The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-16
At CHARLOTTE on MARCH Ord
Meeting to be Held to Consider
the Forestry Question
Distinguished Gathering Will be Pres
ent-Fine Success Of Mr.. Albert w.
Latta-Charters by the State-Mr.
c. j. Alston's Luck-Other Raleigh
News Notes.
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, n. c., February Il.
In the Incorporation Of Hunter
Ecot1ers and Brewer Company at Ra-
leigh, for the conduct of a dry goods,
b o and department store, the fifteen
thousand dollars sub cribed out Of an
by G. E., w. R., and j. P. Hunter, G.
W. Brewer, and ]. L. Gill, all of Ra-
leigh. The store has heretofore been
conducted distinctively fer the sale Of
shoes.
The H. E. Moseley Hardware Com
pany at Kinston is chartered for The
conduct of a wholesale and retail bus
mess. H. E., w. o. and S. o. Mosely,
all of Kinston are incorporators, S12,-
900 is paid in put Ola total capital
ization of $1,000.
High Point again comes to the front
with the Southern States Realty Com
pany, lncorporatOrs are J. II. Mills
j. W. Anderson, and R. H. Wheeler.
The authorized capital stock is $780,
600, of which amount $500 is paid in.
The F~rictionless Metal Company. of
Chattanooga, registered it's trademark
for bearing metal with the North Car
DINA secretary of state. This mark
covering that particular product.
The many friends of Mr.. Albert W.
Latta, a son of the late G. G. Latta,
Of Raleigh, who are interested in the
success and advancement of that young
man will be glad to learn that after
having proved his apprenticeship with
the General Electric Company, at Sche-
pectajy, n. Y, he has found favor by
reasOn of his ability among his south
eTn mill friends, and has just placed
a large outfit for one Of the big mills
in North Carolina. The company de-
string the machinery stated to the
General Electric Company their wishes
as to supplies and requested that
young Mr.. Latta, a North Caroliniau
in their employ, be sent for the pur-
| pose of figuring the details. He came
and won out over three competitors,
who We're men Of many more years and
of far more varied experience.
Governor Glenn, who always finds
time for special work outside his eX-
ecutive Office, will tonight at the Tab
ernac!e Baptist Church believer an ad-
dress to the "B. B." class of that Sun
day school, on the Subject, is a Young
Man Safe?"
Another one Of the old-time type ne
gro mammies has died at her home a
few miles from Raleigh. She has long
borne tie name of Aunt Betsey Holmes
! and both photographs and caricatures
of the negroes have beer painted. Her
real personality was best depicted
| when seated in an ancient top buggy
a two wheel contrivance and drawn by
oxen nearly as ancient. Vegetables.
roots and herbs, together with az IL
domintable will have been her stock
in trade, coupled with a kindness not
usual. Along with her happy manner
there was conjoined a real spirit Of
| business, as was evidenced not long
ago by her comment to a prominent
| Raleigh citizen, his comment being to
, this effect, when asked why she did
not drive a mule instead OF the aged
OK she replied: Master, it's this way.
When de mule die he's dead, when
this OK dies I'll sell him at the mar
ket.'"
There were received today by the
| state auditor two large boxes of books
| returned by General Ainsworth, Of the
military secretary's Office at Washing
! ton, D. c., and which had been used
by the national government in The
compilation of the Confederate war
records.
Raleigh has another incorporated
| concern today in the Godwin-Johnson
Company, for the manufacture Of lum-
Der, planning mill and the operation and
the conduct of a large kiln. The cap.-
tai stock is $4,000, of which amount
SIS, 900, is subscribed by R.. D.. Goodwin
| and R. N. Simms, of Raleigh, and J.
B. Johnson, of B~arclayville.
Fl. G. Brown, secretary to the North
Carolina corporation commission,
leaves Tuesday for New Bern, where
he will appear as a witness in the case
of Hill ct al against the Atlantic and
North Carolina railroad.
DR.. B. F. Dixon, state auditor Of
! North Carolina will 60 to Washington,
D. c.. where ne will attend a special
meeting that has been called for the
consideration of a number of subjects
by the National Association Of State
Auditors and C~omptrollers General.
Governor Glenn has ordered a spe-
cial two weeks term Of Rowan coun-
ty superior court for civil cases, June
IS. Judge W. H. Justice will preside.
4 congress for The specific investi-
cation of methods to b. TJTe univer-
sally adopted by all the states in the
union will be held in Washington City
February 10. Governor Glenn has ap-
pointed the following delegates from
North Carolina to participate in the
deliberations of the body: A. B.. An
drews. Jr., and F. Fl. Busbee, of Ra-
,-L. C,o--fo-a Dr;--- D,,rl ~, T
c.. Buxton, Winston; d. B. Winborne,
Murfreesboro, and George Rountree, of
Wilmington This congress has Seen
instisated by Governor PennypacKer,
OF Pennsylvania, and the most vital
matters to be considered will be uni
formity in divorce laws, and certain
changes regarding extraditions by the
state ON state. The governor in speak
ing of the matter said: North Caro-
lima is already one of the states that
exacts no charge for e~xtradftion. but,