The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-08-17
Fight on Ownership of Blackwell
Durham Tobacco Co.
Governor Glenn Goes TO Norebead-
Professor Hume to CO TO Fiorada-
Hearing in the Matter of the Cape
Fear Power Company's Plant ut
BuckIforn FaIl-Charters by the
State.
Messenger Bureau.

Next Saturday Prof. Harold Hume,
who since April, 1904, has been in
charge Of the horticultural section Of
the state department of agriculture,
and who has done such splendid work
all over North Carolina, will leave
for Glen, st. Mary, Fla, to become
associated with Mr.. G.. l.. Taber, in the
great nurseries there. He takes charge
as manager. Many new lines are TO
be developed. There are $50 acres in
cultivation, and a special feature will
be b development OF cyprus fruit.
Prof. Hume leaves public for private
work because Of a larger remuner-
ton. He is we'll acquainted with trop-
ical n sub-trOpical horticulture. He
is the author Of CYPRUS Fruits and
their Culture" The Peacan and its
Culture" In fact his work is known
all over the country. He is a native
OF Canada, and came here from the
University of Florida. He will certain
~ be missed in North Carolina. His
assistant is Mr.. S. G.. Ryner.
1t is expected that the new post
master, Mr.. Willis c. Briggs, will take
charge by September LIST. Possibly
next week.
Cotton is said by farmers TO be i'm
proving since the local rains set in
Saturday. There has been some shedd-
ing.
Deputy Insurance Commissioner
Scott is nov in Rowan investigating
the burning OF the barn, etc, OF the
Lyerly family.
Prof. E. c. Brooks, Of GoldsboTO,
who becomes the editor of the North
Carolina Journal of Education is here.
The first issue appears September Is.
Durham will be the place of publica-
ton, Mr.. Seman doing the printing.
The magazine will be illustrated and
will cover the school work from pri-
mary to college. Eight or ten writer's
are helping.
A charter is granted the Bottler's
R~eshaping Machine company, Of Char
lotte, to make and sell machines for
reshaping bottle caps, buy and sell
patents, make machinery, operate
bottling plants, cts, capital stock $780,
600. George G. Glenn, J.. A. Glenn, and
Charles M. Glenn, stockholders.
State Auditor Dixon Is sending out
lists of bank stocks to the registers of
deeds, also lists Of corporations ex-
cess.
Mr.. J. J. Johnson, a leading dealer
in ice and coal here, is in a very criti-
cal condition, blood poisoning having
followed an operation performed a
few days ago.
Mention has ben made of the serious
illness of fever at New Bern of Miss
Jessie Bumpas, daughter of the pastor
of EdentOn street Methodist church
here. Her condition has so much i'm
proved that the cable message was
sent her father, now in the Holy Land,
that it was not necessary for him to
return and so he will remain until
October LIST.
Mention has been made in a number
0 fthe papers of the old Jail now in
use in Rowan county. Miss Daisy
benson, the secretary of the state
board of public charities, remarked
today that Rowan would o have a
new Jail, to cost $40, 900, and it would
be one Of the best. in the state.
1t is very evident that there is to be
a very notable and costly fight on the
duCSlIoI VI lhC o"llCI o1IP VI LAS ~
we'll Durham Tobacco company. The
Durham company of that nam holds
the state charter, and the American
Tobacco company seeks to domesticate
the company of the same name, char
tered in New Jersey. The Durham men
who are the stockholders of the Dur
ham company will put up a great fight.
This year the Brotherhood of St.
t-I-ou- IN Mouth To~O1iro o,l olco
in South Carolina, will hold NJ state
conventions, but will hold their entire
strength to the Memphis convention
which is the national n of the broth
erhood in the United States and Can
ada. This will be held in October,
and it will be the first ever held in
the south. Mr.. Houghteling, of Chic
ago, who started the great brotherhood
movement, will be present and will
speak.
There are some intimations tina it
may be sOme time before the Raleigh
and PamlicO sound railway enters the
city, though it has secured the right
Of way and paid for it.
Governor Glenn has left for Camp
Glenn at No-ehead CITY, 10 BE- there
two Or three days, accompanied by
most Of the members of his staff.
1t is expected that one of Ralelgh's
two steam fe engines will be converted
into an automobile and that alcohol
will be used as fuel. 1t is said this
is cheaper and quicker than any ether
kind of fuel for his purpose.
State Superintendent of Public In
struction Joyner has returned from
Wrightsyille where he attended a dis
trict institute, which was we'll attended
and full of interest. The institute work
this summer has been on a larger scale
and more successful than ever before, |
almost all of the state. J
The finishing touches are being put
the new annex for women at Cen
trail Hospital for the insane here. Out :
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