The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-29
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, n. c., June %.
The state today authorized the Dur
ham hosiery mill, of which ]. S. Man.
ming is president, to increase its capital
stock from 5000. 900 to $500, 900. The
plant is to be doubled in capacity.
A charter was granted the Arson
Cotton Seed Oil Company, which will
have its plant at Wadesboro, w. c..
Hardison and others being the stock
holders.
Francis ID. Winston, who has in
charge the organization of white SUI
premacy clubs in the state, and whose
work along that line has been very
Jealous and successful, said today thai
in all the counties ave ten there are
now clubs. In Dare, which has only
five townships and which is one of the
smallest counties in the state, there
are now no fewer than thirteen clubs,
and in the nine townships of BERTHE
there are twenty clubs In Raleigh
last night a large club was organized,
and Monday that work will be carried
out all over the county. In the ten
counties in which there are at present
no clubs the work will also be pressed,
so that by the middle of July there
will be at least 1,400 club in the state.
Mr.. Winston regards them as the most
powerful levers in the work if increas-
ing the force of the supporters of the
franchise amendment.
Rain was not needed at all in this
section of the state, but great quaint
ties fell early this morning, almost ex-
actly 2 inches between 4 and 9 O'Clock.
Damage to lowland crops is feared.
The week now ending has been too cool
for cotton. The temperature was as
low as 60 degrees.
1t is decided that the First Presby-
terrain church here is to be dedicated
the third Sunday in September and
hat Rev. DR.. w. wv. Moore, president
of the Union Theological seminary, at
Richmond, shall preach the sermon
The church is to be covered with ivy.
1t is a low massive building, at one of
the corners of the capitol square and
when the ivy has covered it the effect
will be very fine. Christ church and
the Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege are almost entirely covered with
ivy. All the memorial save
one are in place in the Presbyterian
church. That one is to Rev. DR.. Will
liam McPharters, the first pastor. He
was for a number of years pastor to
the city, and was paid in salary by
be the municipality.
Principal John E. Ray, of the state
institution for the blind, has become
convinced mat there are a great NUM-
Der of blind children who ought to -ges
the benefit if its training. He endeav-
ored to get lists of the blind from
teachers and ministers, but secured
only a few names. Now he has made
a similar request of the physicians of
the state and names are rapidly COM
ing in. Nine were received yesterday.
None Of these were known of before.
Several prominent Masons went over
TO Oxford today to attend the celebra-
ton of ST. Johns day at the orphan
asylum, where the grand lodge was
present and where the feature of the
day was the annual address by Hon.
Alfred NJ. Waddelf, of Wilmington, one
of the most graceful and forceful
speakers in the state. The speech of
welcome was by DR.. T. E. White, of
Oxford.
DR.. j. w. Aver, of Raleigh, left to-
day for Europe, to be absent three
months.
Labor in this city is rapidly organic
ing. There is a movement in various
part of the state a long this line. New
England labor organizers have for
weeks been at work among cotton mill
employees.