The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-06
Messenger uBrean,
Raleigh, n. c., June 90, 1906.

Raleigh n. c.. June 30, 1906.
Secretary T. X. Bruner. Of tse North
Carolina Horticultural socie y, arrived
tcuay from Aberdeen, where he at
tended the annuaI meeting which was
very successful. He was reelected and
j. Van LindIey was elected president.
Thre was excellent show OF fruit. Here
after there will be regular fruit fairs
Commissioner Of Agriculture p4t.4r-
son left today tor Wiust0n-Salem to
be absent two days.
DR.. Kemp Z. Battle. OF The ruiyer-
"sity OF North Carolina. Who had been
HeFe for some days, returned o Chapel
Hill this morning.
~Ftfty-nine Of the Inmates 81 The
methodist Orphanage here, left rOday
going TO various places in the state TO
visit <TeIHtiyes and friends. the number
INCLUDING all the small children, the
larger remaining all the summer Tha
larger Boys look after the ~0rphanage
farm.
f. The Mutual Grocery Of
. ~ SNA4D''4D, - III ZC0 ~ IlbdLlSt lis
name to the Smitherman company, in
~cOrpOratcd.
To-day the plans for the new ex-
; press. office which is TO be at the union
g passenger station, were received by
Manager Bowen. Work on the build
ing is SoOn TO begin.
About 600 of he teachers ATTENDING
the state summer school here were en-
tpTtIinpH At an icn craa1o -, - ~ ~ Tho.
CampaS yesterday afternoon from , to
81 O'Clock by Mr.. John T. Pullen. Pho
gtQ&rlphs were taken and there was d
l,phOnOgraph concert given and a salute
10 the flag, which was lowered by Two
SUNSHINE girls, the being
very striking. State Superintendent
~-rJoyner and other prominent educators
4aking part in it.
1t, is learned from President John i.
Mills, of the Raleigh and Southport
railway, that on the Fourth of July
+ the Atlantic Coast Line and his road
,,Will be connected at Fayetteville.
81 AS to proposed Union passenger sta
zion ut GoldsbOrO, which is to be con-
,Sructed on the west side Of town,
y8pthing can be done yet awhile, a few
SeitiZans who own the hotel and some
either property on Center street having
SECURED Il restraining order to prevent
14he building Of the station anywhere
,faKcept on that street. The commission
.fs7 not a party to this matter, it being
,Ehe case. OF a few citizens in question
,eagaipSt the railways which desire, TO
build the station at the point d~esignat-
rded by the commission, The situatiOn is
really a very curious one, nothing Of
the kind ever having occurred IN the
.J8tate. .,., ....... .,..,-
What is known as the Selma Con- I
.ne0tiOn case in which the commission /
Required the Atlantic Coast Line TO u
"a train from Rocky Mount To. Selma,
to %conneet with the ,westbQnnd train
ION Southern railway, has been argued
an United States supreme court, put
not Alntil next October will Il DECISION
zoe made in it. The cas- possesses D
Rumber of points Of Interest, and rf
Aurse involves the power of the COM
mission. AS to. the later. case before 7
the commission in which it was sought
TO have the schedule at Raleigh on jhe
might train on the Southern remain rs :
Heretofore it seems that no connection
case was made out, in other words no
NECESSITY shown for a connection be
tween the Southern and the Seab0ar1
Air line at this point. then, too, the
whole case of the petitioners was with
drawn. It IS stated that il this with
draWal had not been made the matte"
would have, come to a regular hear
ing at the end OF the ten days time it
was always required by law. and that
The commission had and has ample
power to have enforced a penalty If
There had been any showing made by !
the other side. A prominent lawyer
says the commission has power enough
as at present constituted t o dispose ,
Of this matter, though of course the
action taken took it entirely u OF III" :
hands of the commission, the petition
ers having fallen down in their conten-
,tiQn. The costs in the case is to be
paid by the state treasury! Last night
this train about which there has been
50 much talk. did not Wait at Colds
bOr0 for the train on the Atlantic :
Coast Line, the latter having been de-
,aayed Il few minutes by a party CT
Voting women returning from q housa-7
.partt somewhere. As a result n party :
Of people had to spend the might at
,Godsboro, aomng them a railway at :
f0fhey, who, as one of the party. ,
.TaughingIy remarkediG fumed no littla'
at their failure TO connect. A railway
official remarked us tn train came IN.
here last night that il never waited
d anything This is the through train
from GOldsbOrO to Asheville. :
iTht corporation commission does not
receive, any reports from railways IN
der construction nor does it inspecci
lines in that condition. II learns. |
however, that work is being pushed
very Rapidly on: the. mountain section
of the South and WEST road in the
Marion seCtion.~~This will be one OF
the cestliest pieces of construction IN
this part of the United States. =
oGThis,. morning State EntOmologist
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