The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-07
ssdIa CAROLINA.

need of any alarm because q man
with a cas- of smallpox wandered In
town. 1t viii be properly looked after.
Tarboro ~Southerner- Commissioner
OF Agriculture g l.. Patterson says
.nre is some increase In the fall sales
of fertilizers this season as compar@o
with the sales last fall, the increase
being due probably to the fact that
the wheat crop was SO successful thai
the farmers are encouraged to SOW
larger CROPS OF small grain han Cor
several seasons.
Mooresville Enterprise: Mr.. Sam M
Goodman, the clever secretary aad
treasurer of the Mooresville cotton
mills, last week showed Us a specimen
OF very fine rice grown on his lot. He
has been experimenting. and he finds
h the stun o right along and
produces well filed heads, ssme or
which contain from ia to 200 grains.
Dunn Guide: DR.. c. J. Smith. mana
ger OF the ginnery at Duke. was iE
town yesterday and states that they
have ordered a 55 W. NJ. Motor by ex-
press and will be ready for work in q
few days, says they will run the-gin
by electric power in the future so thai
there will be no danger in fire or sx-
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well equipped and win be ready for
business in a few days
Kinston Free Press: The harvest is
white but the laborers are indeed lew
in the cotton fields in this section and
a right bad condition confronts many
of our farmers. The reporter was told
by a successful farmer who lives near
Kinston. that he had fifteen acres in
his cotton field that had not been
touched and that twelve bales Of cotton
was now open and hanging in h bolls.
a he could not get hands" Sim
liar conditions confront a humble or
our farmers. The hot, dry spell has
had a great effect on opening h sta
pie. .s<.<
Raleigh Post: Parties arriving here
on the Seaboard Air Line last evening
report that at awater tank between
Franklin and Youngsville a tramp who
gave his name as Christ, Bowman was
caught between the cars and his right
legs crushed. The left thigh was ais
painfully injured. He was trying 20
steal a ride.-Prof. J. B. Carlyle o.
day morning on his way home after a
week in the field for the alumni build
ing, said he had raised 81. 900 since last
Sunday. He has twelve weeks in the
field. That looks like $4,000.
Franklin Times: Mr.. Sylvanus
Pearce, a farmer Of this county, went
to Henderson on Wednesday,, with four
bales Of cotton and sold it. About 5
o'clock the same evening. Mr.. K. P.
Hill, upon whose land Mr.. Pearce is
farming, received a telephone message
from the latter at Gill burg, stating that
he had been held up by two white men
and a negro and robbed in the broad
daylight, of $16S. Officers IN Vance
were notified but at this writing moth
ing further has been heard from it.
Winston sentinel: Earl Bullin. son Of
Mr.. Samuel w. Bullin, who resides ar
615 Hunter avenue Salem, was found
dead in T~homasville this morning. The
parents were notified by telegram of
their sons death. While no particu-
lars have been received. it is reported
that the young man, who was abou.
seventeen or eighteen years Of age, was
shot during the night by an unknown
party. He was lying on one Of the
steets in Townsville this morning
with a bullet wound in his head Young
Bullin left the home of his parents less
than a week ago without telling his
parents where he was going. They did
not know of his whereabouts until the
sad message came to the mtoday.
New Bern Journal: The state papers
are giving a good deal of space to an
article clipped from a Statesville paper
telling OF a man who remarked that he
had raised his children to be large
enough to work In a cotton mill and
now they must take care Of him." Ger
tainly an able bodied man must be deS-
titute Of energy and means also to
make such a remark, but we have
known several families who made a
better living for themselves in a cot
ton mill than the man Of the family
had ever been able to provide. Right
here in New Bern are people, who il
they could get rid of a little false pride
and go to work in the knitting mill.
would make a better living than they
W. had before.
Fayetteville Observer: The repub.i-
cans of Cumberland county met at noGn
Saturday in the court room, the chair
man OF the the executive committee,
Mr.. C. c. Mcclellan, presiding. and
opening the Proceedings by requesting
Rev. Frank Carr to offer prayer. The
convention made the following nominal
tions beginning at the bottom of the
ticket: coroner. DR.. j. G.. Gilbert; sur
veryor. w. S. Hair; A. H.. Slocomb,
Alex. Hales. John A. Mcfarland, S. C.
Newton, John Graham, commissioners;
John S. Mcneil, treasurer; Daniell
MCNEIL, register of deeds; Med. Ged-
die, sheriff; J. c.. Balm, E. D. Sneed,
house; J. Hector Smith, senate AL
these nominations were by reclamation
NJ. Bill was also nominated, requiring
tho fo1ir- % x,ato hyr <nrr-.If~1