The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-17
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. c., July Il.

RalelSQ, ~. -, July II.
State Superintendent OF Instruction
is now at Knoxville, Tenn,
lvhere he will deliver some addresses
before the state summer school for
teachers. This summe- school has been
lin operation thirty years and is a great
success. The summer school now in
Iprogress at the Agricultural and Me-
!chanical college here is likewise a great
success: in fact it is said 20 be the most
successful in the state.
4 letter from Congressman John H.
lSmaII 10 state superintendent, says ne
finds the people in MS district very re-
lceptive. and ready for local taxation
land consolidation Of rural school dis
~Itricts. At Aurora the PEOPLE have sub
Iscrjbed 81, 200 for a public school and
lare to vote on q local special tax for
schools. On the 18th of August seven
Rural school districts in Cabarrus coun-
Ity, containing 629 white children Will,
Vote on local tax
1OJdS SdUColS ~ IL
ICamden, Perquimans, Pamlico and
Warren were received, for aid for school
buildings from the state loan fund.
The state auditor says that 20 sher-
lifts have yet failed tC settle last years
taxes in full. The officials will make
lively for these SLOW sheriffs.
Secretary T. B. Parker, of the Farm
Iers' State Alliance, q returned here
from a visit to Robson and Columbus
lcounties, and says the crops in both are
the finest in several years. He says
that many farmers say they are coming
to the Farmers State convention which
will be held next week at the AgriCul-
itural and Mechanical college here, and
that he finds general interest in this
convention, which he is urging farmers
to attend.
Among today's arrivals were Walter
NJ. Thompson, Richards; E. NJ. Pace,
Wilson,; J. a. Jones, superintendent Of
Fayetteville's school; w. z. Kyle, Fay
~etteville; E. o. Wick, Selma; w. NJ.
Person, Louisburg; o. c. Clingman,
lS~tatesville; w. E. Gary and J.. S. Cur
Irie. Henderson.
County Superintendent Clements of
this, Wake county, says he is sure that
there is not only so per cent. of the
usual acreage of the cotton crop here
and that its condition is not over 20
ler cent. of an average. He says that
the crops are poorer than he ever saw
them at this time of year.
The superintendent Of public instruc-
lions has issued the approved list Of
books for rural public school libraries.
lUNbo haoly- fa,, c1,oh 1ihrariaS 1pIct ha
selected from this list, which names
labout 400 books, the selections being
admirably made.
1t is very difficult TO get accurate in
formation as to the number of the reg
Iistered whiskey distilleries in operation
now in this district. The estimate OF
Fifteen is a rough One. 1t will be in
teresting to know whether any distil-
leries are today being operated in coun-
try districts. in defiance of the Watts
law.
The last returns of the strength OF
the national guard Of this state show
1882 officers and men &C the infantry
land artillery. The war department
has been specially requested to expedite
the shipment of Krag-Jorgensen 80 cal
Iibre magazine rifles. For each battal-
lion a quartermaster and commissary
in the person of one officer, is being ap-
pointed. Those for the first regiment
are J. w. Dalton, L. D.. Barley, and
John D. Lineberger. For the second
regiment H. A. Grady has so far been
appointed.
President J. VI. Turner and Secretary
iClaude B. Barbee. OF the Raleigh and
iPamlico railway have gone to points
lalong the line in the interest of that
road, as to the building OF which they
Iare very enthusiastic. An election will
he held here in the autumn on the ques-
ton of the issue of $50. 900 of bonds by
Raleigh township in ala of this road.
Several other townships IN this county
will have an opportunity to vote on it.
The catalogue of the Agricultural and
Mechanical college here shows sos stu
dents of whom 16 are from other states
land one from Santo Domingo. OF the
Istudents 131 are in agriculture. 50 cleo
trical engineering, ca mechanical engi-
lneering, ia mechanics, 50 civil egineer-
ing, ~ textile studies, IS industrial
chemistry.
The weekly crop bulletin for this state
for the week ending Monday, says:
Beneficial light rains occurred at the
beginning and close of the past week,
while the intermediate days We're dry,
warm and sunny. The rainfall aver
LACED less than an inch, and was some
what irregularly distributed, a few
counties in the west receiving too much
precipitation. and a few in the north
lcetral portion too little; on the whole
There was a tendency TO drought in
most counties. but it : thought the
rainfall Monday. 18th. put an end TO
danger of a severe drought. The mean
Temperature for the week was about 50
degrees. or some ( degrees above the
daily normal, with frequent day temper
Iatures above 90 degrees, and nights
lgenerally warm. Weather conditions,
therefore. were again very favorable;
crops continued TO make rapid growth:
killing grass and weeds and other farm
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