The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-10

Seaboard Air Line F1agman Fatally
Injured-Farmers i'm Western Sec
ton OF State Neglect Their Oppor-
tunitieS.
Messenger Bureau.

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Governor Clean left this afternoon
for Warrenton. to deliver an address
before tie farmers. that Is the cot'pn
association. II Is his FIRST
visi. IL Warre1ton.
I Insur1Iee Commissioner Young Has
approved the charter OF the Southern
Beneso.ent Association. of Hickory. J.
B. Eli Ut and Others stockholders D,
is a fra.-rnal orIs:. He has also ap-
prove. the bylaws and organization
OF TIT Southern Life Insurance Com
pany. y Fayetteville. He has prepar-
ell i'll his office building a library .or
The Convenience o. insurance agents.
and Tie generai public. in this being
books About insurance, reports and the
various insurance C'sSazines. from all
parts % the CO p.tr..
The bond of IsSor ~ Rogers, exp
.iceulaL. who wnile ! member of the
free. stot DebI'v Marshal John L.
Dockery. has been reduced from $1,000
10 SIT The case * set for hearing
Ill JaLhary, br; Rogers appears TO
A4AGAah ~ II ~ VI" AAS a. -
seems tat there j. some talk that ln,.
cass. a:.iinst Claude Bernard may be
crr~: :omised Oh settled in some way.
Cira.I'a johnson. a young white man
is in the Atlanta ~penitentiary, and
this is q lucky thing for him. as other
wise lie would nave been tried tor
completely in the burning and robnCcy
of Tie Standard Oil plant and the mGr-
lei Ct the nignt-watcnman. Some
Dcl soils declared that Johnson was IL.
Llicl.CG. and a peniteDtlary OFF, 81
wert ~ Atlanta from here TO identity.
The m Johnson was brought il
he >uoke TO tho official who of our'a
knew lin we'll. AS Johnson had Served
three :elms in the North Carolina pen
itentiary. He is in prison in Atlanta
:cr counterfeiting.
Vine an excavation was being male
fri re foundation of the Elks build
inS Iis1e large Quantities of newspape s
al written matter were found, Sole
,w"ive feet below the ground leEel
The bj"re was fined in % years ago.
and the writing on the papers Tl3
tina: CT the late Captain Randolph n.
Shriwell.
Sidney Young, a lagman of the Sci
board Air Line. was fatally injured
>as-E,day evening at Apex, having
sluml:.ed and fallen running in fro7t
IF has train to open a switch. He Is
III the / osDital here. e
Stale Auditor Dixon is conducting
all ,c-cational campaign in Yancev
.i::nstn aid Cleveland counties.
Revenue officers last night made a
raid rear CarbOnton. Moore coun'y
and ca1 tured d 100-gallon Illicit II,
tiilcry There were two operators,
tCtl, white men, but trey made thoIl
"scai" into the woods.
Secretary Bruner of tne Agricultural
department salt TO-DAY. Il have no
way III G.. aIn.ng WIN certain paris
&c Uh:S site W. .ect the 2'Cwing of au-
tu1nu traits. sIlce the eastern part OF
the state has mace such strides in III.
growing of early fruits, berries
teaches and grapes. The upper Pied
mont country. with few exceptions
seen TO have allowed its opportunities
TO iae. AS a matter of fact the iaCe
re tch crop is as important and as re-
m~unerative as the early peach crop.
For instance. Just now in this city, DC
tober reaches are offered at fifty ana
sixty cents a gallon basket. $500 TO
S4.6O a bushel. and the demand caA-
not be supplied. Inquiry brings oIt
the fact that these beautiful peaches
are grown near Lynchburg in Virgin
ia. In North Carolina the counties Of
Stokes, f'orsytne. Surry, Yadkn
Wilkes, Iredell Alexander. Catawoa,
Calwell. Burke, Mcdowell. Henderson
Polk. Rutherford. Cleveland. Lincoln
and CASTOR are all admirably suited
to the production of September and
October peaches of the highest type.
These late peaches are used not only
for the table but for canning, preserV-
ing and picking. n there is gr3dt
demand for them. This region is aiS)
the home of the Mangum Bonum -
pie. Buckingham and other excellent
autumn fruits, to say nothing IL
grapes. Every farmer in that region
should put u four or five acres n
reaches which will be sure to bring
him good 1t is an opportunity
which should not be missed. and suUh
varieties of peaches as the liberia.
Stonewall Jackson. Chinese Cling. Ed
ton. Gold. and Stinson's October and
other good varieties should be set for
this purpose.