The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-09-04
RALEIGH AND SOUTHPORT R. A.
Through Trains By Fayetteville to
Wilmington May Soon be Run
Changes III the Faculty of the \ and
VI. CoiIege-Wiilis Briggs Takes
Charge of Raleigh Postoffce-Su Ike
at the Melrose Knitting yiills-eth-
CT Raleigh News Notes
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. c. Sept l 1875

&Adici54l, - -. sept. / 1870
Grand Secretary Wooden of the
Grand Lodge Of Old Fellows says
there are now 202 lodges. and there
are four applications on file for char
tiers, these being from Jacksonville,
Graham Co, Suite, in Cherokee. BLACK
Mountain, IN BuncomDe. and Rhod-
hiss in CASTOR. Secretary Woodell has
just returned from the mountains,
where ne spent three weeks. He said
fell every dRE, and thousands upon
thousands OF visitors, mailv from
South Carolina Georgia, Florida and
Louisiana, with a number from Ala
bama and Mississippi He said he
saw few from Eastern North Caro-
lima, the vast numbers Of those from
other states Overshadowing them. The
trains were crowded with people and
every sort of q building GveraOwed
with them.
THE A. AND VI. COLLEGE,.
There will be about fOrtv-five MEM
Ders OF the senior class at the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College next
term, beginning next week. There
were silky seniors last term. \ num-
Der OF changes in the faculty and corps
OF officers in the college have been
made. Thomas Nelson succeeded Hem
ry NJ. Wilson as professor Of Textile
Industry; 3. Moore Parker becoming
assistant professor in this department.
{. NJ. Conner succeeds Charles ".
Burkett as professor y, egrIculture.
Lieutenant G. Wilson ". Heaton IS
succeeded as cOmmandant and pro-
lessor Of Mathematics, and new de-
partment is created. Assistant Pro-
fessOr c. K. McClelland withdraws.
and the vacancy is not nlled Frank
lin Sherman becomes instructor in
entomology, resuming the work which
he did in 1904. ]. B. Richardson be-
comes instructor in mathematics; Dr..
Holland instructor in chemistry. L. L.
Vaughan succeeds Alfred de St.
Amant as instructor in drawing; G.. P.
Bonn succeeds r. F. Mason as instruc-
tor in English. J. c. Temple becomes
instructor in chemistry, H n. Steed
becomes instructor in Textile Industry.
3 S. Skinner is transferred from the
office of steward to that of farm sup
erintendent, J. o. Loftin becoming
steward. Miss Elsie Stockard, daugh-
ter Of Prof. Henry Jerome Stockard,
succeeds Miss Carolina Sherman as l.
brarian. Miss Jessamlne Higgs be-
comes clerk and stenographer to Pres
ident Winston.
Today at the DostOtr.e the transfer
from Postmaster Thomas Bailey to
Postmaster Willis Briggs was made
and the latter takes charge tomorrow.
His commission is dated August 81.
He has given a bond, Justified, to the
amount Of $4,000.
Out at the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College, President Winston IS
Waging war upon mosquitoes, which
have been and are such a nuisance a
this season. He is using kero-
sene and lime.
Raleigh city tax this year IS OF
per cent and the officials think It will
be reduced next year to ninety or nine
ty-five cents on the dollar. 1t is now
as low as any place in the state.
Year before last the city received
from the dispensary $4,000 and last
year S26,1 This year the receipts
will probably be a little larger, as
they have so proved 70 be during tn
first half of the year.
STATE CHARTERED INSURANCE