The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-27
STATE BANKERS ASSOCIATION
Subjects Of Timely Interest to be
Discussed at Annual Meeting
Average of Three Banks a Month Or
gained During the Past Five Years.
Charters by IN State-Interest i'm
the Southern Cotton. Association.
Raleigh POstoffice Matter.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., February %.

The North Carolina division of the
Southern Cotton Assassination is. to a
member, looking forward with great
expectancy to the approaching visit
of President Harvie Jordan. The state
oraniZat-oE has already taken a good
stand in the general affairs of that
body, and the outlook is for the i'm
press of a greater force and better
cooperation by the presence and per
ening ofNorth Cardinals activity
the state president, will join Mr..
JORDAN at Tarboro, and will be with
him in his other two stops, Colds
bOro and Raleigh, with respective
dates Of March /, 2, and 3, b. Dixon
Armstrong, secretary and auditor of
the national association, will meet
Mr. Moore at Washington, \. c., next
Monday, February %.
The executive committee Of the
North Carolina Bankers association
as a body and as individuals were
gladly welcomed to the city. This
8AINO a III 10 ld1OS, III d
large measure, the factors in the Wild
gency applicant is expressed in the fact
before the rest of the commercial
world. c. y. Evans, president car
rfes to his organized work the same
thOrOughness, car and acumen that
characteriZes his personal affairs and
those of the Southern National Bank
with which he is associated in Will
mingtOn. The topics for discussion, at
the next meeting of the stare a~ssocia-
ton in h TOXaway country in June,
as announced after the afternoon ses-
sion of the committee, are more than
timely, and while the names of the
chief speakers are nOt yet announc-
ed, Mr.. Evans stated to your CORES
spondent that they would be men of
prominence, power and from among
those whose words were always we'll
well weighed and of vital import. "Ob-
legations and Responsibilities OF Bank
Directors" Proper and Improper
Methods of Soliciting Business I'm
migratiOn:' these form the main sub
jects that will be carefully considered.
1t is of interest to re-QuUte Mr.. Ev-
ans figures concerning North Carolina
banks: the state association now mum
bers about 225 members, and the
banking capital has now passed the
fifty million dollar mark. Again, for
the past five years, North Carolina has
averaged the organization of three per
month. These facts will surprise
many who listen ID the story that the
state is asleep and SO far behind the
times.
The state chartered the Wake Lum-
Der Company at UptiIuTch in Wake
county, incOrporatOrs are A. p. Olive,
W. Il. Atkinson, and w. c.. Johnson
and $1,000 has been subscribed with
a total capitalization Uf $4,000. The
Ricks-Bryan Company for the conduct
of a general merchandise business at
Ellington in HarneTt county with
$4,000 paid in and $50, 900 authorized.
F.TB. Kicks, Greensboro, J. E. Bryan
and others OF Ellington are stockhold-
ers. The Taylor 4 Pnipps Company
of Durham, capitalized at 100000 as
general merchandise, incorporators are
A L. Phipps, Mrs. E. Taylor and T. E
Cheek, all of Durham. The charter of
?. H. Walker Company is amended by
changing the name to Lowndes & Com
PAM, HendersonviI1e, officers are r. |.
LOW IOoS, pIOSlUSltG III q. l. 4I1uOiC
ton, secretary.
The corporation commission is today
comforting with H. NJ. Emerson, traffic
manager of the Atlantic Coast Lin
Railroad, the matter not being the
complaint but in regard to certain
points of that roads freight tariff.
The secretary of slate received 4
rather singular request from Il gen.
tlemen in one of the northern states in
whichne expresses the wish for a copy
of the laws concerning white slave
traffic III the state Of North Carolina.
The agitation anent h retention of
C.. 7. Bailey as postmaster IN he a-
leigh post Office, or a probable success
sOrship. continues to dgitate Raleigh
people regardless of party aYillation.
One of tie developments by q contin-
genyc applicant is expressed il the fact
that Willis G. Briggs has signed Post
master Bailey's petition ]. W. Har-
den is being advocated through his
friends who are circulating petitions
and securing sigE4rs thereto. More
particular talk attaches 10 the posi-
bilities of Lester F. Butler, a clefk in
the revenue department and a younger
brother of ex-senator Marion Butler,
whose claims are founded on a reia-
tfonship with the republican party aad
whose influence will have its evidence
through the efforts and by the dlree-
ton of his brother whose work In
MARYLAND and in the west has a cer~
tain weight with the powers" There
is at the same time the firmly offered
by MI. Bailey's close friends
that his office is not a question OF
but is assured. In addition TO
the formal petition, personal letters OF
strongly termed endorsement are be-
ing written, both voluntarily and upon
request !
Governor Glenn returned this norm !
inf from Wake Forest where he last
delivered an address commend
rative Of George Washington. /,
An unusual observation of Wash
natal day was witnessed in
yesterday afternoon when a /!
number of small boys few kites to