The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-24
THE STATUS OF LABOR
MORE UNIONS ORGANIZED THIS
YEAR THAN EVER BEFORE.
The Increase in Property Valuation.
Keeping Texas Boil WecviI Out of
the Ntate-Warm Meeting of Al
d"rin"n TOnight-Other News.
Messenger Bureau.

"SS>SL5SI bureau
Raleigh, y. g. November l..
HE commissioner of agriculture to-
day received the following letter from
Acting G-HeraI Superintendent AIex4n-
der Grant. Of the railway mail service:
Permit M 70 acknowledge receipt Of
Your letter Of the 18th instant addressed
the postmaster general. and bv him re-
TERED - this office. in which protest
l. made regarding the admission of
specimens Of the Texas boil we-yjI TO
the mails and in reply to stat That
lh-S matter IS fully covered by the cur
rent postal laws and regulations, which
absolutely exclude all insects and rem
Tiles from the mails, 4 general order
Was issued ~ the postmaster general
under date OF the 18th instant calling
attention 10 section 494 Of the POSTAL
laws 4ti regulations and To the fact
that It must De rigidIy enforced. II is
hoped this viii meet the erd sought
b. yourself and others who have writ
ten regarding the same matter" Com
missioner Of Agriculture Patterson
speaking OF this matter said he
hoped everybody in the State
would b." on the lookout for
persons sending boil weevils into North
Carolina, report such cases promptly.
and see that there are prosecutions of
the Offenders.
L appears now that the total IN
crease IN the valuation Of property in
this state. including that of railways
and other common carriers Will be
about as. 600. 600. on this the State tax
viii be about 1913, 900. Speaking of this
matter today, Chairman Franklin Nc
Nell, Of ne Corporation Commission
said thu total increase in the tax would
not b. ftr from $500, 900 he thought.
The register of deeds of this county
speaking OF the prosperity which is
cpmIUg t. the farmers in this section,
says TN cancellation of mortgages
this year mas been very gratifying and
! am sure that last year and this wear
together ln@ number Of such cancelIa-
tiOuS has been thrice rs great as it was
for the preceding two years.
TIL weather bureau people here made
a wonderfully fine guess at the weather,
having said day before yesterday that
Tho trmperature here this morning
would reach % degrees and many water
pipes w-rt. frozen. Weather Observer
Won Herman said that the lowest
temperature recorded during November
MS J. degrees. Oh the Both in 1891. and
that three times the temperature had
ftE,e. L. ~ degrees in November. He
said there would be quite a period of
continued cold weather. but fair and
fine. The farmers enjoy the weather.
rs Il IS Just what they want.
Some time ago a flag was made by a
Raleigh lady. upon the order OF the city.
FOR presentation to the cruiser Raleigh.
TO- -E-- --.--,I l1rtI, v,-Art into PnII1
mission. The flag is still here. never
having been presented.
Governor AycOck was asked todayI
what particular event in North Carroll
ma this year had most gratltied him, and
replied. The reunion at Greensboro
gratified me most. as showing the de-
voted loyalty of the scattered and Of
those who remain at home to the old
State. Adjutant Genera Register when
asked what had pleased him most. 50
far rs the National Guard of this State
is concerned. replied the interest mani
Tested Gy the officers and enlisted men
i'm the advancement of the guard. and
in the work at the encampments. The
ddjutlut genera says the reports on
the en.lmpments made by the army Of
hcerS detailed 10 attend them have been
received. but have not yet been made
public. ~ vet the reports Of the COM
mauGerS Of the regiment have not been
received. The report Of the a%djutant
general Will not be ready until about
the middle of December.
The Western North Carolina confer
ence Of African Methodist EpiscoDa
church j in session here at St. PauIs
church. which is one Of the largest CO.
ored churches i'm this State.