The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-07
LOCATION OF TRUCK rrssr FARM


Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. G.. July ).
The state board Of elections met here
today, merely to organize. 1t elected
Wilson q. Lamb. chairman. and X. I.
fiayweli, secretary. the other members
being j. r. IeweiIen, Clarence Call.
and \. r. Freeman All the members
We're present
Insurance Commissioner Young has
received an application from the South
ern Fire Insurance Company. of
L.ynchbuEg. TO do business in North
Carolina.
\ letter from State Treasurer Lacy,
who Is mp In the mountains camping
out, says he Is cry greatly improved.
II condition Of John Dockery con-
tinEes 10 steadily improve. The pneu-
ntonia which developed as Il result o.
tie perforation OF the lung by one OF
tie bullets has passed away. IL Is not
low known whether IL will he necss-
sary TO extract the two bullets from
the body.
United States Deputy Marshal Sharp
tonight took five federal ~conyicts To the
Atlanta ~penitentiary. including ]. Il.
Powell. the ssindler from Norfolk,
Who gets two aud L half years. lie
viii take 10 the Nashville Ienitetiary
Ii negro woman convicted OF taking h
letter from the postofiicc ut kinston
",lu destroying il.
Today Inc executv committee OF
She Soldiers Home met, State Auditor
I1i<an InI5nn - farr and Sfrnn-
acI being present and awarded the
contract Tor lighting by electricity the
grounds and buildings and fer heating
the second door of the new ~iormitory
which is 10 be fitted up fos occupancy
State auditor Dixon left tonight for
Asheyille. where lie will on behalf OF
North Carolina make the address OF
welcome to the Virginia Press Asso-
CATION.
State Horticulturist Hume has IT
turned from Wilmington, where Il pc
cial committee of the agricultural
board considered the matter of the 10.
cation of the truck test farm. Prof.
Hume said he had not 4 word to say
;:i'out what was done
The state charters the Blue Ridge
Coal and Wood COMPANY. Asheville.
he Thomas Pharmacy at Durham.
and the Charitable Protective Assoc
citation. INCORPORATED. at Charlotte.
with nower to have subordinate lodges
anywhere in the state.
j. G. Ee r.. HsmiltoE is again NJ
work here obtaining material not only
for a theirs OF reconstruction In
North Carolina. but for a book III
hat subject which is to appear nex
year which is very comurchensive
and which viii be one of the series
covering the various southern states.
Or. TAFT Butler state veterinarian
has returned from Salisbury. here
he met DR.. A.. c.. q. Richardson. the
federal inspector for the section east
of the MississiDDi. the conference be-
ing upon cattle quarantine matters.
Tr. richardson said that the Federal
insre:tor would examine in the au-
tumn six counties. Surry. Alexander.
Iredcll. Davl.. Rowan n Meckien-
burg with a view to exempting them
IL it is found that they arc in proper
shane. The outlook is fairly good for
the exemption of all of these.
pr. Butler went with r.. w. Scott
II r. l.. Dougton of the Eoar OF
Agriculture TO the Irc6ell Test farm
and inspected it. It contains 2t5 acres
at!d il in pretty god shape. General
experiment work goes on as to grains.
grass. fertilizers. live took. etc. these
beng variety tests and fertilizer tests.
DR.. Butler visited the farru of Mr..
Scott in .Alafnance n EXPRESSES his
delight at what he saw there every
thing being done wonderfully well and
being the best rs to thorough agricui-
ture hat he has seen i'm this state in
the rolling ano except on farms
owned bv men of large wealth. Every
th!rg is clear and of the finest Guilt
walton and with an un5roken view for
two miles,
The STATE Board OF assessors has
nearly finished tho of the
r"Onertv CT common carriers. There
will be no new assessment of such
properties until 1907. There will be.
however. IN increase III values. on
account Of the extension of lines. ETC.
Private Secretary Glenn SAYS that
Governor Glenn will send him the
names Of the eight ~aDt'ointeas as d.
rectO"s of the North Carolina railway.
II seems to have been generally ex-
pectcd that the governor would make
these TODAY but he is too much press
cd for time. The fact is the governor
is very much worn out.
Chief Justice Clark has written let
tiers 70 Librarian Fans of the LenOir
library. New York city and DIR. Thos.
A,lcicks Emmett. also of thtt city. the
latter being n noted ~aninuarian. and
bibiionel. for anv information rs 20
TIE authenticity of the alleged nnd by
NilliI.gton Miller of the COP OF the
Wilmington MercIrv containing the
Mecklerbnrg declaration OF Nav 10th.
-.75.
The CORPORATION Commissioners saw
returns Of income. now made to them.
are coming in vrry RAPIDLY. Only the
totals will be given out this year un-
der the new law.
The Diamond Cure.