The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-04-19
RURAL HIGH SCHOOLS
The Board of Education Preparing
Rules For Government
Three Snow Squalls in Raleigh-Con-
ditiOn of Strawberry Crop-Eight
Between Students--C Charters Grauted
Raleigh. \. c.. April l..

Raleigh, y. Z, Aprl Il.
The remarkable weather came to a
climax Saturday afternoon. There vas
a little snow and in the night there was
more and Sunday afternoon there was
quite a lively snow sQuall, lasting
about five minutes Near here thera
was much more snow both on Satur Ia!
and Sunday The ice formed Saturday
night and again last night, fully an
eigth Of an inch in thickness and in
shaded places there was ice al! l2y
Sunday The trees present Z very
curious case Of what may be termed
arrested development. This Is the
four centh cold day in sucCessiou aud
vegetation has made no progress. Vt
in spite of the weather il is cOuLrnGed
that there is very little damage -
fruit in tnis section. There Seems to
be none to vegetation. Last yea here
was frost almost at the middle Cf Ny
The Raleigh Register Of 1918 says hat
-
ing frost May 18th. very old people then
saying that it was the latest spring
since 1774, when. one OF the greatest
frOsts ever known in the spring Occurc-
ed May 4.
The state board of education IS pre-
pairing the rules and regulations for
the government of the rural or COUNTY
high schools which are to receive state
aid under the new law. Wake county
gets the first OF these. the cOuuty
board having purchased it. This
school is at Cary and was bought from
the trustees at a merely nominal figure.
The public school there is to be merged
into it and this will give faculty Of
about seven. Students will go to it
from schools all over the county.
1t will probably be a week before
there is accurate information as 10 the
status Of the strawberry crop in the
great berry growing section OF this
state Conditions have been dangerous
ever since April came in. as the very
hot weather in March forced the plants
abnormally.
Governor Glenn goes to Baltimore
this week to deliver 7. NJ. C. A. ad-
dress and will be absent two or three
days
Charters are granted the Dixon L,:nl-
Der and Veneer company, at Rose Hill,
Duplin county, capital stock 100000
William J. Hall and others st0ckhOld-
ers: the Rhodes Manufacturing Com
pany at Lncolnton, to make cotton
goods, capital $500, 900, John NJ. Rhodes,
D. T. Rhodes and G. w Rhodes, stock
holders; also, the DillsbOrO and Sylvia
Electric Light Company, to furnish
power, light and heat in Jackson ard
other counties, capital $4,000.
The supreme court is devoting this
week to appeals from the 18th district,
the docket being a very light one
Work will begin this week upon the
base Of the Bagley statue in the capi-
tol square. 1t is expected that the 1n-
yelling on the Goth Of May will be
made q very notable ceremony and
that the navy department will reDre-
sent it. 1t is also Gintimated that ma
rines and sailors will be sent here from
the Norfolk navy yard, but as to this
nothing is definitely known There
will be also a parade of the local ma
tiOnal guardsmen and the cadets of
the Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege.
I ic Ioo
the baseball game at Wake Forest col
lege between it's team and that Of the
A. & M. college here, there was a
pretty lively fight between several
students of the two colleges at the rail
way station, the origin being the car
rying Of a red umbrella to the top OF
which a white handkerchief was tied
by one Of the A. & NJ Students THINGS
We're quite lively for a few minutes,
but nobody was seriously hurt.
President Poteat, of Wake Forest col
lege, lectured here tonight at the city
hall, under the auspices Of the chamber
Of commerce.
The young Scotchmen who arrived
today are assigned to North Carolina
homes as follows: Thomas Sander5on
to ]. A. Tolar, Orange county; James
Blackie. to ". w. Finley, Of Wilkes,
David Scott, to H. @. Alexander, Char
lotte; E. X. Hay to B. G. BOney. Wal
lace. More Scotchmen will sal for
North Carolina April 9th.
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