The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18
r-acnrnrrrox, IN JOHNSON.
Another County VIII Soon bc Dry.
Brick Walks I'M Capital Square.
-Home Coming Week at shelby.
baseball Coach Fur tic a. n ".
Raleigh. n. c.. August Il.

Raleigh. N. c.. August Il.
State Auditor B. F. Dixon left .Lis
afternoon { participate in the Hon,
Coming" exercises at Shelby this week
He delivers an address Wednesday
Governor Glenn Is to 90 there Thurs
day TO deliver an address In the same
connection. Some Of the other proni-
nenet speakers for the week are Uni.ei
States Senator Lee Overman and Col.
John S. Cunningham.
State Superintendent OF Public In.
lstruction went to Yanceyville, Caswell
county, today. to deliver an address
before a teachers institute there. He
will return o the city tomorrow.
/. Mr.. r. ID. W. Connor, OF the once
of the superintendent OF public instrac-
tion, is spending this week in DAVE
| county and will deliver several educl-
tional addresses while there. Captain
| John Duckett, chief clerk TO the stat.
superintendent, has tust returned from
a weeks { in Wilkes county. max.
ling addresses in connection with the
educational rally there.
The counsel of state proposes to have
all the walks IN capitol square paved
with brick this fall, in compliance with
an act passed by the last Legislature
providing that this work shall De done
with convicts from the p~enitentiary
with bricks made in that institution
In this way there will be practically no
outlay of money. There are two I'M
mense cisterns. one at the southwest
and the other at the northeast corner
of the capitol that will have TO be- hiieS
in before this york can be done. They
were put there when b capitol vas
first built and before Raleigh had wat
erworks for fire protection. They have
been in disuse for many years, but stay
full of water all the time.
News from General James Clean,
brother and private secretary to .
ernor Glenn, is that he is improving
steadily. He Is still at Buffalo Ltthia
Springs. Governor Glenn is anxious
that il shall be understood that his
brother has not suffered a stroke OF
apoplexy at all, but simply acute indi-
gestion, attacks of which he has been
subject to for some time. His physi-
clans think now that they have him on
the highway to recovery.
George L. T~olnoffski, deputy clerk oil
the United States court here, says he
has a tomato vine in his yard eight
feet high, six feet in diameter and -
feet long, from which he has gathered
1922 tomatoes, and he expects TO gath
er as many more before frost The
vine extends % feet on the grounds.
The A. and M. college athletic as3o'
z:~..-- o~na,rpnac that fhav hQva So
lcured NJ. ]. Kittredge, a national league
ball player, TO coach the baseball team
for the season Of 1906. He has coach
ed the Holy Cross College team for a
number of years, this team having last
year defeated Harvard, Yale, CorneV,
Georgetown and other prominen.
teams. He vas on the Boston National
League team when they held the chanl-
pionship. The prospect has never beea
brighter for the A. and M. team. VIII
son, Perkins, Sykes, Saddler, Till, Greg
DRY. Hardis and others Of the best play
ers last seaso will return. James nave
already been scheduled with the Unt-
~versity of North Carolina, and Univer-
lsity Of Virginia, V. NJ. l., V. p. l., Wash
Iington and Lee and other institutions.
The last Saturday In this month
Johnston county will a her place
lamong the absolutely prohibition couI-
ties of the state. There has not beer O
saloon in Johnston for a long while eA-
cent at Benson, but six months ago
there were six dispensaries in the
lcounty, but next Saturday, a week, the
last one of these will pass out OF exis--
ence and the prohibition regulations
will be so stringent that not even eide:
can be sold unless made by the seliee.
No sucb thing as summer COM