The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-12


A. and M.-Report ON Fire Losses
During September.
Messenger Bureau,
Chamber of Commerce Rooms,
Hollaman Building,
Raleigh, y. c., October 8.
The jamestown commission set
apart $4,000 for the North Carolina
building, the law being mandatory.
and requiring not less than $4,000
nor more than $4,000. The plan is
yet to be decided on. The building
can be sold after the exposition as a
club house Or dwelling. The commits
sion thinks the location good, being
near the commercial pier, where al
most all boats viii land. Requests
have come from great number of
North Carolinians in other states for
building as a meeting place, to be
in charge of persons having a wide
acquaintance in this state. The COM
mission was at first about equally de-
vided as TO having building, but af
ter talking the matter over with the
exposition people, and others from
various states, decided on the above
course. 1t is the plan to have histo-
rical and educational exhibits, with
pictures Of the schools and educational
statistics in this building, all attrac-
lively arayed. The commissioner
general, Joseph E. Pogue was author
lied to confer with the state dgricul-
tural department regarding the agri-
cultural exhibit, which the law re-
quires that department to make. The
commission first secured $500 feet of
floor space in the main exposition
building, from the exposition COM
pany, but the latter gives a thousand
feet more and the commission has
bought LIZA feet additional.
The boys at the Roman. Catholic or
phanage here are now all at their
studies, the term having begun. There
are 60. Four seminar1ans are also
there, and eight who have been there
are at Belmont, preparing for the
priesthood. There are now nine Ro-
man Catholic chapels in this county.
The work is being pushed on the
sewerage system from the A. & M. col
lege to connect with the city sewer
south of Raleigh, the distance being
two miles. Fifty negroes have been
at work On this and were paid S1.25
per day. Yesterday they struck for
$3.50, their demand was refused and
convicts were Immediately secured and
put on the work.
Otho Wilson, ten years ago so prom
inent in populist politics here, return
ed to Raleigh today from Virginia and
will make this city his home again.
He has had hotel at Emporia, Va.
for the past two yNrs. He says he
finds Raleigh the best place at which
to live.
The Merchants Association of this
city has decided to give banquet on
the 3Oth inst.
A charter is granted to the Roanoke
Brick Co, at Weldon, capital stock
$4,000, J. A. Aston and others stock
holders. Another charter is granted
the Bladen and Northern Railway
company to build a line from some
point on the Atlantic Coast Line in
Cumberland or Bladen county to
White Oak, in Bladen, the capital
stock authorized being 100000, and
William Moncure, D. E. McIver and
others being the stockholders.
Governor Glenn is again on the
campaign in the western part of the
state. Auditor Dixon has returned
from campaign tour in the east and
today went to Oxford and that section
to make several speeches.
The Wake county alumni will have
their annual banquet on the evening
of University day. DR.. James Mckee
is the president October 18th is the
date
The supreme court today took up the
docket of appeals from the Seventh
district. An interesting case is one in
which commercial traveller seeks to
recover from a railway the value of
jewelry shipped in sample case and
not declared on.
General Robert F. Hoke has been at
Atlanta for ten days, where a surgical
operation was performed which was
entirely successful He is now at his
home here.
At democratic state headquarters ii
is announced that Senator Simomns
will speak at Roxboro November 5th
r. H. Hayes will speak at Waxhaw
October 26th, Peachland 9th, Hamlet
30th, Broadway, November 2.
| Mr.. Robert H. Bradley, the faithful
and most capable marshal and libra.
rian OF the supreme court is out
and WAS able to walk up town from
his home. where he has been sick fol
eight months. During his illness kine
messages have come to him from al
over the state and for these evidence.
OF regard he is very grateful. Lawyer.
all over North Carolina have a yer,
high opinion Of him, and Of cours
all the Masons in the state know him
he having been for score of year
the grand tiley of the grand lodge.
A charter is granted the q. II. WI
hanson Company, general merchants
at Reidsville.
1t is stated that very large whole
sale grocery house is to be built her
on West Martin street, between tn