The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-23
RALEIGH NEWS LETTER.
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN HAS NOT
LIVEyED Up.
Republicans Making Claims-Low Tax
Rate i'm WifsoH-Dcmand FOR Con-
yict Iabor-Ffne Crop Prospects
Raleigh Times Moves into New
building.
Messenger BureN.

,GaStgn county. under the auspices oS
the Sisters OF Our Lady OF Merc::i
The Carolina Business College com2s-
ny. Of New Bern and the Yea Bern
Military Academy Company. both hGv-i
ling the same incorporatorS the BANK
iof Farmyiile. in Pitt county, authorized
stockholders.
Governor Aycock VAS asked to-day
III he would order a court OF inquiry 10
Hook into the matter OF the deaths Of
the intoxicated National Guardsnen
from Durham, who we're killed on top
lwhHe on their way hcme from camp
1t is not known what the war depare-,,
ment will do about the matter. as these
soldiers were under army pay ana
should have been under army reguia-I
lions. The governor said he did not
know what h would do until he hadl
had a conference with the Adiutanjl
General.
The sheriff Of this county says that
he finds the cotton crop on clay lardsl
TO be above an average. James H. Pou.l
who has made a careful examinat'onl
iof his property in Johnston coua.yI
says he finds it a great one. in factl
the finest he ever saw He finds ov@-l
q bolls TO linear yard. That number
iof bolls he says viii give Il bale TO thel
lacre.
AS yet the political campaign in me,
lstate is very dull. IL is so one-s:ded,
that Il is difficult 20 arouse any enthu-I
Isiasm. The Republicans are inahingl
Iall sorts of claims, Of carrying tnisl
lcounty or that, etc, but none OF thesel
seem to have any fitting.
1t is a~scertained that 20 OF the la.gel
party which left here last Thursday forI
the west will make the tour 10 SAM
francisco and other points OF interest!
Ion the Pacific coast
Principal Hugh Morson, OF the RAJ
leigh Male Academy who is in the hos
lpital here under treatment says hel
Twill open his school October 1st, byI
(which date his o will be com-i
Iplete.
Next Monday another series of farm,
Iers Institutes will begin, and vii! oc-I
Icupy three weeks. The working force
lof the agricultural department viii
ibe in the field for that time. The ;n-i
lstitutes are very popular TINS year and
lare better attended by far than ever
before.
A. B. Stronach, commanding the To-
IcaI camp Of confederate veterans, says
$50 much interest is being aroused N
regard to the encampment at Asheviiis.
that he expects TO be able to take 80
members of his camp there This
~Igratifes him very greatly.
Chairman MGNeih of the corporation
lcommmission said today that Wilson,
county has the lowest tax rate III the
Estate, including state. pension, sehOo.
IarI ronaraI cnJnty- flyaS Tho tot he
ling only SO cents on the 500 valuation.
The sheriff Of that county has Collect
led a greater percentage of the tIxts,
lGue than any other in the state; ia
fact having failed TO collect only nile.
ltenthS of one per cent OF the whClG'
amount The tax on property amount,
led to $72. 600 and of this he collectei all.
except $50, this being regarded rs a
very remarkable showing.
Mrs. Lula B. Bradford, of Elizabeth
jCity, the principal of the graded schOol,
There has returned here after a months
work conducting Teachers Institutes III
Cumberland and . Harnett county,
having been assigned to do that w'r';.
lhy State Superintendent Joyner. She
lis greatly impressed by the zeal Of the
teachers VINO attended the school 81
lcf whom were. at Fayetteville and 40
LAT Ellington.
The republicans are making all sorts
lOf boasts, among others that they will
cut a great figure in Wake county and
THAT they will carry Chatham. There
lis a factional fight here In Wake
Iamong the Democrats, which is unfor-I
i~tunate to say the least. 1t involves
ithe question of mt commissioners
land appears to quite largely grow out
lof the question of tax assessment and
bounty debts.
The state board of agriculture is to
lbe asked to establish somewhere in
the main truck growing section of
southeastern North Carolina a test
farm, to b. under the direction of the
lstate orticulturist
Today the Raleigh Times moved
into its new quarters, a very we'll
Equipped place indeed. with a paricu-l
llarly fine press, of large capacity.
THE improvement is a very great one.
The inmats of the Soldiers home
iwere give ma very fine musical treat
last night in the shape Of a graphic
|phone concert by Professor Junius
Turner of Raleigh, who is the owneri
lof the largest and finest ~graphophonel
lin the state and also OF what is said
Ito be the largest private collection of
records. He selected with great care.
THE soldiers home, by The way, is a.
VERY hard place to get to. as the street,
Gears do not run any carer h with
lin half a mile of it. In fact all that
lpart of the city has a no street car
service for something like 20 years
lit really seems strange 10 people not
lin the secret why the car service here
SHOULD be so limited and SO po.T "a
lis unfortunate for Raleigh, not onht
flor the residents, but for visitors, asl
VERY few places are reached By the
Icars.
Insurance Commissioner Young has
tnr0cr1rad tho arraSt of Pew IN % Cnp-I
bel, a holiness preacher, charged with
representing the unlicensed Nationali
lRelfef Insurance Association.
Good rogress is being made on the