The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-15
Attendance anu interest in An
nuai Meetings lrCraasin8
Monthly Reports OF Tobacco Sales
Female Letter Carriers-Judgc
Pritchartf's Decision Creates No
Surprise-Counties and Schooi
Tax.
AIeSoSA-S - Lrea91
Raleigh rsta.er :

vas better is physician rea ported
quite a decld' d Improvement
The ann' al meeting or the Liteia;E
and His .nrical Association of North
Carroll ia will be held on the afternoon
and evening of next TUESDAY a. tn"
-aney Assembly rOCms here. Year
after Year the attendance has INCREASED
and thai OF last year was ;he largest
and most interesting one ever LeIu-
The monthly re. OFT >. ~ -:.'A.
tobacco markets IN the state have betl
compiled by the safe d.riculyui al is
partment for September Every ic'f
tobacco warehouse is required ID s5nt
in these reports and forty have made
such returns. Wilson leads with
4,476,1S5 pounds; Greensville coming
next with 1886, ,GS5; hlnsJCn Oelns
third with 3,OJ1 ,958. Roc"y Mount
fourth with ,U42. The total sales
fo, the month were 2i,71l.1v8. The.
are six new markets which came IL
for the first time this season.
There are now five female letter ciG-
riers on the rural free delivery routes
of that sex in Wake county. In MAJ!
cases it is difficult to tell by the name
whether the carrier is male CT female.
Postmaster Briggs today received a
letter from G. H. 3. Leonard, IoGmefly
assistant postmaster here stating that
he had been appointed postodice inspo-
tor and would locate in Mississippi.
Not much surprise was expressed
here at the ruling of Judge Pritcha-
that this state could go no further
back than two years in its examination
Of the books of the Southern railway.
In fact that opinion has been discount
ed already. 1t has been remarked thLt
the state would not lose anything by 1t
in its contentious before the supreme
court A great many persons Iegari
it as a fact that the states case is
sufficiently made up to win out.
There is Of course great interest Ill
the opinion of the supreme court IN
the Franklin county school tax case
which was in fact a friendly suit, lie
signed to test the meaning OF the con-
stitutiOn as to the public schools; that
is whether the latter were not required
absolutely to be kept open at least four
months in each twelve. The court SO
holds and it's declaration that the coun-
ties must levy taxes to do this is very
gratifying to the state superintendent
of public instruction who indeed, f2.t
confident of such a decision. Those
places which already levy special taxes
and have their schools open the re-
quired time don't have to pay taxes t0
keep schools open in other districts.
Thus those will be helped who nelp
themselves.
The trains on the Norfolk & South
ern railway from Washington to RAJ
eigh which are to be operated next
week in order to bring visitors to the
state fair will be run to the grounds.
1t will be the first opportunity the
people Of that section ever had to get
here speedily and conveniently.
State veterinarian TAFT Butler has
returned from Halifax county where
he went for the second time to inspect
the cases Of glanders in horses and
10.
This disease was probably brought here
in a horse which came from the north
This animal has for two or three
weeks been isolated and perhaps mas
chronic case. Nine hO3ses have been
affected and seven of them have died.
DR.. Butler was speaking about losses
Of cattle by tick fever He remarked
that where grown cattle which hadn't
been expCs0l to tick were so exposed,
hey woul, certainly be infected and
very pr ably the Infection would
cause death. He said that within five
miles of Raleigh within the
past moth or two 1T least fifteen
had died for this very reason. The
owners declined to believe that cat
tie could be so infected and die, but
they believe it now When the pocket
is touched the mind is very apt to be
reached
Assistant State Labor Commissioned
county in aid of the Appalachian anG
Interurban railway
Though there has been frost in this
county this week yet no damage of
any kind has been done and no sign
of it is shown.
r. l. Smith has ben appointed ento-
mologist at the Agricultural and Me
chanical college experiment station.
He come from Georgia where he hell
the same position for that state. Tie
state agricultural department here has
is own entomOlogist Franklin Sherman
This department and the college are
now entirely separate in control and
The first dress parade OF the cadet
battalion Of the Agricultural and Ne
,hanical college was held this after |
.oon. The cadet band now has an il /
tructor, Bardmaster Hagerdon. of The
bird regiment band.