The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-12

A~ "a NsoSCtN knAo the
building and loan association business.
that city being regarded as a center of
This line OF development and invest
ment in North Carolina He says the
associations there are all right and that
$1,000 is annually paid upon them,
this being a remarkable showing for a
lpiace Of thirty thousand people. While
lat Charlotte he also looked into the or
l~ganization OF two life insurance COM
Ipanies, each to have a capital stock
amounting to 100000 He says il
looks as if these will be all right
From the Office of the Adjutant Gen.
,eral Circular No. 3 has been issued TO
the National Guard Of this state, this
being a synopsis by Captain Charles
King, {. S. A, retired, who Is the Adj
l1utant General of Wisconsin. covering
lan important changes in the revised
infantry regulations. 1t is a valuable
publication and is very simple, and
easily understood.
You correspondent spent a couple of
hours yesterday afternoon at the hos
lpital of the insane here and found
work progressing yery satisfactorily
upon the large addition To the female
living. The construction Of the base
ment is completed, and the brickwork
Us extremely good. This building is
four stories in height. and is the size
or n of the wards Of the old build
ing, so that it will contain four new
wards. The connections with the old
buildings will be only on the first floor,
but the foundation is so laid, that
Whenever desired. connections can be
made on the other three floors.
1t appears that the farmers, or at
least the majority Of them are going
to find no little trouble TO secure cotton
.pickers this season, in fact some of
them say that they believe pickers will
be harder to get than ever before.
Mention has been made CT the re-
moval of old buildings to make way
for the Elks' Temple here. Old resi-
dents say that 20 years ago there was
a nail factory on this site, which was
the first one in North Carolina in which
machinery was used.
Your correspondent has had made for
Glenn a new flag. 1t is the
state flag, and upon its red and white
stripes is the inscription in the finest
embroidery, General headquarters,
State of North Carolina" No other
state has so beautiful a flag as North
Carolina, and this has for many years
Teen the comment.
The penitentiary authorities will not
able until next spring to lay brick
walks in the capital square, as the sup |
ply Of bricks and convicts is too limited |
The evidence seems to have in |
cod that tho Sfa fop,o,f ,aoIo ~o,,o
days ago that Raleigh will have no
election this year on the bar room |
question is true.
Adjutant General Robertson arrived
last night and left today for Norfolk, |
where he takes a steamer for Philadel- |
phla, and will visit friends in that city. |
Governor Glenn has appointed a |
of additional delegates to the |
Farmers congress at Rich
mOnd and commissions for these were
issued today.
The supreme court yesterday in an
bOur disposed of all the cases from the |
second district, there being very few, |
the lawyers if the various counties |
wing agreed that they should go |
over.
Governor Glenn returned this morn |
ing from his trip to Salisbury, quite ia
He had a number of callers |
during the day at the executive Office. |
Charles L. Van Noppen, the publish
ed of the series of books about noted
North C~arolinians, past and present, is
and says the first volume will in |
all probability appear in about six
The illustrations are very |
beautiful and the volume will be in all
respects attractive. The other vol |
umes will appear as o on as posi-
BILE.