The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-12-20

county. Dur only one death O been
reported there
Wilson Auto Transit Company. cap
ital stock 100000. to build all sorts
of vehicles. and TO operate these on
highways in the state. as carriers both
OF Passengers and freight. w. u.
Young and other people are the stock
holders. The purpose OF the COM
pany IS understood to be to operate
automobiles In that section and 70
have regular service both IN Wilson
and a few other points
The Joint legislative committee TO-
day concluded the annual examina-
ton OF the offices OF the Treasurer and
Auditor. finding everything extremely
well kept and aid the officials com
plments for the excellent clerical
work, The committee finished late IN
the afternoon and mad up its report
TO the legislature
The snow in his section seems To
be about IS deep as II is anywhere
n probably il will remain some DAYS.
There are two snow belts. as they
may be called in North Carolina. one
extending from about Littieton beyond
Raleigh and then into Chatham our
ty, the other belt lying along Ear
Reidsville. Snow IS generally deeper
dI li-~G POINTS Gfldn ttSSND tTt. y l..
c. Bird of Marion, who was here to-
day. said only half an inch of snoN
fell in that section. and added that
when it showed here 1t was generally
too cold to snow there.
state Librarian Sheriff. reports &c.
SIS Volumes, an increase in five years
of over $4,000. There are now al
most 1909 copies of bound newspa-
pers in the newspaper rooms. Inc
librarian urges that a fire PROOF build
ing Il constructed. The present n
Is a NeIS shabby affair olio was TIil:
by %cOnyicts. much wood being uSsl
III its CONSTRUCTION and tons OF pap'r
USED fUt H. I.iii' lclrlng and i".'s
moro Of public docu;tcntS being ~ the
big c"i'aIs IL is {, la rly a very lat
geroLS place, . SPARK woull GO
irreparable damage. The books fill
all the space. The Legislature GER
tainly ought to provide a proper Ii
brary, and ought also to provide Il
proper building for the historical col
lection, the state archives and for pub
lie documents.
Alpheus Vaughn, who for some
months had been the local manager OF
the Singer Sewing Machine Company
here has fed from Raleigh, leaving
a note to his young wife, whom he
r.,Grried last year, telling her 10 get
along the best she could. as she would
ne.er again see him. Vaughn left a
number of unpaid bills and creditors
secured attachmept papers against
some property he left.
The annual report of the State
School for the Blind here issued by
Principal John E. Ray, makes a very
fine showing. There are 334 pupils in
the white and colored schools here,
buildings being three quarters OF a
mile apart. In the colored school
there are not only the blind but the
deaf mutes- also. The number pres
ent now is the largest on the record.
The numbe Of new students is III.
There are many blind and deaf mutes
in the state who ought to be in this
institution. a number of improve
ments to cost $4,000, are recon-
mended.
Judge Purnell of the Federal court
holds in the Greensboro Ice and Coal
Company case hat the traffic, that is
is the shipment of Goa to Greensboro
over the Southern railway was inter
state traffic and that hence the North
Carolina Corporation Commission can
not regulate it. 1t is for this reason
that he makes an injunction perpetual
against the Commission.
The state authorizes the dissolution
of the SwanSboro Lumber Company.
The stockholders having applied for
this.