The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31
RALEIGH
superintendent JOyner Busy With
MISUNDERSTANDING Pleased
With Observation-Disclosures
Body of Giant Oak-San Jose
Scale Pest Scattering-Durham
itentiary.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., July %.


State Superintendent of Public In
structiOn Joyner says he is very hard
at work III the applications for loans
TO counties for building public schools.
The number Of counties which have
thus far applied IS forty, these being
scattered all over the state.
Governor Aycock said today regard
ing the encampment of the Second
regiment at Morehead City: Il n
very much pleased. The regiment
made a fine appearance. There was
good discipline. Major French, L. :.
A, who was present, n who will
make the report to the war depart
ment. speaks highly of the regiment
and says it too Instructions as we'll
as any he ever saw. 1t was as fine
looking a body as 1 ever saw, I shot
at the two hundred yard rifle -ange,
using a krag, and made sixteen out IF
twenty-five shots. l hit the bulls eye
once. I have never lot a heavy rifle
more than 80 times. 1 Will go 20 the
of the Third and First
regiments. Major French has rejoin-
ed his regiment, the 18th, at Fort Nc
Pherson at Atlanta, but will return
and be at the Greensboro ncanp-
ment and then at the one at Ashe-
VILE"
The state officials, and eachcra
| generally, as we'll as leading farmers.
are much pleased with the new text
| book, agriculture for Beginners, The
work of Professors Burkett, Stevens
and Hill of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college. The book is very e.
fectively illustrated and will be both
popular and useful IN the PUBLIC
schools.
Mention has been made of the cut
ting down of the great oak here. This
was a small task compared with the
removal of the trunk of the tree.
Several days "a been spent N GLOW
ing this to pieces with powder, but so
tough is the wood that this work is
very slow.
In an interview today with state
EntomolIgist Franklin Sherman re-
garding the San Jose scale he said. III
is now in 81 counties. During the past
fortnight Iredell has been added tC
the counties in which it exists. It S
widely scattered over the state and is
| about as prevalent IN one section as
another. Southern Pines is the mos
/ infected locality and the pest mus
have begun it's work there about az
, soon as any place in the state.
In the course of a trial of a MAI
} charged with unlawfully selling
whiskey, mOOnshining, ETC., pefor'
: United States Commissioner NIcnOl:
t here the fact developed from his owl
2 testimony that he was one of a bafiC
of % bound by an oath not to Detra.
each other, and that this oath hac
been administered by a leader whom
the gang had chosen Another inter
esting thing was ascertained by Com
missioner Nichols, this being tina
there is a man in this county who vii
take the part of an old WhiSkey still
set it in some mud and then tell tn
revenue officers he knows of u loCa
5 ton of a distillery which he will re
+ veal for $40 fee, if paid in advance
His trick has been discovered, n hi
: arrest is to follow.
f The county of Durham has hired 3
convicts from the p~enltent1ary, t.
work on public roads. The 1OS convict
! who have been at work in Mitchell
county, building a railway to the Ten
? nessee line are to be brought back thi
r week. and from their number the .
will be selected and sent to Durham.
L The state tax commission continue
= it's work of assessing railways and va
informally heard various railway OF
ficials, among them Vice Vpresiden
Andrews of the Southern and others.
The electric storm Of night befor'
last burned out the fuses or over LEO
telephones.
Miss julia Howell, executive clerk &
Governor AycOck, has returned frCV
visit to West Point, New York anC
Washington, D. G.
The time of the encampmentS OF tn
national guard is too short. Ten day
would be better. This is the view o
a umbe of the officials.