The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-23
THE MAYOR IN Q
Coming Reunion ~ Donaldson Acad-
emy-A Medal for valor-Caarming
House Party-Farmers' Picnic &C
McFadyen Spring. >.
especial to The Messenger.

Fayetteville. N. c.. August is.-A
committee consisting Of Colonel c. w.
Broadfoot, Hon G. NJ. Rose. o J. 9
Shaw. Professor wakeland. and Mr.
]. N. Myrover. met yesterday in the
office OF Mr. Rose for the purpose OF
formulating a programme for a rally or
reunion Of the old surviving students
Of the Donaldson Academy on Hay
mount.
| BY request. Colonel Broadfoot sug-
gested the following call: W propose
Academy boys and all others interested
on the school grounds on Septembe,
14th. 1904. TO recall the past, mark the
present. and resolve TO do better fof
the future. We cordially invite all who
are fond OF Renaissance. good fellow
ship. n good eating. TO come, with
their wives and children. Proud OF our
past. ashamed OF our present. we have
put our heads together 10 mend mat.
tiers for the future"
Following committees were then APP
pointed: Insvestigation-J. H. Myrover.
chairman: DR.. T. ID. Haigh. A. McCas-
kill, III. Med. Robinson, w. II. Nc
Pherson. Programmed. w. Broadfoot.
chairman; E. j. Lilly. J. M. Williams.
d. III. Ray, A. A. Mckeithan. Recep-
tion-G. VI. Rose. chairman; Z. J. Hale,
j. H Robinson, c. Haigh, Murdoch Nc
Lauchlin. Arrangements-C. NJ. Wake
n chairman; &. w. Broadfoot, j. A.
Mcpherson, E A. Poe, w. G. Hall. c.
b. Mcmillan. Professor Wakeland and
II Mr. Il n Nvrnx-a> vrara authorized ~
add TO these committees, or to appoint
other committees, should it be found
advisable.
In the above call to the Die students
comparative ''oldness'' is intended, and
the call includes all pupils, from the
regime OF the late Professor S. f. Col
ton. seventh years ago to the principal
ship OF the late Captain S. c. Rankin,
thirty years since. The Donaldson
Academy is one Of the Oldest instttu-
tons of learning in the state, having
been founded, through the generosity
OF late Robert Donaldson, in 1893 and
it's part in beneficient work in educa.
ton a hardly be estimated. The old
est living student is probably the ven
cradle Allan McCaskill. father Of Post.
master McCaskill. who entered under
Professor Cotton in 1886, when he was
ten years old.
George Slate has been bound over &c
the next term OF court for selling whis-
key and cider in less than Ave gallon
lot, by w. c. Troy. magistrate. Sue
Coats and Alice Tillman. white women
OF east Fayetteville. will be tried to.
day before d. n. Mclean, magistrate
for liquor selling.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. McD Robinson have
returned from an extended western trip
Including. the ST. Louis Exposition an6
Hot Springs, Ark.
Deputy Sheriff Monaghan, with Mr.
Joe McKethan, yesterday arrested tive
negroes after a long chase on tbs
charge of stealing a bicycle from The
piazza Of Mr.. Gordon Jessup's resi-.
dence. One of the negroes showed ight
with a knife, and the officer fired at him
twice, the balls going through his Ia
and clothing.
Miss Annie Elliott Is this week pleas.
antly entertaining the following guest.
at a house party at the beautiful fam.
lily home. "Ingleside:" Messrs. J.. B
T~flEnghast, F. w. Haigh. s.. w. Til.
linghast, Claud Rankin, T.. II. Sutton
Jr, Joseph McKethan, B. F. Huske, O,
Fayetteville; Farquard Smith, Jr., Robt
Davis and Fred Hodges, of Linden
-. Macarthur and ID .Currie, of Cumber
land; Misses Alice Lee Elliott. OF
"Thorbiscope;' jamie Williams. of Rec
Springs; Mary F. Patterson, of Laurin.
burg; Nellie Elliott and Sallie Smith
OF Linden
Mrs. Walker was arraigned before
Magistrate McLean yesterday, charged
with selling whiskey, and the inform.
ers werea white nan named Frank
Lewis and his wife, who are on the lis,
or the outside poor" receiving money
from the county. The magistrate
evidently did not believe the informers
as he discharged the accused, and put
III cos-s on Lewis, giving him a week
to pay, or go on the chain gang fol
thirty days.
Mr.. S. 7. Hatch and Miss Cora Amos
daughter Of Mr.. r. F. Amos, wer.
married yesterday at the Methods,
parsonage, In the presence. of a few
friends. Rev. T. A. Smoot, pastor OF
Hay Street Methodist church, perform.
ing the ceremony.
The farmers of the Northwestern
part of the county are holding then
annual picnic today. where Captain
j. d. Mcneil and other speakers viii
address them.
Hon. q. NJ. Rose. a confederate sol
der, and a gallant one, has 2 souvenir
of the civil war which he rightly prize.
very highly-a medal presented by tn,
Virginia Military Institute, he hayin,
been one of the corps Of cadets wht
took part in the battle of New Marke
May 18th. 1864. 1t is Of handsom.
carved bronze, bearing the Inscription
For valor and the coat-of-arms o
Virginia on n side. and on the OBJ
verse the date of the battle and hi
name.
At IL o'clock today there was AZ
examination in Magistrate McLean'
court of Mayor Mcmillan City Attorne,
Nimocks and Aldermen Hawley ant
Underwood as 10 the enforcement o
prohibition, or the failure to enforce IL
AT the outset Mr.. Nfmocks made tn.
point that, il this examination wer,
designed to charge the a and al
dermen with dere1iction of duty, thu
was not h proper tribunal. After I
little discussion the examination wa!
resumed. Hon. J.. G.. Shaw conducting
*. and the mayor was IN the stand oi
an hour. being asked as to "biins
tigers" the sale of bitters containing
alcohol. and prescriptions of phyd
clans at the drug stores. The report