The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-28
Messenger Bureau,

hdlelSn, July 20.
I F. B. Arendall who is one of the state
| agents to collect funds for the North
! Carolina exhibit at the St. Louis expo
| sition, has returned from his first tour
| and says he finds interest among cot
l ton mill men, furniture manufacturers
and and all wner of hardwood plants,
tobacco men. and in fact all the man
| ufacturers. deeply interested in hav-
ing a great and complete exhibit. He
| says he o feels certain that the plan
l and arrangements are practically COM
| plete by which the state will be repre-
scented in very fine shape, better than
at any previous exposition. in fact, and
that the manufacturers and others will
| also have many notable exhibits.
! Curator Brimley of the state museum,
| during the absence of Secretary T. K.
Bruner of the agricultural department,
who is now a very prominent official
| of the st. Louis exposition, says de-
tailed plans are now being made and
that the packing of exhibits has begun,
| beginning with building stones, woods.
The state has an enormous collection
instantly available. and as Mr.. Brimley
says can do more with say $4,000
/ llldII LII states cOulQ 40 WIN ten
times as much. He says this states
exhibit will be in the buildings espe-
| clally devoted to each department. and
that the plans for their installation are
being prepared. This plan is found to
be much better han having a state
buildin0. North Carolina has won
many and great honorS at the various
expositions n will win even greater
ones at St Louf A gentleman who
was here the other day said he believ-
ed, after a tour of the south that North
Carolina and Georgia would have by
far the greatest exhibits from this sec
ton Of the union. The agricultural de-
partment has not only the exhibits, but
highly trained men to arrange and
show them, and besides this there will
be a notable collection made of supple
mental exhibits. which may not be in
the magnificent state museum.
AS yet the magazine rifles for the
national guard of this state have not
been received, but they are daily ex-
pected. They will be new rifles, it is
learned and may come from the ma
tional armory at Springfield, Mass.
The committee of the. agricultural
board which has charge of the affairs
of the Agricultural ndRMechanicaI
aiming the books IfLd Ints, which
it finds i n admirxA'W +. A mem
Der of the committee is as.ed when he
thought the agricultural building at the
college would be erected, and replied
that the matter Wa in charge of a spe-
cial committee, which will report to the
full board in December. 1t is under
stood that this building is to be on a
hill in front of the state fair ground
and that it will cost at least $50, 900.
The committee will suggest to the board
the best method of raising the fund.
The need Of rain is now very urgent
and crops are suffering in many local
tiles In this part of the state.
Great interest is felt by the people
here in the cutting down and removal
of the Janus oak tree known to the
sands as the Haywood oak. Your cor
respondent, in company with Gerald
Mccarthy. an expert. went to see the
felled tree yesterday, in order that Mr..
Mccarthy could count the rings and
thus tell it's age. 1t was found to be
very difficult. there being three centers
of growth, and Mr.. Mccarthy said it
seemed that three saplings must have
grown together. Tradition has it that
this was a great tree when Raleigh
was laid out. Only $50 rings could be
counted, however. the thickness of a
number Of those being abnormal.
The Third REGIMENT of the national
guard has received its orders for its
e"ncampment at Greensboro, and will go
there with very full ranks
The state superintendent of public
instruction is more than gratified at
the news which comes of the great ed
ucational now in progress in
the state. Congressman John H. Small
writes that the campaign in Gates has
resulted in great good, better schools,
new ones, consolidation of school dis
tricts and the raising of money by
subscription, $425.00 in one district. as
we'll as assurances of a voting Of spe-
| cial tax in various parts of the coun-
ty. 1t was promised some months ago
that this educational movement in 1903
would exceed that Of last year. and it is
doing so.
Two more of the large oaks on the
north side of the canitol square are
dying, and it is claimed by experts
that this is due to the presence of deep
drains, for sewerage and other pipes,
which take the moisture from the
ground. The replanting of trees in the
square will oon have to begin.
It Is now Verv positively declared
that the Raleigh and Pamlico Sound
railway will be built. The promoters
here are very sanguine. n people
along the proposed route are very en-
thusiastic indeed. They will have to
raise 100000 in order to secure the
building of the road.
The dispensary and antidispensary
fight here may now be said to be on.
AS was said some days ago the liquor
men will put before the people from
| what they claim to be a business stand
point. The advocates of the dispersal
ry are confident that they will win
Not a few people feel sure that if there
is not a ~dispensary there will be pro-
hibition. and prefer the ~dispensary sys-
tenn to the latter. The fight is very
sure to be a lively one from the start.
Raleigh has not many saloons. in fact
fewer than most places Of its size.
1t is said that the Raleigh and Cape
Fear railway will put light draught
steam boats on the Cape Fear river at
| Ellington, to handle freight up and
down that stream for some distance.
More building is now in "rogress here
than in a considerable time this apply
: ing particularly TO business houses.
! The summer school here has been
such a great success and conducted at
so little cost TO the teachers who have
attended it in such large numbers. that
! all declare its future is assured. and
that it is only a question Of time when
it will be as great a feature as the
L-,a~1illa cllrpoar school which has