The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16
STATE FAIR PREMIUM LIST.
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Raleigh News.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., Sept. II.

Raleigh, n. c., Sept. II.
United States District Attorney
Harry Skinner has been directed to
examine the sites for public buildings
at Goldsboro and Durham. The Colds
Kirby property, and is to the pur-
chased, while the site at Durham is a
gift by the town.
The cotton receipts here since Au-
gust 81 are lisp bales. against only
3S1 TO the corresponding date last
ear Prices fell off yesterday from
s ga to s IA cents. the latter figures
being the price on the same day one
yea ago. The farmers, who know,
we'll the real shortness of the crop do
not like the drop in price, which they
know is due to speculation alone.
Many of them are forced to put their
cotton on the market, IS they are in
debt and creditors are pressing.
Active farm work in the way
blowing is now n progress. For weeks
this had been impossible, so dry and
hard was the ground!
In his speech at Fayetteville today
State Auditor Dixon, referred to Sen
ator act while in the legiS-
lature in 1885 in voting against the
pension bill ana all the amendments
thereto.
Thirty-siX convictS were yesterday
sent from the panltentiary to the state
farm near Weldon, to pick cotton,
and which is opening with remarkable
rapidity.
Senator Simmons let today for Hart
or, to make a campaign speech.
At the Agricultural and Mechanical
rnllaOa yCnrE ic TnU haInO nirIcha6 ON
Pullen hall. but the building can
hardly be finished in less than three
months. 1t ought to lave been ready
September 1st.
The increase in rural free delivery
routes is now quite rapid. There are
les. and IN 20 days the number will
reach 200.
The following Fair circular has
been issued:
To the Silk-Growers of North Caro-
lima:
The State Agricultural Society offers
the following premiums for compe-
ton at the state fair held in Raleigh,
october 9th to 31st:
1. Best display of North Carolina
grown and manufactured silk in all its
stages and forms. $1,000. Best display
of grown in the state, $500 and
$500. Best display of useful articles
made from floss or waste silk, COLD
Medal. Best silk reel, Diploma. Larg-
est and hest display of silk-worm eggs,
Gold Medal. Bet essay on silk grow
ing based upon personal experience in
North Carolina, $500 and $500.
All silk growers wishing to compete
for any Of these prizes may send theiI
goods to the undersigned who will ar
range them for exhibition. The articles
should reach Raleigh before October
Goth. The attention of all silk growers
is especially called to the competition
for the essay Every one who grew
silk this year can put down on paper
his or her experience. This, whe-
placed in proper sequence, will form
an essay. The merits Of these essays
will be determined not by their liter.
airy excellence, but by their practical
value which vii. depend chiefly upon
close and correct observation OF the
No one need be afraid tC
compete for this prize on account OF
lack Of literary experience or skill.
Essays should be lightly written o.
foolscap paper and sent to the under
signed or to Captain c.. n. Allen, Au-
burn, n. c..
GERALD MCCARTHY,
Biologist, N. l.. Dept Agriculture.