The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-11-20
MANY REQUESTS FOR PAROOhs.
Governor Glenn Acts FavorabIy on
-Four Applications.
yagrant Law Full of LoOpholes-Char-
fers by the sfate-Moyement for a
ers Taken to the Penitentiary i'm
t1'uta-Other Raleigh News Notes
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., November Ia.

Raleigh, n. e., November IA.
A charter is granted the Relay Manu-
featuring Company, Charlotte, to make
bicycles, do electroplating, etc, capital
stock, 1925, 900, G.. w. Keller, Morris
E. Trotter and others stockholders.
Another charter is to the Norwood
Mercantile Company at Norwood, $50
900 capital.
Among today's arrivals were General
and Mrs. William r. Cox and Mrs.
Lindsay Patterson, who are guests Of
Colonel and Mrs. A. B. Andrews. An
informal AT Home" was given in COM
pliment to them today. They are here
to attend the annual meeting Of the
North Carolina Literary and Historical
Association.
q circus was here today and the
public schools and the cotton mills
smut down SO that everybody could
ENJOY ~,
A''ciney General Gilmer,s assisted
by Walter Clark, Jr, are before The
United States supreme court to appear
for 1<orth Carolina in the case against
tbs Durham bucket shops.
A local branch of the proposed
| Central Southern Reformatory and In
dustrial School in Georgia, designed 10
cover the ten southern states has been
formed here, with Mayor johnson as
it's head. A good many members of
the North Car21ina legislature have
pledged themselves to form a reform
atory, among theR being the three
members from this county. 1t is pro-
posed to have a Juvenile court here at
! Raleigh without fail.
The chamber of commerce is taking
up the question of immigration and
this will include not only labor fol
farms out that for home use as we'll
? as the general settlement of lands.
Half a dozen members of the Broth
erhood Of Locomotive Engineers put up
| the money to pay the $3.50 fine of En-
2 gineer Burton who got in trouble here
Sunday, for leading an unlawful life.
They say he is not a brotherhood man.
:, He says that he is but that he has been
, suspended for six months.
a Certain persons, believed to De de-
: t~ectives are trying to ascertain VINO the
t man is who was killed three weeks
e ago by Detective Bivins of the Sea
o board Air Line. 1t has been claimed
r that certain persons knew who he was,
but nobody does.
. The four federal prisoners in Jail
g here have beer taken to Atlanta and
+ one Of them the son Of K. A. Rayner,
d will join his father, who went to that
penitentiary a year agO, thus making
6 a sort of family reunion, both being
u mOonShiners.
The corporation commission will not
return from Williamson until tomor-
row and will fully investigate all the
II complaints Of transportation facilities
O in that part Of the state.
n Determined efforts are being made to
Sc induce the legislature to enact a proper
d vagrant law, it being said that the
le present one is full Of loopholes. There
are plenty Of whites, as we'll as coiored
- vagrant loafers and it is said there are
$50 negroes in Raleigh who do no work
/ except run to the dispensary to get
6 whiskey for other PERSONS, getting
l. sets for such work each trip.
The state has been presented with
a life size portrait in oil of Henry
: Clay. which came today and which il
y now in the Office of the secretary OF
3. state. It is the largest of all the por-
- traits, the next in size being that OF
-, Chief Justice Rufin. Really more room
10 is needed in the portrait gallery Of the
d state library.
ID The directors of the state school fol
II the blind have made an appropriation
, of $3.50 out of the special appropria'
- ton by the last legislature for a re
FL frigerating and cold-stOrage plant. The
lie board has also ordered the purchase
20 of new instruments for the eXcellen
e band of the school.
" The Sons of the Revolution will hOlt
~ their annual meeting and banquet her.
ia November 18th. The banquet Will elk
n early so that they can go in a BODY II
n the annual meeting Of the North Caro-
lima Literary and Historical Associa
ton.
j. A letter from Commissioner of Agri
d. culture Patterson who is in a hOSpita
III at Baltimore, where he was not Ions
since operated ON, says that he l
- getting on very nicely.
Il All the old election returns In tn
ny office of secretary of state are beint
~ taken out of the envelopes and pre-
II pared for binding, so that they viii /
ie the future be readily accessible.
The Raleigh Building and Loan Asse
citation, now but little over a year oil
he has sold LOO shares and has applica
or lions for all the money it can get an
for even more.
- Governor Glenn has granted fou
pardons, these being to the following
u Frank Towery, who last year was Col
% victed of bigamy and sentenced to tW
a wears on the public roads; the goveTnt
~ says that Towery is ignorant his VII
deserted him and had been reporte
dead, and that he has grave doubts {
ms to whether TOWery, at the time or n
second marriage knew she was llvtn
Towery is old and infirm and parco
he is granted at the recommendation
the solicitor and county commissioner
d John Evans, Rockingham county, CO.
50 victed of assault and battery upon b
ain wife and sentenced to II mon.h