The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-11
Corporation Commission Inyesti-
gated Complaints
Recent Rain Caused Heavy % TO
Growers-Bulletin of State Board Of
Health-Commencement at Peace.
Recent Conference on Education in
the South-Memorial Day Exercises.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c., May 5

returned from their visit to ChadbOurn
which is the principal shipping point
for strawberries in the state, they hay-
ing been called there by a telegram
from the president of the association,
stating that there was a shortage o.
refrigerator cars. When they arrived
at that point yesterday they found
that the trouble was over and that
there was enough cars. The ain Sun
Gay nigh: and yesterday spoiled the
ripe berries for two days, and the ex-
tent Of this damage may be imagined
when it is stated that while $50 car
loads of berries were to have been
shipped north from the Chadbourn
section yesterday, only 40 went fol-
ward. Ia other words the rain, CON-
ing on Monday, which is the big lay
of the week in this industry, cut off
ITO car loads, which means a heavy
loss to everybody. Members of the
commission say ar ice plant is greatly
needed a. Chadbourn. Such plants are
not built by the railway, but private
companies. C~had0Ourn is the largese
shipping Joint for Strawberries in the
world, Mount Olive ranking next, and
il WOuI seem n arrangements for
all ice plant will be made at such
points.
A cnarIer is granted the Bank of Ell
lenDOrO, Rutherford county, with $500
capital stock, to do both a commercial
and savings business.
The McClamroch Mantel company. of
Hrnn nGInrN SC aJtbo--1I h. H. ~%.Io
to issue S25, 900 of cumulative 8 per
cent. preferred stock.
Governor Glenn says he is very mucl
bothered in securing a judge to hold
court Ill Stokes county. Judge PEBBLES
says there is sickness in his family,
Judge Mcneil is sick, and so the
governor has written to Judge Neal.
The Term ought to have begun yesIer-
day.
The governor showeth much feeling
over the death of Clara Mcleod. who
for a number of years has been a ser
want at tho executive mansion. lie
said she was one of the most faithful
and reliable he had ever known, and a
good woman in every respect, and that
her death was greatly deplored by his
family and himself as we'll as by eX-
"O TJNoCh o1U LII
State Treasurer Lacy says that al
though he is in better shape in point
of health than in a number of years
he is declining all invitations to
speak, his physicians having advised
such a course. He has declined nc
fewer than Is invitations to speak dur
ing the present month.
A commission was issued to Charles
D. Miller of GOldsbOro, as a member
Of the state board of pharmacy for a
fern Of five years, he having been
elected by the state pharmaceutical
association.
No absolutely positive information
can be had as to the exact reduction
of the cotton acreage ia this state this
year, but the agricultural department
officials are informed that the general
impression is that the acreage will be
about the same as that planted last
year, falling off in some localities and
increasing a little in others.
The electric railway out to the new
suburb Glenwood here is completed
with the exception of the wiring, and
Superintendent William J. Andrews of
the railway company, says the cars
will be in operation next Sunday.
Farmers express unbOunded pleasure
at The rain of Sunday night, and yes
tterday, and say it was exactly toe
right character and did not wash lands,
while a hard rain would have caused a
good deal of damage in this way the
soil being so very loose.
Work on the tower of the First Bap-
fist church, cOlOred, which faces the
Capitol square, is in progress. The
church will not be finished this year
however, though it will be occupied.
The total cost is a little more than
500, 900.
Mention has beer made of the fact
that the negro Johnson, with half z
dozen aliases, the federal prisoner
who escaped while he was being taken
from Raleigh to Wilmington for trial
is yet at large. Fifty dollars reward
is offered for his recapture, half of
this sum by b deputies, from whom
he escaped. This negro is said to be
3 from Moore county.
All sorts of little vagrant political
rumors are current here and there.
Some people thought Governor AyeoCa
would be In aspirant for the United
States senate. He exploded that idea
Now some are limiting that Congress
man w. W. Kitchin had aspirations il;
the same direction. There is only the
smallest talk about politics. Here in
Wake, there "a a little furry three
weeks ago, but it has all died out, and
now the aspirants for Office are con-
tenting themselves with going out into
the counties and attending ruraI
school commandments, making
speeches and meeting the dear voters
Governor Glenn leaves tomorrow fol-
St~atesville, where OF Thursday he de-
iivers a memorial address before the
Daughters of the C~onfederacy and The
Confederate Veterans.
The April bulletin of the state board
of health, issued today, says there is
smallpox in Twenty-Five counties,
great many cases in aGtes, many ii
Pender, fifty in Hyde, Is in Nash, II
in Hartford. Pneumonia is reported
in thirty-fve counties with many cases