The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., AMY 2, 1906.

A visit was made yesterday 70 the
hospital for the insane here and il
was found that excellent progress was
being made on the annex in which
women patients are to be placed.
Originally this building a designed
to provide for 100, by changing some
stairways, Superintendent Mckee mas
made room for 112. There are now in
the institution 208 women and POI men
and there is room for eight men. There
are ag reat number Of applications for
the admission of women, 6O OF these
having been made since the first OF
December and Superintendent Mckee
says all these are meritOriOus cass eX-
cept TWO or three which are e%pilepLics
who ought not TO be admitted. Inc
new annex cost $4,000. The superin-
tendent has just sent to the governor
a reuuisitiOn for the furnishing of
this building and other matters con-
nected with it, amounting to $22,8S0,
this including water connections, neat
and also for walls to connect h Old
building and this new one, $4,000 Tor
the laundry n for the maintenance
of the 122 patients at S14.66 per month.
for each, this being now the cost. DR..
Mckee saws the cost of maintenance
becomes higher every month ana that
all prices are advancing. Yesterday ne
had TO increase the wages OF farm
labOrers 81 a month. He asked for a
complete system of telephone in all the
buildings and fol provision for me
registration by the Waterman or MS
rounds, this registration to be upon a
dial in the marin hall.
Charters are granted the Creedmore
Realty Company, OF Greenv1lle, caplTai
stock $50, 900; the Town Creek Rail
way and Lumber Company, Of Bruins
wick county, $500, 900 the incorporates
being z. w. Whitehead of Whining
ton: R. F. DeVane and Martin Mckln-
non. of Red Springs; A. ]. Mck1nnon,
of Maxton and G.. J. Cooper, Of Fay
etteville.
State Auditor Dixon has returned
from High Point, where he spoke at q
school closing yesterday. He says that
is the most hustling place he mas We
seen in North Carolina and has the
best graded school buildings. Tomor'
row he e to Rogers Cross Roads, II
Nash county, to make a school, speech
Governor Glenn arrived today iron
aVnce county,, where he spoke a
an educational rally. He says it j
the largest affair of the scr
where he has ever spoken. ii
next goes TO Mount Airy n PHO
Mountain, speaking at an educatlona
meeting at the latter on Saturday an
on Sunday to the young men and "o
men of Mount Airy. ,
The Corporation Commission goes I
GOldsbOro tomorrow to hear the MA
ter of the Union depot there. rms WI
be the second case OF the III oeIoT
if the first having been the DurhaI
case.
Sheriff Page, of this county, speakln
about the need of rain in this sectlol
saws that much of the planted crop
cannot come up on account OF II
hardness of the ground while plo"lh
is rendered difficult. in fact lmposslDI
in some parts. The dry weather Is ais
iniuring the oats which are unusual
forward this year. He says that Il
the first time in his life he notice
oats heading in April.
The Raleigh postof1ce receipts du
inc the month of April were S5,5o4,
considerable increase over the san
month last year.
Revenue officers left here SaturdS
going in several directions on ral'
and one came in today with news
the capture of a rs gallon still ne
Morrisville in a neighborhood Wne
last year several stills were broken i
a whole n~eighborhood being either c
gagged in the manufacture or friend
10 moonshiners. The operators :
away but the officers know their oac
ers In fact every illicit distillery n
what the theatrical people call an a
GEL and it, is in fact, these n
whom the revenue people try to sp
The angel puts up the money
which the moonshiner conducts his
Ecit operations.