The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-12-13
NEWS ITEMS FROM RALEIGH
Committee of Grand lodee In.
a spect Masonic Temple
County Goard of Education Forbids
Playing OF Baseball-CorpOratio
Commission Doesn't Know Where
1T is at-kiIled By Falling From
TPeStle.
Messenger Bureau

Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, Dec 10.
To-day the Masonic temple commit
tee of the grand lodge of Masons met
here, headed by Grand Master Francis
D Winston, and inspected the temple
thoroughly, in order to make report
to the grand lodge which meets here
in annual communication early in jan
uary. The work ON the temple is found
to be progressing very well indeed.
Practically all the offices in the build
ing have been rented. The roof was
completed today and will be overlaid
with tiles. There will be a high coat
ing aroi hd it, as it will be utilized for
a roof Garden, being the only one in
the state, and one Of the few in the
south. From the roof there is a splen-
did view of Raleigh and the surround.
iH country, particularly to the easc-
Ward. The building can be seen from
a great distance.
The rains which have marked the
past two weeks, have brought the
streams up to about their normal con-
ditiOn. The weather has been favor
able for small grain, of which it seems
a rather larger crop than usual mas
been sOWn this season
The supreme court today took up the
docket of appeals from the 10Th dis
.trict and tomorrow will hear those
which have been set at the end of the
docket
The bulletin of the North Carolina
board of health for December declares
the action of a certain county board of
educationn in forbidding the playing
of baseball at any of the public schools
in that county to have been unwise and
a protest is made against such action.
The board declares that of all the
games for boys there is not one equa!
to baseball. Then, too, country boys
need all the amusement they can get
Every school should have a good play
ground and it ought to contain a ball
field !
rxes Ssy toas5 et sns ana Wm'1sos sDop's5 ar
the agricultural department. For sew
eral months he has been in England
and ScGx2nd N the interest Of i'm
migratioa to North Carolina He made
report to Mr.. Patterson, commits
sioner of agriculture department. ami
then went to see Secretary Brunner
and talked over the matter
In conversation with your corre-
spondent regarding the persistent ra-
mors of impending settlement of the
railroad rate matter, Governor Glenn.
said the railways and the state would
have to get nearer together than they
now are before results come. The
corporation commissioners do not seem
to know what is ahead
This morning the body of Frank
Denton was found at the foot Of one
of the benches supporting the tall
trestle of sShe Raleigh and Pamlico
Sound Railway, in the northwestern
por43, of the city. He was 35 years
old and was a native of Franklin coun-
ty. He had been employed by a con-
tractor who built the trestle, and was
last seen about sunset yesterday He
must soon after have fallen from the
trestle.
The Seaboard Air Line officials here
seem to expect that NJ. B. Smith, of
Cheraw, will succeed the late Mr.. Bra
dy as freight agent at Raleigh. Mr.
Brady succeeded the late Chas. S. Allen
who had been connected with the road
for over SO years.
There are several quite interesting
cases before the u S. court now in
session here, one being against a
widow from Durham, who has been
retailing whiskey, which her husband
was dealer of. She was of some little
prominence in her town. Another cas-
is against two young men, brothers,
on the charge of stealing a registered
letter containing $4,000
H H. Herbert, who was stricken by
p&Aysis at work painting a building
near Raleigh, died in the hospital here
He said that he was a Mason and a
member Of lodge at Norfolk. He
came here last spring from Newbern.
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