The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-09-06
Raleigh. N. c.. Sept ..


Of HIS Misaon-Othcr News Noes.
Raleigh. N. C. Sept :.
Cotton Is opening with very great
rapidity now, owing TO the exceedingly
dry and hot weather. No rain has fall-
en- here In three weeks and the plants
yesterday looked quite wlted as 10
the top leaves. Your correspondent
late In the afternoon made q trip
through the cotton fields and saw sew
eral thousand acres. The staple seems
TO be very good and the cotton Is ex-
tremely white. The bolls opening are
just above the ground. IL was SAID
BY a gentleman who IVES said to he
an expert that this opening was benc-
fetal 10 the plants, He contending that
il relieved them and threw the strength
ino cher hollis, The plants continuc
TO bloom very freely and are heavy
with fruit.
Editor Clarence H. Poe OF the Pro-
sressive Farmer, has gone To chatham
county. where his father Is very sick
with cardiac asthma.
The assessment OF property OF Wake
county and Raleigh Is announced. The
total valuation of real and personal
property, including railways. tele-
graphs, corporation excess. bank stock
etc, but not including incomes. aggre-
gates $50 O,O33, ,465. the increase being
s9S2,l69 in the county outside OF Raj
eigh and $3s7,7S1 in Raleigh, the to-
tai valuation of Raleigh being $780,
$50.
Students continue to arrive quito
rapidly today at the Agricultural and
Mechanical college and all members
of the faculty are here including two
new ones. Wednesday and Thursday
the examinations will be held for en-
trance. The foundation for the new
power house has been completed.
JCB Beavers, a graduate of the A and
M. College here. has won quite dis
tinction by putting up the best exami-
nation in the whole country for po-
sition in the United States civil service
IN the department of farm manage
Incnl. I1c IOOh bcP OA NA'N A'N~
there being other applicants from all
the other states. He was the only one
from North Carolina His home Ia In
Durham county.
The supreme court is devoting this
week to appeals from the second dis
trict which will be called tomor-
row.
The corporation commission will on
Wednesday hear complaints regarding
the breaking Of railway connections
at Sanford and Maxton. One of these
connections has been broken for some
time Of course the commission will
look into the matter very carefully
indeed It has full power under the
law to require connections to be made
in case it finds that they are necessary
for the public service.
Most of the streams in this section
are very low indeed. Some of them be-
ing smaller than in many months.
Much regret was expressed here this
morning at the news OF the death Of
Mrs. Grimes Cowper, a daughter OF
the late Col John NJ. Heck OF this
city Her death was very sudden.
letter from Secretary Thomas X
Bruner of the Board of Agriculture.
who is acting commissioner OF immi-
grafton, says he will sail from Europe
on the 7th instant. He seems to be
very well pleased with the work he has
done 50 far. The type Of young Scotch
men who have come over here is a
very high one, but some of them. not
having been trained TO agricultural
pursuits, being from the cities, and
having had special training In book
keeping, etc, have found employment
In other places. A well known farmer
NJ. R w. Scott OF Alamance, was
speaking to your correspondent about
this matter and said that he had one
Of these boys and that he was a splen-
did fellow but one Of the boys friends
who was in Boston, urged him to
come there and so he went and has n
fine position in a bank, having receiv-
ed training as an accountant. Mr..
Scott said that he hoped Scotch boys
rom rhe country would be secured,
who had grown up Immediately on the
farms. and that he thought these would
be extremely valuable for North Car
olina. He and his neighbors regretted
to see his young Scotchman leave
The county superintendent of roads
will build a particularly handsome
road way from this city To the state
fair grounds. during the next thirty
days, using new machinery for this
purpose.
Business was suspended this after
noon and great numbers Of people went
out TO the fair grounds TO attend the
labor day exercises, while others went
to Pullen Park 10 witness and hear the