The semi-weekly messenger., 1905-06-23
SEGRo STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS
The One at Frankiinfon TO be Abol-
isned-No Further Sales OF the
swamp Lands to be Made at Pres
ent-Ro.ers and Rowan Held for
Embracery-Charte by the State.

Raleigh, y. C., June %.
The state board OF education has
unanimously decided to abolish the ne
:ro state normal school at Franklin
on, leaving three schools, at Winston,
elizabeth City and Fayetteville. Each
eceives about $500 annually. Steps
ire taken to have permanent plants
1t each place, buildings, lands and in
iustrial equipments. The points
| samed have agreed to raise from $1,000
% $4,000 to aid. Winston pledginc the
after sum. The location of the schools
conditioned upon the communities
'a1Sing the amount promised. Frank
unton people made no proposition re-
:arding the retention of the school
ltaere.
Orders that no more sales Of the
Wamp lands be made until the full in
pection is had. showing the location,
acreage, timber, quality of soil and
'alue generally. This information will
be gathered in the most practical way.
Two years ago State Superintendent
|Joyner recommended this course The
information is to be published in pam
|phlet form. better bids can thus be
obtained. At present the acreage Is
not known, but is said TO exceed GOO,
1000. There are lots of surveys here
which can be taken as basis for in
formation.
The large distilleries of the Carolina
Distilling Company, at Hamlet and at
Hoffman, We're seized recently for ir
Irregularities. Officers seized thirty-nihc
thousand gallons of whiskey. Owners
|Of the distilleries have compromised
with the revenue commissioner, paying
|abOut $4,000 in cash.
A large party of Sunday school
workers, headed by \. B. BroughtOn,
left today on the Seaboard Air Line
for Toronto, Canada, as delegates to
the International Sunday School con-
vention. Twenty left Raleigh and
thirty from other points.
Brigadier General Armfield is di-
|rected to take command of the en-
|campment at Wrightsville of the Sec
Ond and Third regiments of National
Guard. July 20 to 25th, inclusive; Col.
T. P. Gardner to command the camp at
Charlotte, August 3 to 8, inclusive.
Judge Moore, who heard the case Of
(iattis against Kilgo and sent Rowan
Rogers and ]. p. SOrrell to jail fOr
contempt makes an order binding over
lin $1OO each for trial in July on th2
|Charge of embfacery, for tamperlES
with Jurors r. NJ. King and 5. (. Mar
cum. Some people have an idea that
the matter will go a good deal further,
but nothing will be found out from
Rogers as to it las he is not man 10
tell things, no one being more deter
mined.
The weekly crop bulletin for North
Carolina today says excellent weather,
Favorable in main features both for the
rapid growth of crops and farm work.
Generally farm work is now we'll up,
land is in excellent condition, crops
well cultivated and mostly clean and
continue to improve. Cotton nearly all
chopped and cultivated, and where
kept clean has improved considerably.
The crop is still grassy i'll some coun-
ties, squares beginning to form, lice
prevail in some places Corn is not
doing very we'll; tobacco continues to
do WELL Some correspondents report
plants running to seed too early. Wheat
harvest is nearly over, the grains are
not we'll filled. Irish potatoes are
yielding very we'll; some rOtting in the
ground. Some reports grapes are rot
ting considerably.
The state charters the Nahunta
Hardware Company, Fremont author
lied capital $4,000: the Carolina Light
and Power Company, of Wilson. au-
thorized capital 100000, NJ S. Will
Eams. S. A. WOodard and L. 5. Wood
ard stockholders, to develop water
power, operate light and power plants,
light the town and furnish power TO
mills.