The semi-weekly messenger., 1902-09-30
-xoRrH CAROLINA DAY.
nouaced-New Company at wilson
Primitive Baptist. I'm Conventfon.
Demand for Cotton Seed Great.
Messenger Bureau.


Raleigh. ~. c. Sept "a.
Orders are issued from State Guard
headquarters accepting a company OF
infantry at Wilson. TO be known as
Company X. Second regiment II takes
the place OF the company lately dis
banded
The engagement is announced OF Miss
Charlotte Young, daughter OF Insur-
ance Commissioner James Richard
Young. TO Mr.. Henry r. Thorp. of
Rocky Mount. The wedding will be IN
December.
Congressman Pou, OF this district,
Will open his regular campaign at
Rocky Mount October 3rd.
A convict who was sent to the peni-
tenuary from here, To serve five years,
wept and told the officers that what
grieved him that today was to have
been his wedding day and that the
marriage would have 10 be postponed
five years.
The attendance at the meeting OF the
Little River Primitive Baptist Associa-
ton here became very large today
Seven counties are represented. There
are elders present from three other
states, Maryland, Virginia and South
Carolina these visitors being the guests
of Governor and Mrs. Aycock.
The demand for cotton seed here by
the oil mills was never so great. The
price paid is 25 1-2 cents a bushel The
| mills have runners" on the street and
these fairly besiege the farmers who
bring in the seed.
The programme for North Carolina
Day" November 26th, in the public
schools is completed and is as follows:
Subject. The Albemarle Section .
Song. The Old North State" Reading,
The First Governor. William Drum
mond." Reading, The Roanoke Island
Of Today" by Charles r. Taylor. Read
ing, ''Albemarle Memorials" by r. B.
Creecy. Reading. ''Edenton." by w. E.
Stone. Song, America Reading
HEREFORD" by w. F. Mcmillan. Read
ing, "A Distinguished Citizen Of the
Albemarle Section" by Junius Davis.
Reading. "Hatteras and the Banks :.
Declara ton, "Hatteras." Poem, by
Joseph w. Holden. Selected Hymn.
Today the three negro prisoners Joe
Cole, Sr.. Joe Cole, Jr., and Charles
Ferguson, who killed Mr.. Stevers and
wounded train porter Mitchell on a
train near Henderson, We're taken from
the penitentiary to Henderson for trial
| by Sheriff Powell. The Coles will be
| tried for murder All these prisoners
are from Lynchburg, Va. They were
| on their way to Laurinburg to work III
| tobacco. There were five of the negroes
| and all five would have been lynched
| but for the guarding Of the Henderson
| Jail by troops. The men who wanted
| to lynch them were railway employees
! it is said, and it is believed a few, al
| least. of the Henderson people would
| have aided the lynchers. The negroes
were brought here and placed in the
| penitentiary for safe-keeping. The ne
J groes hate the elder Cole, who worked
| there last year it is said, won theiI
money at craps and then reported
[ Is or 20 of them for gambling.
The trial of the Coles for murder and
of Ferguson as an accessory will hard
ly take place before Wednesday. The
! other negroes were discharged upor
| the statement of Conductor Clement:
that they had nothing to do with the
affair. Mitchell, the faithful negro por
| ter. was shot while saving the life o
| Conductor Clements