The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-08-06
PROHIBITION OR O|sPEMsARY
Aldermen Asked to Call Election
to Settle Question
Hyde County to Have hailroad-
Corn Suffering From Drought
Charters Granted-PeOnage Cases
i'm Pitt County Being Tried.
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh. Aug,

.
the Mattamuskeet railway, in hyde
county have so convicts, for which
it had applied and filed the neces-
sary bonds and statements. Messrs
Carter and Davis OF Hyde and Super
intendent Mann of the penitentiary
were present at the meeting The
use of the cOnvicts were granted.
The length of this road is 60 approx
mate 43 miles from a point on Pam
l1co sound to point on the main
line Of the Norfolk and Southern
railway. Hyde is one of the very
few counties in the state which has
no railroad. A very interesting cam
paign wa SHIELD this year on the ques-
J1on of the issue of bonds in aid of
this road, Governor Glenn and sew
eral other state officia.- making
speeches.
Mention was made the other day
OF the fact that the convicUs who
had been at work on .kes-
borO and jefferson turnpike had
been brought to the penitentiary and
would be transferred 20 Robson
county to do some work for the At
lantlc Coast Line. AS yet the con-
Vlcts have not Ueen sent There
will be about 80 of them.
The Charlotte Realty Company is
authorized to increase it's capital
stock from one hundre4 thousand
dollars to three hundred thousand
dollars. J. H. Little is the president
of the company.
Charters are granted the Dixie
Real Estate Company of Greensboro,
which will also do an insurance
business, capital stock $4,000 and
to the Elise Mining Company, of
Hent, Moore county, capital stock
$4,000, A. J. Jones of Glendon and
others being the stockholders.
Tonight committee composed of
Rev. S. j. Belts, II. P. Smith, w c.. |
Douglass and T. Miller, represent |
ing the prohibitionists here, present
ed to the board of aldermen a petit |
ton for an election on the question |
or prohibition or dispensary. AS it |
seems to be understood that the eIac-
T1On on the issue of bonds for an au-
d1tOrlum will be held the first week
IN september, the committee asks
tnat the liquor election be set three !
months later, namely during the first
week III December me saloon men |
are all said to be prohibiCioni8ts, and
Rev. Mr.. Belts was today observed
talking to two of them. He says his
side will win, three 20 one.
There has been a fine prospect
or corn lately IN this section, but |
low the crop is being severely hurt !
oy the drought. At The city farm
corn only two months old is tan
,eet high and is coming into silk
md tassel, but it is showing the eff
ect OF very hot dry weather.
The total number of persons in ]
all here is only ten, and Of these
i've are charged with murder.
Judge Purne1 is a. Beaufort to
loid the first term of federal court !
here to try the ten peonage cases
rom Pitt county. These are the
Eases of foreigners who were brought |
% work on the NorfolA and South
9rn railway.
Mr.. Jacob S. Allen of this city we'll
known as confederate veteran, !
was talking to me today about a
medal which he said was struck
by the confederate government /" |
1868 or 1864 to be given to Tue
bravest soldier in each battle, troop |
or company. He said his own COM
pany voted on several occasions for
the man to receive the medal, and |
that every time ii was awarded to !
Jerry Draper, of Warrenton. Mr.. |
Allen said that he had seen the med |,
Your correspondent at once wrote !
to Mr. Draper, asking the loan Of !
this war rene in order to place 1t !
in the hall of history.
Penitentiary superintendent Mann
says the crops at the state farm on
the Roanoke river are far from good
this season The cotton is small in
size and the stand is remarkably
DOOR. The crop is not suffering
from drought as there was a good
rain last week. He does not think
that much over two-thirds of a crop
can be made, at the same time he
SAYS it is very difficult to calculate
as to a cotton crop. He is a very
careful man and knows this we'll,
from years Of observation.
State superintendent Joyner is
notified that two more school dis
tricts have voted for local tax, one
of these being Mocksville, where Mr..
Joyner recently spoke in support o.
that plan.
A letter from Miss Mary Hilliard
Hinton, one of the ladies comm tee
on the collective art ana history ex-
hibit of North Carolina at the
jamestown exposition, says the paint
ing Of Indian life, the first made in
this country, has been placed on the
walls of the history building, and
so have the many pictures sent from
the hall of history by your corre-
spondent, the latter being photo
graphs, with the exception Of few
water colors, and the pictures from
the state library, to the number of
about a dozen. AS yet the painting
O. the three signers of the declara-
ton of independence painted by Mr.
Spencer Baird Nichols. of W"~N3ng-
ton, have not arrived here, though
they have been shipped. These
three pictures are the gift of the ex
position commission. MIR. John u
Wood of Edenton, and Mr.. Charle:
Van Noppen of Greensboro. Ihe
Indian pictures are loan IRON
Col. Beneham Cameron, and are cop
les of those in possession of the