The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-05
BOARD.
Favorable Reports as to the Prison
Scarcity OF Convicts-New Agricul-
tural College MISUNDERSTANDING the
Code-Grand Masonic Rally-Splen-
did Crops.
Messenger Bureau.
n-,-. Tulv

ed after receiving very favorable re-
ports and having settled all claims.
Forty-fve convicts which had been sent
camp at Dover TO the farm near Wei
don. are to BE- returned 10 Dover on the
9Th instant.
Mr.. Blue desires to obtain fifty con-
victs 10 complete his railway. which
is ia connect with the Seaboard Air
Line and the Atlantic Coast Line. which
is known as Aberdeen and RockfSh
road. but ii is very doubtful whethe-
the convicts can be spared. The N
Of state convicts is diminishing very
rapidly. To this date during the pres
ent year los have been discharge.
while only 81 have been received dur
ing the same period. The board heard
a very interesting report from the pris-
on physician, DR.. James r. Rogers,
which showed that on account OF the
increase OF tuberculosis among the
eonvicts who are sentenced TO the PEN
itentiary there will have to be an in
crease of hospital facilities. IN order
TO isolate these cases. The best appii-
ances have been obtained for diagnos-
ing tuberculosis. So many sick and dis
abled persons are sent to the penitei.-
tiary as TO make special demand foI
hospital facilities.
The committee of the board of trus-
tees OF the Agricultural and Nechani-
cal college here was not able TO 40
much at its session his week. The
plan for the Agricultural building when
is to be erected at the college has
not yet been received. but will proba-
bly, arrive in a week or ten days. Then
the committee will invite proposals for
construction The board thinks that
the building ought to be finished in
eight or nine onths. 1t is to cost $780,
600. Some few changes from the origi-
nal plan have been made at the in
stance of some of the faculty of tn.
college. The building is to be n of
the best in this section Of the country.
BY the terms of the law the Agricul-
tural department is required TO erect a
building, and authorized to borrow
funds for this purpose.
Next Monday the work of printing
the new code will begin, &. NJ. UZZell
Of this city having the contract to do
the work. ~George p. Pell will be here
to supervise the printing, having been
specially employed by the code COM
mission for that purpose
Sheriff Page, of this county says there
L Is d SlTlklUS Increase Oh cTlhiS luiS
year both in the city n among the
country districts. Officials of the State
Anti-Saloon League say the returns
will show a decrease not only here but
in all parts of the state where the Ii
censed sale of liquor has been stopped,
and where prohibition or the dispensary
have replaced bar rooms and distii-
leries.
j. f. Granger and D. V. Cooper, OF
Kinston and d. T. Ward, of New Bern.
were here today and closed up the re-
ceivership of the Gay Lumber Com
pany. This company built and operat-
ed a railway thirty miles long, at
Kinston into Duplin county, and AGO
operated large saw mills at Kinston.
| A new company, known as the Kinston
Lumber Company, has taken over the
properties, this having been organized
by James H. Pou and others.
Professor J. B. Carlyle, of Wake For
est college, spoke today at a large ed
ucational rally at Simpsonville, Rock
ingham county where the people are
much interested in local taxation for
public schools.
1t has been many years since per-
sons coming here from all parts of the
state have brought in news of as fine
crops as they now report. Mr.. ]. F.
Granger, Of Kinston, said today: The
crops are glorious in our part Of the
SldlS anu IL Will NC q SuldI Aoi
From the mountains to the sea this Is
the sort of news that comes. Burt Will
der, a we'll known farmer here, has
for years planted 100 acres in cotton,
and his crop ranges from 81 to LOG bales.
He says that he is sure he Will make
$50 this season. 1t ook like a year of
very great prosperity for North Caro-
lima, a repetition Of last year.
Among today's arrivals were B. N.
Ives, Riverdale; J. F Tyloe, o. N.
Wynn, Washington; J. F. George New
Bern.
Thomas B. Heart, who for a number
OF years mas been a stenographer for
the Southern railway here, has become
clerk and s~tenographer to Judge Pur-
nell, of the United States DisSfict court,
succeeding Edward J.. Best, who has
the same position now in the office of
Judge Pritchard of the Circuit court.
Grand Tiler Robert H. Bradler, Of the
Grand Lodge of Masons, arrived here
today from a Masonic trip to Kinston
and Greenville. Grand Master Walter
L. Woodell and Deputy Grand Master
Francis D. Winston were the other Off
GERS Of the grand lodge at these points.
On Wednesday they attended the cele-
bration at Kinston, where Winston de-
livered an address, Liddell presiding.
The lodges from that county were pres
ent, three. in number, and their officers
were installed. Yesterday they were
at Greenville, where there was a grand
celebration of five lodges and over 300
Masons participating, at the dual cere-
mony. at the laying of the corner stone
at the Masonic temple and the dedica-
ton of the building. It was a holiday
in hat thriving town, which is one Of
the greatest leaf tobacco markets in
that country. and several thousand peo-
pie were present The building was
completed, but a space had been re-
served for the corner stone which was
laid by Deputy Grand Master Winston.
The building is Of brick. three stories
in height and cost $4,000. In it is a
very attractive theatre. Grand Master
Iiddell dedicated the building and last
evening the first performance was Civ
en- in the theatre by home talent. The
Masonic address was delivered by Pro-
fessor Carlyle, of Wake Forest college
and was admirable.