Governor's Message Praises State Growth and Reforms
The governor reviews four years of progress including cotton, textile output, education funding, and railroad policy. He urges new taxation reforms, primary elections, criminal procedure changes, stronger corporate regulation, reform school support, and a major administration building. He calls for constitutional amendments including gubernatorial veto power and longer elected terms.
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Vno
General Assembly
North Carolina Railroad
Statesville Office Sees Revenue Rise Despite Spirits Tax Drop
Special report from Statesville shows December 1908 receipts totaling 250190.23 with spirits down after a 1909 prohibition shift. Tobacco and total revenue rose vs December 1907, while overall gain hints at a strong year ahead for the office. Also brief notes on a Thomasville accident, a proclamation directing detention of youths under 16, and Firemen association comments on insurance tax parity.
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Statesville
Roberts
Collector of Internal Revenue
Brown
Editor Poe Succeeds Oates
At a North Carolina Anti Saloon League meeting in the Parks Hotel Raleigh officers elected Pressive Farmer to succeed John A Oates as chair of the executive committee. The group will not seek new general prohibition legislation but will oppose any measure that would undermine the law approved by popular vote last May.
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Tme
Raleigh
Colored Hospital
Goldsboro
Morginton
General Assemble
Corporatin Commission
Interstate Commission
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Covernor
Gore
Ibents
Herty
Walton
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Reform
General Assembly
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North Carolina
Rhode Island
Council of State
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McNeill
Glenn
Stonewall Jackson Reformatory
Concord
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Mecklenburg
Arthur Daniel
Dare
Richard Green
Rockingham
Allen Bailey
Wake
Rowan Luckey
Rowan
John Gordon
Forsyth
J. D. McNeill
National
State Firemen’s Association
Poe
Oates
Anti-Saloon League
Parks Hotel
Pressive
Farmer
John A. Oates
Sisters of Mercy to Establish Hospital in Asheville
Real estate transfer closes Tuesday as Dr. John Hey Williams sells 20 acres on South Main Street Ridgewood to the Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina for 10 dollars. They plan to expand their hospital work already on Starnes Avenue into a fine new facility.
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Asheville
Special
John Hey Williams
Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina
South Main Street
Ridgewood
Sisters of Mercy
Starnes Avenue
Southern Power Company to Enter Salisbury
The Rowan county board of commissioners granted a right of way for Southern Power Company electric lines to cross Rowan entering Salisbury via Albemarle and southern points. The line, the second to reach Salisbury, will cost $100000 or more and will supply abundant power for local industry.
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Salisbury
C. C. Moore
Southern Power Company
Rowan County
Board of Commissioners
Rowan
Albemarle
Barbee Re Arrested In Holt Murder Case
Durham special report states Reuben Barbee was re-arrested Friday after a true bill was found against him for the murder of Engineer J A Holt. He had been discharged two weeks earlier by Mayor P C Graham due to insufficient evidence and is now jailed again.
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Durham
Reuben Barbee
P. C. Graham
J. A. Holt
Fayetteville Assault Leaves Man Severely Hurt
A young white man named Tindall was found badly injured along a Fayetteville road after a drunken quarrel over hunting. He said Luke Moore clubbed him with a gun. Tindall was taken to a local hospital and began to recover speech. In Durham, Detective James W. Ashburn survived an attempted assassination linked to the Holt murder case.
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Fayetteville
Ad Tindall
Tindall
Luke Moore
Moore
Durham
James W. Ashburn
J. A. Holt
Reuben Barbee
P. C. Graham
Church Street
Fatal Fall From Trestle Near Shelby
At about 9 o clock Wednesday morning Bud Brown, 33, of Mount Airy, fell from the Seaboard Air Line trestle over Second Broad river two miles from Shelby while working. His neck was broken and death was nearly instantaneous. The fall occurred on slick cross ties blamed on heavy recent rains.
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Thomasville
Here
Robert L. Rothrock
Shelby
Bud Brown
Mount Airy
Seaboard Air Line
Second Broad River
Brown
Directors Ratify Action of Southern Life Companies
Fayetteville special report: The directors of the Southern Life Insurance Company met and ratified the action by the Southern Life commission with Seminole Securities at the recent Columbia meeting. Asheville special: Buncombe County commissioners in monthly session adopted a resolution urging Buncombe legislators to pass a bill allowing the county to issue 125000 dollars in bonds to cover floating debt.
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Fayetteville
Special
Southern ‘Life ‘ Insurance ‘Company
The
Southern Life
Seminole Securities Company
Columbia
Asheville
Board of Commissioners For
Buncombe County
Buncombe
General Assembly
Forsyth County Schools Receive $6000 From Recorder's Court
Winston-Salem special. The county school board met with J F Griffith J W Pinnix and E W Hauser present. City Treasurer W E Franklin attended with an order from the mayor authorizing payment of 6000 to the county treasurer from recorder's court fines and forfeitures set aside for schools.
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Winston-Salem
Messrs
J. F. Griffith
J. W. Pinnix
E. W. Hauser
W. E. Franklin
Recorder’s Court
Train Through Pee Dee Trestle Causes Wreck Near Wadesboro
The Seaboard Air Line freight No. 30 southbound passed the Pee Dee river bridge 15 miles east of here at 5 p m Thursday. Conductor Fountain and his flagman were injured. Wreck blamed on a broken brake beam.
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Wadesboro
Seaboard Air Line
Pee Dee River
Here
Fountain
Lagman
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