The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19

Street Railway to Extend System.
Revival Services 0ose-New Regu-
lations To Protest Came.
(Special to The Messenger. }

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Since the work of laying the double
track on Fayetteville street for the
street railway has gotten under way
in connection with tac general scheme
for extending the system more thaa
five miles into important sections OF
the city, a considerable agitation has
! started against putting down the Bel
gian blocks again ard the subs
ton of vitrifed brick Or other less
noisy having. The mater will prob
ABLY be settled Monday night when
the aldermen will be IN session for
the purpose of perfecLinS the details
for the election CT prohibition CT dis
pensary which has been called for De-
cember 26.
The revival services conducted the
PAST two weeks at the First Baptist
church. in which Pastor w. C. Tyree
was assisted by Rev. W. H. Lunsford,
of Asheville, closed last night with in
tcrest at a high point, there having
been four professions after the closing
sermon The meetings have resulted
in twenty-five professions at the church
and the morning services that were
conducted in the chapel Of the Baptlst
University for women resulted in pro-
fessions being made by practically eT-
ery young lady who was not already
a church member. A very successful
revival is in progress at West Raleigh
church by Rev. P. G. kilsom.
Henry Johnson, the negro who was
serving seven years in the penitentlary
from Sampson county and managed to
escape early in the week was rearrest-
ed at Hafeld yesterday and has been
It looks now like the plans that were
a-foot for having a Raleigh day at
the Jamestown exposition late in the
present month will not materialize. In
fact, Mayor Johnson has about dec1d-
ed to call off the movement in that
direction owing to the lateness in the
season and the probability that real
cold weather will have come upon this
section in that time.
Commissioner S. L. Patterson, State
Chemist B. w. Kilgora' and State Vet
irinarian Butler Of the state depart
ment ef agriculture will leave Mon
DAY for Columbia S. c., to attend the
annual session of the association or
commissioners of. agriculture for the
southern states in progress there next
week.
The cotton oil people say that though
the quality of the seed this season IS
very far superior to that last season
when so much damage was done by the
rains and breezes, yet the seed this
season are not yielding nearly so much
Oil as last year and they attribute
this to the very dry weather which has
prevailed since the summer. The guam
! tity Of seed has been quite fair.
A gentleman who has just return
ed from the North carolina Sounds
SAYS that a new regulation has been
business those pot hunters who are
| known as fire fighters who have been
Staying ducks at night, using torches
in their boats Now when anything
is seen about a boat showing that 1t
is being used for this sort Of work
! it is prima facie evidence that the own
er is violating this law. In other
words it is just about like man hay
| ing a United States revenue license tC
sell whiskey, being evidence that he
is selling it.
| Speaking about this revenue mat
ter, some of the revenue officers seen
10 have an idea that the state supremc
court has decided in d case from New
bern, that this state law did not hold
This is a mistake as no such opinion
| has been given.