The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-22
NORTH CAROLINA.

Just as We go to press The Enter
prise is informed that several families
are moving to town from Concord,
In d TO escape the compulsory
that is in vogue there. We
print the information as a news item.
without Observation-Disclosures En-
terprise.
The shipment of truck from the
section south OF Goldsboro and from
h territory along the Atlantic &
N. G. railroad is becoming quite heavy
now. Train No. 48 on the Atlantic
Coast Line has to be run in two sec
lions nearly every day to handle the
extra express.-Elm City Elevator.
At his home, near Ashpote, on
Monday. Mr.. Alex. Andrews. n of
our country's most IGNORED citizens,
passed away, after three months Of
suffering, in the seth year of his age.
He has been in a critical condition
for a long while. and his death was
not unexpected--The Robesonian-
In Hickory on Wednesday Of last
week, Mrs. Perry Baker, who was en-
gagged in some work in the garden or
yard, missed her little girl, about two
years old, and went into the house
to look for her. She found her ly-
ing on the floor, burned to death, It
is supposed that the child set her
clothes afire with matches.-Newton
Enterprise.
Joe Bennett Brasington, the Agar
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Bras
ington, died Monday afternoon under
circumstances more than
sad. Just two weeks before his death
the little fellow stuck q nail in his
foot, but the wound apparently healed
in a few days, and his parents felt
no alarm at all until last Thursday
night, at which time the child COM
planned OF his foot paining him, and
a physician was sent for, but blood
poison had already set in and he
grew rapidly worse until his death
Wadesboro ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Milk or butter that is fit to use in
this section is from COWS that stand
I'm barn yards or stables and do not
go in pasture. The wild onion, which
fourishes like the green bay tree and
grows more plentiful year by year. is
a fine thing for cows and makes them
give lots of milk and butter OF a 1
but the kind is something terrible.
The wild onion is spreading so rapidly
that it is getting to be great nuisance
Milk and butter are not the only COM
modities which the wild onion ruins
for a great deal of flour is made unfit
for table use by it.-Monroe Enquirer.
Yesterday we took a little trip to
the country. On the farm Of Mr. P.
H.. Mangum. which, by the way is
probably the best managed OF any
other in the entire state, were twenty
hands picking out cotton, and the field
was as white as if it had been NO
Vember. On the farm of DR.. H. H.
Harris. which adjoins that OF Mr..
Mangum, were at least a dozen pick
ing out the last of the doctors cot
ton crop. By the way, most Of DR..
Harris last crop is yet unginned,
showing he must possess great faith
IN the continued high price Of cotton.
Raleigh Times.
It will be a source of great salts
faction to every citizen of W~adesboro
to learn that the WadeSboro cotton
mill will not be sold. 1t will be
remembered that the mill was re-
Gently placed in the hands OF Mr.. w.
c.. Hardison as receiver, and it was
thought that the property would have
to be sold. But after the receiver
took charge a number OF gentlemen
came to the rescue of the mill, and
a proposition was made to the court
Tuesday. The court will make an
order in accordance with the propo-
sition. All persons connected with
the mill are glad of this move
Observation-Disclosures.
Judge Shaw 1t Morganton court
Tuesday issued a bench warrant Tor
Sheriff Killian and Jailer Holler on
account of the escape of Charlie
Campbell. The preliminary hearing
will perhaps be in M~organton thns
week. If they are bound over to
court. the case will be tried in TINS
county. Since Campbell is dead, II
would be better to let the matter
drop. The officers. if guilty of any
thing. are only guilty of showing
mercy to a man on the brink OF the
grave. We hope the case Will not
cause Messrs. Killian and Holler any
Observation-Disclosures Enterprise.
Mr.. Jno. F. McNair and family, now
residing in Laurinburg, finding it neces-
sary to have their church
ship transferred from Laurel Hill
church to L%aurinburg, have shown In
a very substantial way their anectlon
for the old mother church and pastor
I'm that Mr.. McNair has donated to
said church the sum OF $4,000. the
interest accruing from this sum keeps
I'm his annual subscription TO the
nastor's salary, and in addition gives
a liberal annual contribution to the
nastor as an individual. The balance
of interest is to be divided among the
various benevolent causes or the
church,-Laurinburg Exchange.
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