The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-17
The Governor Will Make the Trip Through
the State.
Committee at Work Making Arrange
Reports to Secretary Parker Show
That Farmers are Holding Cotton.
Charters by the State-Hearine OF
Application for Pardon of Murray.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., October 14th.

Os 1890
Governor Glenn will accompany
President Roosevelt on his tour of the
state from Raleigh to Charlotte. He
has been requested to Introduce the
President at various points, Durham.
Greensboro, Salisbury, and Charlotte,
and of course will do SO. The speech
of the President here has been an
nounced in the dispatches as an i'm
portant one, and it is said will be of
an hours length. At many points
along b line of railway, people will
gather to see the Presidential train
pass, this being>a special and Of the
finest character. The attendance of
Confederate veterans here is expected
to be very large, they will form a very
important part of the escort.
n charter is granted the Albemarle
Real Estate and Insurance Company,
at the town of that name, tie author
lied capital stock being $4,000 and
E. n. Asberry, S. II. Hearne and others
NNA'S IL cCOShloIOClS
RECEPTION OF THE PRESIDENT.
The general committee on the recep-
ton of the President at Raleigh met in
the governors office. He presided over
the meeting. 1t was found that the
committee was SO large a sto be I'M
Wleldy and it was therefore reduced
to three members, Mayor Johnson, Col
Charles Earl Johnson Of the gov
staff, and Sherwood Higgs, this
committee being given all authority
to make arrangements.
Mention has been made OF the resig-
nation of Professor w. T. Massey as
hortlculturist to the experiment sta
ton. There is another horticulturist,
the n to the board of agriculture,
this being Professor II. II. Hume.
Professor Massey has been a very val
man to North Carolina and the
farmers of the state regret to see him
leave, as they lave relied very greatly
upon his suggestions. But he thinks
it best to devote himself to editorial
work on n of the greatest of the ag-
ricultural magazines in the country,
and so will make Philadelphia his
ioAht L d " ycdlS uOlt Ndlud-
editorial and other work on this
paper, the Practical Farmer.
FARMERS DETERMINED TO
HOLD COTTON.
Secretary T. B. Parker of the Farm
erS' State Alliance returned today from
county, where he took part
in reorganiZing the county alliance.
the sub-alliances were represented.
He found the farmers very hopeful.
and extremely determined to hold their
As evidence of this fact it
may be stated that receipts have de-
clined from about 200 bales a day.
cotton was selling at over ten
cents, TO less than Il dozen bales a day
and some days none at all on the
market. The general sentiment all
over the state, Mr.. Parker says, is to
hold cotton. The speeches of Daniel
]. Sully have had Il fine effect, and SO
what President Haryie Jordan
Of the Southern Cotton Growers Asso-
has spoken and written. Re-
marks of President Jordan have been
broadcast over the cotton
growing section. He has issued an ad-
dress that has been SEN into every
growing county in the south, ad-
farmers to hold, for the IL cent
minimum. Reports are now coming i'm
Mr.. Parker, from cotton growing
counties in the state. showing that the
crop will be about seventy-five per
of that of last year. This is a
rifle above the estimate which Mr..
Parker and others interested in hold
lng down the crop made at the begin
aing Of the season, but many of the
anger counties that have suffered most |
rom drough1 and other weathered
conditions and SO the summary may |
show a condition below seventy-6ye |
oer cent. As yet no definite arrange |