The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-01
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Durham Herald: Work has started on
the new auditorium. The ground was
broken by Contractor Underwood late
yesterday afternoon.
Asheville Special 20 News and Obser-
YER: A horrible accident occurred today
at the cotton mills here. w. II. Black.
an operative, being caught in the belt
OF a carding MACHINE and having his
head torn entirely froGl his body. Black
was IL years old and unmarried.
Greensboro Patriot: Mr.. Joseph NJ.
Morehead has received from the max
ers In Philadelphia the bronze tablet
which on July 4th at the Battle Ground
Will be unveiled in honor Of Mrs. Ker-
enhappuch Turner, the revolutionary
heroine who travelled on horseback from
he home in Maryland TO GuiifordC Court
House and uursed her wounded son
back TO health and strength. The tab
let is a very pretty one and mas a suit
able inscription on 1t. II will be mount
ed on a stone base.
Washington Gazette: DR.. D. T. Tayloe
was called to Grimesiand yesterday to
attended Mr.. Thomas Bucks little girl.
Mr.. Bucks little boy twelve years old
shot his sister, eight years Of age in
the face with a gun. Fourteen buck
shot entered her face and breast. The
doctor says her condition is very seri-
BUS. The little boy YVES playing with
the gun and did not know it was loaded.
Black Mountain Eagle: The lumber
hauler's strike. which mas been on in
Yancey county for the past two or three
weeks, don't get much better fast, and
the n is not yet in sight. The Ium-
bermen say they can't raise the price
and the teamsters declare they can't
afford to haul. Pastures ale fine and
manV moor worn ont toQm n r 0offino
a much needed rest. :. A. Martin has
about three million feet of lumber in the
county, and is still buying, and he is
only n Of several dealers who have
been doing business in the county for
the past two or three years
Monroe Journal: Mr.. ]. G.. Iomberlin
of New Salem has exterminated the
chinch bugs on his farm by means of
d new process. He has turned bull
frogs loose on them. He has corn
planted on the creek and nearby this
was a wheat field. When he cut the
wheat the bugs began eating the corn
n he soon noticed that the frogs from
the creek had a fondncss for them. He
made a trail Of corn stalks leading from
the wheat field to the corn field so that
the bugs would all go by the same
route, and as they entered the field
they were met by the frogs and were
devoured as fast as they came.
Clarkton Express: Mr.. Alex Camp
bell died at his home in this township
Monday night after a long and painful
illness. He was a soldier in the con-
federate army during the civil war
Mr.. Kendall Shaw, OF Eastern Brown
Marsh, killed two foxes by moonlight
last week. They were in the habit of
going to a mulberry tree neal Mr..
Shaw's house every night to eat null
harrin- on6 ha cot I'm for thono fpuO
nights, shooting one each night.-Mr.
]. F. Thrower takes tie cake on fish
ing with hook and line. He went a. few
evenings ago and caught over a hun
dred pike in fifteen minutes, pulling
them out faster than q man and boy
could string them. He says they were
so greedy to bite that twice he caught
two at the same time. on the same
ook
New Bern Journal: Shortly after !
o'clock Tuesday afternoon a wedding
occurred at Christ Episcopal church
which was attended by somewhat ro-
the presence of a few personal friends.
Rev. Thomas Noe n Miss Julia
Thomas, both Of Beaufort, were united
in marriage by Rev. I. M. n. George.
The courtship Of the reverend gentle
man was not regarded with favor by
the father of the bride and rather than
incur parental displeasure by a we'd
ding at home the two by a prearranged
plan came to New Bern to be married,
Miss Thomas coming from Washington,
D.. c., where she had been visiting
friends, Mr.. Noe arriving from Beau
fort. Mr.. Noe is the rector of the Epis-
copal church at Beaufort n the couple
are very popular in the society of that
city and are we'll known here.