The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-23
Messenger Bureau,

falelSh, n. G., June lS~
Inc for education, especial
Fly in the interest of local aid to publis.>
schools is going to be on a broade--
scale than ever before. The list Of
speakers is now being prepared. anGE
they will take the field July 1st. They
will cover every part of the state.
Among the speakers will be Governor
|Aycock. Auditor Dixon, Congressmera
John H. Small, and Robert y. Page.
|Chas. D. McIver. Professors CARLYLE andte
of Wake Forest, Mimms and8
Durham, of Trinity, Henry Louis
Smith. of Davidson. Cyrus D. Watson
Robert D.. Douglas, Zeb Vance Walse,s-
and J. r. McCrary, Of Lexington, Al
fred NJ. Scales, of Greensboro, ex-Goy-
|ernor Thos. ]. Jarvis. ex-Sstate Super
|intendent Charles H. Mebane.
Since last years campaign in the in
|tereSt Of local taxation for public
schools no less than so local districts
have voted such a tax. bringing the
total number up to 1873. This Important
IS now being agitated in two ;
more districts.
State Treasurer Lacy ayS all the
debts covered by the 100000 bonds is
sue have been paid. except three or
four small ones, as to which the re-
|Quired statements have not yet beer
filed.
Treasurer Lacy says that the sheriff.
are paying taxes unusually we'll, and&
that nearly all have paid IN full. He
they have settled more promptly
than they did last year..
Somewhere about 3 o'clock this MORN
ing, Martin J. Nordstrom, a Dane. at
tempted suicide by jumping from tina
window of his room on the second,
floor Of the Park hotel here. He came
in about midnight, drunk. and went in
- n " opnoCif roam rrhn~a l~ IL -
companions. He returned to his.
own room and his friends think made
the jump to the sidewalk new
about 8 o'clock. He was found on the
sidewalk by the police officers who took
him to the station house, found who haA
and t]elephoned for his employer.
has charge of the decoration oE
the capita club here. He was them
taken to a hoSpital, where it was fOur66
that his skull was fractured, leg anGC
arm broken, and that there were in
INJURIES. Nordstrom was a deco
rator and had been here nine weeks
His injuries are considered fatal He
left a note to his employer showing he
intended to commit suicide. His home=
is New York.
lutaoird la rdola oar
A call for a convention of road build
ers is issued by P. H. Hanes, president
of the North Carolina Good Roads As
soclation. S.. l.. Patterson chairman Or
the North Carolina Road Commission
and w. c. Riddick. professor of En-
gineering and Road Construction in the
Agricultural and Mechanical College
The purpose is to effect a permanent
Association of Road Engineers in North1l
Carolina and thus promote the cause
of r~oad-buildlng as we'll as the pro-
fessional and personal interests of road
builders. The convention will be heldt
July 21st at the AGRICULTURAL and Me-
|chanical College, Raleigh, during the
summer school,. There is a course OF
instruction IN road-building in the
summer school which the delegates to"
the convention will have an opportunity
to observe. Tickets for one fare nay
be bought July Goth, good to return tliE
August 1st. 1t is hoped to have a g
attendance of road supervisors. A very
and instructive programme
will be offered.
Examinations for admission to the
Agricultural and Mechanical College az
Raleigh, will be held July 9, at 10 a. rHS
lin every county court house IN the state
lby every county superintendent OK
schools. The results of these eXaaTrHla~~
ttions will be considered in awardtEF
Scholarships at the college. Each cou-IEE
lty is entitled to as many Scholarships
as it has members Of the house Of rep
IreSeDtatiVpS.