The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-22
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh. ". C, August IL.
The Raleigh Industrial Club. AT q
meeting held last night. decided to or
ganize q new building and loan asso-
c~iatson. modelled after those nov work
ing 50 successfully at Charlotte. Ashe-
vile, Winston Salem. Wilmington and
elsewhere in the state. 1t will be char
tered within the next few days.
The club is also taking steps looking
to the indueemeEt OF the government TO
include the whole Of Wake county in
the Typographical survey o in prog
ress. Senator Simmons and Congress-
man Pcu are called upon To cooperate.
Another il!ici; distillery was destroy
ed Tuesday night in Johnston county.
making more han a score that have
been destroyed in the county by the
~reyenuers within a ear. The last n
vas in O'Neal township.
+. II Busbee, \. II. Andrews. Jr.. OF
Raleigh. and J Crawford Biggs. of
Durham, will be among the lawyers
who will represent North Carolina nj
the American Bar Association at Nara
gansett Pier, -. l., August -, II and
%.
Twin brothers, with twin nanes
both Baptist preachers, pastors OF win
churches in the same city and n OF
them the father ~ twin daughters. pre-
sents the remarkable coincidence ex-
listing in Raleigh Just now. The broth
Crs are Rev. Thomas Joseph Watts and
Rev. Joseph Thomas Watts. twin sens
Of the late Squire Watts. OF this city.
Their churches are IN Louisville. n.
A large force OF hands Is at WORK
putting Hillsboro road in order for the
! tremendous travel that will 90 oyec IL
during the week OF the great state fair
October 10 TO 81. 1t is n macadam
road and is being thoroughly repairedl
During the fair week sprinklers will
be operated over il constantly for the
comfort Of he many thousands of visi-
,oIS. itlsldtnt koOsevelts visit 10 the
air is expected to cause the breaking
OF all records in attendance on The
state fair.
A charter is issued for the Cleveland
Manufacturing Co, of Cleveland. row
an county, the purpose being the MAX
ing of all kinds of vNeer and thin tai
Der, also excelsior. The capital is $780,
900 and the principal i~ncorporators
Kincard B. A. Knox
A telegram received here announces
the landing of DR.. w. G.. Tyree ard
wife at New York, returning from their
European trip, having been abroad
three months. DIR. Tyree will resume
his pastoral duties with the First Bap
fist church next Sunday.
A number of old prints of books by
: North Carolina authors have been DID,
ed to the state library recently, the
management of the library making a
specially now Of this class OF books.
Twenty-Five were added yesterday.
The Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
will meet for reorganization tomorrow
night and two hundred business men
have pledged themselves TO enter int
the reorganization, in which the annual
fees will be doubled.
Prof. w. F. Massey will go TO Char
lotte tomorrow to deliver an address
on agriculture before the colored farm
ers' convention, in connection with toe
Biddle Institute, here.
The reports received by the state d.
rector OF the weather bureau for North
Carolina shows that during the pas
week. there was $40 inches of rainfall
at Raleigh; $50 at Goldsboro; h12 al
Greensboro; 1.22 at New Bern; ;2.90 al
Weldon; 2.26 at Nashville; 6.61 at An.
gier; Go ut Pomona; 3.93 at Lexing.
ton and 4.19 at Moncure.