The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-01

Life Given the Southern Cotton De-
limiting COmpany-NO Reputation
In the Greensboro Case-Rev. DR..
Marshal Dying
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh ". c., July &c

Raleigh n. c., July &c.
The state toda," granted a charter tt
| the Southern Cotton Delinting Co.
of Rockingham, Richmond county, cap.
ftal $1,000. 1t is given power to buy
undelinted seed and delint them make
/ oil and fertilizer, make yarns, cloths
| etc H. S.. Ledbetter and others are the
stockholders.
/ Quite and amusing incident occurred
today in connection with the visit o.
| the 6remen here sniS week. The Spen.
Ger reel team thought itself a sure win.
ner with it's time, 81 seconds, and haG
a rooster on toy of its reel, but when
the Capital team, of Raleigh, cut the
time down to 81 is seconds, the Spen-
Ger men let the rooster go. The latter
wandered around in. tea part of the
city n was taken. liz and fed by one
of he trustees of the Methodist or
phanage, who today asked the superin.
tendent to come in. and get the "or
phan bird"
j.. G. Caddell, Sc Wei known all over
the state. has been sick at Wake
Forest, his home, for six months. He
is nearly we'll and goes to Georgia as
the representative Of one of the great
book companies.
Rev. DR.. A. A. Marshall, pastor of
the First Baptist church, and one of
the most talented men in that denomi-
nation, is dying at his home here, of
cancer. He has bsen sick almost a
year. Death may result at any moment,
Six thousand pounds Of leaf tobacco
was sold on the warehouse floors here
yesterday. The a is the earliest
Raleigh has ever known. It does not
usually open until August 1st.
Governor Aycock never received any
request for a requisition for Mrs. Stat
ford and Harding her 1t
was thought mere yesterday that the
clippers would lie hek, and brought
back. Mrs. Stafford was considered the
handSomeSt woman in Greensboro, and
has never been talke1 about prior to
this escapade. Harding was a Sunday
school superintendent.
At the examinations for admission &c
the Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege, which were held in the various
counties this month, 125 passed. Presi-
dent Winston says the freshman class
will number 200. The entrance ex-
mination takes place September 3rd
He says there VIII be 500 students next
term all there Will be accommodations
for.
Not IS many society people are on,
of town this summer as usual. Mos
OF the absentees are at the seaside.
Inc programme and ISt OF the series
of educational rallies, covering a wide
area OF the state, vas prepared today
by Professor E. G.. Brooks, h secre-
tary, charged with the special duty OF
arranging this new line Of educationa
effort.
State Chemist kilgore says h sol
test farms are proving valuable object.
lessons. This state is taking up sol
study with great zeal. and is far ahead
Of any other in this section.
The months of Euly and August are
the slack time" the moonshiners
| the officials say and the reason gfver
Is that mosquitoes are so bad in the
woods and along b streams that they
sorely harass the moonshiners, while
during the great heats the wash
our very quickly. MOI many licensed
distilIeries are IN operation. The lattel
perpetrate almost as many frauds a
the moonshiners.