The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-02
Sauticrn and SeabeaTd Pushing Their
MeuBtain Road Werk
Association Of High Schools and Acad-
Fined for Violation OF Audubon Law.
Cotton Growers and Business Mems
Association to- Meet Next wednes-
day-Other Raleigh News Notes.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. C. December 80.

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Southern Railway TO increase It's cap
ital stock to a million dollars. This
load is now complete and in opera
ton between Durham and Dunn, and
there is no telling TO what other point
1t will so.
The annual convention of the Asso-
is in session here. President NJ. Ii. Holt
having made the address last night az
the opening of the session. Three pa
pers were afterwards read, one by Prin
opal Graham of the Warrenton High
school. on the best means of enforcing
discipline; another by Principal w. III.
Rhodes OF the kinston Military Acad-
envy, on dormitory regulations: the
third by Principal Whitsett Of Whit
sett Institute on special class priyi-
legeS. Today a paper was read on
light schools and Saturday schools by
President Holt, other papers being by
FIofeSsor Horner of Oxford on school
athletics. and another by Principal L.
l.. Middleton of Cary High school. in
this county on the reason why more
high school students do not attend the
colleges.
A charter is granted the Spencer
Mountain Mills, incorporated, the pur-
rose of the company being to develop
water power on the South Fork of the
Catawba river in CASTOR county, the
capital stock being $105, 600.
This county and the Seaboard Air
Line Railway have at last made an ar
;aDgement by which two of the most
dangerous grade crossings in the state
are to be replaced by crossings under
the rails. In the course Of the past
twenty-five years a number of persons
have been killed or injured at these
crossings and damage suits have re-
suited.
Secretary Thomas X. Bruner and
Curator Brimley Of the state museum
have returned from Il holiday hunting
trip near New Bern the game sought
icing ducks, but they had very poor
sport.
AS usual the negroes here will OBJ
serve next Monday as Emancipation
day, and the address will be delivered
by Chas. n. Williams who is the prin-
cipal of the state school for the negro
deaf mutes and blind here.
Revenue officers have been keeping
the holidays like other people and have
bad really very little to do, but they
Will get to work now very actively
after the moonshiners and other viola
tors Of the law. The county officers
must now cooperate with the United
States officers to a far greater degree
than ever before.
Walter Wilson, a white youth here.
KILLED a hooking bird Wednesday in
the corporate limits of Raleigh in vio-
lation Of the Audubon law. Chief
Game Warden John w. Upchurch was
luckily here on a little vacation from
his duties on Currituck Sound, and he
lost no time in prosecuting Wilson.
who was promptly convicted and SEN
fenced by a magistrate to ten days i'm.
priscnment, though the penalty was
finally reduced to a fine of 81 and
costs. The object lesson is a good one.
Wilson's defense was that he thought
the bird he shot at was an American
cuckoo, Or as the country people term
this bird, a "rain-crow."
III q SCSt ooNloI dldll " III hOiI-
days was that given by Mrs. Florence
2 Tucker to her daughters, Mrs. John
c. Winder Of Columbus. Ohio. and
Mrs. Edward III. Fellows, of Macon,
Ga, there being some two hundred
guests, society turning out in great
force. While there have been many
minor social events the absence of
large ones during the holidays has
teen quite marked.
Next Wednesday the annual meeting
of the North Carolina Cotton Growers
anG Business Mems Association will be
held here in the capitol, and naturally
considerable interest attaches 10 it.
People are asking the question whether
there is to be a further reduction of
acreage next year: that is, whether
there will be a continuation Of the Is
reI e cut which was agreed on last
winter, which agreement IA carried
on certainly we'll and proved effective.
a prominent cotton grower said today:
The reports which will be submitted
from the various counties will be in
teTesting. OF course they will show,
and naturally so, the bright side as to
the outlook for a continuation of the
reduction but l fear that q number OF
the farmers cannot be depended upon
to stand to the line, because some of
them are in the association for what
they can make. / fear hat it will be
extremely hard TO induce all to stand
by a reduction agreement, and | may
say that L expect there will be an in
crease in acreage Y G that planted
last spring." Such a statement is of
course interesting at this juncture and
10 doubt the association will use every
means to hold the farmers in line. No
clas SIS is quite so hard to organize. and
the farmers themselves admit this fact,
as q general proposition.
The work on the new wing. for fe-
n.ale patients at the hospital for the in
sane here. is now being pushed with
great rapidfty. The directors hoped
that it would be completed by April
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