The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31
FAYETTEVILLE NEWS .
From ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
of observation-disclosures Com
Etc.
Especial to The MeSsenger.)

Especial to The Messenger.)
Fayetteville, n. c., July 24.-George
IL. Shepard, aged about 45 years, has
ESCAPED from the insane asylum at
Raleigh and is supposed to be making
lhis way to this place, where the home
stead is situated in the southwestern
Ioutskirts of the city, and where his
family was prominent for many years,
Though none of its members is now
here. His case was a lamentable n
las he was a man of education, in ser
lvice with the banks OF this city and
then with the Cape Fear and Yadkin
VALLEY Railway Company.
A still further enlargement will be
made to the Marsh-Hightsmith hospi-
ltal on Green street, by the building of
Ian annex between the main structure
land the charity ward, to accommodate
ten additional patients, with sun-par-
llor, steam heating, bath. etc Fayette-
willie rightly takes great pride in this
hospital for its success has been phe-
lnomenal, and it offers q trlklng evil
ldence of the success attending fixtures
Iof purpose to a given END. Drs. ). II.
Marsh and ]. F. Higfsmith were Dun
TRY raised boys, the first born in Cum
iberland and the second in sampson
bounty, but they have made their pro-
l~fesSion the one temporal object OF life,
land have pushed ON TO The front IN
medicine and surgery. They reside in
handsome homes on the same street,
ia few yards apart, and their domestic
lives are happy.
Strange to say, the news here today
lis that the man shot at Clayton, john
Iston county the account of which was
yesterday sent to The Observer, though
lof the same name, was not the Isaac
lDodd who was the Confederate soldier.
The following. prominent married
women and their staff Of pretty girls
will have charge of the fire company's
entertainment to take place in a few
days: Mesdames s. H. Strange, w. S.
IMcRae, r. H. Dufie and l.. c. Jones;
Misses Elizabeth Underwood, Lillian
and Ina Haigh, Isabelle Glover, Lima
|Pemberton, Mabel Elliott, Charlotte
Holland, Mamie Campbell, Bessie Rob
inson Ida Calais, Nora McDuffie, Kate
Harrington, jamie Watson, Mary Slo-
comb, Elizabeth Brady, Maggie Nc
Donald, Alice Haigh, Fannie Williams,
Mary Mcneil Mamie Fisher, Minerva
Mcneil, Ida White, May Kyle, Alma
Motley, Margaret Carson, Mary Cor
Jeanne Pemberton. Grace McMil-
Ian, May Benton, Jessie Mcmillan, Della
Amos, Lizzie Rankin. Eliza Robson,
IL 1,o1-; N-o~. Daa,Ta1- - vic
Evans, Douglass Southerland, Kate
'Railford.
Colonel ]. B. Starr Will put still an
other building alongside his offices just
finished, almost as large as all the rest
combined, and it will probably be occu-
pied by the Southern Express Compa-
ny. North Donaldson street is now al
most entirely made up of handsome
offices.
Nathan Womble, employed by the
Carolina Telephone and Telegraph
who owns a farm in RAM
dolph county, has found gold in a
on his place, and the ore is
pronounced to be of fine quality.
Mr.. J. A. Mcpherson, Jr., of Scotland
county. is visiting his father, Captain
J. A. Mcpherson.
Rev. DR.. Carmichael Of Wilmington,
delighted many Fayetteville friends by
his visit yesterday.
Miss Bessie Mcneil, daughter of
Captain j. D. Mcneil. has returned
an extended trip north.
Mr.. w. S. Orr, of Charlotte, vice pres
ident of the State Ffremen's Associa-
ton, was here yesterday, investigating
recent incendiary fires.
Fayetteville people who went to Lii
yesterday pronounced the event
perhaps the greatest occasion in the
history of the county since the war, IN
the number present., O0O-and the
thrill of the whole affair. The addresses
by Messrs. D. H. Mclean, ]. G. Shaw,
r. n. Simms. w. E. Murchison, Colo
j. 5. Cunningham, Angler, Mills
and others were inspiring.