The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-05-10
Messenger Bureau.

ANoiCASA, ~. -, May o. 1SUf.
The penitentiary board has taken
up h SCI. 600 Of bonds which the
state issued some years ago for the
purchase of the 5000 acre state farm
on the Roanoke river. This purchase
was one of the best business arrange
ments the state has ever made.
Work on the Academy of Music
here is being pushed. 1t is owned by
the Raleigh Auditorium Company. and
It is learned hat the latter has pur-
chased a site adjoining the Academy,
on which it will erect an auditorium,
which will seat not less than 1000
persons, to be a one-story building
with d front of something like so feet
at least.
Inc state authorizes the dissolution
OF the following corporations: The S.
b. Alexander Company, of Charlotte.
and the Snow Basket Company, OF
High Point.
The special committee sent out by
the State Agricultural department to
visit agricultural colleges and see
what are the best features, in order
to utilize the latter in the agricultural
building to be erected at the college
here, has returned from a three weeks
trip. Mr.. CoIlum, of the board, State
Veterinarian Butler and Professor
Burkett are the committee. They
went to the colleges at Columbus, o.,
Perdue, Ind; Campaign, ILL.,, to the
college of Iowa and to hat at Glenn
son. They found the Iowa equipment
the finest, a total cost for h agri-
cultural building, including barns and
. dairy, being over $35O,00O, besides
these being 700 head of pure-breed
cattle, worth at least S250,000. There
I ann -N,1n-Nn FhnPn ThnU VIC
tied the school of Winconsin, which
has, they consider, the best building.
The fact is the entire board OF agr1-
culture ought to visit other colleges.
1t will get in this way the very best
and most useful ideas
So far as can be learned, there will
be no opposition whatever at the state
convention of the democrats to the
denomination of Secretary of State
Grimes. Treasurer Lacy and Auditor
Dixon. Some of the politicians are
asking whether this state will do like
Virginia and send its two Senators and
its Governor to the National Demo
cratic Convention. Governor Aycock
is being mentioned so freely in connec-
ton with the vice-presidency that this
idea appeals to the general public.
At the end of this month, a meeting
of the stockholders of the Raleigh
street railway is to be held, to make
final decision as TO whether there Is
to be an extension of the system
which is so greatly needed.
The increase of the acreage in cot.
ton at the p~enitentiary farm neal
Weldon is to be very great, from 1900
to $500 acres. There is certainly
large increase in acreage in this sec
ton. Very little cotton has come up
and that which has appeared show.
the poor stand. Much has not ger
minated. When it starts all viii
practically come up together and this
a little later on, will increase the la
Dor problem, as there Will be quite ;
rush to secure labor, already so yer!
scarce
The cotton receipts at RALEIGH t,
date this season are 1883 bales.
The Raleigh friends of Theodore F
Davidson are sending out circular
warmly endorsing him as a candidat
for Governor. The contest for tn,
Democratic nomination is going OIL
very quietly and will be on a very higl
plane. 1t appears to be conceded thu
is at present in the lead.
The city is going to orange Z
build 4 very fine roadway from tn,
limits to the county road, which
passes by the Soldiers Home and Civ
a particularly attractive driveway
Road work is being pushed in tn
county.
Rev. w. G. Clements, s%uperinten
eut of public instruction of thi
county, says the schools in the coun
try. which are now closing. have a
been kept open well over four month:
There are 90 whites and 60 colore
schools, and considering the epidemi
of mumps and roseola and the unus
ualy severe Weather of the winter
there was a fine showing as to atten
dance. The department of the pupil
was by far the best on record, an
this Is considered a greater improve
ment than anything else. There a r