The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-05
OFF FOR THE TOURNAMENT.
Team Leaves for Durbam-JOhnson-
MCPHERSON Marriage - Pleasant
Outing to Jessup+s Mm-Personal
Mention.
(special 70 The Messenger.l

Fayetteville. ~. G. August Cap
ain J. D. McNeill. president OF the
State Fremen's Association-te which
position he has been reelected for
many without solicitafion-lef,
for Salisbury yesterday. The Compel
Ing team of the Fayetteville fire de-
partment o the train today. conpos-
ed as follows: eagle. driver; Ira Black.
huffman; ID. II. Maulstby. stool puller:
Hackney Pool. wrenchman; Common
Holland. coupling breaker: Kyle Penn
be-ton. nozzleman. The following went
also as delegates from the Chicora
Steam Fire Company, No. /: Messrs.
II. c. Atkinson and ]. w. Strange. Fire
Chief j. s. Mcneil was with the party.
Cards have been issued. announcing
the marriage OF Rev. David T. johnson
and Miss Katherine Badger Mcpherson
at } o'clock on the afternoon OF We'd
nesday, August 10th. at ST. Thomas
Episcopal church OF Haymount Hill.
four miles west OF Fayetteville. Miss
Mcpherson was a student last year at
the State Normal college for Women.
is a daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. W.. II.
$500 @AN-~Sf hScA Oh AlC A1kC
Lieutenant General Theophilus II.
Holmes. and great granddaughter OF
the late Mrs. Wetmore, who was the
sister OF George E. Badger.
News has been received here OF the
death al Van Buren, Ark, of Mrs. II.
{. w. Durham. wife of J. s. Durham.
editor and proprietor OF The Van Bu-
rem Press. The latter is a first cousin
OF Colonel j. B. Starr. and was former
w n raC1dQnf nF rhsc nit, f- eA,,
time. The correspondent does not state
II positively as a fact. but he is under
the impression that the Arkansas
Dunham are near relatives OF the late
Major j. W. Durham, OF Wilmington,
who was a gallant soldier, terribly
wounded, in the civil war.
The funeral services took place al
Liberty, Randolph county, yesterday
over the remains of the late A. L. Troy.
aged 81 years, a prominent farmer of
that county. n brother of Messrs.
J. 3. and w. C. Troy, of this city.
Mrs. c. c. Holmes, of this county.
was thrown from a cart in a runaway
On Saturday. on Person street near
Dick, n received serious injuries.
She vas carried TO the Highsmith hos
pital, and at last accounts was resting
well. Mrs. E: Jessup. OF Starrsburg.
her sisters. Misses Jennie and Eliza beth
-"S4<s civ q iS" al ii3ao|
a pleasant outing to Jessup's Mill last
week. On their route they crossed Har-
rison and Indian creek, a wild country,
still the home of the bear, where they
are said TO be numerous. Bruin was
not hungry that day. and the party
passed safely. Plenty of fish were
caught, but the two young men in the
party proved to be such poor fishermen
(the girls catching alb that they were
made TO earn their dinner by cooking
Il. There was a great deal OF fun over
their mistakes, but the dinner was eat
en- with hearty appetites, after all.
Mrs. Carrie NJ. Willis. Of New Bern.
IS the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. 3. c. Cor
ham on Maiden Lane.
Miss Ida Garrett has returned home.
| after a visit to relatives in New Han
over and Brunswick counties.
Officer j. II. Benton, of the police
| force, is spending his summer vacation
with his son, Mr.. Herbert Benton, al
Salisbury.
In the last competitive drill OF Compa-
ny F, Second regiment State National
| Guard, Mr.. j. A. Radcliffe won the
handsome prize
nome from a visit TO relatives in Nash
| vile, Tenn, accompanied by her sister,
| Miss France Crockett
Mrs. G. l.. Taylor, of Wilmington, is
visiting the family of her father, Mr.
J. L. Allen. on Russell street.
A little warmth and light flash out
& ION county politics now and then. and
the ~''unwashed and unterrified' are be-
| ginning to help their friends up on the
band wagon by cards of recommended
ton 20 the press. Already there have
been named for county commissioner
Messrs. L. a. Williamson, brother OF
| NJ. Walter Williamson, of Wilmington,
secretary and treasurer Of the Holt
Morgan Mills Company, very popular,
and an authority in athlectic n sport
ing matters, and Sam Cameron, a prom
| inent farmer and business an Of west
erl C~uberland.
| 0fessrs. j. r. Harrison, president OF
| the Fayetteville Ice Company, and Mr..
Il. q. Haze, city editor OF The Fayette-
vile Observer, have returned from a
stay OF a few days at Morehead City.