The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-26

from Rock Hill. 8. c.. where he made
Ian address before the 500 teachers
nwho ar attending the summe school.
He spent yesterday at Chester. s. c..
with W. II. Hand. formerly Of Wayne
Icounty. Mr.. Hand Is now regarded
lone Of h best superinteadents Of city
schools In South Carolina. and IL one
Iof the faculty Of the summer school,
lof which two other North C~arolinians
iare members. one of these being Mr..
Hughes. formerly superintendent OF
schools at Reidsville. and the other
Mr.. Payne. formerly OF Burke counry.
and later In charge OF the Durham
public schools Mr.. Payne will now.
lgo Il William and Mary College. a.
WILLIAMSBURG. Va. as professor Of
pedagogy. The Legislature Of vir-
'ginia has made a special ~appropria-
ltion for the chair of pedagogy OF this
venerable college. this department.
being for the instruction OF male
teachers.
C. B. Edwards. OF this city. SO
prominent a. al Odd Fellow, and who
llows' orphanage art Goldsboro, was
talking today about orphan asylums,
and said that he was present when the
late Mr.. John H. Mills made his great
Iplea, which resulted in the establish
iment of the Oxford orphamage asylum
by the Masons. and that later he saw
Mr.. Mills. the father of orpran work
in North Carolina start the Baptist
Iorphanage at Townsville. Mr.. Ed
wards said the orphans in North
carolina ought to. and some day
would. erect a monument in the men,
iory of Mr.. Mills. The Masonic or
pranage. the pioneer in the state. was
started In 1872. and now there are
nine orphanages in operation and an
other is to be built. +,
The railways in the state do not
Except to the assessment Of their
property, as made by the corpora
Ition commission.
J.. A. Murchison, Esq. of Jonesboro.
who came here from Ellington, re-
ports a severe storm, wind, rain and
Electricity there. He says that rain
fell to a depth Of s inches in a bucket
in the middle of a street. The crops
lin that section have neven been so
bad. h Oldest farmers say. They all
speak Of it as a year of plenty. That
is the talk over nearly all of North
carolina.
Labor Commissioner Warner says
iCarroll b. Wright was elected pres1-
dent Of the association Of labor sta
ltisticians Of America, and that he was
detected first vice-president. 1t meets
next year at Quebec, Can. While at
concord, Mr.. Warner visited Mrs. Ed
ldy's $25O,O00 Christian Scientists
,church. which is very beautiful, and
he also went to her home. where he
jsaw her. She is 81 years old.
Commissioner Warner will begin
january LIST next the collection OF all
the statistics regarding factories n
shops in North Carolina. this being the
work until now done by the United
Estates census bureau. The latter will
now do this work through the various
labor commissioners in all the states
where there r e such, the number Of
such states being SO. Mr.. Warmer will
put in the field a large number Of
lmen, perhaps rs, to collect these sta
jtiStic<. These men VIII be appointed
by the census bureau and their pay
will be from SO to Sc per day, this
being fixed by the secretary Of the
department of commerce and stats
tics.
Mr.. Warmer vent on top of Mount
Washington while on his tour In New
England. He saw plenty OF snow and
lice there. but denied the story that
at night. happening to poke his head
out Of his sleeping-bag, h wind and
lcold froZe his whiskers.
The lo~cal-press club here is widely
known all over the country, being the
IAnanfas club, and ach of it's So men,
Ibers is entitled to the title of doctor.
|AS ~ NtfS LII
esteemed of them all is DR.. Willis G..
Briggs, of The Morning Post. who has
been on duty at the teachers summer
school at the Agricultural and Me-
Ichanical College ever since it began
business early this month. The teach
ers heard DR.. Briggs addressed as
doctor. and thought. quite naturally,
he was an M. D.; so last night he was
startled when a greatly excited lady
teacher rushed UP to him and Said:
Doctor. please hurry to Wautauga
Hall. One Of the ladies there has a
bad attack of collie Wautauga EFaYI
is HOW a dOrmitory for ladies, about
200 or more being quartered there.
Dr. Briggs nearly tainted when he
received the message. and it took him
minutes to explain that he wRs
not that kind of a doctor and really
did not know a thing about collie.
Fifty convicts who have been cut
ting wood for Bryan Ives. under con-
tract, to be furnished the Atlantic and
North Carolina railway, near Dover.
have been transferred to a point near
Hope Mills, where they are under 81
sixty day contract to build about six
miles of the Aberdeen and Rock Fish
road. so as to connect it with the At
Ilantfc Coast Line. The Aberdeen and
Rock Fish road is the property of
John Blue, who is very anxious TO
make this connection as speadily as
possible