The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-25
The TRUCKERS.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THEIR AS
ISOLATION YESTERDAY.

The Oficers Re-elected-Ffne Results Of
the Employment of q Shipping Master.
Three-FOurths Of q Million of Dollars
Worth of Straw berries Shipped This Sea.
contemplation in Refrigerator Service
for Next Season.
The annual convention of the East
Association wa held at the court house
in this city yesterday and was called to
order at IL a. m. by the president,
Mayor w. L. Hill, of Warsaw.
The secretary, Mr.. D. II. Harnly, of
Chadbourn, editor Of the Truckers and
Planters Journal, was at his post.
President Hill introduced Captain
Ed. Wilson Manning, president Of the
New Hanover Fruit Growers and
Truckers Association, who was elected
to make a welcoming address in behalf
of the local association. Captain Man
ming said:
THE pleasurable duty of extending
a welcome to you has beer assigned to
me and while I esteem it a great and
undeServed honor to occupy so distin-
guished and conspicuous a position, /
shrink from he duty because of my
inability to clothe it in language such
as 1 think this important meeting de-
serves. Your organization is in it's in
fancy and scarcely known to any but
those who have sought it's benefits; but
for this fact this city Of the Cape Fear
section, 50 proverbial for it's hospitality,
would today be attired in great beauty
ito honor your convention and with open
arms give you a cordial welcome.
Il trust the time will soon come when
your value to the farming interests of
the entire country will be known and
read of all men; that you will stand in
your true light and be recognized, not
only as fruit and truck growers, but
wealth growers of this great country.
In the name of our New Hanover Coun-
ty association, gentlemen, I bid you
a hearty welcome"
CAPITAL Manning'S remarks We're re-
celVed with applause. Mr.. j. A. Brown,
of C~hadbOurn, chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the association, then
responded in behalf of the East Caro-
lima Fruit Growers and Truckers AS
sOciatiOn. He said it afforded him
pleasure to acknowledge this cordial
welcome by the New Hanover associa-
ton and the city Of Wilmington, which
before has thrown her arms Wild open
to show her hospitality. She had re-
Gently o. herself great credit in her
hospitality to the Southern Baptist
convention and had often shown other
bodies the hospitality for which she is
famous but this is the first time she
has opened her arms to the tillers of
the soil. He aid We are glad to be
here to receive the hospitality which
She offers us and to receive the warm
welcome which Captain Manning be-
speaks. 1t is true, as Captain Manning
says, that our association is in it's in
fo nov hui xrr- lr1r~o - -y;1l H. I.@+4~-
known in the future for the great and
important work in which it is engaged.
We again thank you, gentlemen, for
your warm welcome." (Applause.)
Captain Manning said he had forgot
ten to state that the New Hanover as
ISOLATION extends an invitation to the
members of this association to take
dinner at The Orion at p. m. ZAP
plause.1
Captain w. P. Oldham said Captain
Manning had also forgotten to inform
the conventiOnthat the Wilmington Sea-
coast railroad and the steamer Will
mington had reduced their rates to 25
cents for the round trip for such of
the members of the association who de-
sired to take a trip to the seaside. Zap
plause.l
Inc Secretary then called the roll of
delegates from the various sub-associa-
AloIIS, WHICH dS DIS lOllONS.
GoldsborO-T. b. Parker, H. D. Ham,
H. A. Pennock.
Warsaw-O. P. Middleton, F. G. Mid
dleton. w. L. Hill.
Faison-H. j. Faison, r. A. Moore.
J. A. Shine, I. L. Faison, A. T. Currie,
Luther Taylor, L. H. Martin, J. F.
Hill.
Rocky Point-w. H. French, W. A.
Brown, J. @. Bell, T. j. Armstrong.
Mt. OLIVE. A. Westbrook, w. F.
English, B. A. Hallett, j. D. Bell, E. J.
Martin, N B. Byrd, j.. B. oliver, j. r.
Smith.
New Hanover-G. w. Westbrook,
Sol. j Jones, B. S. Montford.
Wallace. H. Westbrook, w. ].
Boney, r. @. Hall.
B~urgaw-J. H.. Moore, A. H. Paddi-
son, w. M. Hand, S. w. Troublefield.
Teachey-J. c.. Mcmillan, w. D.
Sloan, M. P. Turner, B. F.. Russell.
Chadbourn-J. A. Brown, T. H. Rams
bottom, B. H. Harnly, A. F. Coultas,
H. L. Struthers, r. E. L. Brown.
Magnolia-W. D. Wilkins, w. J.
Usher.
Rose Hill-C. M. Steinmetz, D. w.
Russell, T. w. Russell, r. A. Wilkins,
Jere Henderson, J. c.. Williams, C. Har-
rell, w. II. Russell, J. G. Jones, Maury
Wood, J. T. Pope, B.. F. Mathews, L.
H. Bradshaw.
ClintOn-J. II. Best.
The minute of the last meeting of
the association, held at Mt. Olive, We're
read and approved. Reports were
then announced in order.
Mr.. j. S. Westbrook, of Faison,
chairman of the board Of directors,
said they had no written report to
make.
The report of the shipping master,
Mr.. H. T. Bauman, was called for and
he was present and submitted statis-
ties of the berry shipment for the sea-
son of 1897, and read his report from
typewriter copy, as follows:
Mr.. w. l.. Hill, President, and Gentle
men of the Eastern Carolina Truck
and Fruit Growers Association:
/ herewith submit my report as
shipping master Of your association for
the season of 1897, showing in detail
the entire movement of the strawber-
ry crop; the various markets to which
Said crop was consigned; prices OBJ
tained: the great advantages YOU have