The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-21
"THE GEM CITY
Large Quantity of Tobacco Burned.
Mr.. Broadhurst RecOvering-Dr.
Smith Greatly Improved by Seven
SPRINGS, Water-The Dispensary
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. by Farmers
Protective Association.
Especial to The MeSSenger.)

Goldsboro. n. c.. August ia to-
bacco barn containing about $4,000
pounds of tobacco was destroyed by
fire on Saturday afternoon out near
Greenleaf. The building belonged to
Mr.. Henry Davis and contained to-
bacco belonging to several neighbour
ing farmers. There was no insurance
on either. The burning took place
while the tobacco was being cured.
Mr.. Frank Broadhurst. superinten-
dent of the Smithfield cotton mill. is
now recovering from an attack OF
typhoid fever in a hospital at Green's
boro. He had been to Charlotte to
| buy machinery and was on his way
home when taken with the fever.
Mr.. J. A. FaisOn. a prominent citi-
| zen OF Sampson county. who has been
| visiting his brother DR.. W. w. Faison.
| assistant superintendent of the East
ern Hospital. returned home yesterday.
DR.. Luby Smith son of Mr.. Jno. r.
| Smith. of this city. who was compelled
to leave his ~~actice in Arcadia, Fla.
on account of a kidney affection. and
who has been critically i'll in this city
| for some months has been spending
some time at Seven Springs in this
county. where he has been drinking
the water from No > spring. ran up
to the city today on a little business
trip and was so much improved that
his friends hardly knew him. He at
tributes his great Improvement to
drinking the Seven Springs water
from h use of which a number OF
Similar cases have been cured. There
is q fortune in it for h man who viii
build an electric line from here to the
Springs and erect a handsome hote
on the property at the Springs.
At the next regular meeting of the
board of aldermen of this city a com
mittee from the Anti-Saloon League
will ask the board to order an cleo
ton on the question of a ~dispensarl
for GoIdsboro. The committee viii
have the required number OF name!
to the petition. The canvass Which
they have made in securing the names
has enabled them to test public sen
timent on the liquor question and the,
are confident that they will have n
trouble in carrying the election. Ia
opposition is not much alarmed an
rely on the argument that a dispe
sary will affect the trade OF Goldsborc
; There will be a pretty warm hgh
; when the question comes UP n tn
campaign is on in earnest.
At a meeting of the Farmers Pro
tective Association in this city on sat
urday the following resolutions Wer
5 adopted:
Resolved. That the tobacco grow
ers of the county stand face to fac
with a financial death in the low pric
of tobacco from some cause. either l
overproduction of the weed or in
g combination of tobacco buyers lookln
n to the taking of the cro7 at runioI
5 and starvation prices; that the remed
r il seems to US is the same. and thu
I is to stop the sale and production unit
n the prices will justify the selling an
raising.
4 Therefore. be it resolved. hat tt
. farmer should offer 10 more Tobacco
n for sale at the present prices. and tn;
if the prices do not 70 10 TO a ivir
price that the farmers should stop IL
- raising of tobacco until the demaT