The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29
NEWS ITEMS FROM RALEIGH
Work on Terminal of Norfolk and
Southern Being Pushed-Arrested
for Observation-Disclosures Law
Well Obseryed-Other Happenings
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c.. october "a.

Raleigh, N. c., October "a.
The yards of the Norfolk & South
eru railway here are now very ousy
place There is deep cut through tne
.Glennwood property, srr1p OF winch
Was condemned and bought by this
road and enormous quantities or eartn
had been taken from this for use ae
the freight yards, which are nVe blocks
west of the capitol and at the yaros
uhich are north of Glennwood, Wnere
the company has also purchased much
property. The company Is ntting
houses at its terminal for freight Of
fees and sheds and for occupancy oy
employees, has removed numbers OF
dwellings from its right of way ard
refitted these for rent.
On the 18th of November an original
oil portrait, life-siZe of Governor SAM
ueI Johnston, the builder and first
owner of the beautiful home at Hayes.
near Edenton is to be presented to the
state, it having been purchased by the
Sons of the Revolution. 1t will be
accented by Lieutenant Governor Win
ston.
Governor Glenn went to Goldsboro
today and spent the time between
trains in conference with Ex-Governor
Aycock, regarding the Southern rail-
way rate matter which is now the
center of attraction as a subject or
discussion.
Two Scotch lads arrived today direct
from that country and one of them
went to Lumber Bridge, the other
going to the farm at the Central hos
pital for the insane here.
Another school district in Sampson
county has voted for local tax, this
being at Keener.
K G. Clifton, for several weeks an
operator in the Western Union Tele-
graph Office here, has been taken to
Oxford on the charge of embezzllng
500 from the Seaboard Air Line, Clif-
ton having been operator and agent at
a little station in Granville county.
He says he is entirely innocent and
the whole thing is due to an error
i'm bookkeeping.
Farmers who have come in from
all parts of this county report that the
game law has been wonderfully we'll
observed this year and that they have
heard Of no shooting of partridges.
The season opens November 1st and
the outlook for SpOrtsmen is very good
indeed. The summer has been favor
able for birds and this fall there IS
plenty of food for them though the
weather has been rather dry for corn
field peas, of which these birds are SO
fond
In the superior court here a case
involving considerable money was Oh
trial today, this being that Of Walter
Watson, trustee of the w w. Mills
Company against the Proximity Cotton
Mill Company of Greensboro for $32,-
600 The company claims that as I'D
offset there is due it from the Mills
company $4,000.
The negroes are very greatly pleased
at the address delivered by Governor
Glenn at their state fair yesterday. 1t
brimmed over with friendly advice
and there was much comment about it
yesterday and also today.
Clerk Chas. II. Mebane, of the office
of the state superintendent of public
instruction, it at Newton, where his
an;hter is very sick.
An unusually large number of people
from the north, it seems, are to come
to the state this season. Letters from
various points in the north indicate
as much. Last winter was very severe
there but mild here and several of the
letter writer's say they fear heavy
winter in their section and so desire
to come south early. Heretofore they
have been going in rather beaten
tracks, but some of them this season
are going to strike out and enter new
fields.
The chamber of commerce is in
formed by Chairman James H. Chad
bourn. of the Wilmington chamber OF
commerce, that Special Director John
"A. Fox of the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress, who is canvasslne
this state in aid of the plan for thirty
feet of water from the mouth Of the
Cane Fear river to Wilmington. II
order to make the latter city a gate
way port and insure equitable rates IT
Che interior towns of North Carolina
is to be at Raleigh October 2Sth. NORTH
Carolina has been very short on gate
ways as the Investigations Of the
freight rate matter has very piainl!
shown.