The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-29
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4 run Stolen From Door or Depot
Baggage Room At the Charleston
Exposition Local Lodge Knights Of
Jon Refused Reinstatement
Messenger Bureau.

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Mr.. and Mrs. II. NJ. FIaglrr le:. here
al 4 O'Clock rais morning Oh the Sea.
beard Air Line for their winter home
at Palm Beach. Florida. They y.stsr-
day attended services at The FIRST Pres
tyterian church.
E. Y. Webb. Esq. Of Shelby, who is
here. brings news IF the IeIy sus6sn
death there yes:s cay pi n. II. Ha.ri-
sOn. OF Bal:i.nCre. Il widely known
commercial trarI.r. Who hai made
Iauch money liz that line II LIsIn. IS.
A daring theft was ccuiIi.t-'i r, 70
early this morning. A baggage wagon
put a trunk a. the doc OF I'll. railway
station. A ;no1Irnt later two u.n
stepped UP and took the trunk a away
They carried IL to a back lot, smashed
IL n took out Wal: thay wanted.
1t was expected that the new SEIZED
uies on the Seaboard Air Line would
become effective yesterday. but there
was not quite time to prepare them
and hence they go into effect next Sun
day.
Attorney General Gilmer's improve
ment is at last quite marked. An op-
Grafton was performed yesterday, which
was very successful.
Grand Secretary Woodell. OF the Odd
lCLl ~ ocSSSD16E lily To-Day
10 organize a lodge, and will also organ
lie a Rebekah lodge at Monroe.
state Treasurer Lacy is now con-
sidering the question whether book
agents are peddlers. His opinion is that
they are.
Governor Aycock goes to Winston
salem December 4th as a delegate 10 the
Baptist state convention, his church at
Goldsboro having elected him He goes
10 nom GUi1la in thA nxyn~~- ~
cember 5th. to make an educational ad-
dress.
Today h report OF the state COM
missioner Of agriculture for 1900 was is
sued. He says the copy a been In
the hands Of the public printers more
than seven months. and the delay an
noys him greatly. The public printers,
it appears. undertake to do more than
they can do.
The commissioner of agriculture has
a letter from secretary Bruner, in
charge II the departments exhibit at
the Charleston exposition. He says he
Is working as fast as possible and that
this state is in this respect far ahead Of
any other in the forestry building. By
Wednesday the draping and painting
In the North Carolina section will be
done and the cases will be unpacked.
Secretary Bruner says the asphalt
walks are being laid in the grounds.
The scaffolding outside the various
buildings is yet standing, but root
work and painting seem to be all that
IL undone as to them. He closes by
saying that while the exposition will
open in time. the exhibits can not be
in place before the middle or end of
January. This state did wisely in Sc
lecting the end Of January as the time
for its week"
The members of the local lodge of
Knights Of Honor are fighting hard for
reinstatement. Their financial secre-
tary did not send their dues after June
Of 1900. as was by chance discovered
last summer. The officials of the SUI
preme lodge are whip-Sawlng about the
matter. the supreme dictator saying
the supreme secretary will reply, and
the latter saying the supreme dictator
will settle the matter. The medical ex-
aminatfons Of the members were sent
on n only six passed. There will be
suits. Of course. There is q practical
refusal to reinstate lodge or the mem
refusal to reinstate the lodge or the
members.