The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14
FAYETTEVILLE NEWS LEIIEr>'
Tax Levy For Cumberland-kenneoS.
UYIlman NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. vi
Bethed Take an Outing-Ieachers
of Graded School.
(Snecial to The Messenger.)

(Special to The Messenger
EavetteviI1e n. c., June 9.-The
board of county commissioners IN
session yesterday, made the following
ak levy for Cumberland: County, 20
2-3 cents; bonds, Is 1-3 cents; state,
43 cents; total, 80 cents; poll, $2.0o.
The special graded school tax for
Cross Creek township (Fayetteville)
is 25 cents on the 500 valuation of
property, and IS cents on the poll.
Flea Hill public school district, No.
6, is taxed Is cents on the 800, and
As cents on the poll.
The commissioners have purchased
from the Good toad Machinery Com
pany, of Charlotte, a steel Champion
road-making machine for the public
highways.
Cards have been received here by
their friends, announcing the mar
riage on the evening of the 14th in
slant, at $50 o'clock, in the First
Methodist church of Bessemer, Ala,
Of Mr.. David j. Kennedy and Miss
Minnie Lee Tillman, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. S. J.. Tillman. Mr.. Kennedy
is a native of Fayetteville, youngest
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this city, and brother of Mr.. c. W.
Kennedy. in the service of the Allan
tic Coast Line railroad at Whining
ton.
The survivors of the battle of Beth
ell, fought on the Yorktown peninsula
on the 10th of June, 1861, will cele-
brate that event tomorrow by an
outing at Beaver Lake" the beauti-
full country place of Mr.. Herbert Lut-
terloh.
Mr.. Frank w. Thornton, a large
wholesale and retail dry goods dealer
of this city-for the encouragement
Of the Women's Association for the
betterment of school houses-has Of
fered a prize of s25 to the public
ment to its building and yard during
the scholastic e of 1904 '05.
Rev. Joseph A. Starr, rector of an
Episcopal church in New YORK city,
who has been i'll for some weeks at
the home of his father, Colonel J. B.
Starr, on Rowan street, has been
carried to the Highsmith hospital.
Mrs. Brown. of Sanford sister of
Captain York, of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad Company, is also a pa
| tient in the hospital.
At last evenings meeting Of the
board of trustees of the city graded
schools. Mr.. j. NJ. Lamb was elected
4 Cloli IdH NIL. w. y. ia hast tISdS-
urer, and the following faculty for
the scholastic year 1904'05: J.. A.
| Jones, superintendent; j. r. Conley,
principals; w. T. Stafford, assistant
principals; B. F. Huske, instructor in
mathematics; Mrs. Kate Utley, Mrs.
Kate Bruce, Misses Ethel Fisher, Mar
| garet Whitehead, Clifford 3. Jordan,
jamie E. Patterson. Bette w. Evans,
Ethel Wicker, Kate Matthews. Mar
| ion Mclean.
Mr.. James NJ. Goddard, represent
ing Messrs. J. w. Larabee & Co, stock
i brokers, No. AZ Broadway, N. Y. has
opened an office on Donaldson street
ard will I've private wires direct to
all the principal cities north and
charge of the Geographic department
Mrs. Louise Banks is spending the
summer in West Virginia
Miss Dora MacRae, Of Chapel Hill
is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. E. J.
Lilly on Haymount.
Mr.. Severn G.. Haigh, son of MI
and Mrs. J. G. Haigh, graduated with
/ distinction from the state university
| last week
The president Of the association,
Mr.. J.. F. l.. Armfeld, head OF the
( erS and Manufacturers Association OF
| the Carolinas in Greensboro on Tues
| day next, the 18th instant.
Mr.. Charles Cagh, the efficient day
clerk OF h Hotel La Fayette. is en-
| joying a brief vacation with relatives
in Durham.
Miss Annie MacRae is at home,
after ar extended trip abroad, COM
prising a tour of the British Isles and
| continental Europe
Mr.. Herbert Lutterloh has returned
from a northern business trip.
Messrs. G. w. Bidgood. A D. Will
| liams and F. X. Tomlinson arrived al
| noon from Wilmington and are regis
] tered at the Hotel La Fayette.