The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-21
Bureau.

AAC lCA4IlS VI all Tic pQDllc SCHOOL
teachers in this state are women. This
proportion certainly holds good at the
summer school.
Grand Secretary John Drewry, of
the Grand Lodge Of Masons. says new
lodges have been applied for Al Win
terVllle, Pitt county and at Stoyall.
Granville county. Speaking OF the great
Masonic Bazaar to be held here in Oc-
tober he say he expects that president
Roosevelt can be induced to come on
that occasion and that the Masons will
ask Senators Simmons and Overman
10 join a of the order IN ex-
tending an invitation. in -erson, to the
president to be present, on that occa-
SIon- A special invitation will also be
extended TO Congressman James B..
Richardson, of Tennessee, to attend,
Dir. Richardson being now at the head
OF Missionary in the world, there is only
one thirty-third degree Mason in North
Carolina, this being Mr.. Garland of
ASheville-
President James D. Mcneil. of the
North Carolina State Ffremen's Asso-
citation came here to see Governor Ay-
cock, to urge the latter to postpone
the encampment of the Third Regiment
at Greensboro for three days. in order
that it m a not conflict with the Fire
mems Annual Convention n Tourna-
III CT AS~@ "a Xix L
men being guardsmen. Governor Ay-
cock has left the matter in the hands
OF Adjutant General Register for decl-
sion.
A grand concert is being arranged for
the summer school here, and will be
held about the end of this month. 1t
is expected tho there Will be about
two hundred voices in the chorus.
Secretary T. K. run says very ex-
tenslVe arrangements are now being
made for North Cardinals participa-
ton in the St. Louis exposition. A
great show will be made in minerals
and State GeolOgist Holmes has two
very capable men now in the field col
lectIng specimens. The display of
woods and timbers will be a great one,
and State Forester w. w. Ashe is now
in the field extending the collection.
Mr.. Bruner says it is the plan to have
extremely large panormas of noun
tains and forests in North Carolina.
These to be from sixty to n hundr
and twenty feet IN length and to be
used as a frieZe in the buildings where
North Cardinals exhibits are located.
Mr.. Geo. F. Greene is here in connec-
ton with the making of the panormas.
Photographs are first taken and then
enormously enlarged and cOlOred IN the
most perfect I'M At the top of
the wall space of North Cardinals tx
hibits in the departments of forestry,
natural history and fisheries. which adj
join. each Their. it is expected to have
one of these grand panoramic views
one hundred and fifty feet IN length,
representing the three departments
above referred to.
Tomorrow the corporation commission
will go TO Durham to complete the
hearing in the manner of the location
of a union passenger station there.
Some days ago half a day was devoted
here to a hearing of this notable case
and an adjournment was k until
tomorrow. The case is a mixed affair,
one branch of it being now in the fed
eral court. this growing out of the
right as to the ownership of Peabody
street at Durham. 1t is hoped hat the
matter may be finally settled tomorrow
and an order made for the building of
the station. as the people OF Durham
will place before the commission other
sites Which they will state are as de
Sirable as the one on Peabody street
over which the row has so long been
made.
The climate and crop repOr+ for North
Carolina for June was issued today. 1t
says the mean temperature for North
Carolina that month was l0.3 degrees.
this being the lowest on record in thlr-
~ two years. excepting June 1878. The
rain fall was heavy. especially IN the
west Frost occurred OF the 18th, n
18th. at several mountain stations. n
the temperature fell to 81 degrees at
highlands. on the 18th. ThunderStOrmS
were frequent. often accompanied by
hail, high winds. destructive lightning
or heavy dOwnfalls of rain. The high
est absolute temperature was 80 at
Washington. the lowest 81 at High
lands: greatest daily range Al degrees,
at Lenoir. The temperature was below
normal at all stations. The rainfall
averaged 6.1O inches. which is 1.60 above
+Io council. Tho oraa test rainfall was
1885 inches at highland. n the least
1872 at PittSbOrO. The prevailing dlrec-
ton of the wind was southwest "a
Waterspout moved near HatteraS on
the 18th. Haze or smoke was observed
at various points. but ii could not be
determined whether it came from the
forest fires in New England. Ihere
were many dense fogs- nartlcularly at
Ashev1lle and Patterson. At Southern
Pines there were hailstOneS two 1nches
in diameter. At Fla Rock frost in
jured corn in bottom lands.
1t is found at the summer Schoo 1of
teachers here that the country IS tar
better represented than the cities n
towns. Al the Raleigh teachers are
| present. the city having made an APP
preparation for that purpose. Other
cities in the state ought to follow TINS
admirable example. 1t Will be founu
to pa- we'll. Such a school Is worth
far more thai the ordinary county in
stitutes. and the cost is no greater
than that of the latter. This county
also fee of all its teachers. n
here again is an example for other
counties.
The LIQUOR men here are getting
| ready to fight the movement for a dis
pansary. They argue that no moral
question is involved. but a purely bus
mess one. and say it Will nut one hun
dred and thirty-fve persons OF OF
business. and cause a loss of one hun
dred thousand dollars annually in
trade. They have not as yet calcuiat-
ed the offset. that Is he revenue Wnlch