The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-16

pie III the interior districts 10 keep up
with or even to proceed their neigh
bors IN the towns and cities. The de-
partment Of education has just issued
twenty five additional rural libraries.
The North Carolina Grand Lodge of
Masons adjourned today at O'Clock
after the installation of the grand Of
ficers elected last night and the APP
pointiye officers at this mornings
session. The roster is as follows:
Grand Chaplain Rev. f. y. Skinner:
Grand Lecturer +. ". Hatcher: Sen
Tor Grand Deacon +. VI. Winchester:
Junior Grand Deacon ]. T. Alderman:
Grand Marshal +. z. Hobgood, Jr.:
Grand Sword Bearer, 7. r. Briggs;
Grand P~ursuivant, NJ. ID. Kinsland:
Grand Steward, Or. J. c. Braswell:
Grand Tiler, 4. H. Bradley: Grand
Auditor, ". S. Primrose: Grand Gus
todian s. y. Boyce: Grand Historian.
II. Il. Haywood.
An officer of the Raleigh detective
association arrested ana imprisoned q
suspicious character claiming TO hail
from Greensboro, but who Is appar-
emily without Il home, having spent
0 of his nights for nearly two
weeks in the sheltering shadows of the
Union station. Although arrested on
suspicion Of completely in Il certain
affair, the man was found to have on
his person Il valuable gold watch, the
property of Il Raleigh He
has been seen in company with three
other men who are watched rs susz
poets in certain misdemeanors recent
~ committed in Wake county. The
appearance of seeming Migrants is not
unusual about the streets and road
ways.
Charters were issued to the Rich
field Manufacturing Company, at
Richficld, i'll Stanley county, d. \.
Prick, +. L. c. Miller and others be-
ing the Stockholders. The company
will manufacture from wood and iron
also farm products, capital stock 500
600 with 5000 subscribed; another
woodworking industry is that of the
Moore Furniture Company IL Lenoir,
with Il paid-in capital of $4,000,
| which is subscribed by j. c. Moore,
J. 2. COffey and others in that section.
Tie Corbitt Buggy Company at Hen
| derson, y. C., amends its charter by
increasing the capital stock from $780,
COO to 100000. The officers of the
company are \. G.. Zollicoffer, presi-
dent: and II. J. Corbett, secretary.
Colonel John S. Cunningham, presi-
dent Of the North Carolina Tobacco
Growers Association and so prOmi-
nently identified with the farming in
teres(s of North Carolina is in Raj
eieh attending the Grand Lodge and
incidentally speaking a word for the
farmers. Perhaps no nan in the state
has taken Il deeper interest in crop
producers than has Colonel Cunning
ham, who has used every effort to for
ward farming interests and the hand
ling of the marketed product. As
such a friend of the farming classes
he urges more of a division as to
acreage between tobacco and cotton,
at the same time strong in his belief
attention should be given to the
raising of corn and hogs-corn first.
He states that in his own neighbor-
hood in and about Person the increase
in these last two products has been
something more than 20 per cent with
in the last year or two. When asked
about the shortage in the North Caro-
DINA tobacco crops for the season just
| closed Colonel Cunningham stated it
was not directly through reduction by
the planter so much as by the cOntin-
ued wet weather preceding June. He
did not have much to say concerning
! cotton, but his views are already
known by reason of his activity in
that particular during his term of Of
| fee, with the Cotton Growers AssOci-
| alton.