The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-14
RURAL NAIL ROUTES.
Government Agent in Fayetteville
of Mrs. Lambert.
Especial to The MeSsenger.)

Fayetteville. n. c., April 10.-Govern-
ment Agent Boushee this morning had
a conference with Major 4. A. Nc
kethan, clerk of the superior court;
Captain A. B. Williams, chairman of
the board of county commissioners;
Messrs. c.. j. Cooper, cashier of the
Fayetteville National bank, and J. A.
Oates, editor Of the North Carolina
Baptist, on the important matter Of the
long-needed rural mail delivery routes
throughout Cumberland county. He
o d out after the conference to Sew
enty-first township, and tomorrow he
will visit Flea Hill township, the expe-
ditioas Of the two days probably result
ing =: The establishment of at least three
and perhaps more routes.
Mr.. E. l.. Remsburg, the expert and
tasteful marble cutter on upper Hay
street, has wrought a handsome memo
rial stone, erected by their descendants,
to be placed over the graves of Colonel
Thomas Robson and his wife Mary. at
the James Robson place in Bladen
county. Colonel Robson was the son
of Thomas and Sarah Singletary Rob-
eson, was born January 18th, 174O, and
died May End, 1855. He was a patriot
Of the Revolution, and a membe Of the
Provincial congress, 1856. His wife
was Mary Rartram, daughter of Colonel
William and Elizabeth Bartram, and a
niece Of the celebrated b%otanist, John
BaTtram, Of Philadelphia, who figures
as a character in the novel Hugh
Wyne."
h morning at II o'clock, from the
Hay Street Methodist church., the pas
tor, Rev. T. A. Smoot, conducting the
exercises, the funeral sevices took place
over the remains of Mrs. J. A. Lambeth,
a piouS church member, a devoted wife
and mother, who leaves a bereaved hus-
band n six children, four sons and
two daughters.
Yesterday the board of managers OF
the State Colored Normal school, con-
sisting of Mr.. H. L. Cook, chairman,
DR.. H. W. Lilly, Captain D. H. Ray.
DR.. j. V. McGougan, and Mr.. @. K.
Nimocks, made a visit of inspection to
the institution, giving no previous no
tice, and taking the exercises of the
days session as they came. The result
of the visit was gratifying, as showing
proficiency and study on the part of
the students, and admirable manage
ment on the part of the principal, Pro-
fessor E. E. Smith.
Warren Carver charged with shoot
ing a negro, Andrew Macarthur, on the
Dad in Pearce's Mill township one
night some weeks ago., will have his
preliminary trial next Wednesday.
The campaign committee, appointed
Il H. 49, 49, - 49,
school, to promote the interest of the
special school tax in the coming elec-
ton, have invited Governor Aycock and
Professor c. D. Aycock to address the
people of Cross Creek township during
the educational V Other speak
erS will be added.
The county board of education.
Messrs. S. H. Strange, H. H. Bolton
and j. H. Smith, still insist on the in
competency of Professor S. D. Cole,
county superintendent, and have again
deposed him from office. He again ap-
peals to the state board of education.
The "agony'' is acute in the fight
by the ballot over the choice of the
queen of the carnival. AS they are all
known to many readers of The Messen-
ger, the following will not be without
interest. OF the contestants with over
100 votes, Miss Alice Matthews leads,
462; Miss Mary Warren Cameron, 243;
Miss Bessie Butler, 235; Miss Fannie
Williams, 1856; Miss Kate Broadfoot, 165;
Miss Ethel Fisher, ISL; Miss Lillian
Slocomb,y 1873; Miss Mabel Elliott, 127;
Miss Mary F. Robson, 127.
Fayetteville people are glad to know
hat the highly esteemed DR.. John A.
Mcclellan has returned to his native
town, to practice his profession.
are fitting up the interior
of one of the tenements in the McKeth-
an building on Market square for a
new drug store, which will give the city
8. total of eight.
Miss Kate Hawley has returned home
after a visit to friends in Virginia.
Miss Lillian Gray, who has been the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. E. J. Lilly on
Haymount, has returned to Raleigh.
Mr.. John r. Tolar, a prominent New
York business nan and large stock
holder in the Tolar-Holt-Hart cotton
mills, is here from Florida, restored to
health.