The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-05-20
BIG DECREASE IN THE TOBACCO
ACREAGE THIS YEAR

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Baccalaureate Sermon to -. r. q.
Students-North Cardinals EIuca-
ton Work Felt I'm Other States
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, y. C, May 1e.
The state charters the Waccamaw
Land and Lumber Company, OF South
port, capital stock one million dollars,
divided into ten thousand shares OF
(which F. w. Wheeler, Detroit, Mich,
holds 1898, z. II. Silliman OF Detroit
Ione, and John D. Bellamy of Whining
ton one. The company is given power
TO w and deal in lands in Brunswick
land Columbus counties and also in any
lother state or territory, operate rail-
ways. steamboats,, etc.
Secretary Of state Grimes has re-
burned from a weeks visit TO Pitt
Icounty n says that on account of the
lcold weather and drought considera-
Die cotton has not come up and that
the growth is very slow. More damage
us being done to tobacco and corr by
1.-THE than was ever before
KNOWN He estimates the decrease In
acreage in tobacco at from 40 to 50
lper cent.
In an interview with tobacco men
mere who have travelled over the chief
TOBACCO section and who have informa-
ition from ii it is said the reduction
IN acreage will certainly be from
40 TO 90 per cent. east of Raleigh. They
say that this reduction is a good thing
as II Will bring tobacco to a safe basis
Iof prices. A good deal of tobacco is
not yet set out, but there is time enough
ifor this as it can be set any time dur
ling May.
AT the First Baptist church here yes
lterday the baccalaurate sermon was
preached before the students OF the
baptist Female University by Rev. DR..
Calvin S. Blackwell, of Norfolk. The
90 students of the University were
present and marched in procession from
the University to the church, all in
white except the senior class who wore
BLACK gowns and CAP the other stu
dents being bareheaded. The specta-
lcle was very attractive indeed.
Mrs. F. P. Hickey. wife of the mas
ter mechanic of the Seaboard Air Line
was on Saturday taken from her home
mere to st. V~incent's hospital at Nor
folk, suffering from a very severe AMI
Sudden attack of sickness.
Governor Aycock says that there is
yet S1,40O short Of the $780, 600 needed
TO pay for North Cardinals exhibit at
tine st. Louis exposition. This state
us making a magnificent show there for
la remarkably small sum, and the gov
Iernor hopes that the balance needed
Twill be sent to hin at once.
The students of the Agricultural and
lMechanicaf college here are this week
FINISHING their examinations. A great
Imany Of them have a to go home, on
account of the pressing demands for
their services on the farms.
The Kings Daughters will meet in
annual convention at Rockingham next
week. The order is growing and has
secured the site at Lake View, Moore
county, for the reformatory for young
lwhite criminals, which it PROPOSES to
build n maintain.
This morning the bridge on Hillsboro
street across the track of the Seaboard
Air Line caught fire and the fire de-
Ipartment made quick run and extin-
lguished the fire with only a few dollars
damage.
1t will interest many people to know
THAT North Cardinals work in the in
l~terest of the public schools is being
felt in other states; for example South
carolina has a new law providing for
state aid to free libraries for rural pub
llic schools, which is almost an exact
copy Of the North Carolina law which
Us WOTklLS SO wen ana ulOer WHICH
well on towards 1000 such libraries
have been established. There are in
Vulnerable calls for the pamphlet
which the department of public in
istruction has issued on school houses.
these calls coming not only from the
southern states 5ut from all over the
country. The question being asked
whether North Carolina was keeping
well towards the front in school devel-
tnDmpnfS the raniV was made that in
THE things which the state was now
doing it is away up towards the head,
while in the things which it a done
lit is behind. In a good many things
the southern states are fillowing North
ECarolina, whose leading educators are
linen of national reputation.
The movement to create a judicial
district of Wake county alone meets
with a great deal of Iavor, certainly
from One of these said that
lanother district could well be created
lout of Buncombe, Mecklenburg am
New Hanover counties, and that, the
distance being considerable the legisla'
Iture should allow the judge travelling
Expenses. which will obviate any diff
Ificulty and give each of these countie:
something Xix fuor months of court IL
Ia year, this being needed to clear tn
heavy civil docketS. At the term o.
lcourt now in progress here and which
Tended today the docket is so heavy tina
hardly any impression was made upoI
lit, the hearing of a big case. that in
ivolving the connection at Selma, havin'
occupied so much of the time.
So far as is KNOW only n compan,
Iof The National Guard of this stat
will go to the st. Louis exposition. thi
being the one at Wilson. The publ
spirited citizens OF that town hav
raised $1,000 to cover the expenses o
the company for ten days stay.
Raleigh is to be most attractiVel.
advertised as a winter resort. Their
were more visitors from the north her
Iduring the past season than ever be
fore and it is said that a great man,
will come next winter. The railway
will cooperate in this movement