The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-13
Growth of the State University
Has Been Remarkable.
Death of Auditor Dixon's Sister-Pay.
ment of the Second $780, 900 Public
school E1Dd-Coach for the A. and
VI. Baseball Team-The Gem Cigar
Company Chartered.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c., February z.

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Mrs. Allison. Today Chief Clerk Hud-I
son Of the auditors Office eel
ceived a telegram announcing that
Mrs. Allison was dead. The auditor'sl
Office was at once closed.
The special committee of the board
of agriculture which has in charge he,
providing of a kitchen garden for the!
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
has directed the professor of agricul-l
ture TO establish such a garden, toI
establish this with vegetables at cost
price. There are over 400 acres OIL
tne land on the college farm, and theI
garden will be made quite a featured
of this
The annual meeting of the Associate
cd Charities for the election of officersI
will be held at the Lacy Library Fri-|
day evening.
Charters are granted to the Snull|
Contracting Company, of Beaufort, toI
erect buildings and do all sorts of
other contracting, capital stock $780,
Q0O, C. L. Duncan and w. ]. B. Shull
being the principal stockholders. Also
to the Gem Cigar Company, Wilming-l
ten, capital stock $4,000, J. G. Wes-I
sell and others stockholders.
1t was thought last night that al
heavy snow storm was imminent. This
morning a little snow fell, but not
enough to make any SHOW on the
ground.
AT the office Of the superintendent
Of public instruction work is beingl
l~nN ~ - DIN ~ for tho naVinD ONT
of what is known as the second nun
dred thousand dollars Of the stare
school fund, this being used to keep
all schools open at least four months
in the No less than SO count!esI
Rave applied for aid and as every ap-I
2l.carion has to be looked into with
great care, the amount of labor in
volved may be imagined. The nunber|
Of applications has caused some COM
ment. The amounts will not be given
out until the whole matter is adjust
ted. AS soon as possible the war;
rants will be issued. Heretofore the
applications have generally been scal-l
ed: in some cases considerably.
State Veterinarian TAFT Butler has
gone to the test farm in Pender cOun-I
ty at Wallace. There are three oth-I
er farms in Edgecombe, 1redell andI
Transatlantic counties. The farm I'M
Robson, near Red Springs, was al
leased one and was abandoned whenI
the farm at Wallace was occupied.
The State University asked for morel
dormitory room, that now a1Ho:dedt
being for only $50 students, which Isl
but little more than half the nunoerI
present. About fifty rooms which have
heretofore been used as dormltOrles,l
have now to be used a. various DEPART
ments. The growth of b Un1verS'tyt
is so great that the additions in the
way of teaching and equipment have|
by no means kept up with 1t. Incl
medical school has grown greatly
There are two branches Of this, theE
finishing work being done at Ralelghi
in a rented building. In the Ralelgn|
department there are twenty-five stu-I
dents. An owned building is needed
IN keeping with the dignity n I'M
portance of the school, the faculty OF
which receive remuneration. SlnceI
the school of pharmacy was es-!
tablished eight years ago no fewer
than 287 students have registered, and
there are 81 this year. The numoerI
of volumes in the University l1Draryl
is "A. 1000. and about 10000 were used
last year. A fund is being raised fori
a very handsome and fireproof library.
and work to this end will be pressed
Complaint has been filed by several
persons as to the condition OF the roaol
bed of the Seaboard Air Line betweerI
Charlotte and Rutherfordton. IheI
commission will take up this matters
with the railway at once.
This year there will be no midsum-
mer meeting under the auspices or
the Baptist state convention, these
meetings having been held for some
seasons at jackson Springs. 1t is sug-
gested that the Baptist Sunday schooil
forces have a chautauqua at some
points.
M. Kittridge, the new coach for the
baseball team of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College has arrived here
from Washington. He has been u
prominent catcher on the Amerlcan
League.
State Superintendent Joyner left to-
day for Siler City 10 make an address,
in the interest Ok local taxation for
public schools.
President John A. Mills won ou- IN
the fsht which was being made TO
D, event his going through the lands OF
Mrs. Cockrane, near Fayetteville, With
the Raleigh and Southport railway.
Judge Purnell, who left for Rich
mond this afternoon, is asked to SIT
on the circuit court Of appeals there
next week.
Raleigh's board of audit and finance
is arranging to reduce the city taxi
rate to n per cent.
II. NJ. Faucet, for twenty years a.
on the Seaboard Air Line,
and recently gate keeper at the union
here is paralyzed, the attack
being critical.
The supreme court heard argument
in the murder case of t he state
against Durham from Polk. Frail
Durham is under fourteen years SEM
tence for killing Deputy Sheriff Hin
ton. while the latter was a~ttempting
to arrest him.
The for the North Caro-