The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-17
PRESIDENT AGENTS LAW"
An Interesting Question Raised.
The Appalachian Training School.
Young Ven Charged With Capital
Crime-CongregationaI Meeting of
Good Shepherd Church.
Messenger Bureau,

The last Legislature passed an act
for the establishment OF the Appala-
chaln Training School for teachers TO
be located in one OF the counties of
Allegheny, Ashe, Wilkes. Caldwell,
Watauga. Mitchell / or Yancey. The
fourteen trustees named in the act are
called to meet at Blowing Rock May
10Th. to organize.
Moore county received from the state
treasury $2,06I.94 Of the second 500, 900,
n order 10 bring the public schools
there to the required four months
term. The county now returns S9S.40
OF this sum as not being needed. Moore
IS the only county that returned any
Of the money received from the state.
Among the prominent lawyers here
attending court are w. w. Barber, F.
d: Hendren and IT B. Finley, of
Wtlkesboro; P. B. Marten, Winston;
A. ). Dockery, Rockingham; Stephen
Mcintyre, Lumberton: Clement Manly.
Winston: Cyrus B. Watson, Winston.
Secretary of States Grimes returned
from Pitt today
A circular from a Richmond banking
company today quotes North Carolina
4 per cent bonds at only s1O2. They
nave sold at s104.5 80. The decline is
only IN keeping with the fall of other
stocks on the New York market.
Inc total deposits in the Raleigh
banks subject to check April 9Th, was
:, 1886. O51. 73.
Three young men. Joe Smith. Will
Putney and Arthur Gooch, We're placed
IN Jail last night chareed with a capt.
TAI crime on a girl name O'Neill, IA
years OLD. h preliminary hearing
has not been held.
MIR. j. w. Bailey. of the Anti-Saloon
League, says that it is probable that
no state convention will be held Of the
temperance forces and adds, 1.-The
League is not to form a political party,
but simply to voice the popular de-
mand for moral advances in the life
OF the state, particularly in reference
to the drink evil"
State Chemist Kilgore says that par
tlcular attention will be paid to the
various Varities of grass on the states
new test farm in Iredell.
An interesting question has been
raised in the enforcement of the" Resi-
dent Agents Law" passed by the last
legislature. The second section of this
acts says Any person., agent. firm or
corporation licensed by the insurance
commissions to act as a fire insurance
agent in the state of North Carolina is
hereby prohibited from paying ii
rectly or indirectly any commission.
brokerage or other valuable consid-
GRAFTON on account of any policy or
policies covering on property in the
I"I VI INoi Il odl olllld, dly peISOll.
agent, firm OR corporation who is a ION
resident of this state, or to any person,
agent, firm or corporation not July
licensed by the insurance commissioner
as a fire insurance agent" The Amer
lean Tobacco Company has been
placing all it's insurance in North Car
Olina through their brokers' III New
York and these brokers have been
making the local insurance agents in
this state divide their profits with them
| The brokers have been receiving from
two to ten per cent. Of the fifteen per
cent that the local agents get. The
law was passed at the instance of local
agents who contended hat between
$4,000 and SAC, 900 was paid to these
New York brokers by North Carolina
insurance agents in order to get the
policies on the American Tobacco Com
this law, the New York brokerage
company as recently incorporated
under the avs OF this state to do in
surance business with headquarters in
Durham. Two agents have now writ
ten here inquiring if they would be
violating the act of the last legislature
if they paid this brokerage company
the per cent. of the agents profits
which the brokers demand. The Oues
ton is now pending.
At the annual congregational meet
ing at the Good Shepherd church last
night, Rev. DR.. Pittinger presided. The
reports of the different church organi-
cations of work done during the church
year just ended were read. n showed
that these bands of workers had not
been idle. The treasurer Of the Build
ing Fund for the new church, now be-
ing built, reported something like Sill
200 now available. The Easter offering
was 1.450. and a Request Of $3.50, made
a total of 50, 200. One of the eatures of
| the meeting was the reading of a ms
Moral in memOr of Mr.. ]. 8. Bache-
Tor and Mrs. j. 3. Bachelor, both
| during their lives such devoted friends
| of this church, and the rendering to
their family one of the marble pillows
in the new church to be carved, as
they wish, in memory of the dead. A
| beautiful testimonial to Mr.. Richard
H. Battle, from the vestry and congre-
| cation for his loving, untiring faithful
ness to the church, was read AND one
| of the pillows in the church rendered
1 him and his family in loving aDprecia-
| ton.
The Weekly Crop Bulletin of the eli
! mate and crop service OF the United
| States Weather Bureau for the week
| ending Monday. April 13, 1903. ays
THE past week may be described as
moderately favorable for agricultural
| interests in the eastern portion Of the
| state, and as rather BILE in
| many western counties where he pre-
cipitation was heavy enough to COM
| pletely interrupt farm work. Rain oc-
Cured generally on the It'll n Stb-
and the night of the 18th, and the soil
is still too wet to pillow in most coun--
ties. especially IN the west. However
Thursday, Friday and Saturday were
fair and warm and considerable plow-
ing was lone on uplands. The tenn
perature averaged above normal the
| entire week and ranged as high as SC
degrees on the 18th. Vegetation has
| advanced rapidly even in the extreme
| west and forest trees show considerable
| growth. The only Instantaneous
feature at present is the backwardness
in blowing and other preliminary pro-
| parationS.
planting corn made some progress
on uplands, and early planted has come
up nicely. Preparations for cotton
have begun in the south and the large
amount of fertilizer being used indi-
| Gates that a large CROW of cotton will
be planted. Tobacco plants are very