The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-12-19
MORE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
Superintendent JOyner's Address to ST.
perintendents of Education
Supreme Court TO Adjourn Friday.
Large Audience Hears Lecture of Mr.
Seaton-Ncv Dormitory al Soldiers
Home-Goyernor Glenn i'm Washing
ington-Child Labor i'm Cotton Mills.
Messenger Bureau,

Raleigh, n. c., December IA.
The address OF State Superintendent
Joyner before the state convention. of
county superintendent of education
here today was very complete and full
of interest He made a very fine
showing IA to the number of school
houses built during the year, of these
the total being 40. For whites there
were 1856, negroes, 351, Croatan In
dams three. The amount paid out for
new school houses was S170,O97. Cleve-
land led all the counties very far, hay
ing built % new school houses for
whites and one for negroes. Arson
and BERTHE each built 13, this being the
next highest number. Mecklenburg
built 6.
The supreme court will file It's last
opinion Friday morning and will then
adjourn o the term. Hardly any
cases go over until next term which
begins in February.
4 charter is granted the Gray Min
ing and Development Company of
~Statesville, capital stock 500, 600, J. Fl.
Gray and others Of that place, Mrs. r.
Il bCiIlICl vi HIdIlOll dhu L 4. II.
Goodman Of Atlanta being the stock
holders.
Fifteen hundred people were at the
auditorium of the Agricultural and
Mechanical college last evening to hear
Ernest Thompson SeatOn, the greatest
writer ia the world about wild animals,
deliver a lecture which was simply alb
sorbing and something never to be for
uoffon Inv onr hnoror Mr. Cnotor fhic
morning made a talk to the $50 stu
dents at the Baptist University for
Women. He left this afternoon for
Durham TO lecture to Trinity college.
No more entertaining man ever walked
the lecture platform than he, and his
lecture is worth half a school term to
an observant boy.
At the Soldiers Home here the rooms
OH the second flOOr of the new dormi-
tory are being fitted up by the Daugh-
ters of the C~Onfederacy who furnish
all the bed clothing and the other linen,
the Home putting in the furniture.
Governor Glenn was at Washington
today and saw President Roosevelt
who has q very high admiration for
the governor and who has for some
time desired to see him there and have
d utltL Idlh dIbtlJ ItdltCIS U pIDlIC
import.
The state auditor says that of the
Confederate pensioners the total num-
her who are entirely blind, or nave lost
both legs or both arms is eighty.
State Labor Commissioner Warner
says there are no children under II
years old in the cotton mills in this
state unless their parents have lied as
to their ages and that mill men will
rot take children under twelve. He
says that this child labor law has
caused a very great number Of chill
dren to go to school, and in fact has
filed many school houses by keeping
the children out of the mills. He says
it has done Il good deal of good. No
complaints from the employees of the
mills have been received in q good while
Commissioner Warner says. State HOr-
ticulturist Hume is preparing a new
bulletin on the propagation of North
Carolina fruit-plants. including graft
ing. budding, the making of cutting,
etc, including apples, peaches, pears,
plums. etc.
Corporation Commissioner Rogers
went to MOrehead City this week and
looked very fully into the situation
regarding the passenger station there,
and as Il result of his visit the Atlantic
and North Carolina Railway withdrew
it's suit to prevent the commission
from requiring a depot to be built and
agreed to the conditions laid down by
the commission.