The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-18
GOTT0NlIDAMAGED BY IFROsT
Further Reduction in Acreage of
the Crop Will Follow
Great Scarcity of Labor-Death of Ar.
James Leach-Charters by the State.
Engagements of the Governor.
Folder Illustrating the Possibilities
OF the State - Complaints Against
Telephone Companies.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c.. Nav Is.

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., May Is.
Secretary T. B. Parker of the Farm
ers State Alliance says reports have
come In showing already from half the
cotton growing counties, and show
damage by frost to a considerable ex-
tent in the piedmont section. The
ground is dry and the dry weather is
retarding crops very much. In coun-
ties where there was frost damage, a
good e of replanting is going on and
there is a scarcity of seed, in conse-
quence of which there will be a furth-
er reduction of acreage. In the wes-
tern cotton district there was ice last
week, and where there Is ice there is
bound to be injury. The counties with
out exception report labor very scare,
and most of them say it is unreliable.
A New York statistician sent a report
here saying that only 5 1-2 per cent re-
duction Of the cotton crop had been
made this season over two years ago,
and that only eight counties reported
labor scarce. Secretary Parker says
this is entirely untrue, that the acreage
reduction will be slightly more than
that last cal, which was 20 per cent.
less than that of 1904. while every
county reporting says the scarcity Of
labor is very marked. Speaking of the
Farmers Alliance, Secretary Parker
says it Is moving along with the cotton
growers association and is doing very
well indeed, and that in the counties
where the Alliance is strongest the best
work of the association is done, Meek
lenbGrg and other counties being ex-
cepted from this condition. There is
now no alliance in Mecklenburg. Sec
rotary Parker announced that it was
merely a distinction without a differ
ence as the alliance ana the association
are working to the same end.
President John A. Mills of the Ra-
leigh and Southport railroad says there
is no foundation for the current rumor
that his road and the Raleigh and PAM
lico Sound Railway have joined forces.
They are very friendly he says, but
nothing more.
All the farmers who come into Ra-
leigh bring news of the pressing need
'Of rain. Crops are really suffering.
North Carolina had five representa-
tives at the National Conference of
Charities at Philadelphia, two Of these,
Mr.. Cary ]. Hunter and Miss Daisy
benson representing the state board Of
public charities, the other delegates
being Rev. R. S. Stephenson of Ra-
leigh, Mr.. Rogers of the Oxford orphan
asylum and Rev. Mr.. Rankin Of Castor
county. The session was very helpful
and a great deal of work was lone.
The next session will be at Minneap-
oils.
This morning Mr.. James Leach, a
brother of Messrs. M. T. Leach n Ed
gar Leach of Raleigh, and George
Leach of High Point died very sudden
1y in his room at his home here while
dressing for breakfast. He fell back
across the bed, his head striking a post
and he was dead when members of his
family reached him.
The state board of public charities
is soon to have a meeting, there haV-
inc been no quorum at the time set Tor
the regular meeting. The board in
spects some of the private charities OF
the state, and is required to inspect all
institutions for inebriates and insane
chartered since 1895.
The Industrial Club met this evening
and the special matter before 1t was
the question of a Y. M. G. A. for Ra-
leigh.
The state charters the Catawba Val
lev Canning Company, .Morganton to
can fruits and vegetables, operate ice
plants, ETC., capital stock $5O,oOo, +. W.
Horsfeld and others stockholders. Also
u yxTo,oou r ,rohar a0nanonU nf DOIn-
lin county, capital stock $4,000.
Governor Glenn left this evening for
Asheville where he speaks tomorrow.
He delivers an address at the closing OF
Oakridge Institute on Friday and will
be at his desk Saturday morning. DR..
Dixon, state auditor, spoke for the gov
ernor last evening at the closing of the
Fayetteville graded schools, having a
very large audience. A banquet was
given in compliment to him.
1t is now certain that the gathering
of teachers here in June and July will
be the greatest North Carolina has ever
Secretary of State Grimes and Henry
A. London of Pittsboro next week will
visit the battlefields around Peters
burg with a view to having the posi-
lions of North Carolina troops there
carefully marked.
Last week a negro, Thomas Mckay
here was named for a carrier on n of
the rural free delivery routes, but the
people have made such a protest
against him that he has not been put
on duty and it may be that there will
be a change.
Matters are very quiet in regard to
the National Guard of this state at
present, as really nothing can be done
until it is ascertained what congress
will do in regard to the increased ap-
preparation. If proper provision is
made it seems that the Third regi-
ment will go into camp and the ma
neuvers at Chicakamauga. 1t is fairly
complete and has a band, while the
Second has none. An officer of the
nooooS .vDroCroI 4ho oniniop that IL