The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-06
RALEIGH NEWS LETTER
STATE LIBRARY AND HISTORI-
CAL ASSOCIATION TO MEET
Programme of the EXerciseS-Tele-
phone Systems May Merge-Farm-
Massey to Put Up a Ffght-Man-
ayers of Dispensary.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. y. c., November 8.

great request today and every man
h new anything about shooting
partridges was afield. Birds are plen-
tiful and the weather was simply per
feet for the opening day of the sea
son. The bird law has been very
we'll observed and the warden OF
this county said he knows of no
shooting of cartridges before the sea-
son opened.
Mr.. Cutler of the General Electric
Company, who is here on business
connected with the Raleigh street
railway in which he IS largely inter
ested say there is to be an extern
sion of the line, this has for years
been demanded.
There are intimations that a mer-
ger of the three telephone systems
here in Raleigh is by no means i'm
probable. There are people who ex-
press the belief that before a great
while the Bell will have the local
telephone service everywhere, but
others say that company will always
have one strong competitor. The three
systems idea as carried out here in
Raleigh is a great nuisance.
Two new insurance companies have
entered this state, 7. T. Hay & Bro
of Raleigh, representing them both,
n being the Law Union and Crown
of London and the other the National
Union Reinsurance of Pittsburg.
Services at the Soldiers Home
here are now held on the first Sun
day in each month by the pastor of
Central NJ. E. church and on the last
Sunday by the pastor of the Baptist
Tabernacle. There is a good atten-
dance of outsiders at all these SER
vices.
The cotton farmers say they have
very we'll proved their ability to hold
their cotton, and that they do not
propose to dispose of it at a figure
under 10 cents. While farmers in
the clay lands in this section say half
their cotton has been marketed and
tWo-thirds picked, farmers south Of
here, in the sandy lands say prac-
tically all their cotton is picked.
The fourth annual meeting of the
State Literary and Historical Associa-
ton will be held in the capitol at
7:45 p. m. Wednesday,, November
18th. The programme is as follows:
The Enrichment of Country Life"
presidents address) w. L. Poteat,
Wake Forest. North Carolina
photography; "The Years Literary
Record" Rowland F. Beasley, of
Monroe. The Career of Sir Walter
North Carolina Poetry Hight C.
Moore. Chapel Hill. Material for
the Study of State History in Trinity
College, H. B.. Adams, Jr., Durham.
Rural School Libraries" discussion,
led by j. NJ. Way, ASHORE. General
discussion; new business; election of
officers.
Governor Aycock will go to Trim
lty College on the 5th instant to at
tend the meeting of the presidents
OF southern colleges, to be held
there.
The supreme court is. at work this
week on appeals from the 10th dis
trict, the docket being a light one.
For a number of years the 9th dis
trfct has had the heaviest docket.
A charter is granted the Burling-
ton News Company, to publish news
papers, magazines, etc. n do gen
eral printing; capital stock S25.O 900:
Ogden F. Crowson and others being
stockholders.
State Superintendent Joyner has
returned from Henderson county,
where he attended the fair at Hen
Jacksonville, the first ever neld In tina,
lively mountain town. He made a
speech there on educational day.
There was a parade Of school chill
dren from the town and country. The
fair was a very creditable one and
was held in a new and specially con-
structed building. Superintendent
NiiiiS ol III lllp dllSIlu6u
the dedication Of a new rural schooI
house at Pleasant Hill, in Rutherford
county and declares it to be the best
rural school building in North Caro-
lima. 1t is built in accordance with
with plans furnished by the state SUI
| perintendent.
In the superior court here today,
the trial Of an interesting case be-
gan, one in which an insurance COM
pany sues the Raleigh Water Com
pany for the amount of insurance on
a residence burned here three years
ago. The company paid the loss, but
took out papers allowing it to sue the
water company, on the ground that
the pressure was insufficient. Several
expert witnesses are here, among
them Mr.. Boardman, of New York,
formerly of Brevard, and Superin-
tendent Campbell of the Charlotte
J waterworks.
Deputy Revenue Collector Starkey
| Hare made a raid in Nash county
Saturday night and captured an illicit
distillery. The men operating it
made good their escape. Nash and
Franklin counties appear to contain
many such distilleries, and now that
the new crop of corn is coming in no
| doubt others will start up, in order
TO make plenty Of whiskey for Christ
mas use.
| me election by the aldermen Of
the managers of the dispensary here
is to be one of the events of this
week. OF course there are plenty Of
| applicants. Organized labor, which
| claims it carried the election in favor
Of the ~diSpensary asks that a man
whom 1t puts forward shall be the
dispensary secretary. The dispen-
| sary is to be located in the most pub
| lie place possible, is to have no
screens or anything of that kind and
is to be kept just like any other bus
mess place.
Private Secretary Pearsall left to-
day for Trenton. in order to attend
court. At this term of court there
the trial of the murderer of the VEN
cradle father of Senator Simmons
will be held.
The number of rural free delivery
mail routes in the state today reach
| ed 416.
| Friends of POSrr7aStar Massey Of