The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-03
NORTH CAROLINA.

Winston Sentinel: Our Yadkinville
contemporary. the Ripple. bids the DEM
ocratic party adieu and has gone to the
republicans. 1t announced this week
its change in political faith. The legis-
lature did not do to suit the editor. The
Watts act is not popular in Yadkin
county.
Wilson News: DIR. Person who was
recently appointed postmaster of Will
son IS now preparing his bond. AS
previously stated he has officially been
Informed of his appointment and as
soon as his bond is received by the de-
partment his commission will be for
warded and he will lake charge of the
office.
kinstOn Free Press: The high water
in Neuse river has run the rabbit out
of the low grounds and they are seen
frequently on knobs and floating logs
and the boys are having great sport
padding about looking for them. No
dogs or U is needed as the cotton
tales are hemmed in so that they can
not make their escape, and are quickly
dispatched with boat paddles.
Greensboro Record: We learn from
ANC u lL4d MI. w. -. 4
HammeI, professor of manual training,
physics n zoology at the State Nor
NAL school in that city, has accepted a
call tC become director of manual train
ing and physics at the State Normal
college Professor HammeI is one of
the best and most distinguished teach
ers of this branch in the United States.
and North Carolina is fortunate to Sc
cure his services.
Greensboro Telegram: The republican
state executive committee will meet in
Greensboro Thursday, April Is, for the
purpose of accepting the resignation Of
the present chairman, Judge Jeter c..
Pritchard. The call for this meeting,
which will be the most important the
committee has held in nan years, was
issued Saturday morning. a copy was
addressed to each member, by mail,
with an Urgent request to be present.
Burlington News: Sometime ago Mr..
r. J.. Holt, believing that the hawks
In his section were destroying the part
ridges and other game birds, bought
three dozen steel traps and gave them
out to the farmers in his neighborhood
with Instructions that they set them on
tall poles or on trees where the hawks
were seen to aIight. These traps were
set about the first of the year, and up
to the present 81 hawks and several big
owls have been caught.
Greensboro Record: Greensboro is
not unlike other places. When sporting
gentlemen come to town and do not
get drunk We have certain of the elite
who can be depended on to make up for
it. This was the case Saturday with
the ball team. The teams and the
-OOterS were composed of sober, we'll
behaved gentlemen, but the smart set
round town made up for 1.-THE same
chaps who get drunk at about every
Opportunity-but they exceeded the
bounds Saturday night with the result
that eight of them have been cited to
appear before the mayor this afternoon
for disOrderly conduct. This will be the
first appearance of the young men be-
fore the mayor and on this account The
Record does not use their names. Next
time it will be different. When men be-
come bruteS and hogs they cease to be
gentlemen. When they keep on drink
ing liquor they soon become hogs.
AsheviIle Citizen: The owner of the
petrified man is here and is negotiating
for the sal. of his find to an Asheville
man. His name-nOt the petrified
mans name-iS A. w. SittOn and he
lives in Mills River township. Hender
son county. near the swamp where the
petrified man was found. Mr.. SittOn
regards all suggestions that this man
is an artificial creation in 4 philOSOphiC
mood and says he is prepared 20 submit
the man to a rigid inspection by scien-
tific men when he is brought to Ashe-
vile. He authorizes The Citizen TO say
that Scientific men who nov their bus
mess will then be welcome to bore a
hole in the man and chip off a fragment
for analysis. He is uncertain when he
will bring the man here. The man is
now at EtoWah station on the TOXa-
way railroad on exhibition at ten cents
a look and is to be taken next week to
He~ndersonviIle or Brevard for exhibit
ton unless he is sold by that time. y
number of persons have wished to buy
the man Il four men each offered ST.
600 for him. including an ASheVille man,
but Mr.. Sitton says he don't know what
to take for him. as he first wants to see
what is in him"-that is. how much he
is worth. Mr.. SittOn says that DR.. NJ.
w. Edgerton pronounced the man bona
ffde. but hat DIR. Sewer said he was
not.