The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-07
THE EASTERN TRA|h|AG SCHOOL
Liberal OfferslMade By Compel
ing Towns
RECLAMATION OF SWAMP LANDS
Band of State School for Blind to Go
to jamestown Observation-Disclosures
North TO Address Farmers Conven-
tion-DeIay in Laying Corner Stone
OF Masonic Temple.
Especial to The Messenger


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Raleigh, June 5.-The hearing OF
the the eastern training school dele
cations did not end until O'Clock this
afternoon Each had been required to
file with the state board of educa ton
a sealed proposal, showing its offer OF
money and land. These are not get
opened State Superintendent Joyner,
after the end OF the hearings, an
nounced that the board would ar
range series Of visitations to The
competing points, the dates of the vis-
it's to each not being yet arranged.
Not until after these visitations are
completed will the decision be an
nounced as to the location. 1t is un-
derstood that the offers are as follows:
Greenville, 100000; Washington, S75,-
900; Elizabeth City, $62,500; Tarboro,
5000 Edenton. Rocky Mount, Kin
ston, and New Bern, $4,000. Each
place except Kinston offers 20 acres
as a site. Kinston offers 200.
The entire board Of agriculture went
before Governor Glenn and the coun-
ell of state and asked the sanction Of
the latter to the borrowing of money
for an agricultural building to cost
not less than 100000. The plan is to
borrow and pay $4,000 annually for the
next ten years.
President Charles Moore Of the N.
G. Cotton Association, says Director
North of the census bureau promises
to come to Raleigh and address the
state farmers convention in August.
The band Of the state school for the
blind, twenty-six in number, leaves
for the Jamestown exposition to play
ten days Several blind girls also go
to make fancy work Professor J. B.
Carlyle, of Wake Forest college re-
ports that up to today he has raised
100000 of the $112,5O0 needed to Sc
cure the $37,50O gift from the general
education board.
Grand Master of Masons, Francis D.
Winston, tells me work on the Mason
ic temple here will not be sufficiently
advanced to permit the laying Of the
corner stone on st. Johns day, but
that it will be laid in July.
The delegations urging the claims
of various towns for the location Of
the Eastern Training School drew lots
for their turn before the board of edu-
cation. The following was their order
with the names Of their spokesman:
Edenton, w. D. Pruden; Newbern, A.
lett; Kinston, Plato Collins, N. J.
Rouse, Y. T. Ormons; Tarboro, F. l..
Daughteridge; Washington, Harry Ho-
well and w D. Grimes; Greenville, T.
J. Jarvis; Rocky Mount, Jacob Battle.
The hearing was not public and each
delegation was heard with closed
doors.
The Vanon Place, implement con-
pany, Charlotte, capital stock 100000.
is chartered
J. o. Wright, by special invitation
addressed the board of agriculture and
told about the great work the govern
ment is beginning to inquire into in
eastern North Carolina. the reclama-
ton of swamp lands. The board is
greatly gratified with his statements
The board conferred with the governor
and council of state regarding the
erection Of a fireproof agricultural
building to cost at least 100000 as
recommended by the special committee
The corporation commission goes 10
Beaufort next Saturday to attend The
Norfolk and Southern Railway cele-
bration.