The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-08
SUPPLYING FURNITURE CARS FIFTEEN PLUMBERS on STRIKE
The Famine at nigh Point is About Objected 70 Going to and From Work
Settled. on Bicycles.
E1ks Seen To Occupy a New Homo.
3 Whi>kcy Prescriptions Filled
During Jufy-Cl.anccs In Fatu.t, OF
the Nor1nal-TI,c Peal Estate lsus-
mess.
Especial Il The Messenger

Greensboro, n. c., August 4-rhe
Greensboro lodse CT Elks held its las
meeting IN its old quarters last nisl..
and celebrated tie occasion by ha.lng
a notable initiating ceremony over two
acquisitions, Superintendent of the
Southern Railway Company. and Mr..
Lacy II. Sellers. Two new members
application were accepted and four ap-
plications for membership receivef
The Elks Lodge here is is fact becom-
ing the most potent fraternal and So
cial organization in the city. Next
week it Will occupy the new Elks Lodg,
and III rooms On the fifth floor of
the new McAdoo Office building. Inc
entire floor, 80 Dy $50 feet has p.en
fitted up for the 'odge rooms, and club
quarters, the furniture being eleganr.
and of the Venetian style. The cilp
quarters Will be in the suite on The
front half of the floor, fitted up for re-
ception rooms, billiard, pool, cards aud~
library apartments. The lodge hall
and reception rooms of the member
ship proper will be in the rear part OF
the floor.
The returns made by the druggists
licensed to sell wniskey here on pre-
scriptlon OF physicians for July show
that only 339 We're filled. A compare
tive statement just issued of arrests
for drunkenness Tor the months of July
1904, under high license, INT July 1905.
under prohibition, makes a good show
ing in that line, showing a decrease of
more than two-thlrds of drunkenness
arrests and one MALT for assaults and
batteries.
At the Halls school house On tie
Freeman's Mill road, three miles soath-
west of the city, there was a large gath
ering of citizens last night for the pur-
pose of bringing sufficient pressure TO
bear ON the highway and county corr
missiOners to nave that road macad-
amized. Committees were appointed to
go before the boards at their meeting
mex Monday to press the necessity of
adopting the road for matchmaking
from the end of West Lee street 20
Jamestown. Speeches were made fy
Colonel John A. Barringer, City Alder
man Wysong, Mr.. William Worth AID
others.
Willie E. Denny, eleven years OLD
son of r. M. Denny, while going to
Hardis pond on a fishing expedition
yesterday, had a Flobert rifle lying
across his knees as he was riding
along IN the hack with a party of fish
ermen. The rife dropped, struck oGe
of the wheels, went OFT and sent a ball
through Willie's right hand. No per
| manent injury was done, he losing no
time in getting back to town where d:
physician pronounced it only a flesh
wound and attended to his case.
Her many friends will be glad to
learn that Mrs. h. M. Blair, wife Ct
the editor of the Christian Advocate.
who has undergone a serious surgical
operation at Greensboro hospital, has
so far improved as to be out of dan
ger.
The following changes have been an
nounced in the faculty of the State
Normal and Industrial College: The
vacancy caused 5y the resignation OF
DR.. Bryant from the chair of biology
has been filled by the election of DIR.
E. ". Gudger, IF Johns Hopkins uni
tSI6lly. L i \ A0l-fS vi
DINA and has had more than ten years
experience as a science teacher. He
holds the degrees of Master of Arts
from Peabody Normal College, ami
Doctor IF Philosophy from Johns Hop
kins University. An addition TO me
faculty is made by the election OF MISS
Cora Strong of Walhalla, S. c., as as
sistant in the department OF mathe
mates. She is an honor graduate o1
Agnes Scott Institute of Georgia, AID
Cornell University and has had several
years successful experience in teach
, ing.
! J.. E. Albright, plumber here, has a
strike on his hands. Fifteen plumbers
employed by him walked out yesterday
because he reports, he provided bicycles
for them to ride t and from their Wofn
It seems that the union has a by-ia"
forbidding this. The reason for. tbs
it is said is because the bicycle means
getting TO work on a job quicker, aa1
the privilege of sauntering lelsureiy
along at the prices getting and return
ing from a job is calculated to give en-
: ployment to fewer men. MIR. AlbrtGh-
didn't know of this bylaw, and was
non-plussed when the demand was
made on him to quit using bicycles. ne
declined t o do so and the men struck
What are they all going to do II
has not been decided. If the price .oI
plumbing goes any higher here by rea-
son of the compulsory l~engthenlng Vi
time for doing a job, that a retrenen
OF the bicycle woaid cause, many prop
erty holders will have to surrencer
their real estate for lack Of means witn
which to pay the bills.
+: Mr.. w. L. Land, who has been a sue
cessful real estate dealer here for nj
teen years, and &. W. Jennings, VIC
has grown wealthy in merchandising
and who has also been dealing In real
estate for five days, have formed a co
partnership, their incorporation Deins
known as the City Real Estate Ex'
change. The business opened up In.
morning in the splendid ground hoo'
oe6co at +he Cvcamore street corner oi