A MANUAL OF NORTH CAROLINA I SSU t -> BY THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION FOR THE USE OF Members of the General Assembly SESSION 1915 COMPILED AND EDITED BY R. D. W. CON NOR SECRETARY NORTH CAROLINa'hISTORICAL COM M ISSION RALEIGH EDWARDS^. BROUCHTON PRINTING COMPANY STATE PRI NTE RS 1915 1915 PREFACE. This volume is issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission in order to furnish to the members of the General Assembly of 1915, in convenient form, information about the State which otherwise would require much investigation in many different sources. It is also hoped that it may prove of value and service to others who desire to have in succinct form such data about North Carolina. Similar Manuals, issued in 1903, 1905, and 1907 by the Secretary of State, and in 1909, 1911, and 1913 by the North Carolina Historical Commission, have proven of very general utility and interest. Re- quests for copies have come not only from all over North Carolina, but from most of the States of the Union, and the demand for them has been so great that all of these editions except those for 1909 and 1913 have long been exhausted, and it is now extremely difficult to secure a copy. The Historical Commission trusts that the members of the General Assembly of 1915 will find this volume of service to them in their work. NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION. J. Bryan Grimes, Chairman, Raleigh. W. J. Peele Raleigh M. C. S. Noble Chapel Hill Thomas M. Pittman Henderson D. H. Hill Raleigh R. D. W. Connor, Secretary, Raleigh. OFFICIAL REGISTER FOR 1915. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. Elijah L. Daughtridge President of the Senate Edgecombe. Emmett R. Wooten Speaker of the House of Representatives. .Lenoir. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Locke Craig Governor Buncombe. J. Bryan Grimes Secretary of State Pitt. W. P. Wood State Auditor Randolph. Benjamin R. Lacy State Treasurer ..Wake. James Y. Joyner Superintendent of Public Instruction Guilford. T. W. Bickett Attorney General ..Franklin. OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE DEPARTMENTS. department of the governor. Locke Craig__ Governor Buncombe. John P. Kerr Private Secretary Buncombe. Miss May Jones Clerk Buncombe. J. J. Mackay Clerk Wake. COUNCIL OF STATE. Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Superintendent of Public Instruction. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. J. Bryan Grimes Secretary of State Pitt. George W. Norwood Grant Clerk Wake. William S. Wilson Corporation Clerk Caswell. • J. E. Sawyer Clerk Wake. Miss Minnie Bagwell Stenographer Wake. Edmund B. Norvell Enrolling Clerk Cherokee. DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE AUDITOR. W. P. Wood Auditor Randolph. E. H. Baker Chief Clerk Franklin. Baxter Durham Tax Clerk Wake. Mrs. Fannie Smith_ ..Pension Clerk and Stenographer Wake. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. Benjamin R. Lacy Treasurer. Wake W. F. Moody ..Chief Clerk.. Mecklenburg. A. H. Arrington. Teller ..Nash. Wake. it**. W. W. Newman Institution Clerk Miss Eva Waters Stenographer . Lenoir. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. James Y Joyner .Superintendent of Public Instruction Guilford. C. E. McIntosh Chief Clerk.... ...Lincoln. A. S. Brower Clerk of Loan Fund Cabarrus. Madison. E E. Sams . Superintendent of Teacher-training N C. Newbold Rural Agent Beaufort. N W Walker ...State Inspector Public High Schools Orange. L. C. Brogden— _ Rural Agent - Wayne. <5 6 Official Register, 1913. State Board of Education.—Governor, President; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Secretary ; Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney-General. State Hoard of Examiners.—James Y. Joynbr, Chairman ex officio; C. E. McIntosh, Secretary; II. E. Austin, N. W. Walker, \V. A. Graham, Zebulon V. Jtjdd. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. Laurence W. Young Adjutant General Buncombe. Gordon Smith Assistant Adjutant General ...Wake. Miss Ethel Wynne .Secretary __ Wake. Major Henry Page Inspector-Instructor.. Med. Corps, U. S. A. Capt. R. C. Langdon Inspector-Instructor Inft., U. S. A. Capt. Bernard Sharp Inspector-Instructor Inft., U. S. A. Capt. Alexander Greig, Jr.. Inspector-Instructor Coast Art., U.S.A. First Lieut. Creed R. Cox.. Inspector-Instructor. _Cav., U. S. A. department of justice. T. W. Bickett Attorney-General ..Franklin. T. II. Calvert Assistant Attorney-General. Wake. Mrs. Hattie S. Gay Stenographer _ Wayne. corporation commission. E. L. Travis ...Chairman Halifax. William T. Lee Commissioner Haywood. George P. Pell Commissioner .Forsyth. A. J. Maxwell Chief Clerk Craven. Miss E. G. Riddick Assistant Clerk Gates. J. S. Griffin. Assistant Clerk Guilford. Miss Meda Adams Assistant Clerk Haywood. S. A. Hubbard Bank Examiner Rockingham. L. E. Covington Assistant Bank Examiner Scotland. department of labor and printing. M. L. Shipman Commissioner Henderson. George B. Justice .Assistant Commissioner Mecklenburg. Miss Daisy Thompson Stenographer Wake E. M. Uzzell & Co ) Edwards & Broughton State Printers [ Wake. Printing Company.. J STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. W. A. Graham Commissioner, ex officio Chairman Raleigh. F. P. Latham. First District ..Belhaven. K. W. Barnes .Second District. Lucama. R. L. Woodard.. Third District Pamlico. Clarence Poe ..Fourth District Raleigh. R. W. Scott.... Fifth District Haw River. A. T. McCallum .Sixth District Red Springs. C. C. Wright Seventh District Hunting Creek. William Bledsoe Eighth District _ . Gale. W. J. Shuford... ..Ninth District... Hickory. A. Cannon Tenth District Horse Shoe. Officers and Staff. W. A. Graham Commissioner. Elias Carr _ Secretary and Purchasing Agent. Miss Sarah D. Jones ...Bookkeeper. D. G. Conn.... .._ ..Bulletin Superintendent. B. W. Kilgore ..State Chemist, Director Test Farms. Official Register, 1913. 7 J. M. Pickel - Feed Chemist. W. G. Haywood . ..Fertilizer Chemist. J. Q. Jackson Assistant Chemist. E. S. Dewar... Assistant Chemist. E. B. Hart Assistant Chemist. J. R. Mullen , Assistant Chemist. R. W. Collett Assistant Director Test Farms. H. H. Brimley Curator of Museum. T. W. Adickes Assistant Curator. Franklin Sherman, Jr .Entomologist. S. C. Clapp Assistant Entomologist in Field Work. B. B. Flowe Veterinarian. H. P. Flowe Assistant Veterinarian. E. G. Hargett .Assistant Veterinarian. W. N. Hutt Horticulturist. R. G. Hill Assistant Horticulturist. T. B. Parker Director of Farmers' Institutes. Mrs. Carrie Hudgins Garren Assistant to Director of Farmers' Institutes. R. L. Sloan Assistant to Director of Farmers' Institutes. W. M. Allen Pure Food Chemist. E. W. Thornton Assistant Pure Food Chemist. C. E. Bell Assistant Pure Food Chemist. J. K. Plummer Soil Chemist. W. F. Pate ..^. Agronomist in Soils. R. Y. Winters.. Plant Breeding. G. M. Garren Assistant Agronomist in Crops. W. E. Hearn* State Soil Agent, Soil Survey. L. L. Brinkley. Soil Survey. S. O. Perkins Soil Survey. R. C. Jurney Soil Survey. J. L. Burgess Agronomist and Botanist. Miss S. D. Allen Assistant to Botanist. C. H. Waldron Assistant Agronomist and Botanist. Miss Louise A. Rademacher Assistant to Botanist. Dan T. Gray Chief in Animal Industry. W. H. Eaton. Dairy Experimenter. Alvin J. REEDf Dairy Farming. Stanley Combs Assistant in Dairy Farming. E. H. MathewsonJ Tobacco Investigations. C. R. Hudson!. Farm Demonstration Work. T. E. BrowneJ Assistant in Charge of Boys' Clubs. A. K. Robertson^ Assistant in Boys' Clubs. Mrs Jane S. McKimmonJ Assistant in Charge of Girls' Clubs. Miss Margaret Scott! Assistant in Girls' Clubs. F. N. McDowell, Assistant Director Edgecombe Test Farm, Rocky Mount, N. C. F. T. Meacham, Assistant Director Iredell Test Farm, Statesville, N. C. John H. Jepferies, Assistant Director Pender Test Farm, Willard, N. C. F. S. Puckett, Assistant Director Transylvania and Buncombe Test Farms, Swannanoa, N. C. E. G. Moss, Assistant Director Granville Test Farm, Oxford, N. C. DEPARTMENT OP INSURANCE. James R. Young .Commissioner .Vance. S. W. Wade Deputy Carteret. S. F. Campbell Chief Clerk.. Harnett. 'Assigned by the Bureau of Soils, United States Department of Agriculture. tAssigned by the Bureau of Animal Husbandry, United States Department of Agri- culture. Jin cooperation with Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agri- culture. 8 Official Registek, 1913. W. S. Cameron Deputy and Actuary- Wake. W. A. Scott Deputy Guilford. F. M. Jordan Deputy Buncombe. Sin iiw(ioi) Ukockweli. .Deputy Wake. A. I!. Ybrbt. License Clerk Wake. Miss Eva B. Powell Bookkeeper Wake. Miss Ida Montgomery.. Cashier and Stenographer Warren. HISTORICAL COMMISSION. J. Bryan (! rimes Chairman, _ Pitt. W. J. Peele Commissioner.. Wake. Thomas M. Pittman ..Commissioner Vance. M. C. S. Noble Commissioner Orange. 1). 11. Hill Commissioner Wake. K. D. W. Connor Secretary Wake. Miss Marjory Terrell Stenographer Wake. F. A. Olds Collector for Hall of History Wake. Mrs. J. M. Winfree Restorer of Manuscripts Wake. library commission. Louis R. Wilson Chairman Orange. Charles Lee Smith Commissioner Wake. James Y. Joyner Commissioner Guilford. Miles O. Sherrill Commissioner Catawba. C. C. Wright Commissioner Wilkes. Miss Minnie W. Leatherman. Secretary Wake. Miss Alice Rodgers Assistant Wake. BOARD OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Attorney-General. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. C. C. Cherry.. Superintendent Edgecombe. STATE LIBRARY*. Miles O. Sherrill Librarian... _ Wake. Miss Carrie E. Broughton. .Assistant Librarian Wake. Miss Myrtle King Assistant Librarian Wake. trustees of the state library. Governor, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Secretary of State. purchasing committee. Miles O. Sherrill, W. E. Stone, Miss Minnie Leatherman, Marshall DeL. Hay~wood.