The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-09
Practical Side of the Fair to be
Made More Prominent
Big Sales Of Commercial FertisiZers.
Insurance Companies Want to Enter
the State-Interesting Exhibit i'm IN
Case of Tom Dixon VS.. BretOn-Oth-
er Raleigh News Notes.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., February 6.

A very jealous effort Is 10 De Hdue "
keen down the cotton acreage, Dut lC
does not seem at all probable that the
cut will be so large as it was last
wear. The holding Of cotton continues
i'm all this section, though some OF the
holders are a little worried by reason
Oh the fall in prices.
Yesterday a travelling photographer
came here with a license from ChoWan
county showing that he had paid his
state tax The question came up
whether he had to pay the state TAX
in every county, this being 80. Inc
attorney general rules that he oes
have to do so. OF course d county
has the right also to levy us TAX,
which NAV not exceed the state tax.
A leading Republican here says that
+he appointment of Holton as district
attorney, and Milliken as marshal Ill
the western district mean that Clint
wagner of Statesville will be the rev.
enue collector of that district. Such is
his prophecy.
The supreme c urt today took up the
docket of appeals from the hrst dis
trict which is light, the blow at
torneys being present: f.. f. Aydlett'
". d. Rodman and W. NJ. Bond.
Mr.. Rodman is the agent for the
sale of the state swamp lands. lie
saws that the survey of these is i
progress by Mr.. Peel, but he does not
know when it will be completed.
Charters are granted the Burling-
ton Lumber Company, w. FL. Sherry
and others stockholders, capital stock
fifty thousand dollars; Withers u
Brown Drug Company Of Chadburn,
$4,000.
The Corporation Commissioners
Mcneil and Rogers have returned
from an inspection of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railways line from Nash
vile to Spring Hope. They do not
find the lines in good condition, either
physically or in point Of train service.
Their formal report will be filed later.
Insurance Commissioner Young says
.he is receiving many inquiries from
companies nOt now doing business IN
North Carolina in regard to entering
this state for business. He says that
perhaps not over two-thirds of h
companies are represented here. The
fire insurance business was quite
profitable in North Carolina last year
he states, in the case of nearly all
. companies. There has been talk
about the establishment of perhaps
two life insurance companies at
Charlotte, but Mr.. Young thinks the
final result will be the establishment
There of a company with large CAPT.
IL - Mathematical H. a1yinO
The knights of Gideon are summoned
to be here tomorrow, before the COM
missioner to show cause why that Or
der should not be debarred from doing
business. Ostens1bly its headquarters
are at GoldsbOrO but Mr.. Young says
that they are perhaps as much IN Nor
folk as in G~OldsbOrO. Inquiry reaches
the commissioner as to the status OF
the United Brethren and Sisters AS
ISOLATION of America. This was char
tered in North Carolina about nine
years ago., but has never done any
business in this state. 1t appears
that it is doing business in South Car
DINA from whence the request for in
formation comes.
A charter is granted the Home In
and Investment Company of
Burlington, n. c., with 100000 CAPT
tai: Robert Il. Holt, NJ. S. Cardwell
and James ?. Albright being the
stockholders. This is a chartered
agency to represent any companies as
agents and to conduct a general in
surance agency business, also to deal
in read estate, etc Recently d num-
Der of these insurance agencies have
thus been chartered and the matter is
causing some inquiry among compa-
MES and in other states. Another
charter granted today is to the Afro
American Mutual Insurance Com
pany, headquarters at Charlotte, Bish-
Op Thomas e. LehlaX and others being
the stockholders. This Of course has
no capital stock, being mutual.
A special committee of the trustees
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
collge is in session here to arrange for
the establishment of a vegetable gar
den of the college to provide VEGETABLES
den of the college to provide vegeta-
bles for the students. William Dunn Of
that the truckers in his section, find it
more difficult than ever before to get
good labor at any price. The lumber
trust is getting all the best labor as it
of course pays fancy prices, which it
can afford to do, having a monopoly.
The executive committee of the
North Carolina state fair is arranging
to order the most extensive improve
ments ever made at the rounds since
they were laid off and the buildings
erected in 1873. Special attention is
t be given to providing more space
for exhibits and better stalls and pens
for cattle, hogs, etc. Another fea-
ture will be an ample supply of arte-
sian water or else a supply from the
mains Of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college. Every effort will be
made to swell the exhibits, particular
1y of field crops and cattle. In other
words the practical side of the fair is
to be made more prominent than ever
before. This is felt to be a necessity
in view of criticism and there is ar