The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-11
REPORT OF ADJUTANT GENERAL
Successful Photographs Takcn of Old
Court Records-ThirtS Third Vol
suci-Investisating Cattle Tick
Piague-State auditor WsHkin-
Hard to Get Reports From Corpor-
ation<.
MESSENGER Bureau.
Raleigh. \. c., July Sth, 1905

Edenton 10 a part in conducting the
teachers summer school there. the 9TH
er instructor being Professor John j.
Blair of Wilmington. These sumiue r
schools are held by counties In groups.
if desired, though the plan failed to
have five such schools in the state.
Last summer there was a great school
Of this kind in Raleigh and the money
was raised for another this year but
it was found under the changed law
that there would not be many teachers
who would come and SO the school was
not held.
While Professor Moses is away he
will look into tho early records i'll the
Edenton section The 23rd volume Of
the states record has just been issued
by Chief Justice clark and is very val
liable containing The laws from Ills to
1854, one of thesf. in 1870 chartering the
Edenton Academy, with Joseph
Hewes and Samuel Johnson as two OF
the trustees.
At midnight commissioner of AgIi-
culture Patterson retuned from Wal
lace where the committee OF the East
ern Carolina Truck Growers Associa-
ton met. The latter was requested
to vote as to the location of the tesct
farm in the way of a suggestion and
the vote was three to two in favor CT
Wilmington, the president, who did not
vote being in favor of the present loca-
ton Of the farm ut Willard. The mat
ter is not yet settled, the vote of the
committee being merely suggested.
Wilmington has acted very literally as
regards the agricultural department i'll
the matter of the location Of the farm.
having offered a farm valued at 5000
on condition thai the state pay $1,000.
A telegram to the state superinten-
dent says that Stedman and Goodwin Ill
Cumberland our nave voted in favor
Of special tax for schools.
, Mrs. E. E. Mcfitt, representing the
North Carolina Society of the Daugh-
tiers of the Revelation has paid Joseph
G. Brown. the treasurer of the Sir
Walter Raleigh Monument fund SIS,
which was made at a Kermiss here re-
Gently. The total amount of the mol-
men fund is now only $500, very little
having come in recently. Unless some
public spirited person makes a contri-
button it would seem that the monu-
! ment is very far sway yet.
Very successful photographs were
taken of the old court records OF
| Orange county, which the regulators
made such curious endorsements upon
in 1910, after they had whipped a few
lawyers and driven a judge away. The
historical commission had the photo
graphs taken and they are now on view
in the Hall of History.
h state auditor is working very
hard to get the complete returns from
corporations. He sent out notices, $500
of these and about % letters were re-
turned by ~pOStnasters as undelivered
Now the auditor Is tracing the corpora
tons and having very good success.
The agricultural officials here are
very much pleased at the removal OF
the statistician OF the United States
agricultural department on accoun OF
his manipulation of the crop reports
in order to aid his friends, the cotton
gamblers in New York.
William B.. Snow has been elected
city attorney of Raleigh after a long
contest.
All I'VE A>oIlH SdIollHd, VIC tASIC
are Farmers Alliances the quarterly
meeting will be held next Thursday.
Some of the assistants of DR.. TAFT
Butler, the state veterinarian have
returned here from a trip to Ruthcr-
ford and Rowan counties, to look after
cattle ticks. They say that Rowan mas
been almost entirely freed from he
ticks, only three places having been
c-.-l - ~-l.oL 1910 -1r1 n-,y ~ n =
dangerous insects Rutherford is not
yet cleared of ticks, but the people
there are manifesting much interest in
this work and the best results are ex-
pected.
The report of ~theadjutant general for
1904 has bene issued and is very conf
plete. One of the most interesting
parts of it is the report of General Carl
A. Woodruff, C.. S. A.. who says the
guard material is good, and the compa-
MES fairly well drilled, the discipline
being only fair, but great improvement
would follow proper instruction. In
some cases clothing is not properly car
ed for and officers do not appreciate
the importance o. the responsibility for
public property, everything being the
property Of the United States.of course
Regarding the Light Battery he says it
is in no sense n light battery Of aTIl-
lery and fails 70 see how ii is of any
use to the state and adds hat in Ills
opinion n Calling gun issued to each
regiment would fll all requirements.
This is the custom in several of the
states. General Woodruff is very COM
plimentary to the First regiment,
which he saw at Manassas. He also
vas pleased with the camp grounds
near Morehead City, but was impressed
by the neglect of many Of the enlisted
men to extend proper courtesy To Off
GERS There was not sufficient dignity
on the part of officers, who actually ap-
peared at the hotel in the presence Of
guests, in their shirt sleeves, or with
coats unbuttoned Officers and men
We're not sufficiently employed during
the day in camp. He found after his
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