The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-02-17
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., FEB. II. 100

ItdISlSH, -. ~, VSp. Ii. ~ L.
A large delegation from Beaufort,
New Bern, Elizabeth City, Washing
ton, Bell Haven and other points in
Eastern North Carolina arrived here
today to make a fight against the pro-
posed increase of a. on oysters. This
increase is recommended by State
Oyster Commissioner w. Nj. Webb, OF
Morehead, and is for a tax double the
present one on large oysters. Com
missioner Webb claims that the money
is needed to defray h expense Of
the oyster commission. The oppon-
ents of the measure claim hat an in
crease is not necessary, and that the
expense of the commission can be
very greatly reduced by prohibiting
the taking of oysters out of the State
in bulk in the shell. They now go
out by the ship load. It is claimed
that in this way two-thirds Of the
present expense will be saved and
that oysters now manipulated by
packers of Norfolk and Baltimore will
all be handled here in the state. TWO
years ago, when the present law was
enacted, there were eight steam fac
tories OF cdltIlltIlCS II opSA ~ "AASi
as now there are only two sucn.
Oyster Commissioner Webb also ar
rived here today and had a long con-
ference with Governor Glenn.
After Yesterday afternoons snow
blizzard, the temperature fell very
rapidly and the night was bitter cold.
the temperature this morning being
almost the lowest of the winter. The
weather puts more hard work upon
the Associated Charities, which a
its hands full all the winter. Bad as
the weather has been here it has been
much worse al other places.
Among today's arrivals were D. N.
Hodges, Asheville; j. B. Leigh, ana
4. T. Davis, Elizabeth City; W. T..
Hardison, Wadesboro, S. A. WooGard,
Wilson, R. P. Taylor, Oxford; j. Z.
Meekins, Columbia; r. ". Taylor, ).
G.. Duncan, Beaufort; J. G.. Boylin,
Wadesboro; J. M. Alexander, Char
lotte; E. NJ. Green, New Bern; 7. +.
Davidson, Asheville; E. Y. Webb.
| Shelby.
The state authorizes a change of
the name of the Union Wood Work
Ing Company to the Cornelius Furn1-
;urc Company, of Mecklenburg coun-
! ty.
Before Governor Glenn today the
| matter of the dispute as to h Col
| onelcy of the First Regiment OF In
fantry came up. there having been q
| dispute as to the result of the cleo
| ton. which was held in Charlotte
| early in the month
Among all the rural free delivery
! mail carriers in this state only n is
| colored, his route being out OF New
| Bern There will in the next sixty
days be a very great increase in tho
aumher Of routes, the postmaster
here stated. He pays all the carriers
State Treasurer Lacy has been very
we'll since his return from Colorado,
until the last big sleet, when he was
so unlucky as to fall and fracture a
rib.
The county convention of cotton
growers are to be held Thursday OF
this week and will be very largely
attended.
National Councillor William E
Faison of the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics has gone TO Tai
iahassee, Florida, I o institute a coun'
ell.
p. D.. Conner of the department ol
public instruction, who has charge o.
school libraries in the State a Is
sued warrants for nine more OF these
o going to Forsyth.
Fred. L. Merritt of the Atlantic &
North Carolina railway is here. II
says the Rowland Improvement Com
pany, which has leased that road