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MAKESMONEY FOR STATE North Carolina Will Net $100,000 Profits on Her Penitentiary for the Year. ARE BUILDING A FINE ROAD Wilkesboro-Jefferson Turnpike is to be One of the Finest Mountain Highways in Country. (Special to The Times-Dispatch.) RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 3.-The directors of the State penitentiary, who have just closed their December meeting, say they will pay into the State treasury by January 1st $100,000 as net profits over running expenses of the Institution for the past year. They decided to Increase the force of convicts at work on the Wilkesboro-Jefferson Turnpike, with a view to completing it within a year. They claim it is to be one of the finest mountain roads in America. Rev. T. B. Davis, of Bethel Hill, has accepted a call to become assistant pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, Rev. J. C. Masse being the regular pastor. Charters were granted by the Secretary of State to-day for four new stock companies as follows: Tripple City Realty Company, of Burlington, authorized capital $100,000; John Cook principal incorporator. W. T. Carlton Lumber Company, Lattimore, N. C., capital $12,000; principal incorporators W. T. Carlton and W. B. Gattys. The Cliffdale Telephone Company, of Rutherford county, capital $5,000; principal incorporator, Ed. Thompson. The Tribune Publishing Company, of Rutherfordton, capital $5,000; J. P. Manning and E. M. Roberson incorporators. RECEIVER NAMED. The North Carolina Corporation Commission appoints W. F. Carter, of Mt. Airy, receiver for the Pilot Banking and Trust Company, of Pilot Mountain, which closed its doors last Saturday. He will take charge of the bank at once. The commission announce that the investigation of the State bank examiner indicates that the bank will pay all liabilities. Mr. C. Jones Iridell of Richmond, has arrived here to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Margaret Tredwell Shipp. and will accompany the remains to Charlotte to-morrow morning for interment. A funeral service was held in Christ's Church at 5 o'clock this afternoon, conducted by Dr. Marshall. The sword of Major Munford Stokes was placed in the Hall of History to-day. It cost $1,000, and was presented to him by the officers and men of his command In the United States army during the war with Mexico, being loaned to the Hall of History by his daughter, Mrs. C. N. Hunt, of North Wilkesboro. Major Stokes was killed during the first year of the Civil War. Rev. G. F. Smith, for the past four years pastor of the Edenton Street Methodist Church, but made presiding elder of the Warrenton District by the recent conference, has arranged to move his family to Littleton. Rev. G. T. Adams, the retiring. pastor of Central Methodist Church, was presented with a gold medal last night by the Epworth League of that congregation. He goes to the Centenary Church In Newbern.
