The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-06
Special Escort from Rhode Island
Brings Banner Back
Exercises Held in the en-
ate OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES North
erners i'm observation-disclosures of
Gideon Ordered to Stop Doing Busi-
ness i'm North Carolina-Charters by
the Stakeholder Raleigh News
Notes
Messenger Bureau,

81 IL u
has issued the following mandatory
letter TO the supreme lodge, knights
OF Gideon Mutual Society, with head
quarters at Goldsboro, y. C: This is
] 10 notify you that your license TO 90
business in North Carolina is this day
revoked. The violations of u state
laws, with the irregularities and doubt
ful practices INDUCED in by your pres
ent ofhcers and management cannot in
justice to the citizens of the state he
allowed to continue. All business by
your grand and subordinate lodges
must stop, and all officers and members
or this order are hereby notified to
stop doing business in the state and to
III intact all funds and property be-
longing TO this society or its lodges.
Inc property of the society will be
held subject to the payment Of all just
claims due by the society under its
certificates, and unless the society can
be organized and proceed according to
law, the courts will be asked to appoint
a receiver to wind up the affairs of the
corporation"
InlS is Il negro organization. that
was for awhile supposed to report its
business to a head at Norfolk, Va, al
though the funds were received at
GoldsbOro from patrons of the society
IN North Carolina. There are said to
be about 80 subordinate lodges in the
state, and their affairs have been un-
der investigation by Commissioner
Young for several weeks.
There has been Issued from the eX-
pertinent station of the North Carolina
college of Agriculture and Mechanical
arts, Bulletin No. 1913 on Spraying
Mixtures and Machinery. When and
How to Spray" and prepared by F. l..
Stevens, biologist, and r. S. Woglum,
acting entOmOlOgist of the college. The
information is conveyed briefly and in
a manner of utmost accuracy, and Will
be of ineStimable benefit and assistance
to the people of the state and section.
The death of John W. Clark, the
young Lynchburg, Va, printer, who
was killed on the Seaboard road at Os-
born, a week or two ago, is recalled by
a letter received in Raleigh from a man
named kinch, who was a passenger
on the same train, and a friend of the
dead man. 1t is thus known that Clark
leaped from the fast moving train
with suicidal intent.
.Messrs. Saunders & Ford, of Bry-
son City, are in the city to confer with
the Corporation Commission regarding
the freight tariff of the railroad they
will operate from Whittier to Ocona
Lufta, up in the neighborhood of the
Murphy Branch of the Southern road.
This road will traverse about twenty
miles and will be utilized to handle
the great lumber products of the Sec
ton.
The secretary of state granted char
tiers to the Wynne-Redford Furniture
Co., at Raleigh, for the manufacture
and sale of furniture, with an author
lied capital stock of $3.50 Q of which
amount $500 has ben subscribed by
r. n. and j. S. Wynne and j. F. Red
ford. The East Carolina Transporta-
ton Co., OF Elizabeth City, will con-
vey passengers and operate tow boats
in Carolina and Virginia waters, will
erect wharves and plants for the erec-
ton of clam and oyster canneries.
$4,000 has ben paid in out Of a CAPT
tai of $4,000. W. j. Griffin, Mantoe,
@. w. Mittic and e. F. Lamb, of Eliz-
abeth City, are incorporators. The S.
r. Fowle Memorial Hospital Co., at
Washington, n. c., amends charter
changing vote for expulsion of Of
fcers, ETC., from a ~three-fourths to a
two-thirds action. Joseph 7. Stone &
Co., Greensboro, amends charter and
is authorized to issue preferred stock.
The capitalization is unchanged G..
A. Grimsley is president, and J. ].
Stone is secretary.
Wake county superior court is COM
ing to a close without any suits Of very
marked Importance. The largest in
Movement is being heard before Judge
Ward today, it being that of L. n.
! Jackson, aginst the Neuse River Cot
ton Mills. Jackson sues for 100000
damages for injuries sustained while
he was at work in removing dirt from
the plant of the defendant company,
having been crippled by the falling of
a large rock, and a leg having later
| been amputated.
The city folk as well at the farmers
are getting ready to accord Harvie
| Jordan. president of the Southern Cot
ton Association, a most cordial vel
come Saturday. Mr.. Jordan will speak
/ in Metropolitan hall. and will be at
tended by the cadets from b Agricul-
tural and Mechanical college. Music
| will be furnished by the Third regi-
ment band.
A letter from Governor Glenn to
| Colonel Arlington, his private secre-
| tary states that he will return TO Ra-
| leigh Saturday night owing to the fact
! that he has to meet engagements of a
| pressing nature here.
Wake county superior court has
| come to a close. The case of Jackson
against the Neuse River Cotton mills
having been continued on account of
the i~ndisposition of Major Ryan and
an irregular docket having been ex-
hausted.
The legal fraternity throughout the
state and elsewhere will be interested
to know that the second volume Of the
revisal Of the code is nearly ready, the