The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-29
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. n. -. Nov. %, 1904

following state bird and game war
dens; George L. Parrish, Greensboro:
Dwight VI. Styron. New Bern: George
s. Kicks Pantego; Leith Gordon, Nor
canton; George T. Simons. Kinston:
George w. Upchurch. North Wilkes
borO; J.. 8. Stewart, Newton and j. W.
Ward. S~tatesviIle. The secretary is
Oyerrun with applications from per-
soRs in all parts Of the state, desiring
TO have wardens appointed in their
localities. The income of the society
is so limited in comparison with the
great work which it has TO do, that ii
is absolutely impossible to provide
wardens in the fifth Of the commune
ties which desire them. People ener-
orally seem 10 believe that the re-
sources of the society are limitless.
However. when the inhabitants of n
section are sufficiently interested. to
contribute to the subject of bird and
game protection and thus make it pos
sfhIe for the society 10 pay for the SER
vices of<an additional warden, the So
ciety is only to glad to supply such an
officer. Came Warden Josephus Will
lis. Jr., n Morehead City reports hat
q few nights ago he caught a man in
the act of shooting ducks by freight
in Core Sound. The man was fined
heavily. This is in a section where
it has been most difficult to enforce
the law. Three convictions for kill
ing birds are reported this week.
Middleton T. Leach. who vas slight
~ paralyZed yesterday was today taken
to Rex hospital here for treatment.
In the public schools of Raleigh to-
day was observed in honor of Thanks
giving. as there Will be no school to-
morrow. In the white schools the
children brought food of some kind.
as a special gift to St. Luke's Home
for aged m Z.
Thanksgiving day Will be greatly en-
ioyed both in own and country. Gov.
Avcuck says the people of the state
were never more prosperous Than at
present and more IN condition to ap-
preciate what the day means. In q
very practical way the fine condition
of the farmers in this county was
spoken of today by the register OF
deeds. who said the cancellation of
mortgages by farmers was by far
greater than ever before. among the
number OF mortgages being many Old
ones. The farmers are buying lands
and the sales of country lands are
much greater than ever before.
\ commission has been issued to
John Robertson as lieutenant of The
beaufort division of naval militia.
Co., u DO-1 af Tho DCSIrTiI1a
Company of the Third Regiment of
National Guard has resigned and the
election of a successor is ordered
4 leading farmer was speaking 3
day or So ago about the work of Pro-
fessor W. F. Massey in introducing
the cultivation of COW pea in the
west and declared that Professor Mas
sev had brought hundreds of thou
sands of dollars into North Carolina
in a way of profit to the farmers by his
advocacy of the COW pea as a land
fertilizer and also as a food for mar
and beast and that he had more than
doubled the price of this usefuf arIi-
Gle Of food.
The pamphlet containing the eXer-
cises for North Carolina Day, which
- 7 lttEN- DNNSibDC1 ~
pages and is interesting from begin
ming to end. There is an appeal for
funds for the monument TO Calvin II.
Wiley. the organizer and first state
superintendent of the public schools.
The day. December 23rd. was fixed
by state superintendent Joyner, under
the law. which gives him liberty In
this particular. 1t is suggested that
the pamphlet be made. the basis for
n study of North Carolina history by
the school. sometime before North
Carolina day. The state SGperinten-
dent that 220 free libra
ries for rural public chool and 4nS
supplementary libraries for the same
have not yet been taken and that un-
less these are applied for before h
Legislature meets the appropriation for
thin may be discontinued. The pam
phIet contains a vast deai of original
matter among the special articles be-
ing The Huguenot Settlements n
De G~raffenreid's COlOney.' by Charles
s. Coon Notes on Bath and Pamlico"
by Thomas w. Harrington; "On Hat
teras Far" by Henry Jerowe Stockard'
by w. J.. PeeIe. Carolina, Our Pride"
~ AAcAAAI ~. i1oA VII AON
teras Bar" by Henry Jerome S~tockard;
THE Cary Rebellion by Thomas NJ.
Pittnlann: October by John Chas.
MCNEIL: THE Tuscarora War by
Samuel A. Ashe. THE Death of John
Lawson by John w. Moore; Early
New Perm by Charles L. Coon;
Washington and Its Early Jnhabi-
tants'' by Miss LYDIA T. Rodman;
Early Education in the Albemarle
and Pamlico Section" by z. C. Brooks;
Mater Mea Carolina" by Miss Pat
tie Williams Gee; "Mattamuskett
Lake" by S. S. Mann; How Freedom
Came" by BENJAMIN Sled; Fishing
in Eastern North Carolina" by W. L.
Arendate: Trucking" by r. D. Con-
nor; shipping in Colonial and ante
bellum times, by Miss LYDIA T. Rod
man. Some short cOlOnial biOgra-