The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-14
Conference Or Measures to be
Recommended to Legislature.
Supreme Cour Takes up Appeals
From 18th Distrfct-Aieged Ineen-
diaries ArrcStcd-Work Of Holding
Farmers Institutes Being Pushed.
Methodist Congregation to Build
Handsome Sunday School Room
Other News Notes.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., December IL


committee of the North Carolina
Teachers Assembly and that of the
North Carolina Association of County
Superintendents of Public instruction.
1t will be held at the Office of state
superintendent of instruction in order
that there may be a full conference
with him us regards the measures
which he will recommend t O the gener-
al assembly.
The supreme court today took Up the
docket OF appeals from the 18th dis
trict and arguments are expected TO
he finished by Thursday, when the
three cases at the end Of the docket
will be taken up and argued, one OF
these being q capital Case from the
west which has already been referred
to.
The grand secretary Of the grand
lodge of Odd Fellows says he feels
sure the gains in new lodges this year
will be 20 and net gain i'll membership
about 1,400.
Deputy Insurance Commissioner
Scott has returned from Beaufort coun-
ty whore he secured the arrest of two
men for burning the house of George
Bennett. One of the men is in Jail and
the other is out on $500 bail. Mr.. Scott
says that he investigated several other
suspicious fires in that locality.
William J. Peele" has returned from
Roanoke Island where by appointment
he met Albert Sterner, one of the
artists OF Golfers Weekly in order
to max pictures of the island which
next week Will be a point Of much in
tereSt TO persons all over the country
by reason of the jamestown Exposition.
The Interstate Telephone Company
says there is no truth in the current
rumOr that it is going out of business
but that it will continue.
The Raleigh Dramatic Company has
been organized with Mrs. Chas. II.
Gattis as its president. The first play
that it will present will be "A Scrap of
Paper"
State Veterinarian TAFT Butler and his
party has left for the east to push the
work of holding farmers Institutes.
The work began at Kinston on Satur-
day and owing to the fact that the
local people, there being one for eacn
township in the county, failed to adver-
tise it properly the attendance was very
small and the result Disappointing. DR..
Butler remarked that this had always
been the case at KinStOn and that he
regretted it as the county is an I'M
portant one. Ali over the state the
agricultural department has a man i'll
each township to loOk after these mat
tiers and they should be given the very
closest attention.
DR.. Butler had just cOme from The
state test farm near Statesville, Il car
load Of % steers having arrived there
from Ashe county to be fed and fatten-
ed for market ON the farm products,
there being already ten head Of cattle
and a number Of horses and mules on
the place. 1t is found profitable to thus
feed cattle. Dr.. Butler says that on the
new state farm i'll Pennsylvania county
a numbes of Angora goats will be
placed.
At the town of Washington there are
two factions; II very small one 1t is
stated, desiring to have the bridge
across the sound, the Raleigh and Pam
LEO Sound railway lately built removed,
the reason given being that 1t damaged
the property of Il few people on the
banks. 1t is stated very plainly that
the great majority of people want the
bridge to stand. The latter cOntenl
that the state aSsented TO the building
and that the United States government
approved it. the bridge having two
draws and not ~obstructing navigation.
The state owns the stream, but the
United States has the right Of way so
10 speak.
Major General Robert +. HOke is
here from LincOlnton, where he has
been for some time. He looks extreme
ly we'll and 4 y he will spend the
winter here.
The cotton compress was at work
Monday for the second time this season
the mills taking practically all the
cotton i'm this part Of the country,
About 1000 bales of cotton are at the
compress, mainly bought for shipment
abroad. The Spinners north and in
England are endeavoring to get the
early picked cotton, as much as pos
sible, the quality being SO much better
than that of the late picked.
tThe work of enlarging the new jail
here has been practically completed.
Steam heat has been supplied. The
next thing to be done will be the en-
iargement of the colrt house.
The. congregation of Edenton street
M. e. church here have arranged for
the building of, a very handsome Sun
day school room. Of brick, to take the
place of the wooden one now in use.
The Hetan Merchants Association
of Raleigh today made arrangements
for it's annual banquet on Thursday
evening, and about SO are expected to
be present.
The young man Hodge, who shot and
killed Pool here Saturday night, the
death occurring early Sunday morning,
will be tried on the capital char9e.
The body of Pool was today taken to
his former home out i'll the country. He
bore a good reputation; Hodge a had
The city and county officers state
this. Hodge protests that the shooting
was accidental, but no one seems To be-
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