The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-14
STATE NORMAL school.
improvements to be Made.
A 10000 Donation for a Park-rhe
States Exhibit at Charlcston.
Smallpox situation at Wilson De-
mandinE attention.
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh. January 9

Raleigh. 9
The trustees of the State Normal and
Industrial college for women at Green's
boro. decide to make extensive improve.
ments of the grounds, which are now
very bare and unprepossessing. George
Foster Peabody has given $4,000 for a
park there. OF this $1,000 is to be pres
emily expended. In the spring there will
be some visitors at the college. among
them President Elliott. of Harvard.
A special venire Of loo is ordered in
the superior court here to try the case
OF Henry Perry. a white man of Roles
vile, this county. who is charged with
outraging a 2-year-old niece of his
wife. 1t was three months after the
crime before he was arrested. The
father of the girl went to him and told
him he must leave the state or he would
Kill him. Perry did not leave. He was
then arrested upon an affidavit by a
~neighbor.
Secretary Bruner, of the agricultural
department left for Charleston today.
He says the departments exhibit az
the exposition is three-fourths COM
pleted. To a layman it appears COM
plete now, so we'll is it laid out. What
remains undone is mainly in the way
OF changes to improve the effect. Pres
ident Hugh G.. Chatham, of the North
Carolina railway, who was at the expo
sition this week, says the North Car
DINA exhibit is the best and is the only
one that may be said to be complete.
He says it attracts a great deal of at
tentlon and as the best the state has
ever made at n exposition. While
many of the North Carolina cotton mills
have exhibits in the Cotton Palace"
a great many are unrepresented. He
| ca VC fhaNy n11ohf I n n L. g.. - cham
ing there.
Travelling men say that the smallpox
at Wilson is becoming very prevalent
and that the state board of health
ought to assume control of affairs
there. The management by the county
superintendent Of health is heartily con
demned, he having o~bstinately and in
the face of facts and of expert diagnoses
declared that the disease is merely
Chicken pox."
The Norwood Cigar Company here,
the largest cigar mandatory in tho
state, today declared an 8 per cent. div
idend. 1t employs fifty men.
Secretary Duckett, in the office Of
the state Superintendent of public in
struction, says regarding h condition
of the latter official, who today began
the seventh week of his attack of pneu-
monia: His cough continues bad. His
temperature rises every night. His left
lung has never healed
The gain of the state library in books
n pamphlets during 1901, was 1,019.
1t bought thirty-five books by North
Carolinians or about North Carolina.
The nineteenth volume of the State
Records, compiled by Judge Walter
Clark, has appeared. There will be only
one more volume. and then the general
index.
The third volume of the North Caro-
lima Regimental Histories was today
delivered to the state librarian.
The railway which is to be built
southwark from Kinston will be fifty
six miles long and will strike the At
lantic Coas Line at Wallace. The Kin
ston people will build it to Hailsville
and the Wilmington lumber interest
will build from Wallace to Hallsville-