The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-20
CHARGED WITH BLoCKADING.
Federal Officers Make ArrestS-Squab-
bling Over the Liquor Question.
Mrs. Morgan Entertains at Lunch
On-PersOna Notes.
ESPECIAL to The Messenger.)

Fayetteville, n. c., September H.
The Messenger could IND corropora-
ton in Cumberland county, II II need
ed strengthening, Of its contention
that the Watts law, notwithstanding
it's endorsement by the state conVen-
ton at Greensboro on the 23rd or
June, is creating bad feeling and ol-
vision i'm the Democratic ranks. But
not only the Watts law is a bone or
contentious; the Cumberland county
prohibition law is driving Democrauc
voters apart, and it is the common
thing to hear men ask, When the
name of a candidate ror office Is
| called, whether he is for or against
prohibition, and to endorse or oppose
him. according as he meets or does
not meet. their w views on the IL
amor question. Now, all this Is very
far from party fealty, and is very
| foolish; but there is no use In theoriz-
| ing about an indisputable fact. After
all. it is only the Iesl.iiha
attempting to legislate
into morality, and Of bringing INTO
politics a purely moral question. II
the election in 1902 Cumberland voted
1851 for prohibition, and oIZ IoI
license. The correspondent ices not
| believe that any fair-m1nded man
will deny that this vote would De
| dificult now, should an election De
! held. for the prohibition experience
| of the past two years has not been
pleasant. The writer is Simply giving
| the situation as he honestly belleves
| it to be, but he deplores any asltat!on
of the liquor question In the coming
campaign.
Three white men. A. P. Hourine, u.
w Bass and J.. H. Bradshaw, were
| Yesterday arrested and placed In jail
nv United States Commissioners ex-
Judge Sutton and Deputy Marsnal
Averitt, charged with blockadlng
| whiskey. A negro from fIea HllI
| township was arraigned this morning
In MAGISTRATE McLean's court on the
| charge of liquor selling, but was ac-
quilted. his counsel being Mr.. John
w. Bolton.
At 1 O'Clock today at the beautiful
| residence on Haymouns, Mrs. W. M.
! Morgan gave a full-course luncheon,
complimentary to Mrs. Milton bacon'
who has just returned from a tour In
Europe.
DIR. and Mrs. J. A. McKethan are
hack from New York, where the for
| mer took a postgraduate eye, ear and
throat course. being the specialist In
those diseases al the hlSHSiiiiti
jital.
Mrs. J. b. Underwood has returned
from New York city, and the cores
ponden was glad to see her out rid
ing today looking very well.
Mrs. H. r. Hall is receiving treat
ment in the Highsmith hospital.
Mrs. Will Slocomb, Of Georgia. is
the guest of Mr.. n Mrs. A. H. Slo-
comb, or Dick street.
The Messenger a been very kind
in giving room to the "old boys to
exploit the rally (Which the storm
would not let take place) and n his
tory of the Donaldson Academy; but
the correspondent is emboldened to
ask for a little more space to give a
pleasant incident connected there
with. A few days age, while the COM
mittees were arranging for the rally,
Mrs. T. D. Haigh, a charming and
cultured Fayetteville woman, who is
spending some time with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. G. NJ. Cooke, OF Bayoune, y.
J., dined at Summit, N. j., with Mrs.
Bronson, a daughter Of the late Rob-
ert Donaldson, the benefactor OF the
Donaldson Academy. after whom 1t
is named, and who has a street called
in his honor in this city. Mrs. Haigh
found her hostess very proud Of h
v%eneration in which her fathers
memory is held by this people. h
father owned seventy-five years ago..
when he lived in Fayetteville, and she
also has a set Of furniture which was
rescued from h bed of Cape Fear
river, where it sank more than half
a century ago, in the wreck Of a
steamer, which vas destroyed by a
boiler explosion.