The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-20
Will Deliver Address Before the
". c. 7. U. of This City.
New Rural Free Delivery Routes.
Death OF George c. Upchurch-Re-
port on Building and Ornamental
Stones-Tender Letter From Gar.
field Hicks TO His Mother.
Messenger Bureau,

John Smiley. a white mar, who was
sentenced TO two years for manslaugh.
ter, having On Christmas day killed q
white man by the name of Caldwell.
| Governor Glenn is in receipt of 2
letter requesting his good offices with
! h prison authorities in behalf of road
Improvement in Duplin county. This
movement is starting up all over the
eastern part of the state, as the people
are awakened to the fact that good
roads are one of the chief essentials OF
a sections growth and progress.
| Governor Glenn left his morning
for New Bern where he will tomorrow
be the guest Of the Methodists of that
city, and where he will deliver one of
his characteristic addresses. Governor
Glenn will 60 from New Bern to Will
mington Monday, where he viii de-
liver an address before the W. c. L. &.
of that city, at a special anniversary
of that body.
Postmaster Bailey announces fou"
rural free delivery carriers for the
state at Fayetteville, Mocksville and
21Dl1l liz anu III
Polkton, effective Marcn 10Th.
President c. c. Moore of the Cot
ton Association is feeling yet more en-
cOuraged over the movement among
the farmers and announces that B.
Dixon Armstrong, assistant secretary
Of the national organization will visit
Raleigh in a few days. This visit will
be to confer with President Moore as
to a uniform system of membership re-
corded. Secretary Armstrong was
also in Raleigh last year.
MI. George G. Upchurch, the oldest
citizen of Wake county, and during his
lifetime a resident of Raleigh, passed
his ninety-fourth birthday Wednesday
last and is dead at his old home on
Wilmington street. He is survived
by a large family of children and
grandchildren.
A meeting will be held at Manteo,
February q, at which occasion repre-
sentatives from the national govern
ment and members of the North Caro-.
cooperate in stalking off the bounda-
ries Of the open way for the shad and
other fish coming from the Atlantic
ocean into and through Albemarle
sound to their spawning grounds. This
cooperation also means that the de-
partment at Washington will assist the
state in maintenance and protection.
By this means the industries SO named
will be very materially increased.
Acting state geOlOgist recently At
tended a meeting of the citizens of
Chapel Hill township to discuss the
question of better public roads in that
township. A number of calls have
been made recently upon members of
the geological staff to meet county
commissioners in different parts of the
state, and it is the wish of this de-
partment to assist u people and to
give information regarding macada-
mixed roads and as TO how best to
raise the bonds for sucn construction.
The report on building ornamental
stones of the state is now ready to be
sent to the state printers. This report
discusses the various deposits and
their economic Importance. 1t shows
the state is we'll stored with stones of
the granite type, and is probably bet
ter supplied than any other ADpalach-
ion state south of New England. At
lSulIOu - dlSo Edllcu ~ ullSiCNClOOCA
deposits that are SO we'll worth quarry
ing, and reference IS made to the
beautiful samples displayed at the st.
Louis exposition.
In order to effectna.lv distribute the
publications of the board of geological
survey, they will be placed in the
hands of those looking for invest
ments, there will bee active co-opera-
ton with boards of trade, chambers Of
commerce and other like organizations,
by whom they will be filled for i'm
mediate reference and information.
To this end extra copies will be avail
able to those who may desire them.
The board also desires to come into
and keep in a closer touch with all
such bodies throughout the state for
their mutual furtherance. This will
apply to the varied resources of the
state and will take up any line of cor
respondence with inquirers as to min
eral deposits, water power, etc. 1t is
expected that in this way the great
stores of information collected by the
board can be disseminated as a fund
of general assistance to the people Of
North Carolina. This viii also nave
bearing as 10 inducing ptopie
from other places or states to consider
the ~undeveloped powers that are
bound up within the state.
There lurks a little story of certain
tenderness IN a letter that has just
been written by Garfield Hicks TO his
mother, who lived al Frapklinton.
Hicks is the negro who was brought
to Raleigh and placed in Wake county
Jail, and who did not leave the jail
when his companion Burton farrell
escaped Thursday morning In this
letter. which passed through the OH
GERS hands Hicks stated that b rea-
son he did not fee was for fear Of the
fact that the law would accuse her OF
helping in his escape. because b had
recently been allowed 10 visit her son.