The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-04
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Mt. Airy News: The farmers tell US
wheat, rye and oats are doing well and
tina a good yield is looked for. Some
few farmers fear wheat will not be we'll
filled.
Dunn Banner: We learn that the
bridge company at work on the bridge
at Ellington lost about $500 worth of
material in the high water last week.
About 125 barrels of cemen and several
thousand feet of lumber were carried
down the river.
Rocky Mount Motor: Instead of Ko-
dol in West Virginia, being the first
postoffice named for a patent medicine
it is at least the second if no further
off as Castoria in North Carolina, has
been an office for years, may be de-
cades.
Fayetteville Observer: Mr.. P. G. Kin
law suffered a we're accident yester-
day afternoon while at work on the
hous Mr.. H. CT. Smith is having erect
ed on Green street. He missed his
footing while at work on the second
story n fell a Straddle of a beam,
infiicting such a severe wound that his
life is threatened.-Mr. G.. L. Moran,
while riding horse back to his dinner
today, met with quite a bad accident.
His horse went through a small bridge
on Orange street in front of Ed. Evans
and he was thrown violently forward
On his face, and was quite severely
bruised.
Washington Progress: Mrs. Penina
Alligood, aged IS years, died here on
Friday of paralysis. She was the old
est resident of Nashville. She was a
constant member Of the Episcopal
church.-The suit brought by Mr.. L.
r. Mayo, clerk of the superior court
here against Marshal Dockery for &c.
00Q r. naaO pS hos hQan rannan1nd 20 tho
superior court here for trial. The suit
is based upon the fact hat Mr.. Dock
cry a the store and goods seized
which had been purchased from Hoyt
& Mitchell by Mr.. Mayo. Mr.. Dockery
asked that the cause be removed to the
federal court, but after the argument
Judge Simonton sent it back here stat
ing that it was not a removable case.
Charlotte Observer: Escorted by the
chief of police. a we'll dressed drummer
boarded the Southern's south bound
train at 1885 yesterday afternoon and
left for Atlanta Prior to mis- depar-
ture he declared hat he had not stop
ped at any hotel in this city and had
carried no baggage to Charlotte. Yet,
within a few hours after he left, it was
found that he mad two valiseS and an
umbrella at the Arlington hotel. In
addition to this luggage he carried in
his pocket checks for six trunks which
had been shipped to a town in Georgia.
He could not remember the name of
the place. Twas a bad case of drunk
enness; and the name of the travelling
man is withheld for the reason that he
represents a large northern mercantile
house and a personal publication would
not aid his connection with the firm.
He arrived here Wednesday night in
toxicated.
Oxford Ledger: 1t seems that the re-
cent obstruction of nearly all the
bridges in the county by the late heavy
rains should convince the boards Of
county commissioners that it would
be better and cheaper in he end for
the tax payers to build their own
bridges and to employ a good and re-
liable man to give the building of all
the bridges in the county his personal
attention. Make it his duty to hire
labor teams, buy n inspect lumber
n locate the sites.-Dr. VIM. Thorp,
the oldest physician in Granville coun-
ty, at the ripe g of SO years., died sud-
denly Monday night at his home near
Goshen. He lived ah alone with the
exception Of his servants, and on re-
firing Monday night seemed to be in
his usual health. When n Of b SER
wants vent to his room Tuesday morn
ing they found him in the cold embrace
Of death. 1t is supposed that he died
with heart disease. He was a member
Of the Episcopal church and a gentle
man of the ''old school,"
Raleigh News and Observer: Mr.. B.
F. walters. manager of the peanut fac
tory at the Calendonia farms, came up
to Raleigh yesterday. He reports
great damage resulting from the recent
food or freshet. He says hat the peo-
pie there state that the water was four
feet higher than 1t had ever been.
The fields from the camps to the river,
a distance Of nearly three miles, were
a solid sea Of water, the water backing
up in all the low places throughout The
entire farm. IT was four feet deep in
the gin house at camp No. 1, and was
within a few feet Of the mule lot
All the cotton mills at Haw River have
been organized in one corporation. For
half a century the late Governor Holt
had at Haw River the Granite Manu-
featuring company. which ne enlarged
the best equipped. largest and most
About ten years ago Thomas NJ. Holt
Manufacturing Company was organized
and a very large mill vas built. The
Cora Company's mill was completed
about two years ago.. These three
companies have now been merged into
one under the name of b Holt-Gran-
tie Manufacturing Company. and is
without doubt the largest mill in North
Carolina
The convention committee Of the
Southern Educational Association an