Dr. Kent Explains Changes in Hunting Law, Use of Convicts on Turnpike, 1911

From the Lenoir News, January 1911

Dr. A.A. Kent, Caldwell’s representative in the Legislature, spent last Saturday at home returning to Raleigh Sunday. Dr. Kent has had the game law for Caldwell changed that rabbits and squirrels may be killed at any time and quail may be killed from Dec. 1^st to January 20^th, instead of January 2st as the law now reads.

The charter of the Lenoir & Blowing Rock Turnpike was also amended as our readers know, by which the state will furnish 50 to 75 convicts to work on the road and take stock in the road in payment for the labor thus performed. The company will be required to furnish implements for the hands to work with and the state will be paid $1.50 per day in stock for each hand furnished. This is a very important measure and insures the completion of the work on the road at an early date.