The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-06
H~EisTATE CAPITAL.
WEDDING Last Evening
Fifty Students Taking the Textile
Course at sthe a. and NJ. College
The Pure Food Law Attracting
Wide Adoption.
Messenger Bureau,

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and Mechanical College here. The
textile building is now being COM
pIetely equipped. The electric motors
are being installed. One OF thirty
house power will drive the machin-
cry on the upper flocr and one Of six
teen horse power that on the lower
floor. These are being put in by the
General Electric Company. which
makes q special price to institutions
where such machinery IS used for
purposes of instruction.
In an interview with :. /. Patter-
son. State Commissioner OF Agricul-
ture regarding the pure food law for
this state. he said that the law was
having a highly beneficial effect; that
it had reduced the adulteration of
various foods at least 80 per cent.
The percentage of adulteration has
been very high. and along nearly all
lines of food for both man and beast.
He believes the greate1 given
in this matter by the law which the
last Legislature enacted regulating
food stuffs for animalss and requir-
ing the inspection ana analysis of all
such, would be productive of great
good. Mr.. Patterson says h month
~ bulletin containing analyses and
tests of the various foods on sale
are in great demand in all parts of
the United States, ana requests for
them have come from the United
States army and navy officials. The
law is evidently working we'll. AS
yet there has not been time enough
to see how completely it will operate
in stopping adulteratiOn of foods for
beasts.
The seventy-fve convicts secured
from the penitentiary to complete
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Northern railway at Dunn. nave been
returned to he pen%itentiary and
some of them have been sent to New
Hill to cut wood for use at the peni-
tertiary brick yards. etc.
AS yet the receipts of the recent
state fair here are not known, but
they will probably be about what
gregated $4,000. This year there
was a great demand for half rate
tickets. The attendance at the fair
seems to have been pretty nearly the
same both years. This year the fair
did not receive $4,000 from the Ag-
ricultural Department. which it had
received for several years past.
Upon a more careful review of the
Masonic temple fair held here for a
fortnight last month";, it seems that
the receipts were something like &c.
500 and that the net result will be
ABOUT SZ,OUU, only ABOUT a SX1Cn OF
what had been hoped sOr. 1t is
claimed that the state fair and other
attractions that week greatly reduc-
ed the receipts.
At Christ Church this evening
there was a wedding which brought
out society in force, the contracting
parties being DR.. Arthur s. Pendle-
ton, of Henderson,, and Miss Eliza
Busbee. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
F. H. Busbee. of this city. Miss
Theodore Marshall was maid of hon
or, the bridesmaids being Miss May
Pruden, of Edenton, Miss Nan Smith,
of Scotland Neck. Miss Janet Haw-
kins, of Ridgeway, Miss Nan Clark.
of Tarboro. and Misses Sadie Root.
Rosa Battle n Marguerit Crow, of
Raleigh. Mr.. Milo Pendleton. of
Warrenton. a brother of the groom.
was his best man. The sherS were
Messrs. Robert Lassiter. of Hender-
son; H. A. FouShee. of Durham, j. II.
Brodie, of Henderson. Thomas Clark,
of Washington, and Phillip H. Bus
bee, w. W. Robards, F. NJ. ~Stronach,
w. w. Vass, and J.. William Bailey,
of Raleigh.
1t now seems pretty sure that the
liquor men here are not going to at
attempt to make my fight against the
~dispensary. They proposed to make
ii ilSll IL IOluSDOIO- JUl II Gill
have lost any chance that they might
ave had.
At the the Soldiers Home today
the work began of preparing the old
hospital as a place for c~onSumptives.
There are five of these among the
inmates. and they will be isolated
from those in the general hospital.
Charters are granted by the state
to the Marx Dry Goods Company, Of
ASheville. capital stock $4,000, the
stockholders being Ed E~igenbrun, Of
Petersburg, and Isaac Marx. of Ashe-
vile. Also a charter to the Stanly
Supply Company, of Albermarle, caT-
ital stock 100000.
Among the attorneys here before
the supreme court this week in 10th
district appeals are NJ. H. Caldwell
and George B. Nicholson, of States
vile. They say e~x-Justice D. NJ.
Turches is dangerously sick, having
e1ystneIas.
l. State Literary and Hist ,ricai
Associate may as is annual meet.
ing here November 18th take up the
gauntlet which Judge Christian, Of
Virginia, has so boldly thrown down
a. to North Cardinals part in the
civil war. OF course. the time is
short but officers of the association
are looking about to see what can be
done by that date.
Requests are COIIliS III 10 lle StdIe
superintendent of public instructions
for information as to the working of
the rural free school library in
North Carolina, these requests COM
ing from persons who want to estab-
lish the system in British Columbia.
Reduced rates have been secured
on all the railways to the annua con-
Vention of county superintendent of
public Instruction. which will be held
here November 18th.
Gnoa Nan,e