The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-07
The Messenger Bureau,

grapes.
The finance committee Of h board
of agriculture met today and so did
the Joint committee of the Agricul-
tural & Mechanical college. Commits
sioner of Agriculture Patterson will
not be able to be here. His physician
will not let him off from the hospital
in Baltimore before the 18th inst, |
and even then he will not be be able
to work. His wife is with him and her
health also is very poor.
Secretary of State Grimes returned1
today from Pitt county and says the
farmers there are hit very hard by
reason of the failure OF the crops, par
ticularly the cotton crop. The ten
ants are in debt. The land owners
will carry them until another season.
Mr.. A. T. McCollum of the board Il
agriculture says there were n crops
in Robson county and the People
there were prosperous. Mr.. William
Dunn, a member Of the beard from
Craven says the farmers there are
knocked all to pieces by the crop I'LL
ure. Such are the contrasts in Moth
Carolina.
The city health officers report that
there are now only Is smallpox cases
at the pest house, IS having been Oil
charged. There is only II case IN the
city, this having been parantined and
the patient will be discharged tOmOr-
row. No new cases have developed
in several days, and there is an end to
all the trouble.
The number of pupils at the school
for the white blind and at the one for
negro deaf mutes and blind was to-
day 342. Two more are yet to come.
An the white school the boys building
is full and this is the case with the
girls building at the negro school.
Governor Glenn revokes the pardon
granted Bud Alternately, a notorious
Charlotte negro, having read in the
Charlotte Observer that pardon was
most undeserved.
There is to be expended within the
next II months on the rifle range at
the permanent encampment grounds
$12, 900 and will be made n OF the
best in the south.
The Baptist State convention meets
at Greensboro at 3 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon. The sessions heretofore
have begun in the evening, but the
change was made in time in order
that there may be organization before
the night session, leaving the evenings
for the Introductory sermon, which
will be preached by Fred D.. Hale, D.
D., of Wilmington. Rev. Livingston
Johnson, the secretary, was interview
ed regarding the work of the cOnven-
ton and said: "The convention will
report a great years work. There
Were 1000 more Baptist in the state
this year than last and the churches
have made marked advance in their
contributions to all mission objects.
There hace been more mission
aries in the field this year than
last and their reports are very graft
flying indeed. The report of the mis-
sion board to the convention this
year will be in many particulars the
! finest hat has ever been made. The
denomination is thoroughly united and
not a discordant note has been heard
through the entire year. More new
church houses have been built than
during n previous year n some OF
these are very handsome structures
In Greensboro where the convention
is to meet there have been three e
| houses erected since the first of Jan
uary, 1906. The aggregate value o.
these three houses is $4,000. Al
over the state, in towns and on cOun'
try fields, there has been Il regular
Baptist. building boom this year. Gu
/ oI,oot;onol inc4;t,,ti0nc " AnI1rich
ing. Wake Forest college and tn
Baptist University for Women ar
both full and there must be enlarge
ment Of each of these excellent insti
tutions in the immediate future to &C
i commodate the numbers that are CON
| ing. Our secondary schools are doin
excellent work and the number of stu
dents that come from these to WAX
Forest and the university is increasin
year by year. The denomination
beginning to feel its power and i
i some Measure to rise to it's respons
bilities."
,, The insurance commissioner ha
licensed the United Fire InsuranC
Company Of Kittrell, this being tn
first colored fire insurance compan
Oh eve CudI III 4<Olt
\ H. Thorpe and J. r. Hawkins al
among the incorporators.
The Women's club of this city is
be granted a charter and will be re-
ularly incorporated. It is the purpos
O. of the club, which now has 167 actiN
members and which is the most in
portant organization of women in tn
= city to have a building of its own.
is doing many useful things. Amor
j. other features it will consider the en-
ployment Of good help and the iss'
II of bulletins giving the anne of r
liable help, so needed at this time VIII
there is more trouble with servan
l. than was ever before known. A
other thing which it will do will be
lei provision for a boarding house Or y
for young women who are employed
l. various avocations, under he char
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