The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-07
THE TEXT BOOK COMMISSION
Not yet Ready to Make It's Report-Re-
hearing Ordered In the Coley Case.
Crosses of Honor Conferred at the
Soldiers Home-The Agricultural
College.
Messenger Bureau,

Raleigh, n. c., June 3.
Late saturday night Governor Ay-
cock officially informed the newspaper
men that the state text book commits
sion had finished its work and that its
report would be prepared and given to
the public today. The governor was
somewhat in error. The report had
not been finished. as there was a ses-
sion of the commission this morning,
which adjourned to hear bids this af-
ternoon on certain books for prices.
The supreme court today ordered a
r~ehearing Of the Coley damage suit to-
morrow. This is the case IN which
Conductor Coley sued the Southern
railway for So, 600 damages for injuries
received while in service at Goldsboro
by which he lost an arm.
An embalming school, under the new
state law. began here today. The pu-
pills are thirty undertakers, from va
rious parts of the state. Under the law
undertakers must be embalmers.
| The board of visitors to the agricul-
tural and mechanical college, created
b ythe new law, met today for the first
J time. All Of its members save n or
I two were on the old board Of trustees,
the term of which expired May 81.
1t is said that the Seaboard Air Line
will build to oxford.
The machine shop and the erecting
| shop OF the Seaboard Air Line here are
closed. In h round house only the
engine cleane are at work, and a
few handy men,"
The listing of taxes here is being
more rapidly done than ever before.
At the soldiers home this afternoon
crosses of honor were presented to the
| fifty-five inmates. The Daughters of
the Co%nfederacy were present in a
body. So was the local camp of on
federate veterans, with it's fife and
drum corps, the state officers n a
large representation of the public. The
address was delivered by Captain c.
B. benson and the badges were pinn-
ed on by Mrs. T. B. Womack and other
Daughters of the Confederacy. The
ceremony was very handsome
There was also a barbecue served in
h spacious and shady grounds of the
home.
The commencement exercises Of the
school for the blind were held here to-
day. Rev. Eugene Daniel prayed, Gov
ernor Aycock delivered the address
and Chairman T. B. Womack. Of the
trustees. presented the diplomas,
This evening the annual concert was
given.
w. A. Dunn, of Scotland Neck, says
the damage by the floods in the Roam
k is not sc great as was fered, save
at the state farm. where the dykes
burst. He says the damage to that
farm is from $40, 900 to $4,000.
The public laws will be issued by the
public printers about June 25th, they
now say; the private laws about the
middle of August.
Bishop Galloway preached the COM
mencement sermon at Trinity college
Durham, today.
At the state university today the
Phi and Di literary societies held their
anniversary meetings.
In his report to the board of agricul-
ture. which is now in control Of the Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical college, Com
missioner o~fAgriculture Patterson says:
1T is well known that h agricultural
side of the college has been dwarfed by
the mechanical, that but a small pro-
portion of the students pursue the ag
ricultural course and that but few OF
those who graduate in the agricultural
school devote themselves afterwards tc
actual farming" He says that the
legislature proposed that the boaro
\ Should remedy this.