The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-12-25
HOLIDAY TRADE GOOD
BUT NOT TO THE HIGH RECORD
OF LAST YEAR.
Farmers Not Entirely Satisfied
Labor Needed in Cotton Lands.
Governor Aycock Back from BaIti-
more.
Messenger Bureau.

Messenger Bureau
Raseigh. y, c., December 81.
The holiday trade here is quite good
years very high mark. The low prices
for tobacco are said to be the cause
The farmers are getting immense pr.ce
for their cotton the highest in a guar
ter of q century, yet a1me of them are
not entirely satisfied If they sci 1t
Is cents they think that if they had
wa!tei t. few days they could bta
IA cents. Yet when h season began
their hope was to get as much as 10
cents and they said that when that
figure was reached, they would turn
COTTON loose. 1t is being Very freely
marketed now, and the receipts here
are only = few hundred bales lesS than
they Were last year when the crops
were 50 much larger
AeRtiFl was made the other day of
the fact that the farmers this err II
Last year planted as much cotton as
they coud possibly do. There are some
persons who nave a belief that abo
from somewhere is to be brought into
the cotton growing states n say that
in his way only can the acreage be ir-
creased EEIey argue that il is better
to bring k,bor here 10 develop lad
which everybody knows will produce
coffin than 10 experiment in far of
countries TO ascertain whether C,ttoa
can be grown in theIr or not.
Persons who have visited Charlotte
think the solution Of the liquor cues
ton there - excellent; l. few a room 2.
with high license and short hours and
with no screen or anything to break the
view and with all the business done 1T
the front, so all the world can See it.
1t is said that this system is sltisfac-
tory TO the saloon men also.
The weather this eason has been TN
usually severe on the small grain crops.
Not q large crop oouiG be planted. and
the hard freezes have set the crop back
considerably.
At one time there a talk Of making
boring for oil Somewhere in the Cha
ham coal field region, but nothing more
has been heard of THAI matter, though
it is declared Oil is visible in some
streams and wells Il appears that oil
and gas are to be bOared for near Ashe-
vile.
Charters are granted to the CTagSy
Lumber Company CT AGOra, author zad
capital stock s1oo, 1000, pad in So. 900, S.
F. Chairman and others stockholders.
The Carolina Mills Company Of Win
ston-SaIem capital stock
s1O0, Geo, paid IN $1,000, P. K. Gre n and
others stockholders. These mills to
make hosiery, underwear ard all s0rts
OF knit goods
A. H. Scott. OF Company G. First
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died at the die home here yester-
day after a Tong illness. He came from
Durham, but was buried at MOrrisviIIe,
this county this afternoon.
Governor Aycock has returned from
his trip to Baltimore, which he enjoyed
greatly. His speech before the North
Carolina society there Friday evening
has attracted much attention all over
the country. particularly his referenc 8
to the regTO question
The supreme our almost entirely
cleared away its business before he
justices adjourned for the term. JUS
tice Douglas IS in Baltimore in a his i
tai. under treatment. He remarked SIX
| weeks ago that he would proba ly son
go to the hospital for special treItmc I.
Judge Purnell disposed of q g,cI
deal OF business in the Federal cO2 I
during the two weeks term, which red-
Iy ended Saturday, though there will te
a. short session Thursday. Tha fires ne
imposed aggregated over 5000, and nc
severely punished some Of the or
keepers who have been in COLLISION with
distillers in d~efrauding the gOvernment
These severe sentences viii no doubt
have a good effect, as a great deal OF
this sort Of thing has been done
The Raleigh liquor dealers association
is using its fund, some balance OF "h en-
remain. in Furnishing the great CHRIST
rnas tree for 500 poor chi d en- The
Elks, always liberal VIII provide g its
for the children st the orphanages, he
LAY nursery and also make a gift 20 ~"
Associated Charities