The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-20

mis- zest and spirit, which lis more
n a casual characteristic of his ia
ture n makeup. Mr.. Moore will
leave Raleigh next week, and will
make the following itinerary, visiting
and talking with the farmers in per-
o at these respective places; for the
remainder of February, 20 at New
Bern, q Bayboro, % Kinston, % Snow
Hill, "a Greenville, 26 Washington, n
Plymouth, % WILLIAMSON; for March,
l at Tarboro, 2 Edenton, 3 HEREFORD,
8 Elizabeth City, 6 Gatesville, Z Win
ton, s Jackson, 9 Halifax, 10 Nashville,
and IL Wilson. The remainder of The
present week will be spent among the
farmers OF Wake county, whom Presi-
dent Moore desires to thoroughly
awaken.
State Treasurer Lacy remembered
st. Valentines Day in a kindly way
to his friends in the state departments,
having sent to them from Ell Paso,
Texas, fitting cards and tokens to mark
the observance of the occasion. He al
SO writes to his family here that his
asthma is ste2 Oily improving already.
A rather unique trial, ever though it
smacks, in one sense, of the ordinary,
will be tried tonight before a justice
of the peace, the subject being a Ra-
leigh negro who has an extremely apt
hand at catching, de-feathering and
marketing chickens, while his wife a
party to the trial also, has been a most
literal helpmeet. 1t is stated, and on
good authority, that he els alleged" to
ave stolen than 1000 of these
birds of temptation within the last
twelve months, and all Of them from
Raleigh housekeepers. In some in
stances the chickens were identified.
Lieutenant Governor Francis D.
Winston, Of Windsor, recently elected
Grand Master of Masons, is attending
the supreme court, and today is on
ferring with the members of the Tenn
pie committee OF the Grand Lodge Of
North Carolina. He will also shortly
announce thirty deputy grand masters
who will more actively promote the
interests and aims of Masonry in the
state.
A right new bit of work about the
supreme court building, although only
about 48 hours old, has already be-
come an eye-sOre to all visitors to that
building n a menace to wOman's
skirts and thin shoes. It is the I'M
slightly arrangement covering the steps
of the stairway leading up to the Off
ces Of state which are situated ON The
second and third floors Of the building.
Scraps of carpet were first laid on the
steps, then lineOleum, and the edges
OF the steps are capped with ordinary
tin, which are fastened down WITH
nails, and in some places battered with
careless hammering. The affair is g
disgrace to the state and does not at
all reflect credit to anybody remotely
connected with the conception of such
an idea.
The Raleigh chamber of commerce
and Industry at a vimful meeting took
steps looking to the immediate per
the summer school, which will be held
in Raleigh. Hon. J. Y. Joyner, state
superintendent of instruction, heartily
approves the selection of this city as
the place for such an assembly. The
subject of a rousing farmers meeting
for August was also discussed and
commended by President Winston. OF
the Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege. There is also some Indication
that action will be taken toward secur-
ing some mort diamond play" for Ra-
leigh with the oncoming summer.
President Moore, of the Cotton Asso-
citation spoke on a resolution by invita-
ton which the chamber endorsed as to
the reduction of acreage 25 per cent
fNm the 1904 crop. The matter CT
changes, and enlargement of the state
capitol were also brought UP, but no
action was taken regarding this.