The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-24
Board Of Education Declines to Grant
Options to Syndicates
Judge Purnel to Sit on the Circuit
COurt-CharferS by the State.
Death of an A. and VI. Student-in.
other Swindle Exposed-North Car
olina q Promising Timber State.
Other News Notes.
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, ". c., November II.

Inc state board or education, Goye--
ernor Glenn presiding, met today ana
with it were several bidders for what.
are known as the state swamp landc
One of these pieces of property is
what is known as Angola Bag or
swamp in Jones and Onslow counties,
containing about $4,000 acres. l. is
said to be worth about SIS, 900. Some
Norfolk capitalists desire Ii as does
also a local syndicate from the Colds
boro section. The board is investigar-
ing the area and quality of timber, etc.
in what are known as the Currituck
swamp lands. there being four or five
tracts for which there are also a num-
Der OF bidders.
The board after several hours ses-
sion declined TO grant options on the
Angola bay lands to Mr.. Johnson, rep
.resenting the Norfolk syndicate, and
Ex-Governor Aycock representing the
Goldsboro syndicate, SO no sale is
made.
Judge Purnell of the federal court
goes to Richmond on Sunday and will
sit on the bench with Judges Pritcnard
and Kelley for two weeks. when he will
have to return here to hold his OWN
court, which begins December /. He
was on the bench at Richmond nearly
all of May and did not expect to lie
called there again this year.
1t is learned that the directors OF
Congressman Spencer Blackburn's pa
per at Greensboro, The Tar Heel, were
in session last night and placed the
paper in the hands of T. B. Eldridge
as general manager. George S. Brad
shaw IS for the present the editor, his
duties being so;ely confined to thai
Mr.. Reynolds of Winston-Salem was
elected secretary and treasurer of the
company.
The board of officers of the national
guard of the state, which is to make a
selection for the site of the par lament
encampment is to meet in a few days.
Surgeon General Robert F. Young is
added to the board, before which are
only two bids, from Wrightsville anG
Morehead City. The Asheville bid
came in too late for consideration: the
time having expired, but it may be eon-
sidered by a special order.
The death of Cadet Weaver causes
much sadness at the Agricultural and
Mechanical College. He al from Their
NAL City, Mcdowell county. He had
IN attack of fever, which was follow
ed by meningitis and fatted degenera-
ton of the heart. He had been sick
ever since the third week in Octobe~
and the family physician had been
with him for three weeks. There are
! four nfhop ao6ntc uho hoyo ho1 favor
all of whom are convalescing, these
being Ewart of Hendersonville, Sulli-
van, of Lincolnton; Moore, of Rocky
| Mount, and Ogburn,o of Greensboro. The
parents of Sullivan and Moore have
been with them for some time. It is
doubted whether Ogburn had typhoid
fever. He will be discharged from the
hospital in a day or two. He is the
college bugler and is the son of Rev
J. T. Ogburn.
Charters are granted the Arson
County Warehouse Company, Wades
boro, capital stock, $50, 1000, w. J.. Nc
| Lendon and others stockholders; the
K~ingsdale Lumber Company, of Robe
son county, Iredell Meares of Whining
ton and others stockholders, capital
stock, $50, 1000; the Charlotte Damask
Company, to make cotton and other
textile fabrics, capital stock, 100000
S. B. Alexander and others stockhold-
ers. The Monroe Cotton Mills is LII.
thorized to increase it's capital stock
$3.50, 900, of which s75, 900 is to be cum
u~lative, Z per cent. preferred stock. b.
D. Heath is the president of this COM
pany.
Several years ago your c~orrespon-
dent had the pleasure of being the
first to expose what came to be known
as "the cherry tree swindle." a a
result of the exposure the p~ostofice
authorities and those of the state TAX
ing swift steps TO nab the rascals en-
gagged in this swindle and to punish
them. Now information comes on the
quiet Of another swindle. Some per-
sons are going through the state, max
ing sales of what they term. German
grated" trees, declaring that the ap-
! pies, peaches, pears, etc, grated on
stocks by this company were not sub
ject to diseases and do not need spray
ing, etc. Another branch of the bus.
! mess operated by the same people Is
the sale Of what are called, "Rush
Strawberries" this being a worthless
plant, which was imported a few years
ago from some of the eastern coun.
tries, the berry not being a strawberry
at all. Your correspondent had a :aiI
with State Horticultural Hume aboui
this double-barTeled swindle, and hi
says that such trees and such plants
are worthless.
In the course CT an interview witt
Mr.. White, Of Toledo, Ohio. who is
one of the lumber men who are stock
holders in the Eastern Carolina Lum
Der Company chartered this week, Will
headquarters at GAINESVILLE" he siiC
that North Carolina is the most prom
Using timber state, for the reason that
here the timber reproduces itself sc
quickly, particularly in the swanps
where there is of course less DANCE
from fire. and that protected wood!
anywhere in the state reproduce we'll
In Michigan where he has worked
when timber is cut down, non'
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