The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-03-26
RAILROAD BUILDING N STATE
Work. Now in Progress on Eleven
n '5''A Different Lines nF =.
..rresL, Acts OF Legislature DIS
- neyere,, SO Ear-Fewer Mortgages
Being Recorded Than Ever beiof
"A IL Gee, eeO Cotton Cror ffeui
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, March Il. I'0''

.bio after,oon Directly before ut lelI
h. lid that never in all his eAlel-
iorca had he received such d numh3T
op rnouests, TO speak as had cone
ia during the past w days n09
r-.f averaging at least five a day anu ue
ing hspn to talk on all sorts OF suoJeO'@
a~nicuitural, religious, industrial eau.
eatioa, etc, and including also1a!S
NIL a growing inrete veteran. nc 1",a
D-~ kUnIG u" applications, as
yes so0s ausuUEhgth is not equal
rew aes of t2sk. er'o = ...-.s .-....
..1+5A whiskey dis1illery was chartered
at Wade3DolD today the Pee Dee Dis
Filling Company, G o. FullenWlder,
p 7. Bennett and ". T. Mills, to
make corn whfskey, the capital stock
being sS,09s. p
Charter is also granted the Peoples
Telephone Company Of TaylOrsyille,
sAs 1000
The Reformed Hebrew Synagogue
Company, Incorporated at Greensboro
is also granted a charter, F. J.. Kauf-
mann and others being the stockhOld-
arS. .... .. ..-s
Commissions are issued to the Off
Gers of Company NJ, Third Infantry,
OF the national guard at Sanford, as
follows; K. B. Griffin. Captain; A. w.
league, First Lieutenant; William
Widdideld, Second Lieutenant.
Tuesday afternoon a hundred ne
grOes employed in the mixing depart
ment of the Raleigh Phosphate Mills
struck for higher wages and walked
out. Today a number of them return
ed to work. A negro from Raleigh
- who had been employed there was
out at the place and was ordered
PIX away by the boss, drew d knife and
was himself cut by the boss. Today
there was a hearing of this matter.
- The question of the extension Of the
~ele0adc T. railway system here is re-
ceiving special attention just now.
'' It seems quite probable that an ex-
: tension Of three or four miles will be.
, made this year. - ..#3 .:H
"f'' AS yet nothing has been heard re-
"a garding the Summer school for teach
-f ers, which it is said last year would
I be held next summer, at the Agrtcul7
tllId1 a. NtCIldiilCdE So4iV5C. E<E Sd
The Sunday school convention, of
this county, is to be held March aOth,
al the First Presbyterian Sunday
Il school, instead OF. on the 23rd,. as at
first arranged a. 1
ID IA charter is granted the Wilson In
: azsumaoe,and Realty. Company to make
~t5ff11rnlture andrfixtures, authorized CAPT
sIstA sEac6 :i25,0VO5 g:..J H...
tfiw $50 tat moi freak" aets Of the last
~ legislature have been found. At al
81 most every session some bill with very
IF jl1yeer provisions becomes a law. 2.1 4
T. u AS has been stated the only confed-
:drate drum. corps, that at Raleigh, will
s 60 with Il. 0. E. Branch ann to the
t} confederate reunion at Richmond,
III and will also. go, to the Jamestown
? EXPOSITION and to Washington, per
haps to Gettysburg.a New uniforms
+. have been ordered for the corps. $50
The register of deeds Of this county
= stases that never before have there
RI been so few mortgages, lien bonds
etc, recorded as during the preseMA
W.. season; An fact almost the only ones
are those on lands which have been
sought. Land purchases have been
very numerous and smaller holdings
are becoming the rule. A great many
mortgages nave been cancelled. This
is an evident sign of prosperity.
Az ONE time there was some talk
, Of the extension Of the Raleigh and
tt PaxRlioo Sound railway from Raleigh
sfs ts Durham, and the ground was look
> ed aver, 1t is said, though no survey
u, has been made, There was some ak
'usj OF the extension of the Raleigh and
~ building into Raleigh, but a gentle
- man prominently connected with that
system remarked a day or so ago that
Ae did not know anything about it.
IS a There is more railway building in
The state this year than in a long time
-. work being in progress on eleven
: : roads, and now that spring has open
. i ed everything is being pushed with
sort the utmost speed 1t is the plan to
: w all the various extensions Of the
: - NoG&olk & Southern railway in this
fe,a state finished by September 1sr. The
/ : : total new mileage is 201, exclusive OF
! 60 miles of line which the Roper
.var Lumber Company will build but which
.e4 VIII he equipped and operated really
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