The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-25
D6FNGS OF A DAY AT RALEIGH.
Governor AycOck Leaves for Ashe-
yifIe-INraS Rifles ~Arrived-New
Companies Chartered-New Profess
sOr at Wake FOrest-CitiZens to
Fight the Assessments
Messenger Bureau.
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Raleigh, n. G., August %.
Governor Aycock returned today from
"a visit to Whiteville, where he went
ito a sort of family reunion. He says
the crops in that part of the country
ARE fine but there has been rather too
much rain. The governor left for
Asheville this afternoon and on Monday
lcamped there consisting of the light
battery, the First regiment, and a com
of the Sixteenth regiment of regu-
liar infantry.
The krag-jOrgenson magazine rifles
Tor the National guard of this state ar
rived here today. There are a carload
of them, 1850. They will be sent at
once to the National guard, and all the
I"!d arms n equipments will be turn
ed i'll to the state and by the latter sent
to the war department.. The state now
has about 1000 of the old rifles, the
Springfield, and these will be sent to
the war department, the, like the
Krags, being government property.
Secretary of State Grimes returned to-
DAY from the great meeting Of tobacco
growers at Rocky Mount. He was
much pleased with the personnel of the
convention as we'll as with its spirit
and its work, n says 100 persons
We're present.
\ charter is granted the WaXhaW
Telephone Company, of Union COUNT
with $1,000 capital stock.
The trustees of Wake Forest college
today selected DR.. Watkins a. Rankin,
professor of Bacterialogy for Wake For
lest college Medical dana rtm ant
a considerable property owner here
SAID today that he and the other per-
sons the assessments on whose property
had been raised by the board of asses
sors would positively ignore the work
of that board and would fight it in the
courts if necessary, the chief ground be-
ing. as he claims, hat two of the as
SCISSORS are ineligible. The county board
Iof equalization is still in session aid
has received fresh complaints of alleg-
ed inordinate increases of valuation. A
few years ago small property owners
were touched up, but this time it is the
big ones who are hit.
The Wake county tobacco growers
seem TO be very largely holding their
tobacco, and many Of them claim that
they will continue to hold it.
There were eight vacancies for North
Carolina in the scholarships at Peabody
Normal college at Nashville, Tenn.
E Shteen persons competed for these.
who passed the examination are:
Francis Dixon and Edna Dixon, of
cleveland county; Columbus Andrew
and Walter VI. Moore, of Caldwell; An
lie Z. Paddison. of Fender; Ethel
" God, of Craven; j. W. Curtis, Of Wa
.tauga; Claribel Mcdowell, of Mecklen-
burg. The scholarships pay 500 annu-
ally.
State Anti-SaIoon League has made
arrangements by which Rev. George
Stewart. the we'll known evangelist and
temperance speaker will make five
speeches in this state during Septem-
be-. These to be at Elizabeth City eth;
New Bern Sth; Wilmington 9Th; Ra-
leigh 10th; Durham 18th.
The state Insurance Commissioner
Young today authorized the Indianapo-
lis Fire Insurance Company TO do bust
TESS in North Carolina.
The state granted a charter TO Al
bemarle High school, at Elizabeth
City.