The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-31
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High Point sold $4,000 water works
bonds on Tuesday. The highest bid
was $50, IT'S.
j. 7. Dawson has been appointed
postmaster at Halifax to succeed a ne
gro who was in the office for two or
three years.
Elizabeth City Economist: The es-
t~ablishment of two barrel factories
here is a significant evidence of the
growth Of truck interest in this sec
ton of u state.
Winston Sentinel: The Salem bows
school, over a century old is one of
the things which do not grow feeble
from age, as last nights commence
ment a~bundaatly attested.
Clinton Democrat: Congressman
Charles r. Thomas has appointed Mr..
waiter Z. Prldgen, of Kerr, to a West
Point cadetship. The appointment was
made on competitive examination. The
friends of the young man congratulate
him sincerely upon his success.-Rev.
Junius w. Willard, pastor of Eutaw
Place Baptist church, the leading Bap-
fist church in Baltimore, and the
wealthiest Baptist church in the
southern Baptist convention, visited
his old home in Sampson last week.
Charlotte Observer: Elsewhere in
this paper is a telegram from Senator
Pritchard, ~embodying a telegram to
him from Marion, giving a list of sew
.enteen dwelling houses destroyed, with
their effects, at Bakersville, by last
weeks flood. A special from Marion
IN saturdays pape told of two lives
lost at Bakersville and two in the coun-
ty; of six houses in a settlement near
Bakersviile washed away; of twenty
houses at Roam Mountain station, and
of the destruction of every house in
80 a-I 50
of the village Of Huntsdale-all in
Mitchell county
MooresviIle Enterprise: During the
month of May, in 1897. Mr.. Allen Brown
was bitten on the arm by a spider,
from the effects of which he has suf-
fered at intervals eve since. Along
o the first of the present month
his n began to swell and the flesh
in tender places turned purple and then
blue. For a week Mr.. Brown was sick
and generally depressed, but the sick
ness and swelling has passed off =
he is gaining in strength daily. He
says he gets spotted and is subject to
these attacks during the month of May
each year, and has experienced this
peculiar affliction ever since he was
bitten by the spider.
Mt. Airy News: Mr.. w. G. Moore
made an assignment last week. Mr..
7. B. McCargo is assignee. The as
sets and liabilities are nearly equal
General J.. G.. Hall, commanding First
brigade North Carolina veterans, an
nOunces that Miss Emily Gibson, of
Concord, n. c., has been by the camps
of the brigade duly elected sponsor
thereof.-We regret keenly to learn
that Mount Airy is to lose Mr.. w. E.
Cox and family e. week. They will
nov to indian territory and reside
there in future.-Mount Airy has suf-
fered serious loss recently by the death
of several prominent citizens. Who
will take these vacant places?
There are in the state sap white
school districts and 2,4SS colored dis
tricts, a total of 1910. The receipts
from taxes for public schools, and eX-
pended on them last year, were 81, DBL
327.94. a. shown by the report of the
superintendent of public instruction.
The school census showed 439, 421 white
and go, 1913 cOlOred, a total of $50, 629
children of chool age. The enrolment
in the schools amounted to 27O,447 white
100, COS colOred, total, 400, ASP. But the
average attendance, which accurately
indicates the number of those who are
receiving the rudiments of a education,
shows that only 142, 413 white and 64,506
negroes, a total of FOG, 91S, attended the
schools regularly.
Oxford Ledger Sunday morning
while Mr.. j. T. Critcher, accompanied
by Master Fred Bradsher, was on their
way to EImwood cemetery, on reaching
the bridge near by the horse became
frightened and jumped throwing young
BradSher out, breaking his left leg just
above the ankle.-The editor is in re-
ceipt of quite a lengthy
ton from 'one of the nine" preachers
defending his position in voting agaist
the education of the masses which will
appear next week.-Captain Willie
Lands, who has SO faithfully and eff
GENTLY served the Granville grays as
Captain has resigned, and Mr.. w. A.
DeYin, one of our fine young lawyers,
was elected by the members of the
company Monday night to succeed
him.
Raleigh News and Observer: Gov.
Aycock is asked to offer a reward for
Bud Foster, the negro who, a week ago
Johnson, at Cedar Rock, in Franklin
county. The authorities of that coun-
ty have offered $50 reward, and asked
The governor to offer an additional re-
ward.-Bishop Cheshire in his annual
address to the Episcopal convention
stated that the total number of clergy
in the diocese is now 45, with cures en-
bracing 5000 souls. ST. Mary's schoo
for girls, he reported to be in such q
fourishing condition that it is now ar
important question how the students
shall be accommodated another year
The debt on the property has by the
energetic efforts of the agent
Rev. a. A. Pruden been u tC
ST., 900, in the past two years.