The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-08
Assembly and Summer School
Will be Largely Attended
State Meeting of County S~uperintcn-
dents Also t be HeId-Sherin Page
Observation-Disclosures of the State Board
of HeaIth-Charters by the State.
Other Raleigh News Notes.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., June 5.

penitentiary directors also meet. The
latter will discuss some matters of
statewide Importance.
Sheriff NJ. w. Page today rendered
his resignation to the board of county
commissioners. He has served four
teen years, and 40 officer has a cleaner
record or goes out of Office with more
of the confidence of the people. When
the sheriff was asked why he resigned
he said it vas because the legislature
had cut down the fees in the manner
it had. He. added that he was also
tired of official life, and wished to re-
tire. He says that during his term he
has handled nearly two millions of dol
lars of the public money. There has
never been any graft in his office.
A a been current here that
Thomas l.. McKoy, the colored man
who was recently appointed a rural
free delivery mail carrier, because he
passed SO successful an examination
had resigned. The post Office officials
here say that they know nothing about
it at Raleigh. and that if McKoy has
resigned then the resignation must
have been rendered to the third assist
ant postmaster general.
This afternoon the Daughters of the
COnfederacy observed the birthday of
Jefferson Davis by going to the Sol
diers home in a body. Special services
were held in the chapel.
At the Agricultural and Mechanical
college here there are now 500 acres of
farms, practically all in cultivation.
The most of this is the college farm,
while a part which is laid off in plats
is devoted to tests of many kinds of
crops.
Out at the Agricultural and Mechani-
ical college a great deal of work in the
way Of whitewashing and s%crubbing is
in progress to fit the big buildings for
the use of the hundreds of teachers who
will be here at the Teachers Assembly
n at the summer school, more than
$500 being expected at these two
events.
There will also be. the state meeting
of the county superintendent of public
instruction, the North Carolina Farm
ers convention, ETC., and there will be
literally from next week to the middle
of July a perfect crush. 1t takes a lot
of room to provide for the many teach
"ers, and there will be quarters provid-
ed at the Baptist university, the state
school for the blind, St. Mary's college,
and the Agricultural and Mechanical
college, while many private houses
have been secured for their accommo-
datiOn. There will be great numbers
of book agents here who will work
among the teachers seeking to induce
the latter to recommend their books
to the state board which July l is to
choose the books for the next five years
use in the public schools.
A charter is granted the Clarkton
hotel company at Clarkton, Bladen
county, capital stock $25 900, o. L.
Clark and others stockholders.
Private Secretary Arlington left to-
day for Chapel Hill being the secretary
to the board of trustees at the state
university. Trustees Richard H. Bat
tie and Richard H. Lewis also left. Mr..
Battle remarked that in the old days
thousands of people used to go through
the commencement at the university
driving through the country, most OF
them remaining there all the week.
Now relatively speaking only few go.
The books, over 500 in number COM
posing the private library of Lieuten-
ant Edwin A. Anderson, U. S. nav at
Greenville Sound, near Wilmington
which have been placed in the state Ii
brary IL ,special cases as a loan collec-
tion form a very interesting and yalua-
bile addition to the library. Some OF
the books contain extremely rare maps
of North Carolina.
BY the way CIR. James Sprunt is hav-
ing prepared for the state copies of a
number of rare maps which are now in
London.
The citizens of Southern Pines and
Sanford nave filed petitions with the
corporation commission, asking that
the Southern railway be not allowed to
change it's present night schedule at
Raleigh, by which the train which ar
rives at Has remains until Las, then
going on to Greensboro.
Charters are granted the Roland
Manufacturing Company Of Roland,
Robson county, to manufacture any
article from wood, capital stock 500 900,
"A. Bakers and others stockholders; the
Kearnes Upholstering Company, High
Point to make all kinds of upholstered
goods, capital stock $4,000, J. W.
Kearns and others stockholders.
Among today's visitors here was Mr..
Ashley Horne of Clayton, ex-president
of the North Carolina state fair. He
was asked how the crops looked in his
county, and said: Cotton with us gen
orally is clean, and with a good stand
on sandy land and is about all chopped
out on. such lands. There is not ex-
actly a perfect, stand On stiff lands.
and considerable cotton is yet coming
UP ON such lands. The size OF the weed
is about as usual and / may say that
the crop is a good one. 1t is a little
small and is perhaps ten days late but
1t is doing very we'll indeed"
The bulleting of the North Carolina
board of health for May says that
measles is reported IN Al counties,
o1,,nf ~ "a h ria in 10