The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-13
APPALACHIAN FOREST RESERVE
Hoped That The President Will Refer
to the Movement.
establishment of the Reserve to be
Pushed Before Gongres-Bids for
the Masonic Temple-Increase i'm
Postoffice Receipts-No Opinions
Filed This Week by Supreme Court.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. N C. October

Yesterday the building committee of
the Masonic Temple met at Selma and
received bids from several contractors.
The first bids were too high. the low
est one being $40. 900. 1t was the
original plan to have bids submitted
for a building to cost $50. 900. the Gem
m1ttee thinking that it would erect a
structure to cost about 500. 900. The
bids now received are around SIPS, O0G,
and that will be a probable cost of toe
structure. 1t is said that work will be
In full swing by spring. The commit
tee vii: have an absolutely fireproof
structure. designed to cover the nesis
or the order for 100 years to come. The
growth, Of Masonry in this state is re-
markable. This is tic greatest yea:
In its history, II new lodges hav.ng
been chartered since the year began,
while the usual number IS from 5 to ..
There are applications for five new
lodges. one of these Dsins from Spsa-
GER.
Rain fell here toda". the first IN
nearly six weeks, and was very CRATE
full. Most of the cotton has been ri tx
ed. The estimate of the amount DiCkeI
ranging from 60 per cent. to IS per
cent. Raleigh mas been SO dusty thar
Yesterday the firemen wet down seve-al
OF n streets, uSing nose for that Dur-
nose.
A cotton mi i man of promine "a
saws that not d mill in Nor.h Carolina
can work 10 cents cotton at a prot,
n that this has not been done IN
ne past 20 years. He says the south
sEins coarse goods in which tho raw
material cuts a great figure, which it
does not do with, the finer 81 DDS made
north.
Three new rural free delivery n.ai,
roL:es are established: Berea, Steven
L. Slaughter, carrier. Boomer. Jchu
P. Swanson: Castalia. Or. f. Pierce.
No less than 1.200 c%ostotices report
their postal deLartrnent business to the
Raleigh office. The AZ. unts they SEMI
in raaEe all the wa from one cent 10
81. 0 y
The receipts Of the Raleigh pos: ii
flee ioT the present month will Re
greater than for any ofher month m
the cal October being the best moth,
and will exceed 5000 for stcnips,
stamped paper, and newspaper postage
The latter postage shows hat the
Office handles over a tLiilions pou.lIs
annually of second elias: matter, end
the receipts from this source alone are
over $4,000.
Two spans of the four-span steel
bridge across the Cape Fear river On
the Raleigh and Southport railway are
UP, and the tnifI span is being put
i'll .:osilion. Each Is 125 feet in length.
President John A.. Mills. OF this road
is In Southport this week.
The supreme court did not file any
uriniun yesterday. because justice
Brown had gone to Washington, N. e.,
On account Of the dangerous illness OF
his ister, who died last night.
y letter from STATE SUPERINTENDENT
J"yl!rr says he IS now - England and
that he and Processes: Charles ID. VI :
aver "il1 sail for I,o,nc from Bologna,
France. NovemDe: 20
G.,.tinOr Glenn arrived here this
r..'1ias from G:eah.""io. and lef. a
!i::'e ,Aur- FIR Mu> fl, osbo10 ,. to .o0en Z.
fair. He say resident Roosevelt vii,
speak one hos" here next Thursday,
his speech covering several matters.
Grand Secretary B. H. Woodell, CT
the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, says
applications are in for new lodges at
Albemarle, Asheboro. Thomasville nnG
G~ibsonville. and that 16 have been or
ganized since the Grand Lodge met.
Nav II.
In the window of a store here is
shown a superb golden loving cup, the
gift of Mrs. Lindsay Patterson to the
State Literary and Historical Associa
ton. to be awarded each year for ten
wears to the North Carolinian publish
ing work showing the highest literary
excellence. The cup is in memory OF
William Houston Patterson and cyst
$500.
1t will be very good news for NORTH
CaroliEians and people in all parts OF
the south. east of the Mississippi river,
to know that very influential men have
united to push before Congress the es-
tablishment of the Appalachian Forcst
Reserve. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte,
is deeply interested in the matter and
sees what will result to the sources OF
thef most important water power
streams in all the south if the deforest-
ing of the great mountain region OF
Virginia, Tennessee. North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia continues,
this being now in progress On a VAST
scale. which threatens the very streams
themselves. 1t is learned that Pres:-
dent Roosevelt is interested in the
movement for a reserve and it is hoped
that he will take occasion in his Deecn
here at Raleigh next week and in OH
er speeches in the south to refer to
what is really a vital movement. His
views are known and it is hoped he
will express them with his usual visor
N frankness. The movement for
the reserve is now in better shape than
ever before.