The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-28
RALEIGH NEWS LETTER.
Nearly An the State officials at
GreensborO-Additions to the Hall
of History-Rains Benefit Crops.
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, N. c., June q.
The public offices are almost deserted
today, DR.. B. F. Dixon, State Auditor,
being the only official at his desk, all
the others being at the great state con-
lvenion at Greensboro. Mrs. Dixon has
been sick some days with Intermittent
fever, and this prevented DR.. Dixon
from going to Greensboro. Mrs. Dix
,on's condition was better today.
A charter is granted the Carolina
lCantefoupe Company of Warsaw, cap
itai stock $4,000. D. B. Faison and 9TH
lers stockholders.
Clerk Wilson, Of the secretary of
States office, says that the corporation
charters are very numerous this year.
and 1904 will be a record breaker.
State Chemist Kilgore, who has been
sick for a fortnight and unable TO be
lat work. was much better today. and
Will soon be o. u again. He has done
Ia great deal of ard work and never
fully recovered from an attack of sick
mess last ummer.
The second floor front Of the agri-
lcultural department building is being
Especially fitted up for the use of two
important heads Of sub-departments.
INAASSS AL 0N1NS 4AoAN - - -
Hume n State Entomologist Frank
Hin Sherman. Mr.. Hume will have .
very complete Photographic equipment,
lportions of which will be used in field
work. which is to be pushed with great
ENERGY. Mr.. Sherman is making spe~
lcial studies Of injurious insects, the re-
lsult of which will later form some in
lteresting bulletins. He has not one
lmuch collecting himself lately, but has
two very fine collections Of insects, n
Iof which is in the State Museum. where
lit attracts much attention.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. {. F. Hous-
ton OF Monroe and Miss Miriam Stamps
lof Raleigh were married. The bride
is a daughter OF the late E. r. Stamps,
Esq. Rev. w. B. Savage of Church
land, Va, officiated, the marriage TAX
Ing place in the Presbyterian church
Members of labor organizations here
are greatly pleased at the election Of
lWillia E. FNaison as national councillor
of the Junior Order OF United American
Mechanics. He is a native Of Raleigh
and a prominent Mason and Odd Eel
low, and is secretary to the State Labor
Commissioner.
The farmers bring in news of very
general rains this week, which they
say have materially improved the crop
prospects. The melon crop in this Sec
ltion is to Zoe a very fine one. There
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miles south Of here, in some Of these
lmelon fields the wilt has made its ap-
l%pearance and an expert from the agri-
icultural department is making a study
lof it.
Some very interesting relics have been
Iplaced in the Hall of History this week,
among these being the artillery uni
form of Major Thomas Sparrow, a loan,
from his grandson, the flag of the First
icompany from Washington, N. c., to
ENTER the Confederate service, and a
lcarbine which was taken from a Fed
leral soldier by the late DR.. Charles j.
IOfHagan, of Pitt county. The growth
iof the collection during the past three
months has been extremely gratifying,
and some very valuable additions are
lsoon to be made.
Up to this date seventy one counties
have borrowed money from the o
fund, in aid of building and improv-
ling public school houses. mainly In the
country districts.