The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-31
GREENSBORO NEWS.
MANY Items OF interest
Yesterday by The E~essenger Cor
respondent.
Especial to The Messenger.)

voted IN favor Of Z local tax for schools
Monday, which makes seven successful
efforts in that direction and not a single
failure in this county.
Politics or what not, Guilford county
democrats and republicans all pull to-
gether, even in the midst of a hot po-
liticaI campaign. for local progress and
public spirited Improvements. Ii is the
real secret Of the delightful progressive
achievement in his community, urban
and rural.
When Governor Aycock gets through
being governor the citizens of Guilford
are going to tender him a paid for resi-
dence, where he can I've and enjoy
himself AMID the congenial atmosphere
or rural graded schools and libraries,
line colleges and academies, good roads,
ct cetra, and where pestifrous local po-
litical demagogues have to move way
from or perish.
An examination Of applicants for the
position Of carriers on the five rural
free mail delivery routes from Green's
boro was to have been held his morn
ing by Inspector A. J. knight, but
there being only one applicant Mr..
knight decided not to hold the exam
nation. The position pays $500 dollars
per year and the carrier has to furnish
a team. The smallness of the remun-
Grafton offered was the cause of the
failure of applicants to show up.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Rec
ord contains this financial bulletin re-
garding the new railroad which is head
ing this way: j. B. Denning, of Brides
burg, Pa, president Of the Durham and
Charlotte railroad. says that an ex-
tension will be built from Gulf to
Pfttsboro, thence to Bynum's. and
along the Haw river via Graham, Bur
Iington and GibsOnville to Greensboro.
a total distance Of about seventy miles.
This work will be undertaken as soon
as the extension from Star to Troy, at
the other end of the line is completed.
j. l. Tull is chief engineer, Gulf, n. c..
Mr.. George c. McGregor, chief zine
OF this road, was in Greensboro today,
and he confirms most positively the
statements heretofore made in this cor
r~espondence touching the bona ides OF
this important new line of road. He
came UP from Cumnock yesterday af-
ternoon n this morning met his sur
Veying party which is now within one-
half mile of the city. The location sur
vey, Mr.. McGregor says, is pretty close
to Ramseur. The road is in use from
Colon on the SeabOard Air Line to
Cumnock on the Southern. 1t is graded
from Cumnock on west to Harpers
Cross roads, with the location survey
as far this way as Ramseur and the
preliminary survey having reached the
outskirts o fthe city, it really begins to
look as if the r. & w. means business.
According to the preliminary survey
the proposed road will cross the South
ern between here and Pomona, but as
to where the new road will come in,
that, Mr.. McGregor says. can await
further Developments. Mr.. McGregor
thinks the disposition of the capitalists
behind the Raleigh and Western is to
push their plans to a speedy compile
tion. His instructions are to rush his
estimates to headquarters and Mr..
Respass of the preliminary survey has
been similarly instructed.
Messrs. E. Ct. West and G.. A. Miller,
of this city, have purchased of Mr.. Jno.
t. Quarles the Marlborough House bar
in Raleigh, and Mr.. Miller left this
morning to take charge as manager.
Mr.. West will not move from Green's
bOrO.
Much sympathy is felt here for Mr..
and Mrs. J. H. Cutchin, whose only
daughter. Ellen, eleven years Did. is
critically i'll with typhoid fever. Her
condition was slightly more hopeful
this mornino. Her grandfather. Mi.
Henry Cutchin OF Whitakers, and aunt,
Mrs. Will Greene, of BennettSville, S.
c., arrived last night.
Professor j. L. Ludlow, the eminent
civil engineer, is here today making. as
a member of the state board of health,
an official inspection of the water sup
ply. Asked as to the result of his in
veStigatiOn he said that III. would not
be known until the necessary anaplsis.
etc. was made by the chemist.
Mr.. c.. Z. Brewer, now with the All
lantic and Birmingham railroad at
Waycross, Ga, but formerly with the
Southern here, was in the city today
on his way to Franklinsville to be at
the bedside of his mother who is not
expected to live. He was Joined here
! by mis- three brother, l. w. Brewer. OF
Montgomery. Ala; c. H. Brewer, of
} Vienna, Ga, and W. A. Brewer, of At
lanta. When they get to Franklins-
) VILE the en- ,ira family will have gath
cred with the exception of one brother
in Houston, Texas
| Mr. w. F. HARDWOOD, the we'll known
travelling man who has made Green's
boro his headquarters for SOM time
| will go on the road for the Cone EX-
! port and Commission Company n will
! make Chicago his headquarters. He
! left today for Richmond, where Mrs.
| Harwood and child are already. From
! Richmond he will go to New York anu
about the first o fthe wear will COM
J mence his work for the Cone Com
amy.