The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-09

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is in receipt of a letter from August
e. Cans, business manager of the
Chicago Cooking School, requesting his
Incorporation in doing something for
all coffee drinkers and setting forth
the possible benefits by action such as
was shown to be desired by the coffee
convention, at it's meeting held in New
York, in 1902. Such effort lies in pro-
lection by laws, and their enforcement,
against the use of false labels. Mr..
: Cans begs the official endorsement Of
the Board of Agriculture in forward
ing such legislation to the end that:
"All coffees sold in any way by m
! DOrters, dealers or brokers, at retail or
wholesale, green, roasted, or ground in
the United States, its territories or de-
tendencies, must be sold under the
name of the country producing them
All violations of this provision shall
be punished upon conviction in any
United States court by a fine of 500,
or three months Imprisonment, Or both
in the discretion of the court for the
first violation, with proportionate in
creases for all subsequent ones So
called coffee sold and ground in pack
ages must bear on the package or it's
label in reasonable type the statements
of all it's constituents"
Mr.. Bruner stated to your correspOn-
dent that he had on file 81 applications
for labor. These are about equally dl-
yided between the piedmont and east
ern sections of the state while no APP
p~licatiOns have been received from the
mountains. A letter has just been re-
ceived also from a seemingly we'll ed
. ucated young man, Hans Rhymer, by
name, in Welkenraesdt, Belgium, who
has the desire for America. He writes
with all the foreign fervOr n pleads
for place on this side wherein he may
the better develop his talents.
State Superintendent Joyner is in
formed that an election for a local
school tax has been ordered in Or
mondsville, Greene county, February
18th. It was here about two years ago
that two districts were consolidated,
which at present brings about IT'S chill
dren within reach Of the school.
Sheriff Page of this county is we'll
known In this section as a wheat grow
er and does. not plant any cotton. He
says the wheat h%ereabout does not look
we'll, the reason being the lack Of rain
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the summer. all of the fall and some OF
the winter so far has been exceptionally
dry, and the weather was in fact quite
trying on the wheat, though now to be
sure, there is plenty Of rain, but really
the ground needs all Of it.
The executive committee Of the
North Carolina Cotton Growers Asso-
citation met today in the o of Hon.
I'll $500. H.
other members present being Ashley
Horne, II. G. Dockery. A. c.. Green
and R.. H. Speight. Mr.. James II. Pou,
was present, by request, and subscrib-
ed 500, to the state association, as did
Ashley Horne, to aid in forwarding the
work to be undertaken. Over four
hours was spent in celebrating and
formulating working plans.
Fl. G. Dockery was elected perma-
nent chairman, and also acted as it's
secretary. 1t was deemed expedient
that the committee nvas the bankers
and merchants of Raleigh and ask
their more direct cooperation to bring
about such results as can only be re-
allied through a judicious expenditure
of money. When this is done the
chairman will call a special meeting
and mattrs regarding salaries of Off
GERS of the state association as we'll as
the number of assistants to be en-
plOyed will be arranged. This meeting
will soon be held at Raleigh and work
will be Immediately taken up in the
~unOrganized and weaker sections of
the state.
The corporation commissioners re
turned this afternoon from G%oldsboro
where they had a hearing on the union
depot question, the railways and towns
folks being fully heard. All railways
agreed to the necessity for a depot and
said they were willing to build it, but
as there were four factions among the
towns folk, the roads asked for ninety
days in which they could get together
and decide on the site they will recon-
mend, as they have not yet agreed on
location THIS is satisfactory to all
parties interested, so the hearing is
continued for ninety days. Some town
people want the depot In front of the
hotel, some at n end Of the town,
some at the other end and some at the
side.
Governor Glenn wrote letters to six
teen counties, in which it has been al
$3.50 'hht "hito III 1iOSio oh' itC> oiO
chained and confined together, asking
for facts in each case.
The apportionment of public school
funds made in Wake is $500 per pupil,
total $47.74O. Sheriff Page of Wake
paid state taxes aggregating $42,6O0.
James Edwin Moore, of senior class
at the Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege here. did at his home, William
StOn. He was one of the surveying
party under Professor Riddick, on the
Vedder lands in Jones and Onslow
counties last summer He was son of
late James Edwin Moore.