The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-20

| brick and tile and pottery branches OF
| the in iuStry. In spite of the increased
! cost of manufacture, the average price
| of brick per thousand has increased
but little, 20 cents per thousand for
common brick, IS cents for front
brick and 55 cents for vitrified brick.
This is an increase of only 3 per cent.
in the price of common brick, per
cent for vitrified brick, v'hile the in
crease in the prices of most other pro-
ducts has been far greater The fig
ures show the number of plants to be
virtually stationary While the average
value of the output has increased. This
indicates that in conformity with the
tendency of the times the plants are
enlarging rather than increasing in
numbers. The average value of output
per plant has increased over 46 per
cent in three years. The smaller
plants have gone out of existence or
been absorbed. Returns covering six
teen operating sandlme brick indus
tries, one of which was in North Car
Dina, show a marked product of 20
100000 bricks. valued at $155,400, an
average of $7.45 per thousand.
The stone industry is one prosecu-
ted extensively in North Carolina. The
statistics compiled for the Geological
Survey for 1903 by Miss Altha T..
Coons show a total value of SCI, 800
for the whole country.
A good deal of postoffice news is
Post Office News.
occurring just now. Rural free deliv-
cry is established TO begin November
Is as follows: From Wilson Mills,
Johnston county. additional service.
routes Nos. and 8. Length of routes,
90 $40 and % 40 miles; area COW
cred, SO square miles; population
served. 1,431; number of houses on
routes, 318.
Rural free delivery schedules are
arranged for Farmville, Pitt county,
No. 3, Mt. Ulla. Rowan county. Nos.
and 2; Rogers Store, Wake county:
Wallace, Dublin, No. 2.
On the star mail route from Oak
dale to Graham, from November l, be-
gin at Curtis, emitting Oakdale and
Rock Creek, decreasing seven mile
Oakdale and Rock Creek supplied /
rural free delivery from Burlington.
Star service discontinued from Van
teen to Falls, superseded by rural FIRE,
delivery. Mail to Rogers Store.
New schedule effective October Is
from Blink TO Carthage.
Roanoke pOStOffice, Rockingham
county, is superseded by rural free de-
livery, and the mail goes to Stone
vile.
Special mail service is discontinued
from Columbus to Stearns Polk coun-
ty, from October 21. and new service
from October % three times a week
from Stearns to Columbus and back
ordered.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has denied the petition from
North Carolina in the celebrated case
of South Dakota.
The Comptroller of the Currency
~,
Peoples National Bank of Winston
the Merchants National Bank II
Philadelphia, revoking the agency Of
the Girard National Bank of Phila-
delphia.
Changes of fourth class postmasters
in North Carolina: At Cumnock
Chatham county, George F. Smith in
place of w. j. Tally, resigned; at
Gates, Gates county, Charles r. Hin
signed.
The following appointments have
been made in the rural carrier service:
On route at Farmville, Samuel NJ.
Pollard, with Francis NJ. Dupree as
substitute: on route l. Mt. Ulla, Arthur
K. Goodman, with John X. Goodman
as substitutes; on route 2, Mt. Ulla.
Samuel f. Sloop, with Meophilus SloOp
as substitute: on route at Robertson
Vile. Thomas II. Grimes, with VIM. u.
Morton as substitute: on route 1 at
Tar Heel Neb V Tolar with Roger
l.. Robson as substitute; or route 2
at Wakefield, Henry r. Hoyle, with
James f. Hoyle as substitute: on
route at Wallace, Wiley S. Teachey.
With Robert L. Teachey as substitute.
To fill a vacancy. Lemuel w. Seawell
has been appointed on route at Fay
etteyille. with Co Seawell as substi-
tute.
The announcement is made that the
Southern Railway has arranged for
ticketing voters in the Southern States
east of the Mississippi river and souht