The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-01-20
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c.. January Is.

bF- AAaN olllIO Il y CdI. L q
educated at Norfolk. served in the
Confederate Engineer corps, taught
school at PittsSOro for a number VI
years and had been for almos p years
secretary or assistant secretary and
treasurer of the North Carolina State
Agricultural Society. For the latter
ne continued - work faithfully until
the very end. He vas one of the prin-
cipaIs Of the Raleigh Male Academy
FOR about ten years. His acquaintance
With the people in the state vas very
large. His wife was Miss Cowan. OF
Wilmington. who with three daughters
and four sons survive him.
He was born in ~Sm-thfiell. Va. He
had taught schools in North Carolina
for 4 years and in Rl.eigl for L
years. He was secretary u the state
board OF health and TO . Y airs was
secretary of North Carolina COnfeder-
ate Veterans Associate n and served
as president o North Car-iina T-lch-
ers' Assembly.
After the funeral r,ices at CT ist
church tomorrow ~aftrrnOOl, MS re-
mains viii be taken TO Pijt-EoTO on a
special train { ? bur al Their
Fire which broke out at four O'Clock
this morning in the North Carolina
Home Fire IusurITc" COmpJny.S buiiu-
Ing on Fayetteville street. half =
block from the capitol. did damage to
the mount Of from fiv. to six tnOus-
and dollars. The fire originated from
an electric wire or the ground floor
near tn front door of the insurance
C~OUpGHy'S office and mounting up
wards along the wall skipped the sec
oud floor. but destroyed the third. on
the latter floor We=- the lodge rooms
of two lodges of odd Fellows. the EIks
Royal Arcanum. order of Railway
Conductors and that OF Locomotive
Engineers. Pretty nearly everything
was destroyed. including sI oil pur-
trait of Past Sovereign Grand Master
Charles NJ. HuSbea. OF the Old Fell
lows and other pictures. regalia. rec
Ords. etc. SeatOn Gales Lodge of Odd
Fellows had $40 insurance on 81, 500
worth destroyed.
ON the second ilOOr were the inSu--
ancp Offices of f. T. Hay and Bro,
whose loss is by water. mainly to rec
ords and papers. On this floor is also
the office of Secretary WoOdell of the
Grand Lodge of I Fellows, whose
loss i also by water. On the first
floor are the Offices of the North Caro-
lima HOme and CrOWellS drug store.
Both were damaged a little by water.
1t w"s the first fire of any consequence
In more than q year and IS the third
within six days. Exclusive of this fire,
the whole loss in the city since April
1st last did not amount to five hundred
dollars.
The EIks last night held their sec
Ond meeting i'm the hall. The temporal
turc was considerably below frnnzinc,
but the work of the fire department
was something magnificent and the
water service and pressure excellent.
No end OF compliments are paid the
ffrpmeu for their work.
At eight O'Clock his evening. Major
Charles WiTder Mason. Fourth Infan-
try United States Army. stationed at
Fort Brown. Texas, was married to
Miss MrriOn TillOu Haywood. daugh-
ter of the late DR.. Richard e. Hay
wood. at the ZONE here. The pride en-
tered with her mother and Colonel
Carl a. Woodruff. of the Artillery
Corps. Unitad states Army command
irg Fort SIOCumb. New York harbOr.
was best man. The brides dress was
trimmed with pOinte lace. which once
adorned the court dress of her grand
mother. Mrs. Meade. of New York
city. and her veil was the one worn
by her mother at her wedding. Outside
of the FIRMLY only a few friends wer-
IreGnt, including Governor and Mrs.
AyCOCk and Bishop and Mrs. Cheshire
Major and Mrs. Mason left tonight for
Fort Brown via Mexico and May 1st
will I-avc there for San Francisco.
hen they sail June the 1st for
Manila.
The Grand Lodge of Masons did not
adjourn until after n o'clock this
morning. 1t was midnight when after
q number of ballots il ~eleCte;! II. /.
Clark Grand Master for the second
term. Tha other officers elected are
w. &. Liddell. deputy grand master:
r. d. Winston and s. NJ. G9ttis. grand
wardens: VIM. Simpson. grand treas
urpr: John L. Drewry. grand secre-
tary; Leo. D. Heartt. assistant grand
treasurer. The officers were all IN
stalled today and tho aDpOintive Of
fCers named. Tie Grand Lodge will
now set earnestly to work to raise the
remainder Of the funds needed to pay
for the Masonic Temp'e. of which $780,
COO has been subscribed. $4,000 more
being needed. The Raleigh Savings
Bank takAS 500. 900 of the bonds. It is
understood that Francis d. Winston Is
to make a CanVass of the state to raise
the remaining n needed.
Grand Master Clark made the fol-
lowing appointments: Rev. Nathaniel
HardinC, grand chaplain; Rev B. w.
Hatcher. grand lecturer: NJ. L. Reed
and Il. NJ. HaCkAtt. grand d"1COnS; +.
H. Bradley. grand tiler. The grand
officers were installed by Samuel II.
Smith. John w. Cotton being grand
m1rshal-
President Roosevelt today send with
his bnSt wishes \ fine photograph of
himself for the Elks' Bazaar here neXt
week. This was in response to a re-
quest made by Mrs. Roosevelt.
The present corporation law of North
Caroline Is admirable. 50 much so that
1t Is regarded as 4 mode. 1t provides
fully ana we'll for the granting of
charters by the secretary of state.
from which the state derives 4 reve-
nue.. The system is far better than
the old one Of getting charters through
the legislature. Vet there is gross lack
of Judgment in bills that are being in
PRODUCED in the legislature to charter
all sorts Of corporations. The mem
bprs of the legislature are probably
rot aware Of the fact tina: it is a viO-
latiOn of Sec. /. Art. s. of the constitu-
ton TO create corporations by special
act except for municipal purposes. The
committees should see that every such
bill goes into the waste basket.