The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-30
Work Will Soon Begin on Hand
some Railroad Station.
viii be Erected at the Head of Wal
nut Street-New Rural Delivery
Carriers-Work of Building i'm Prog
ress-Striking Carpenters Have Re-
turned to Work-Other Raleigh
News Notes.
Messenger Bureau.

nOunced. Four have been appointed,
as follows: Big Lick, Martin D.
James; Cana, Cyrus w. Lowry; Den
ton, Carl Hoover; Gilreath, Cana
Robertson.
Sheriff Seares. who is the demo
cratic nominee for reelection to that
office says there is great interest in
county politics and a big turn out at
the speaking. He says very great eff
forts are being made to register every
body and that he believes a big vote
will be polled this year. He says he
notices in all parts of the county that
the frOStS and the long rains have hit
the farmers hard; that a great deal of
cotton IS beaten out and On the ground
much of it stained and much decaying.
Marshal Robert H. Bradley of the
supreme court is again at his post and
is getting his strength back rapidly
after his eight months Illness
Three apartment houses are under
way here, and the rooms in these have
all been spoken for. The company
who is building them is also at work
been engaged by the Postal Telegraph
Company and the Raleigh Electric
company. The building will be two
stories in height, and so arranged that
TWO more stories can be added at any
time and stands east of the capital.
Dr. Joel Whitaker, who is a football
expert, said today that the chances
were very considerably in favor of
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in
the football game Saturday at Rich
mond. It's team being made I'D of old
er men and being the better of the two.
Work began today in preparing the
14,5OO pension warrants which are
to be sent out December 18th. The
work OF preparation is great one as
tive operations are necessary upon each
warrant.
Ihe executive committe of the North
Carolina Press Association is to meet
mere next Tuesday, upon the call of
Secretary Sheriff..
There was some sunshine this morn
ing, and the wind went southwest the
nrSt time it has shifted in II days.
senator Overman was a caller at
democratic headquarters and expresses
ms very great satisfaction at the DO
Ht1cal outlook in the state, and is very
conhdent of a large majority and
democratic gains.
Manager w. P. Bachelor of the
Raleigh dispensary left yesterday for
Washington to see DR.. Wiley. the head
OF the Pure Food section of the United
states agricultural department in Or
der to find out whether under the new
required to specially label cheap whis-
kles and also the blends, in order to
show the constituents.
Mention has been made of the fact
or the rotting of many cotton bolls in
thls section. Mr.. Charles H. Belyin.
president of a bank and the owner of
fine farm near here where he grows
considerable cotton, says that he finds
MS cotton is rOtting in this way and
also that of other farmers in the neigh
borhood So great is the decay of
7faants, owing to the frost and the long
and warm rains which followed and
winch still continue without any sun
shine that the odor from the decay is
observable for a considerable distance.
The late Governor Elias Carr used to
declare that the cotton plant was a
special producer of malaria, and said
this was the result of twenty-five years
observation at his great farm in Edge
combe county.
Upon receiving information regard
ing fires at both Dover and Snow Hill,
Deputy Insurance Commissioner Scott
left today to make a thorough inspec-
tion
The printing business is very i'm
portant factor here in Raleigh as will
be readily understood from the fact
that one firm, Edwards & Broughton,
employ 65 people and have a pay roll
of $3.50 weekly. while E. M. UZzell &
Co, who do the state printing and
binding employ so persons and pay
$500 a week There are other printing
establishments here which employ a
number of people. Raleigh turns out
more printing by far than any place
between Richmond and Atlanta.
A very extensive telephone system is
being arranged here and at other
points in the state for long distance
work and in few weeks the newSpa-
pers will begin this service. 1t will to
a considerable extent displace the tel
egraph service. In some cases the tel
egralh service has ben unsatisfactory
particularly at little railway stations
where the operators are really rail
road people, unused to handling news
matter and of course giving railway
messages and business the preference
All the carpenter shops here art
now very well filled with men. it l:
learned in conversation with severa
employing contractors A lot OF tn
late striking carpenters have returne'
to work on the old basis. A numbe
of those who went to Norfolk and tn
jamestown Exposition to work hav
rreturned here, not being satisfied wit
the conditions there.
By reason of throat trouble an
asthma, State Treasurer Lacy, who !
always popular as a speaker, has nc
been able to do any work in the pres
emf campaign. but has kept very Qule