The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-06
NORTH CAROLINA.

necessary BY the serious i'll
ness of one of Judge Jones' children.
He received a telegram stating that he
WAS needed at Winston on this account
Noun Airy News: Solicitor 5. p.
Graves, of Mount Airy, brought to Our
office a day or two ago. q sample June
apple Of the second crop grown on his
place this year. The specimen was very
fine and of average size. We have
seen June apples Of the second crop
before, but it is Of rare occurrence
that two crops ripen on the same trees
IN one year.
Chatham Record: Quite an important
mortgage was registered here this week
It was a printed document of y pages,
and was for $500 900. 1t was executed
by the Cape Fear Power Company to
the Schenectady Trust Company of
Schenectady, in the state of New York.
The mortgage IS upon the cOmpany's
at BuckhOrn falls in this and
Harnett county. where the company is
building an immense dam across the
Cape Fear river.
Charlotte Observer: Greensboro IS
getting u great deal of advertising out
of the reunion of North CarOlinianS to
be held there on October 18th. 1t was
= s~pIendidIy conceived idea, and from
reports in the newspapers the wan
gIerers Will gather there in great num-
bers- The dispersed abroad from North
Carolina ave taken DOT in every state
IN the union, and il is possible that on
the call Of the roll of states at the
Greensboro reunion there will be q re-
Spouse from each of them.
Special 10 Winston Journal: Spencer,
N. G., September 3O.-State Treasurer
b R. Lacv was here yesterday Tor
Inc purpose of officiating at the cor
ner stone laying of the Presbyterian
church ut Spencer. The ceremonies
Grand Lodge of the Masonic fra
fernity. Mr.. ac0 acting as Grand
Master. He also delivered the address
which was very appropriate and i'm
pressive. Fulton Lodge, No 90. A.
=. and A. NJ. of Salisbury. attended
n T. body accompanied by the Sails
bury band which furnished music for
the occasion.
Salisbury Special to Wilson Times:
The numerous wrecks on the Southern
railway are making a serious impress
IL "r the engineers and other en-
DlOyes Of the road. as u result OF which
u number are known TO have resigned
their positions. Two men running out
from Spencer went to the bank at
which they DO business yesterday and
drew what money they had. saying
LIlSE were SolllS % tulI IIt IbdI NDllG
alive and go to farming. They said
they proposed to invest their money
n stock and farming implements: that
running on the railroad has got to be
LOO serious u problem for them.
Greensboro Telegram: 1t looks as if
Greensboro will see what u strike is
like At the big printing house of
Joseph J. Stone and Company seven
printers and W boOkbinders have
Notified the management that they
would not so back to work today. This
was because Messrs. Stone & Co. de-
.Eined to agree to the scale fixed by
Ehe Greensboro Typographical Union.
The new scale of prices was submitted
10 the various ~prOprietOrs of all tho
printing establishments of this city on
%he first of September saying the new
scale of nriceS would go into effect on
October LIST. This printing firm de-
eclined to adopt either the prices or the
t7Ours as submitted by the union. As
IS always the case in these Disagree
HnentS both sides think they are right.
1t is hoped that an agreement can be
reached. And there is a possibility
hat some sort of compromise can be
Effected.
Monroe Journal: Ever been to Hills
zorro, that dear old tuwI where time
md its mutations are as nothing? No
lew ItI people III the WOrlU, ana In6y
-Are satisfied. There is practically the
sEame number of population. SO a gen
Ieman tells us, that there was Il CEN
Jury ago If they gain not. neither do
~ney lose The same town clock that
.Lalled together the Provisional Con-
"'Tention of 11I5 still does duty. The
Iell has 4 hole worn in it as big as
Il peck measure. to be sure. but tbs
sSoOd yet. The local editor takes off
: Wn weeks HITInO tho J-An ono 1o
summer and one at Christmas. ana
gives his patrons only fifty issues 4
.Sear. They'll be as we'll off a hundred
years hence as if they We're receiving
rifty-twO. a y he The county has
never had but one register of deeds.
o the simple reason that the man
<EhO was elected when this office was
created. i'll 1868. still holds it. The
Town is vet using the cObble stones
which COrnwalls laid in the streets.
Durham Herald: There is a hitch
between the railroads and the property
owners as to the price TO be paid for
some of the property to be used for
che union depot site. The owners of
rhe Mangum property on Peabody
street. between Church and Nangum
streets, ask $4,000 for the property
necessary for u depot and the roads
Ire not willing 10 pay auvthing near
- 81 ~ tL'N - tIlt l
h property Will have to be condemn
I'd under the usual process provided
oy law II then fought out in the
courts Tn order of the railroad COM
mission provides tina the depot shall
Se erected between Church and Man
gum streets on Peabody street front. 4
portion Of this property belongs to the
city-the old market site-and it IS
understood that the aldermen OFFER to
sell this property for $4,000. The roads
are willing 10 pay that much for this
property but the hitch mas come in the
negotiation for the Nangum prOpertv.
The o a needs Il striD Of land two
hundred and forty feet by sixty feet
IN size in addition ~ the city prop
'nrty- This Will give Il site running
Through street to street. The property
as aCCessed at 81. 600. but when the
deal came for the roaos 20 get the
property for depOt the price
was fixed at $50. 200. The roads will
not pay this and that is where the
negotiations now stand.