The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-14
WOMAN'S CLUB ORGANIZED.
Officers Elected-Claim to Property
on Manhattan Island-NOt 10 At
teEd Meeting of State Commission
erS of Agricult ure.
Messenger Bureau.

Miss Fannie Heck is elected presi-
dent, Mrs. c. M. Busbee vice president
and Mrs. J.. Y. Joyner secretary of the
Woman's Club organized here last af-
ternoon with two hundred members
domestic science, village improvement
and charities are blished with a
chairman for each. It was pointed out
during the meeting that in Richmond
the art department secures a fine ex-
hibit each year and insures the pictures
for $780, 900 and an effort is to be made
to have such ar exhibit in Raleigh next
year.
1T is announced that the Centennial
Graded school will reopen Monday af-
ter having been closed yesterday until
further notice on account of diphtheria
on the premises. The %janitor's wife fell
i'll of the dreaded malady yesterday.
Only two cases of diphtheria are. now in
town but there has been for some weeks
a regular epidemic of it in Goldsboro
and other near by towns so that there
is considerable uneaSiness felt here as
TO the situation.
Announcement is made from Demo-
cratic headquarters the Hon. w. c.
Dowd Of Charlotte will speak at Cataw-
ba, October 81; Piney Grove School
House, October q, at night; Catawba
Springs, October %; Conover, October
%, at night. Attorney Genera Gilmer
will speak at Morehead City, October
II; Straits, October Is. Frank Mcneil,
chairman Of the corporation commits
sion, will speak at P~ollocksville, October
20; Trenton, October 20, at night; Bever
Creek, october II.
A charter is issued today for the
Washington Gin Company of Washing
ton, Beaufort county. the capital being
500, 900 authorized and So, 900 subscribed
by William Bragaw, H. B. Kayo and
others.
Andrew H. Green and L. NJ. Green, OF
this city have employed attorneys to
investigate Il claim that their great
grand father. Andrew Hartsfield in 1795
leased property on Manhattan Island
to the city of New York for 100 years
and that the heirs are now entitled to
rePossession of the property which is
now valued at over a million dollars.
a. H. Green is chairman of the Wake
county commissioners.
F. NJ. Buchanan, a guard at the pen-
itentiary, was before Mayor Powell to-
day charged with assault with a dead
ly weapon and highway robbery, being
III OH " lie HISIiSI COuIl ullucI llC
former charge. He made the plea that
he was drunk and did not kno what he
was doing and introduced witnesses to
prove that he had drank a great guam
tity of d~ispensary and blind tiger whis-
key and ne end of beer, wine, cider,
and coco-cola connections.
Since the issuance Of the programme
for the Association of Commissioners
of Agriculture of the Southern States
at Baton Rouge, October 18th and at the
st. Louis Exposition October 18th ir
developes that neither Commissioner Of
Agriculture IS. l.. Patterson or State
Chemist B. w. Kilgore will be able. to
attend although DR.. Kilgore is secre-
tary of the association and Commits
sioner Patterson is down for an ad-
dress on the work of the agricultural
department of North Carolina DR.. Tate
Butler, North Cardinals state veterna-
rian is also down for an address on
the subject of cattle quarantine.
COMMISSIONS Patterson is not able by
reason of i'll health to take any part in
the campaign, his physicians insisting
that he must not do so. However he
expects to join Governor Aycock at
Winston-Salem tomorrow and spend a
week with him in the weastern part
of the state although he will not be able
to make any speeches,