The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-08

Monroe Journal: Mr.. Morrow is max
ing arrangements to furnish all the
towns below Monroe in this COMPRESSION
al district the news OF the convention
by phone. A phone will be put in the
court room and the result Of every bal
lot will be given to all these places.
Fayetteville Observer: Miss Beulah
Beard, on whom an operation was per-
formed at the MaTsh-Highsmith santa
rum last Tuesday for gangrene, setting
in after e~rysipelas, died yesterday af-
t%ernoon, and her remains were carried
to the family home in the eastern part
of the county for burial
Raleigh Post: The Raleigh office of
the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company
announces that they furnish messengers
for the delivery Of notes, parcels, circu-
lars, ETC., in addition 20 their regular
messenger service for kilograms. Just
iii the Postal box or call by tele-
pnone and a messenger will respond at
sonce and be at your service at a mod
crate cost
Charlotte Observer: In the congress
=sional race Messrs. Maxwell and Dowd
are the only entries. In answer to an
.oft-repeated question it may be stated
that the Mecklenburg delegation at the
congressional convention TO be held in
Morganton on the 22d instant, will GER
tainly be divided as to these gentlemen
One of the two may defeat the other IN
the primary by a large majority, yet
the loser will have his proportionate
strength represented at the convention.
Statesville Landmark: Emma Feim-
Ster. colored, who cooks at Mr.. j. K.
Morrison's, has a bad arm. Saturday
night after IL o'clock she was sitting in
her yard on Front street talking with
some of her friends. All at once she
heard something go "zing bip" against
the house. She soon afterward felt a
singing sensation in her arm and blood
began to run from a wound. She a
= bullet hole in her arm but does not
know where the bullet came from.
Durham Herald: Yesterday at noon
the finance committee, of the board of
city aldermen, sold 500, 900 of bonds
the last of the bonds authorized for
sewer construction and street improve
ment. The bonds were Az per cent
bonds and were purchased by Messrs
S~easongood & Meyer, of Cincinnati.
premium of 81, 900. This was some $500
more than was paid for the last bonds
sold n the committee is we'll pleased
with the price.
CIarkton Express: The sanitary conn.,
mittee of Bladen county met at Baden
boro Monday to try TO ascertain the
cause of the typhoid fever epidemic
now prevalent at that place. The conn.,
mittee decided that it was caused from
Stagnant water and filth in the swamps
n low places around there. The citi-
zens of that section and the physicians
IN attendance are doing all in their pow
er to stamp out the disease. There are
now in and around Bladenboro about
forty cases. Several deaths have &C.
Cured.
Greensboro Record: "Blarney Stone
Matthews, unable to pay that fine for
contempt, was transported to the roads,
today to work it out. He sent for Rev
a. G.. Kirkman this morning and begged
mercifulIy for his intercession in thel
shape of a loan Of about $500, but
without avail. yer Rlverence," said
Barney, I'll be a mon if We will stand
for me-" but Abraham didn't STAND
not much. He's been there before.
Tarboro Southerner: 1t is practically
certain that the Swift Creek Oil Mills
which were recently burned, will be re-
built, but not at the N place, proba-I
bly, on Swift Creek on the John FL
Speight farm.
winston Sentinel: In conversation With
one of our prominent this
morning he stated that he had neverl
known a time when there was so much
building being done in Winston-Salem.I
This fact is we'll shown by the unusual
scarcity both of labor and of build
ing material. There are no less thanI
twenty residences being constructed I'M
different parts of the city at the pres
ent time. Besides these there are al
number of factories and business
houses.-The question of establishing
an industrial department in the graded
schools will not be decided until after
the tax-listers complete their work and
the amount of taxes to be derived next
year is known.
The R~obesonian: Two new rural
routes, number two and three, go into
operation today. No. . reaches up into
Saddle Tree section. No. 8 goes through
the Back Swamp section. To get the
best advantages Of the system partlesI
living along these routes should supply
themselves with boXes.-Mr. j.. K
Long, Industrial Agent Of the Carollna|
Northern railroad spent Saturday here.
The purpose of Mr.. Longs visit TO TINS
and other points along the line is toI
our people in trucking ana
give them such information as VIII en-
able them to engage intelliSently andI
proftably in this enterprise. Much or
the land in this section is admirably
adapted to trucking and our people,
should so employ it as speedily as DOS
sible,
Monroe Enquirer. There has been al
great deal Of kicking against the ruhng
that cord wood must be listed for tax
alton. The argument against I1stlng
cord wood is that there is such a great
difference in the price Of wood. The
man who has wood ten miles from mar
ket has his wood assessed at the same
price per cord as the man who has WOOD
at the place the wood is sold, the
man who has corded his wood has to
pay tax on it. while the man who has
simply heaped his wood or left 1t lying
where cut, does not pay anything. we
heard a man say a few days that II
he had to pay tax on his wood which
was neatly corded and did not have to
pay on that which was not corded he
would in the future throw his wood into
all kinds of irregular heaps and cord II
when he sold it.
News and Observer: Mr.. c. w. j.
Convey died yesterday morning at 81
o'clock at the soldiers home and his
body was sent to Tarboro for interment.
He was 20 years old, ard came to the