The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-10-08
RALEIGH { PhhuC0 SOUND R.R.
Work Being RapidIy Pushed on the
Line
To Deliver Address at Eaks' Memo
rial 3feeting-S A. L. Will Not
Operate Train to Fair Ground-Ihe
Apple Industry-haeonic Corner
Store Laying.
MESSENGER Bureau

George c. Campbell q prominent
LAWYER OF Norfolk, formerly OF Lynch
! burg. will deliver the address at the
annual memorial meeting on Sunday
! December 1st, Of the Raleigh Lodge
| CT ElEs.
! Among t0day's visitors was Julian
| S. Carr. Of Durham, commanding the
North Carolina confederate veterans.
| He has held this position for NUMBER
! of wears. The annual convention OF
this organization will be held at the
capitol during the week of the state
| fair.
This year, for the first time since
| the present fair grounds were occupied
! the SeabOard Air Line will not oper-
ate a train between the city and the
grounds. Heretofore the fare has been
! 10 cents by this line and also on the
| street cars, but under the new law the
| corporation commission cannot allo"
| a railway to charge over cents Tor
| the trip and the road cannot see proEt
| enough in this to operate its cars
Then. too the fare on the street rail-
way is reduced to 5 cents much COM
plaint having been made in the past
bv Raleigh People regarding the lo
cents charge, 5 cents being the usual
! rate
Work is being rapidly pushed at the
Raleigh end of the Raleigh &, Pamllco
Sound railway so it could have every
thing ready for the operation of trains
! by next Saturday. This road will use
! the tracks Of the Seaboard Air Line
for q few hundred yards from the
! Jones street terminal into the union
passenger station and there will be
through service from Norfolk to Ra-
leigh, via Washington and also Beau
fort via New Bern and Washington.
The city has given permission for the
| crossing Of treets by the new ROAD.
Tie new freight warehOu of this
line is we'll under way and will be
finished in a fortnight. An immense
Amount Of work has been done in COM
nleting the great trestle with its spur
itrack. Gna Of these going on the west
side CT the freight warehouse and the
| other on the east, on the trestle being
also the main line of the road. -
Th0uGh today in the trial of DR.. and
Ms. Rowland, charged with poisoning
Frcireer Strange, the time was Who'll
" given I'D to arguments by counsel
vet there were almost as many people
in the court house as on the other
five davs Of the week. It has been
the full week. It has Ttth-
. predicted that the trial would occupy
the full week and would have taken
even more time but for the dispatch
of business by Judge Long, who saw
| that no time was wasted in any way
/ A charter is granted the Hutton &
Borrbonmais Company Of Hickory, 70
deal in lumber, etc, capital stock De-
inc 100000 and George N. Hutton and
A. Bourbonmais being the chief STOCK
holders.
State Veterinarian TAFT Butler mas
5 returned from trip to Yadkln ano
Halifax counties, to Investigate sup
posed cases of glanders in horses. lie
found no cases in Yadkin, but several
on one farm in Halifax. The horses
infected with this terrible disease are
= isolated and tests are being MADE
O While DR.. Butler was on this trip he
( INSPECTED a herd Of cattle at Greens
s boro and made tests for tuberculosis
j Next week State Horticulturist Hut
,. goes to the apple country of the state
h beginning with the Ashevllle ahC
i Wavnesville section. He says ina
D anDles are now being shipped cas-
G from the Mount Airy section. From
g what news he can gather he finds tina
e there is not more than third OF
q normal crop in this section OF Tn
e state. ApDles are selling here at 3
and 60 cents per peck. Some yer
good ones are coming from the 100
Of the mountains.
Secretary Thomas B. Parker, or Tn
K North Carolina Cotton Assoclatlo1
- was seen today and says that IL
: clear from the reports coming into nj
Office that the crop is by no mean
what it was expected to be, say nv
weeks ago It seems that very HUI
:. + anv. growth is being made. BY Il
g. the greater part of the cotton IS ope
and considerable progreEs has pee
make in picking. From all secuo'
Is there come complaints Of the scarcl
~ Of labor.
oI It is the purpose of the North Ca
i olina section at the Jamestown exp
er sition to make fine displays of the Il
u fruits. A very handsome showing n
ay | haan nada ac to fruits vegetaDl
an grapes and melons during the SUNNI
10 Circulars have been sent out by I
Raleigh chamber of commerce to I
lat postmasters of the state, through p'
an master Briggs here, and TO the var1c
Masonic lodges, through Grand Sec