The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-08
MEMORIAL EXERCISES.
impressive Ceremonies for May 10th
at Fayetteville General News
Notes.
Especial TO The Messenger.)
Notes.

mortal exercises, on Monday, 18th IN
slant, will be issued his afternoon.
The patriotic women and children Of
and Cumberland will as
on St. James square at 4:30
in the afternoon, bearing their
floral offerings for the decoration of the
soldiers and mound at
that point. and the graves and soldiers
monument in Cross Greek cemetery.
The Fayetteville Independent Light In
fantry battalion, Major ]. G.. Holdings
worth commandment, headed by Rems-
burg's band, will form on the square,
and through their ranks the Confeder-
ate Veterans will march to the stand to
receive their crosses of honor from Jeb
Stuart Chapter, Daughters Of the Con-
federacy, after which there will be a
recitation by the gifted elocutlonlst,
Mrs. John D. MacRae. The march Will
then be made to Cross Creek cemetery,
where, after prayer and music by a
union choir, the monument and graves
of the soldiers will be decorated, With
final military Volley Of musketry in sa-
lutte. At noon, in the armory OF the
Independent Light Infantry battalion,
dinner will be served to the C~onfeder-
ate Veterans of the town and county.
Following are the chairmen Of the diff
erent committees: On music, Mrs. w.
NJ. Morgan; on dinner, Mrs. j.. NJ.
Matthews: on decorations
on st. James square Miss Kate Smith,;
decorations at Cross Greek cemetery.
Miss Alice Campbell.
Miss Kate Broadfoot. daughter of
Colonel c. w. ~BroadfOot, and sponsor
Of Fayetteville Camp, No. So, United
Confederate Veterans. has selected the
following maids of honor: Misses Ellen
Underwood, daughter of Captain J. 3.
Underwood; Alice Haigh, daughter of
Major Charles Haigh; jamie Mckethan,
daughter of Major A. \. Mckethan;
Mabel Elliott, daughter of Captain G.
w. Elliott: Fannie Kyle, daughter of
Captain w. E. Kyle; Celia NJ. Robin
son. daughter of the late Captain
Benz. Robinson; Elizabeth Williams,
daughter of Captain A. b. Williams;
Major Mcpherson, daughter of Captain
J. a. McPherson; Eloise McGill, daugh-
ter of Captain A. D. McGill. None bet
ter than they deserve the honor of this
position, for sponsor and maids come of
brave soldiers on the battlefield of the
south.
A match game of tennis between the
Red Springs and Fayetteville clubs was
played on the court in Eccles park
yesterday afternoon, with a large and
deeply interested crowd in attendance.
Die rar fnr PaI Cnrinoc I-apa PaN -
G.. Varden and Mr.. r.. G. Gibhart, and
for Fayetteville Rev. H. T. Graham and
Mr.. J. A. Radcliffe, with the victory for
Red Springs as follows: 6 to O.; 1 to 6;
6 to 1; 6 to 2. Last evening Misses
Kate n Minerva Utley charmingly
entertained the club, the amusement of
the evening being progressive finch,
and refreshments served. The decora-
tons of the rooms were in the green,
white and blue, cOlors of the club, and
the guests were as follows: Rev. and
Mrs. H. 7. Graham; Mr.. and Mrs. c..
j. Cooper; Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Will
hanson; Misses Baker, of Augusta. Ga,
Sarah and Mary Brown, Robbie Hall,
Kate McKethan, Isabelle Nimocks;
Rev. c. G. Vardell, DR.. J. a. Mckethan,
DR.. Roby, Messrs. r. G.. Gebbart, J.. A.
Radcliffe, N. H. McGeachy. c. @. Rose,
The following, taken from the editO-
ria columns of The Industrial Messen-
ger of last Saturday, a paper devoted
to the interest of the coIored race, and
conducted by Professor E. E. Smith,
principal Of the State COlOred Norma
school, is significant:
THE sensible negroes of this city and
section have abundant cause to con-
graduate themselves that their lot has
been cast in goodly Fayetteville. Here
the most amicable relations exist be-
tween the races. The white people are
kind and ~cOnsiderate, the cOlOred people
are polite and Industrious. This writer
has visited every northern n eastern
state more than once, he has also traV-
eled a bit in Europe and many of the
iSels OF the seas, but nowhere has he
found the relations between the white
and black races more friendly than
right here in Fayetteville. The
thoughtful negro will at no time COM
nit any act that will even strain their
friendly relations"
The correspondents conviction is
tina Professor Smith has truthfully
sized up the situation.
Yesterday j. E. Jernigan, a brick
mason at work on the walls of the new
offices going up on Donaldson street,
fell to the ground. a distance of fifteen
feet or more. landing on a pile of bricks.
He was picked UP n carried home,
badly injured. but not fatally.
There was a very pleasant meeting
in the office of Messrs. Mcmillan Bros,
manufacturers and merchants, on Per
son street, when the bookkeeper, Mr..
Pembroke Woodward. heading his coll
leagues, entered; and. on behalf of the
employees, in a very graceful speech
presented to Mr.. D. A. Mcmillan a
handsome silk umbrella on his 53rd
birthday.
The police came across an unusual
case yesterday-a white man, giving
his rame as l.. A. Kinney, and hailIng
from Michigan, who was wanering
aimlessly about the suburbs Of the city,
and whom nobody ever saw or heard
Of before.