The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-08-27
Several Behind In Making Reports
to Audit0f
Premium List for State Fair Issued.
Recruiting for the Army-COnd-
ton Of Cotton---S Rruner
I'm France--Charters Granted.
Messenger Buresu,
Raleigh, N. c., August q.

this morning told Of the death ther-
of Joseph K. Marshall, youngest SON
of Rev. DIR. Mathew NJ Marshall, for
so many years rector of Christ church
here. Mr.. MarshaIFs death was due
to consumption from which he mad
suffered for several years. He leaves
a wife and one child
The weather report for North Care
lima for July was issued today, AMI
says the month was slightly warmer
than usual but not quite a degree
above the normal There were no ex.
cessively high or low temperatures.
The state auditor is after several
scores of corporations which have
failed to report the valuation OF thell
property and the amount of capital
stock and notifies them that the re-
port must be in September [ OF they
will be penalized.
The premium list of The Attn annual
state fair here October 14th to- 18th is
issued E. L.. Daughteridge IS the
president of the North Carolina Agri-
cultural Society which holds these
fairs, which rank among the most sue
cessfuI in the entire south. The
board of agriculture this year allows
$3.50 of special premiums for field and
garden crops and ii special crops have
been sIected, all staple ones, in each
case the first premium being SIS; the
second SIS, and the third $5. There
will also be set of valuable premiums
for truck crops. One of the features
of the fair will be the speech by W.
J: Bryan on Thursday, October 17th.
He is always a great drawing card and
as the general opinion seems to be
that he will again be the democ1 attic
nominee for the presidency will be an
added reason for there being notaDis
large audience.
Captain Winston, q. S. A, who is in
charge of the recruiting serv ice in the
eastern part of the state has been on
TIT 1utv for four months. There are
five stations and at these about 50
men have been secured. He avs that
about only 20 per cent. of tln0s VINO
apply pass the examination. The S0V
ernment does not relax any of its re-
Guirements and men must be physical
ly and morally sound. He thinks corl-
oTess will make an appropriation for
increasing the pay of enlisted mon
though as a matter of fact the pay
VII compare very we'll with thar
for unsKi1Ied labor in this part of the
country, the total really being about
$55 month.
In the sheriffs Office the officials
were talking about the more than OF
dinarily cool summer and said that as
result fewer persons had gone insane
than usual and that there was also
less crime. They think that both
of these things are affected by the hot
weather and one official said this was
the result of very close observation
for six years past.
Henry c. Dockery who is Il large
farmer in Richmond county, was mere
today to attend a meeting of the
trustees of Wake Forest college,. He
is also member of the jamestown
exposition commission from this state.
When asked about the cotton crop in
his section he said it was very good;
in fact better in his county than it
was last year, and that the fruiting Of
the plants was very heavy. The acre
age is about the same as it was last
year: He says that labor is very scarce
and high and that cotton pickers will
be in great demand, one reason being
that the Rockingham Power Company
employs about 500 men and has sharp
ly advanced wages. Speaking about
the corn crop in Richmond county he
declared that it was never better
Mr. Jones, a we'll known lumbermar1,
whose headquarters are at Durhanr
was here today having just returned
from Wendell, this county. He says
that in mile and a half of this Eew
town which is on the Norfolk G.
Southern railway. there are nine lum-
her mills and that he has contracts
for taking their output, 10000, 900 feet
Of lumber All of this goes north to
New York, Pennsylvania and to the
west as far as Michigan, where it is
sold right in the white pine country.
The Michigan pine forests are being
destroyed and do not renew themselves
as they do in North Carolina.
State Treasurer Lacy says the cor
porations are paying the franchise tax
very well. This is dull month in the
treasury as it is in the other state de-
partments.
Secretary of State Grimes was asked
today about the condition Of his cotton
crop in Pitt and Beaufort counties and
said that while there was very great
Improvement, yet nothing like a full
crop could possibly be made and that
the outlook is poor.
Charters are granted the Rocking
ham Motor Company, at Rockingham
to own and operate automobiles repair
the same, etc, $4,000 capital stock.
W. N. Everette and others stockhold-
ers; the Lenoir Hardware and Furnf-
ture Company, at Lenoir, TO do a
wholesale business, sf25, 900 eatital, W.
J. Lenoir and others Stockholders. fbe