The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-01
RILE|GH NEWS LETTER
Judge Clark to Deliver Address Be-
fore University Of Pennsylvania
Gift to the san Francisco Sufferers
Pension Blanks Sent Out-ourt
House Being Reftted-Other News
Notes
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. y. c.. April IS.

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. c.. April IS.
Chief Justice Walker Clark will de-
liver an address Friday evening at
Philadelphia before the University OF
Pennsylvania. His subject will be:
Some Defects IN the United States
Constitution n the Necessity for the
Federal Constitutional Convention"
4 charter Is granted the Raleigh
Pressed Brick Company. capital stock
$4,000. T. T. Hay, and others stock
holders. There Is considerable ieyel-
opment in the way Of b~rickmakins in
the state. here n al other points.
! Through Mr.. Hugh Chatham. ITS
president, the Chatham Manufacturing
Company OF Elkin, sends 30 the San
Francisco sufferers 100 pairs OF he
very fine blankets II manufactures.
The railways transport this gift fires
10 San Francisco.
State Auditor Dixon today sea- out
the pension blanks 10 the various
counties. The pensions will not be
paid, of course. until December 18th,
as usual.
Mrs. Mary Mex. Nash. of New Bern,
has presented 10 the Hall OF History,
Sir Walter Raleigh's ooat-of-arms.
and also a very good picture of Gov
ernor Tryon's Palace" In New Bern
as t was when finished. Mrs. Nash
has been quite a large contributor BY
loan or gift 10 the collection.
The reftting of the offices of the
governor and secretary OF state makes
he fact only more apparent that the
other Offices in the capitol, As well as
the rotunda and corridors. not 10 speak
Of the halls OF the senate and house.
need attention OF the same kind. The
interior of the buildings could be made
very beautiful by he expenditure OF n
few thousand dollars. No time ought
to be lost, the public says. in getting
the walks laid down in the capitol
square.
The court house here is being en-
tirely reftted, steel ceilings having
been put in the offices, and many i'm
Drovements being made in the court
room.
The movement for the extension or
the CITY limits OF Raleigh has now TAX
en- quite definite shape, and is on Il
much better footing than heretofore.
Inc IHlTu cIon DuiltlI bhAS sN"'
shows that last week was fair and
very favorable for farm work. There
were general rains on Sunday, heay-
i. lest in the east, though the rainfall
for the week was considerably below
+ | normal, while the temperature was
, above normal. There were frosts on
, three days, the temperature reaching
|, the freezing point at one place.
!, Chief Clerk Moody. OF the state
: treasury, goes to Charlotte To remain
: a week. to rest. He has been suffer-
: ing very much from a sprained ankle.
State Auditor and Mrs. Dixon SN'
pected TO attend the wedding OF Rev
Plato Durham this evening, but an in
iurv which Mrs. Dixon received al
o Fremont Sunday night prevents theil
= presence. Mrs. Dixon was the CUES
of A friend at Fremont, and on TN
wav home from church, at a Dom
whare the darkness was intense, som
, one became frightened and ran agalns
her. knocking her down. In the fal
y Mrs. Dixon's head struck the step.
!, of the residence, and she was luit'
II painfully cut about the forehead Dr
Dixon went TO Fremont and brough
e her here. Her injuries are not serlouf
y however.
The II or TINS week VIII Z "aihS'
q by the presence here OF the Variou
i librarians in state, representing pun
J. lie and private libraries. About TWEEN
d ty-fve Of these visitors are expecte
Is and they will hold their annual cor
lie venticn.
State Poultryman Jeffreys says tina
he he has recently sold n great man
IT. breeding fowls from the farm her
e: sales having been made in half a do
or on states. He now has at the far
about $50 grown fowls and about .,
ne Young ones. The place IS one or Ia
most attractive AROUND Raleigh.
he Among the visitors 70 Raleigh is II
daughter Of the distinguished ,Bishc
We General Leonidas Polk. b was kiile
at the battle of Shiloh, and who VI
the son Of Col. William Polk, OF X
leigh.