The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-26
AT THE ALAMANCF MILLS
THE UNION MEN AND THE hiILL OWN
ERS STILL DETERMINED
No Conflict, but the situation Strained.
Increase I'm Lodges of Odd Fellows.
Promises of a Successful oyster a
son-At the Agricultural College.
state Fair Notes.
Messenger Bureau,

| Raleigh, OCTOBER ~.
| The trustees OF the Methodist orphan
! age here are called to meet next Thurs
| day, TO elect officers and teachers. An
| appeal Is made for bed clothing and
| all sorts of furnishings for the first
building, which is to be completed next
| week. In three eek the contract will
be let for a $4,000 building.
There is a hard fight in the Ninth
! congressional district. It is the only
f., doubtful one.
A. yet the mill operatives who are out
of the Alamance cotton mills are per-
mitted TO occupy the houses owned by
the various mills. in the hope that they
Will ~ work elsewhere This the
mill desire them to get, and de-
: clare they are not blacklisted. The men
out are making threats against those
at work There are deputy sheriffs on
duty So far there is no conflict, but,
Of course, the situation is like a powder
magazine.
During last week Grand Secretary
Woodell tells me. two lodges OF ID
Fellows which became defunct in 1893,
were r~eorganiZed. During that week
charters were granted TO two new
lodges. During this wee applications
for a new lodge at Windsor and for the
reorganization of one at Roxboro were
received There are yet a dozen defuncL
lodges. Next week THE grand secretary
Will organize an -encampment at Dur
ham,.
Shell-fish Commissioner White arrived
today He says the quality of oysters
was never finer and that the quantity
! S He says that as long as
:. he law is enforced there need be no
: ear of the destruction of THE oysters.
| ;uyers from the north are arriving.
{ here Will he a number of new steam
| cnnerleS. is the center of
tie OySter trade. Last year one firm
{ tire shipped 1900 gallons a day.
d Tere are new canneries at Witt, Bell
: hsen. Marshallburg. Swan Quarter
i an City, and there are fifty
" nv houses. White says he has had
: nobay in twenty months. nor nave his
J. deHtieS, a dozen in number, had any.
He says the people in the First dis
| tr1c have plenty of money and are
talkg very little politics.
&c Athe request of the Interstate Cot
L ton Towers' Association, a meeting of
the birth Carolina Association will be
L held ere next week to see whether
Is deleSeS shall be chosen to the inter
u state ait Macon, Ga, No
i VemD Doth. Commissioner of Agricul-
ture atterson is asked to address the
e latter,ody, butt says he will be unable
IN to doc.
You correspondent spent half an
r. noun =sterday afternoon at The Agri-
cuFtui n Mechanical college, and
saw oSS parade of the cadet CORPS,
n four cnpanies. 2S2 cadets in all. About
n one-rorh are not yet uniformed
Therere only $50 rifles. Requisitions
a Tor JUNIORS rifles are in the war de-
raj partmSs' hands, and the rifles are
promis by the end of the month.
n W sch Misunderstanding rified can
~. non artlso promised, so artillery drill
ful can De ught. The drill of the cadets
IS nowlO per cent. better than last
no, year e new instructor. Captain
a Phelps, s. A. is making his iniu-
Re ence antbility felt. Cadet Major Hen.
in ~ Bom1as a good voice and andes
the baton well. The band promises
in 10 be a sd one.
dly At theate fair grounds today was
a busy {. Everything is neat and
tidy. IL buildings, fences, ETC., are
lph all palnu cream olc Many horses
me have ARID, and all the CLASSES ARK
full. ThrMidway" will be a great
the feature. )st of 1t is in new wooder
for b~u1ldlngsThe opening OF the fair a.
to night givsatisfaction.
Opera drs were today placed ir
ain the musicll on the third floor of thu
his Raney nhorial library building
eet, Everyth1n'ill be in readiness for the
first meet there next Tuesday eve.
his ming OF tfNorth Carolina Literary
day AssoclatlorIt is really an historical
for as~Soclatlon,t does not take that nam
I'M because an iociation ait the state uni.
re Versity nOvas it.
We w. J.. Ca. of will be
The the official ce starter alt the state
fair next va
sco- Farmers ahoIdine their cotton re.
IS a fuSlng to taless than 10 CENTS. Thi.
weeks receHwere only 4O1 bales.
Wasj The neutrality-suspicious. meet Senator
Pritchard in Inference at Greensboro
ton:ght