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SELMA JUNCTION CASE. Opening of County Superintendents Convention-Gastonia Banking Co. Considered Insolvent-More than 300 Textile Mills in the State. (Special to The Messenger.) Raleigh, N. C., November 30.-At the opening of the county superintendents convention today, seventy-nine were present, by noon six more had arrived. The programme arranged for today was not touched, because of the absence of Charles L. Coon, the chief figure in the work of today, who was hurriedly called to Salisbury to appear as a witness in a law case. State Superintendent Joyner did not intend to make any remarks, but filled in the gap by reading advance sheets of his annual report. The programme for Thursday was taken up, the first discussion being on rural libraries, how to secure them, preserve them and increase their usefulness, R. D. W. Connor and E. C. Brooks leading discussion. The next subject taken up was county supervision, including the examination of teachers, institutes township meetings, selection of teachers, visiting schools, and courses of study. The convention went in a body to the hall of history and spent an hour there, examining thousands of historical objects which had been collected in the past two years. Attorney General Gilmer, Fred A. Woodard, Argo and Shaffer and Busbee & Bussee appeared for the corporation commission in the Selma Junction case today, Pou and Fuller and Junius Davis representing the Atlantic Coast Line. This case went against the commission in the Wake superior court and the state appealed. The railway broadly contends that the state has no power to require such connection to be made as orders of the Corporation Commission prescribed. A charter is granted Freemens Mutual Benefit Association of Henderson, J. W. Ogarrett and others incorporators. Grand Secretary B. H. Woodell, of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, returned t today from Rockingham, where last night he attended a banquet given by the order at which 300 were present. The lodge at Jonesboro is to be revised and there will be new lodges at Lynn, in Polk county and Haynesville. I The Corporation Commission ordered : today Bank Examiner Ellington to go I to Gastonia and take charge of the Gastonia Banking Company until the I : judge of that district appoints a receiver. Application for such appoint$ ment is to he made at once. The total : resources and liabilities of the bank are $281,000, the capital stock $100,000. The amount due depositors is $136,000. John F. Love is president, Jomes A. Page, I cashier. The commission regards the bank as insolvent on account of excessive loans and undesirable securities. F The state commissioner finds that there are now in North Carolina 304 ) textile mills, an increase of 15 over last . year; 2,178,964 spindles, an increase of 344,543; 48,396 looms, an increase of 3,I 200; 3,477 knitting machines, an inI crease of 284. There are 37,555 eme ployees, an increase of 7,231 over a year ago.
