bob out ov hiz cave ah' take a
slay ride. Bob had four cow bells
hung tu hiz brest, an' az the slay
glided over the slick bed ov snow,
the bells went gingle, gingle, gingle,
an' on we sped, towards Milburney.
At that butif ul summer resort we
halted ter take a look at the falls,
which wuz kivered with ice, frozen
solid, the warter runnin' under the
ice, the sun shinin' on hit, made hit
look exackly like a "dam of dia
monds," showin' opalscent, korrus
katin', cintilatin' colors a ranebow
not bein' in hit with sutch a butif ul
site. Me an' Bob stared an' stared
at the lovely visyon till we could not
hardly take our eyes off on hit. But
finally I pulled Bob away an' turned
his hed towards the Legislatur an'
thought we could do better by comin'
back ter the Capital City, at which
we arrived at sun-down. After put
tin' Bob "up," I went to the Legis
latur to here the debate. The com
mitty on "keepin' hogs f rum under
churches" had just reported a bill
that will furever keep even the raz-zor-back
hog out f rum under coun
try churches. A quarter-inch me3h
wire nettin' wuz reckommended,
which wuz adopted. The debate on
squirrel shootin' then cum on. And
shooters had tu wate till a young
squirrel got big enuff ter cut a hick
ory nut six weeks old before he (tne
squirrel) wuz big" enuff to leave hiz
mother to be shot in the spring-time.
This bill had to be past ter keep
Johnston County frum goin' to the
Whig 'party, bekase the squirrels
were eatin' awl the spring roastin'
ears near the swamp, an' nobody
could shoot them till the law wuz
changed. But Johnston will cum up
next eleckshun with a reckord
breaking Dimocratic majority.
Betsy, havin' sed so mutch erbout
the Raleigh merchants ads where
they air "selling below cost," that
she iz cumin' ter town ter "lay in"
In stock ov spring clo thin'. She will
, run a gineral store an' take eggs
an' other things in trade. Betsy will
open In front ov the cote house at
Bilkinsville, an' will awlso keep a
boardin' house. She iz goin' ter be
independent, so she kin feed herself
an' the cildren when me an' Bob
takes that trip eround the wurld.
Yours az ever,
ZEKE BILKINS.
The Senate has agreed to vote on
February 20 th on the resolution de
claring that Senator Smoot is hot en
titled to his seat. Why not on March
3, 1909? His term will expire then.
Why be in so great a ' hurry? -New
York World.
THE LEGISLATURE.
The Proceedings of the House and
Senate.
Bills Introduced.
To improve efficiency of justices
of peace. Jacobson.
Amend Revisal, relative to stud
horses running at large in Hatteras
township, Dare County. Pugh.
Amend Revisal, 3733, relative to
drunkenness. Gordon.
Appoint Justices of peace for Mar
tin County. Whitley.
Facilitate transfers of real prop
erty. Vann.
Provide for election of board of
education and superintendent of pub
lic instruction for Union County.
Price. .
Appoint justices of peace for
Cleveland. Mull.
Extend corporate limits of Wades
boro. Lockhart.
Repeal parts of Act of 1903, rela
tive to sawdust in Yancey County,
adding Mitchell. Byrd.
Amend McDowell road law. Craw
ford. Amend charter of Clinton. Owen.
Incorporate town of Ronda in
Wilkes. Bryant.
Appoint C P. Campbell, justice of
peace in Nantahala township, Swain
County. Gibbs.
Incorporate Ramseur graded school
district in Randolph County. Fou
shee. y ;.,;'..- y:- -v, .
For relief of three widows of Pas
quotank, placing them on pension
roll. Ehringhaus.
To regulate charges in Pullman
cars in North Carolina. Burleson.
To regulate charges for. long dis
tance telephones in North Carolina.
Burleson.
To protect passengers on railroads
in North Carolina. Burleson.
Authorizing commissioners of town
of Jonesboro to issue bonds to estab
lish light and water plant. Seawell.
To fix thetime for ordering terms
of Superior Courts in Nash County.
Thome.
To appoint F. S. Webb a justice of
the peace in Bingham township.
Orange County. Graham.
Authorizing Voters of Winston and
other townships in Forsyth County
to aid in construction of electric or
other road from Winston to High
Point. Buxton (by request)
Permitting trustees of Methodist
Church at Morganton to remove and
re-inter certain remains of dead
people. Davis.
To create a new echool district in
Jackson township,' Nash County.
Thome.
To fix the salaries of county offi
cers in Pitt County. Fleming.
To amend section 3374, relating
to persons who shall knowingly en
tice away from others the servants
employed by the latter under con
tract. Drewry.
To amend section 975 of the re
visal and increase the authority of
Cherokee Indians to trade and barter
in their own name and on their own
account. Breese.
To allow married women of in
sane husbands to dispose of the
property of their husbands without
the signature of the latter. Breese.
To punish interference with trade
and commerce. Reid.
; Petitions were presented in favor
of compulsory education and referred.
Also a claim of Mrs. M. A. Bled
soe, of Raleigh, against the State of
North Carolina.
Calendar Bills Passed.
S. B. 536 Amending the road law
of Stanley County. Sent to the
House.
S. B. 545- For the improvement
of the roads of Henderson County.
Sent to the house.
S. B. 544 Authorizing Pitt Coun
ty to issue bonds. Sent to House.
S. B. To pay Mrs. M. S. Calvert
for Stenographic work. Sent to
House.
S. B. 613 Authorizing change of
name of Leaksville-Spray Academy to
"Institute." Sent to House.
S. B. 610 Authorizing trustees of
Kernersville to apply certain funds to
erection of a school building. Sent
to: House.""';.
H. B. 4 52, S. B. 4 3 5 To increase
pay of jurors in Montgomery County.
S. B. 319 To amend chapter 83,
Acts 1901, private laws, relating to
charter of Weldon. Sent to House.
S. B. 533 Authorizing Greensboro
Market Street Church to re-inter re
mains of dead. Sent to House.
II. B. 602 , S. B. 5 8 3 For the re
lief of Commissioners of McDowell
County.
U. B. Ml, S. B. 567 Authorizing
Orange County Commissioners to ap
ply certain surplus funds to general
purposes.
S. B. 537 -Amending charter of
the town of Carnegie. Sent to House.
H. B. 421, S. B. 40 3 For the im
provement of Walker Memorial Hos
pital at Wilmington.
H. B. 509, S. B. 510 Changing
the dividing line between Lee and
Whiteville townships in Columbus
County.
S. B. 425 Abolishing office of
public works at Tarboro. Sent to
House.
S. B. 535 To appoint tax collec
tors in school districts of Catawba
County. Sent to House.
H. B. 432, S. B. 339 Amending
chapter 2, secton 24, Acts 1905,
relating to increase of pay for jurors
in Jones County.
H. B. 541, S. B. 57 7 Amending
charter of Manhattan Railway,
Flume and Transportation Company.
H. B. 420, S. B. 40 2 Authorizing
Y. M. C. A. of Wilmington to issue
bonds.
S. B. 1 3 Incorporating Whet
stone Lodge, No. 515, A. F. and A.
M. Sent to House.
S. B. 492 Amending charter of"
Forsyth Banking and Trust Com
pany. Sent to House.
II. B. 439, S. B. 597 Amending
chapter 57, Acts 1903.
H. B. 497, S. B. 40 8 Amending
section 61 of the Revisal.
II. B. 150, S. B. 222 Regulating
pay of jurors in Cherokee County.
II. B. 512, S. B. 410 To make
general election law apply to Harnett
County.
H. B. 505, S. B. 409 Amending
section 1311, increasing number of
commissioners of Wilson County.
New Laws" Ratified.
The Lieutenant Governor has sign
ed the following enrolled bills and
they are now law:
H. B. 566, S. B. 161 Amending
the charter of the town of Bulington.
, H.' B. 145, S. B. 249 To protect
primary elections, etc., in Union
County.
H. B. 145, S. B. 203 Regulating
the pay of jurors in Nash County.
H. B. 293, S. B. 292 Amending
chapter 66, section 2763, Revisal.
H. B. 88, S. B. 178 Regulating
pay of jurors in Beaufort County.
H. B. 63, S. B. 420 Regulating
terms of Supreior Court in Columbus
County.
H. B. 579, S. B. 266 incorporat
ing the town of Spruce Pines.
II. B. 194, S. B. 304 To prevent
insurance companies and prevent di
version of funds for political pur
poses, etc.
H. B. 53, S. B. 180 Repealing
chapter 370, private laws 1905.
H. B. 306, S. B. 52 2 Establishing
a liquor dispensary at Windsor, Ber
tie County.
Faith News.
Correspondent Raleigh Enterprise.
Faith, N. C, Jan. 30, 1907. A
beautiful home wedding occurred
here to-day at the home of the bride's
parents when Miss Sallie Raney was
married to Mr. Luther Holshouser.
The attendants were Mr. Martin
Shine and Miss Cora Barger, Mr. Jno.
Peeler and Miss Ida Julian. Rev.
V. Y. Boozer officiated. The young
couple will live in Faith, where they
own a nice home of their own.
Fifteen thousand cubic yards of
granite blocks and rubble stone are
being hauled from the quarries and
piled up at the side of the big road
leading from Salisbury to Mt. Pleas
ant to be crushed up next month by
the county road force to make good
roads. These square blocks are lay
ing around the quarries here by the
hundreds of car-loads and can be
bought for almost nothing.
The J. T. Wyatt Granite Company
is opening up the largest ledges in
this country on the mountain and
putting in a short tram railroad
track to run their granite from the
quarry to the cutting yard.
Fifteen thousand feet of curbing
is now being shipped from here to
Asheville, N. C, window sills for
Burlington, N. C, and millstones for
Statesville, N. C.
"VENSUS."
In Case of Fire.
A Germantown man was talking
about the famous Dr. Henry Van
Dyke, of Princeton.
"When Van Dyke was a little
chap," he said, "I went to school .with
him. .
"One day before school closed for
the Christmas holidays, we expected
a visit from a certain director. This
director always questioned the chil
dren about one thing namely, what
they'd do in case of fire. So the
teacher coached us all the morning
before he came, preparing us finely
on the course to be taken if Are
should break out.
"Well, sure enough the director
called, but when he got up to address
us, he said:
" It is good to be here at this
jolly Christmas season among so
many rosy, smiling young faces. You
are a very bright looking lot of chil
dren, and I wonder what you would
do now if I were to make you a little
speech on the best way to celebrate
Christmas?'
"Quick as a flash young Van Dyke
piped out:
" 'Form in single file and march
quickly out.' "