The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-06
THE PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN
Loans for Building School Houses
Recruits for the Penitcntiary-Wne
Murderer Capturcd-Political Mat
ters So !
Messenger Bureau,

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Al state prohibition headquarters
Chairman Oates was interviewed To-Day
and says the campaign Is being push
ed in about a third OF the state ana
that the organization in the other part
is being effected as rapidly as possi-
BILE. Ii is lei. to local men, except IN
some counties, where the state or
ganiZers are cooperating. AS fast as
the organizations are completed they
are working thoroughly with commit
tees for each precinct. The women are
also being organized A NUMBER OF
North Carolinians living In other
states are volunteering to return and
help in the fight here, among these
being DR.. E. E Folk, of Tennessee,
John E. White, Of Georgia, and Rev.
! l. G. Broughton, Of Atlanta.
j The friends of Ashley Horne today
made the declaration that his strength
in the campaign for the nomination
for governor was greater than has
! been stated.
The Citizens Loan and Trust Co,
of Wilkesboro, reduces its caplIai
I stock from s25,000 to $4,000.
charter is granted the Liberty
Piedmont Institute. at Wallburg,
DAVIDSON COuhLS
! The state anti-saloon league Is now
distrfbuting buttons Of celluloid, bear
ing the head of a little boy and the
motto vote no for my sake"
This years loans by the state de-
nartment of education to the counties
who helped in building school houses
are now being sent out as fast as the
notes are received. Wake gets the
most this year, $4,S55. Durham gets
$500. the first that it has ever bor-
rowed: Mec6lenburg gets 1000; Bun
combe 81 200. Forsyth and New Han
over asked for none. Wilson applied,
but had to be turned down, as there
was not money enough to go round.
It is learned that the Carolina and
Northwestern Railway will take non
suit In the railway rate case.
| Sheriff Marshburn Of Mcdowell
brought four convicts to the peniten-
tiary today whose terms aggregated
80 wears. One of them being a woman,
Lossie Hurd, who gets 25 years for
murder
Two men get 80 years each for
murder, and another man who muir
dered two boys gets ten years. Sherln
Worldly, of Jackson county, brought
in two prisoners for the penitentiary
| He reports plenty of snow in the
mountains and says the weather had
been very cold. Some wolves yet re-
main in his section and four or five
counties offer rewards for their scalps.
He was urged to secure wolf FOR
the state museum. There are some in
the zoo at Pullen park here, but none
in the museum.
Chief Naval Constructor Capps has
sent to your correspondent very fine
photograph of the second class crui-
ser Raleigh which will be placed in
the historical section Of the museum.
Inquiries made of democratic lead
ers in this state show that they have
such confidence in the party and their
people that they feel that any differ
ences which may exist will be settled
thoroughly, and they say they have
no reason to apprehend any decrease
IA the majority in this state at the
! November election. The democrats
? will not have their state headquarters
here until after the state convention
l as there will be hardly enough work tC
justify this course.
The board of Trustees of the newly
| | created East Carolina Teachers Train
: ing School is called to meet at Green
= | WIG ucAL IAlS uOAhS lCs
! first meeting. Greenville gets this
school and issued 100000 in bonds
for it. The board will locate the
buildings, decide upon their character
: ETC., and then ask for proposals fol-
" their erection.
The executive committee, Of which
w. H. Ragan is chairman, has elected
| Charles l.. Newman. of Clemson Col
:. Iege, S. c., to succeed G. NJ. COnnel
as professor of agriculture. Mr.. Con
ner goes to the Philippines as assis
- tant commissioner of education ant
director of agriculture Professor New
. man is a Georgian. The executive com
:. mittee of the college has arranged fo1
more equipments in the agriculture
department and for an increased wate
i supply.
= Bill Lewis, the Wilson county wifi
\ murderer, for whom Governor Glenn
offered a reward Monday, was cap
tured yesterday by a large posse, af
: ter an exciting pursuit, mainly in tn
+ swamps
! Prominent democrats say that ther
: seems to be no question as to SOLE
J. North Carolina delegation for Brya1
J. for the presidential nomination. Will
: Republican leaders say exactly tn
Il same thing as to Taft.