The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-11
Messenger Bureau,

TIE Agricultural dHu 1ASthdAiI"i wi
lege here, these examinations being
conducted by the county superintend-
ent of education.
This afternoon Commissioners OF
Agriculture Patterson and the special
committee of the board Of agriculture
to which it was assigned the work OF
selecting a location for a test farm for
truck and berries, left for Wallace, &C.
companied by State Horticultural
Hume. The committee bought a farm
and paid for it and now it seems that
the people at Wilmington propose to
offer what is known as the Carroll
farm near there, making a gift of two
thirds of the value of this farm. Inc
committee has asked the executive
committee of the Eastern Carolina
Truck Growers Association to meet
with it at Wallace and it will lay be-
fore the committee of the association
the whole situation as regards the
farm.
Insurance Commissioner Young, ac-
companied by his wife and infant child
left today for MOrehead City.
The rains which have fallen during
the past two or three days have Deen
of the greatest benefit to the crops ana
the farmers appear to be in fine splr-
it's. The high price to which cotton Is
now climbing is also having a very
stimulating effect upon the farmers
The last arrival at the penItentlafy
is Jesse Mason, white, under sentence
of six years for ~Waylaylng a man Ut
-,., - .boafi,,~ nj him
The state of North Carolina has IN
the library no North Carolina papers ol
q date beyond 1899, and in a few days
Prof. f. T. Moses will begin a search
after such old papers.
The ~penitentiary directors have rals-
ed the price Of convict LABOR from ~
cents Il day to S1.2o.
The D~enitentiary has sold half OF It's
crOD of 100 bales of cotton, when
was grown on the farm near weldon.
The six hundred bales sold brought
from 9 IL to 10 IL cents, n the
| board is greatly pleased at It's gooo
Judgment in holding on.
State Senator Harry Stubbs, or Mar
tin county, is here on account or the
severe illness of his son, Jesse, VINO
has typhoid fever. The boy has peel
sick several weeks. He was a stuuenl
at the Raleigh Male Academy last SEES
J sion.
Major d. II. Hamilton, of HlllsDoro,
has. by the permission of the commits
sioners of Orange county, brought mere
the part of the minutes of the proceed
ings there known as 1.-The Regulatol
Record" which have been photograph
cd nv Wharton. of Raleigh, by the I'll
rectiOn of the historical commission
Eight nag have thus been photo'
eraDhed. The photographs Will De
nlaced on the walls of the Hal or his
= tory. These records are Of very grea
interest and value and the photographs
will reproduce them perfectly.
Mr.. r. D. w. ConnOr has been au
thorized by the council of state TO copy
edit. and publish the important letter
in the letter books of all the goVerlioli
which are in the executive department
THE oldest of all he letter BOOKS i
! that of Governor Pollock, beginning II
: this being not state property, pu
{ that of Mrs. Margaret DevereuA, .
l Raleigh, who two years ago lent II I
thn writer. who at one placed It III I'LL
Hall of History. 1t gives the pest III
sioht into the noted Tuscarora lnd1al
massacre and what followed. Inc lei
81 for hooks on file in the governors VI
l.. fee are complete, beginning with tho7
l. Of Governor Caswell, the first goVerh'
under the constitution.
Mrs. Glenn and Miss Rebecca Glen
: her daughter, have gone to Atlanti
e civ TO be with the governor, VINO take
a ten days rest there.
Letters from the mountain countf
3. saw that State Treasurer Lacy is ledri
& ing the Cherokee language II that Il
lrl homes while absent to be able to Ri
a panther. c.;,
1T The state charters the A. z. Grl]
fin Manufacturing Company, or GoluS
boro. to manufacture lumber, etc, cal
Ie ital stock. $50, 600; the Lilly Alllso
Company. of Statesville. to operate
denartment store, capital stock S2o,OO
and the Craggy Quarry Company, !;
II Craggy, Buncombe county, to MAI
81 lumber. deal in bark, etc, opera
l. uuarries, railways, etc, capital sto'
S1OOOOO. r.. S. Rowland, I. +. DAVE
&c son and others being the
a. The finance committee of the sta
lie board of agriculture was In session ,
y Cav at the Agricultural and Mecnai
81 cal College looking over the accouh
III of the latter. ;,
The state superintendent of publ
CT instruction is receiving notices OF Il
ed county superintendents Of educatlo
We John c.. Scarborough was defeated
Is Hartford county, mainly. 1t seems, u
cause he was the president OIL the C
lege there.
he The assessment of property OF col
mon carriers by the state board
Sc nearly completed. Some corporatlo
in have not vet sent in their returns.