The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-31
FUNDS FOR RALEIGH STATUE
Only 1000 Has Been Raised-DeathI
of the Wife of Postmaster Baiiey.I
Governor Being Urged to Grant
Some Liberty to Rogers and SOrrell.I
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, n. e.. OCTOBER 20.
Mrs. c. T. Bailey, the wife of the
postmaster of Raleigh, died early this
morning, after a brief illness Of cry
sipelas. She was at the state fair last
Thursday, and on her face was a snail
pimple, from which the erysipelas de-
yeloped. 1t was known Monday that
her condition was dangerous. She
had been in DOOR health for several
years. Her brother, Mr.. B. w. Leigh,
Of Norfolk, was t~elegraphed for and
arrived last night. Mrs. Bailey was
born Mary Wimbish. at ST. Leon,
Mecklenburg county, Va, and her age
was 80 years. She leaves an infant OF
fourteen months. In every way she
Is an admirable woman. and aer
friends and those of her husband here
are profoundly sorrowful at her un-
timely death.
So far only $1,000 has been secured
for the statue OF Sir Walter Rd1elgn,
of which S462 was given last week by
the Virginia Dare Association of North
Carolina. If the President and the ex-
ecutive committee of the Raleigh Mon
oI1ICA WAL hS" oSAA -
selves, and get at work, they can quick
ly raise the funds needed, as the time
is ripe and the people ready for this
movement, which is really educational
and which ought to be a matter OF
pride to every North Carolinian. II
some one would only take the in1tia-
tive the work can be quickly done
The interest of the women in the mat
TOW r1,rht to hn on inonnfiuas in fort
the women stand ready to take up the
work and carry it on to success.
A charter is granted the New Gar
field Wood Working Company, with
offices at the town of that name, in
Rowan county, and at Salisbury, tne
capital stock being $4,000 and Leopold
the stockholders.
The building committee of the Grand
Lodge of Masons has made the full
report on the Temple to the order,
the price agreed on being S129, 500, and
it is expected that the Grand Lodge
will ratify all that has been done and
that work can begin certainly within
80 days.
At the soldiers home the plumbing
ard s~teamheating tor the new rooms
on the second floor of the dormit by
hui;omg is being put in, and II IS
thought that in two or three weeks the
rooms will be occupied
Grand Secretary B.. H.. Woodell, tf
the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. is
arranging to ins-a!l new lodges at No
rion ard Hunter svile. He is yery
proud Of the remarkable growth OF
the order in this state.
Work is being very actively pushed
on the enlargement Of the r~Ound-nOuse
ut the Seaboard Air Line shops here
Ii is a comparatively new building
with stalls for thirty engines, but tnt
latter have become 50 large that tie
eX;1l sion was necessary.
Governor Glenn is being urged K
give Rogers and So1leil, who are IL
Jail until next January on the charge
Of enbracery, oEe leave of liberty
az Il IS claimed that the health of the
two men. particularly that of Rogers
is Eeing impaired by close contne
nlent, both man having always uVeC
sn out. door and very active life. SCR
rell has stood the Imprisonment much
better than Rogers. The latter is
brought out of che Jail to the court
:iou?e twice each week. to see his c Ill
dren and to give instructions to then
about his business affairs.