The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-29
Messenger Bureau,

Of the court TO arrive. The docket is
about Of the ordinary size and con-
tains no cases of great importance.
The court will devote Monday TO the
examination of applicants for license.
The educational campaign is now III
full swing in forty counties and there
are as many speakers in the field. n
great deal of educational. work is be-
ing done during the summer. Only
one summer school for teachers was
held. There were two teachers insti-
tutes Oh a tolerably large scale, II at
Painter, in the mountains and the
other at Edenton. The latter was not
very largely attended. Each OF these
institutions lasted thirty days.
Today the state superintendent OF
public instruction sent fifty copies of
the state constitution to Superinten-
dent Moore of Caldwell county for use
by teachers i'll the public schools.
State Auditor Dixon speaks at Whit
sett institute tomorrow and then comes
here after an absence of a fortnight,
during which he has made many
speeches. He and Governor Glenn
have divided the hoonrs as speakers
this year.
The July bulletin of the agricultural
department has not yet appeared and
is devoted to the analysis of fertilizers
1t will be out next week. The copy
for the August bulletin, which will be
OIL industrial matters has been in the
printers hands some time.
State Treasurer Lacy says that cor
pOration taxes are now coming in quite
rapidly they will amount to about the
same as they did last year.
Private Secretary Glenn after an
absence of three weeks was Jack at
his desk in the executive department
today looking very we'll. The govern
or returned tonight and will be here
for a few days as he addresses the
farmers state convention next week.
This is expected to be a very large af-
fair. The delegates to it will be
much interested in the new a%gricultur-
al building at the college, work on
which is being pushed as rapidly as
possible.
There seems to be a good deal of
comment about the bad behavior Of
some Of the enlisted men of the first
regiment at the encampment at Char
lOtte, and there are intimatiOnS that a
court of inquiry may be ordered. Some
of the men of six companies of that
regiment behaved Outrageously last
year at .Reidsville and from the state
appropriation to each of those COM
panies $40 was taken out and paid to
persons damaged at ReidSville. No
report on the conduct of the men on
that occasion has eve been filed here,
strange to say. 1t is asserted that the
fault was very largely due to the fail
ure on the part of officers to read to
the men the very explicit orders as to
DISCIPLINE and to strictly enforce those
orders: in other words that some Of
ficers wink at what some of the tough
men do when in camp or travelling.
Insurance Commissioner Young says
there is unusual activity in North
Carolina in the formation of building
and loan associations, which the last
legislature placed in charge of the in
surance commissioner. At that time
there were only A such associations in
the state. The remarkable success
which has attended their work, espe-
cially in building up places where they
are located, has prompted business
men at other points to take up the or
g%anization of associations in their
cities and towns and no less than
seven have been organized since the
legislature adjourned, while as many
more are being promoted. The COM
missioner says that nothing does more
to build up a place than a good n
well managed association and that
there is no safer investment than their
| stock. They can be operated at a
smmaller expense than any other bus
| ness institution and many in the state
| which have done a very large business
have the record of never having lost
a cent in any transaction. He de-
clares that no live and progressive
| place can afford to be without q good
association and that they are especial
" advantageous now when there is
such general progress in North Caro-
lima along industrial lines.
A charter is granted the Price Hem
by Company of Prices Mill, Union
county, to manufacture flour and meal,
| cotton, Oil and fertilizers, etc.
Grand Secretary Drewry says the
| fire at Mt. Olive destroyed the Ma
| sonic Hall and property there.
P~enitentiary superintendent Mann
/ mas returned 1TOul IL uttlO NlSlI W Ills
native county, Hyde, and says the
crops there are better than he ever
saw them, and that they simply as
found the people from up the country
| who have been there this season. Ii
has been quite dry through all that
section of the state and no damages
have occurred on account of rains
| which have caused such losses in d
humber of sections.
There is a very strong and crafty
ing movement for a country club in the
vicinity of Raleigh, and it is some
| thing which the place needs very
greatly, as visitors from the north are
to be here in large numbers during
the winter and these always go in for
sports and all kinds of outdoor life.
It is learned that the theatrical sea-
son is to be marked by a number of
very good performances and that the
booking will be quite numerous.
The question now is who will Sena