The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-24

electric stop-motion to be used for stop
ping knitting mill machinery a
thread breaks or lost motion begins.
He went to Washington last week and
placed the invention II the hands o:
patent attorneys. He Is superintend-
ent of the Windemere mills at this
place. and first learned Of the neces-
sity for such a machine in his work
here, and for several months has made
a study thereof. We predict success
for him.
Scottish Chief: d. a. P~reyatt. in his
speech Saturday, G from a former
~effusion of his in which he wants =
property qualification for all male and
female voters of 5000; in other words
he is not in favor of allowing u man
to vote unless he is wotth S3C0. and is
also in favor of women suffrage as he
designated both Sexes in his article.
He also said when pressed ~ Col. Nc
Rae as to whether he woul1 vote fer
Patterson or Slocum. he said he did
belonged to him. Edinou1s a1niitted
having made speeches TO fool the peO-
pie.
There was a pretty big frost Tuesday
morning. Sweet potato vines and other
vegetation were nipped a little, but
things generally do not show much ef-
feet of the frost.-Farmers are get
ting more cotton off their land than
they expected. The top bolls are open
ing and there will be very little for the
first killing frost.-This is wheat
sowing week all over Catawba county.
a good deal was sown last week, but
this week nearly everybody is at IL,
and by Saturday night, if the weather
remains clear, the bulk of the crop,
except on cotton and corn lands, will
have been sown.-Newton Enterprise.
Kinston Free Press: A young boy,
by the name OF Waller, experienced a
painful accident at the Orion Knitting
mill Yesterday. o some reason he
had one of the knitting needles in his
mouth, when someone struck the
die which drove it int the roof of his
mouth, and owing to the peculiar con-
struction of the needle. it could not be
removed without medical assistance
The great advantage of the telephone
system was practically demonstrated a
few days g by a man in an adjoining
county who wanted to buy a COW bell.
He 'phoned to a hardware store for the
proprietor to send him the best cow bell
he had in stock, and the merchant took
up several bells n rang them for the
benefit of his customer. who selected
the best bell in the lot from hearing it
oyer the phone.
Troy Examiner: We have Oil exhi-
DllIOIl d IduulSn SIoNh III WI L.. a.
Munn's plantation at Onvil, which
lays in the shade" ms -ad3iS1 we
eve saw. It's shaped something like
a turtle and weighes seven pounds II
three ounces.-The tax payers OF
Montgomery county should feel proud
of the fact that they We're not burden
ed with any of the state expenses last
year. All the tax they paid and more
too. vas appropriated TO county use,
and a large part of it went to eT-Sol-
diers and widows of ex-solGicrs, and
toward educating the children of the
county. The amount of money paid
the state by the sheriff was S5.G51. OF
this sum 1887 was for pensions, and the
remainder for general state purposes.
In return the soldiers and .dows Of
the county received from the state.
about 81, 500 ard he school fund of the
county was increased by something
over $500, making a total of more
than s., 100 received from the state, or
500 more than We ever paid the state.