The semi-weekly messenger., 1904-06-24
Messenger Bureau

messenger Bureau
Raleigh, y. c., June %.
The postmaster here is informed of
the following new rural free delivery
mail routes being established; Hope
Mills. Philip l. Adams, carrier; Camp
bell, William r. Brown; Kerr, David
c. FenneH; Smith, William 5. Hart;
Reidsville. Charles r. Joyce; Brown
Summit, Thomas r. Schoolfeld; Lake
Landing, George VI. Watson.
The trustees OF the Methodist Or
phanage here have reelected Rev. J.
W. Jenkins superintendent, his wife.
matron, and Miss Lucy Kicks, teacher.
There are now 80 orphans. but in a
few months there will be 200 more. The
executive committee directed that the
work of completing the main building
be pushed so that by the time cold
weather begins, il will be ready for
occupancy. 1t will require two months
TO install the heating plant. The trus-
tees are greatly pleased with the prog
ress of the work and the character or
the building. Trustee William E
Springer, Of Wilmington, says no time
will be lost in getting the building
ready for the care of 200 more orphans
The total gifts to the orphanage since
it was Stablished in 1899 amount to
$65, 900. 1t will require about $4,000
more to be ready for the care of 200
more orphans.
A charter is granted to the Kinston
Lumber Company, capital stock $50, 900,
the principal stockholders being j. w.
Lynch, of Winston, George w. Mont
gomery, of Brooklyn, n. Y. B. B. FL
lington and C. r. Guy, of Richmond.
The bank of Morganton is also char
tered, with 100000 capital stock, to do
a commercial and savings business,
the stockholders being George B. White
and NJ. F. %Morphew, of Marion, S. HUFF
man, of Morganton, and others.
Two convictS were brought from Hall
fax county to the penitentiary today;
one, a white man, to serve seven years
for arson, having burned a cotton gin;
the other, negro, to serve two years
for killing another negro.
The local event here today was the
Democratic Congressional convention,
held a noon in the city hall, which was
called to order by Chairman James
Richard Young. OF course Congress
man E. w. Pou was re-nominated by
aCclamation.
Among today's arrivals were Jacob
Battle, Rocky Mount; B. G. Braswell,
Nash county; B. B. Miller, Salisbury;
Walter L. Cohoon. Elizabeth City; R.
II. Lyon, w. A. ClaTk, tdlZdDelnloWh'
H. L. Lyon Whiteville; s. B. Taylor,
Cartharines Lake: T. C. Whitaker,
Trenton; r. H. Hayes, Pittsboro; F.
A. Fountain, Wilmington; A. S. Ros-
coe, Windsor; d. Y. Cooper, A. G. Zol-
l;coffer, Henderson; ]. A. Thomas,
Louisburg; n. H. Cannady, Oxford; F.
S. Spruill, Louisburg.
Insurance Commissioner Young says
he finds plenty of work these days
Of viola tore nf the inSlr3 Y1fA
laws and people who are attempting
to or succeeding in burning buildings.
The incendiary fires are growing less.
The agents are obeying the laws better
People are learning what his depart
ment is doing and are applying to il
more and more for information.
The report of the board of officers
on the site for the encampment of the
National Guard Of this state has been
received by the governor, but is not
yet made public.
State Treasurer Lacy was asked If the
sheriffs had settled their taxes we'll
| this year, and replied that they had
settled much better than the boards of
county commission and that he had
lad no trouble in collecting from the
sheriffs when the county commissioners
authorized the latter to pay in the
taxes. 1t is evident that the county
commissioners have not been as prompt
J in many cases as they ought to have
| been. The Treasury Department has
| deposits in nearly 20 banks. Each de-
| posit is small, the deposits being grad
| ed, and the banks required to deposit
| bonds to the limit of possible deposits.
Some banks think it hard that they
| are requIed to put up SIS, 900 in bonds
| when the deposit amounts to only 81, 900
| to $4,000, but a limit is always fixed.
| The Treasurer says that he requires all
banks to put up bonds, no matter what
| the strength of the banks may be. The
state is in better financial condition
now than since he came into office.
A prominent gentleman said today he
had two suggestions to offer; one OF
| these being that the justices of the
| North Carolina Supreme court ought
| to wear gowns and the other that the
state officers ought to be bonded In
surety and bonding companies, the
state to pay for the bonds, as in the
| case OF private corporations, such as
| banks etc The law allows county and
! other officials to give bonds in surety
companies. but requires state officers to
| give personal bonds.
| The So barrels Of BLOCKADE" whiskey
| brought here last week, was seized
| about two miles from Hoffman, hidden
| in an abandoned shanty on a farm. 1t
| appears to be the general belief that it
| is the property of some of the licensed
| distilleries near Hoffman, and that it
| is not from any Of the distilleries at
| Hamlet.