The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-21
Messenger Bureau.

raleigh. y. c.. AuguSt Is.
Governor Aycock will next Monday
review the First Regiment of the
State National Guard at AsheviIle.
1t was thought that some of the
Raleigh iremen would go 10 Sails
buy on Labor Day" 10 compete for
prizes. but it turns out that the chief
prize is only SO. which is not a suf-
fcient inducement.
\ charter vas today granted by h
state to the Dillsboro Milling and
Manufacturing Company. of Jackson
county,. capital $4,000. H. S. Harkins
n others stockholders. The com
pany will mill grain and manufacture
lumber. Another charter was grant
ed TO the PiedrnOnt Springs lumber
Company. O. Morganton. capital $780,
600, w. W. Birdsall. of Philadelphia.
being the chief stockholder.
The citizens here who are protesting
against the increased assessment of
their property will tomorrow be given a
hearing. The assessors say that it is
a notorious fact hat ordinary prop
erty N the state has been assessed
far too low: that the railways showed
this fact clearly two or three years
ago. when the Investigation was made.
and that this time the as"o"~orS have
tried to appraise property at It's true
value.
The number of railway accidents on
various railways. the Southern and
Seaboard Air Line especially. is much
talked OF. A veteran railway man
says that in the 26 years ending in
1892 there was only one collision "a
head-end) on the Raleigh and Castor
railway. and that one engine was cap
CJ0n1 TI11- u-opn fh- vi MIC
in all that time.
Today the state superintendt of pub
lie instruction issued a circular letter
to the county SuDerintendents an
nouncing that tho new school text
book, agriculture for Beginners"
had been formally accepted and would
be regularly on sale at all the book
repositories
1t is said that 40 per cent. more
bright tobacco was grown in this state
last year than in 1901. In the latter
year the crop wac not large enough
to supply the demand.
The weather report. for July. for
this state. issued by the weather bu-
reau here today. says the mean tenn
fperature was IS degrees. which is a
degrees above formal the highest
monthly mean being 81 al Washine+~n
the oWest So. at Nantahala Park. The
highest absolute temperature was 1O2.
Il -NlollCuIe. loNC y Il dl -Ndltl'ilISGf"
Park. The average rainfall was $40
inches. which is III inches below the
normal. The rainfall was below nUr-
NAL at all stations except five.
The Baptist Female University trus-
tees here accent the designs for a con-
servatory of music submitted by aren't
tects Hook and Sawyer of Charlotte.
The building is TO cost $4,000 and
will be the finest Of its kind in TINS
state.
State superintendent Joyner TODAY
issued 2 circular letter about the new
text book. ~ ~ricurture for Beginners"
saying 50 per cent. of North Caro-
Euians live by farming. and that this
subject must be added to the regular
I course of instruction in all public
schools. He suggests that all pupils
III each school over fourteen and sucn
others as are sufficiently advanced ne
| arranged into one class for study Of
this book.
The State Superintendent of Public
| Instruction IS notified by the SuDerin-
l tendent of clay County that the pub
| tic schools there are opening very IT
| regularly. because Of a great epidemic
| of typhoid fever. which is sweeping
L over the county. and that in sorse dis
ktricts it is impossible to get even chs
ESmalleSt a~ttenda~"a.