The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-08
,w,,cHT WRECK ON SOUTHERN
-,r,an, Conference Held at tne
G~oyernur's Offcc-Farmers hUa Ier
Ing Money-Inprovins md
TiIe-Status OF Analrs at
NJ College.
Messenger Bureau,

Raleigh, N. G. Nov ..
,orresnondent was talking To-
day to J. r. Chamberlain. ne"d -
big C.rleigh Phosphate WORKS
and J. o.. Moring, the uperln'e
of the RaleAh Cotton Mills. aoou'
the financial situation. which Is ho~
beginning to aneot the az q
yery critical time for the farmers %
reducing the amount of cash available
for the purchase of cotton Mr.. Cham
herlain remarked that at one OF the
big tobacco markets in the STATE o.
had looked carefully into the SITUATION
At this place as much as a nliifoh
no,,nds Of tobacco were sold some days
and from $50, 1000 to $50 900 paid u
for it in cash, yet merchants OF the
town said that very little was spent
with them. while little or nothing was
deDosited in the n by the afmer
who had received this money now
what do they do with it? They tHCK IL
home. AS Mr.. Chamberlain
they like to feel it jingle in their
rockets after they and their children
had done hard work IN the summer
and spring to get it. This is where
millions and millions Of cash is lock-
ed up when it ought to be in clrcu-
latiOn.
A charter is granted the Rockingham
Lumber Company, Rockingham. caPl-
tai stock $25 900.
At II O'Clock this morning a vcry I'M
-@-kn~+ aor fnrnn0o Hno0n nf y "a gov
ernor's office, at which were present
all the members of the council OF state,
the assistant attorney general the
corporation commissioners and Attor-
neys C. B. Aycock, Edward j. Justice,
James E. Shepherd, Robert W. Win
ston, Fred A. Woodland and Waller
E. Daniel. The governor informed
the persons present of what had DC
Cured at the conference held i'll At
Ianta last week with Governor Hoke
Smith of Georgia, and Governor Com
er of Alabama. This latter conference
of governors has been many times re-
ferred to in the papers, but very lit
lie has been given out IN regard to it
and this was the first opportu1lty he
gen&lement present yesterday haG TO
know the story. The matter discussed
today was the Southern railway rate
case and the proper method OF pro-
cedure. There was a very full ex-
change Of views by the persons pres
ent.
Last night there was freighc Week
on the Southern near Selma and a mum
Der of cars were smashed. Passengers
were transferred last nfght nd this
morning at that place.
County Road superintendent William
G. Allen has put the big stone crl 5h
ing machine at work on tie railway
lines at the state fair grounds, which IS
also an important public highway.
There are 90 %cOnVicts now at wOrk on
the roads and ten of these are 1T Gar
nera getting out rack rock, which is
being shipped to the craSher, this be-
ing the finest material in the world Tor
roads. :l
President George T. Winston, OF the
a and7M. college, was speaking tcoay
about the status there since the two
student rushes Or cOmbats which were
officially permitted. He said L'at Is
had three things to say in rGt,,+
ito the situation today. ST FEELING
there was not a part:iasses CT a,v
ornill Will between jnd, that tae en-
ofathe students been permitted SEEM
bats whirFery complete cure for haz-
ed}f" Third, that the whole affair,
DIS TO the battle had been ~exaewerated,
in some cases greatly.