The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13
ROMANTIC SECRET MARRIAGE
Sir. Crowson and Miss Gully were
Secretly Welded AT Ellington
Academy OF Music Opcns-Breaks
In the Tobacco MISUNDERSTANDING
I'm tic Bonsack Case.
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, ". c., September 10.
The Raleigh Academy Of Music
opened tonight for the season, the
opening bill being Al. CT. Fields Min
strels: The playhouse has been thor
oughly remodeled and modern.zed,
n is one of the most complete and
roomy in this part Of the country. s.
4. Schloss is the lessee. He also has
theatres in Charlotte, Greensboro and
Winston-Salem.
Colonel Fred. A. Olds and fanny
during yesterday received message,
from many people in al parts OF the
country expressing coincidence in the
death of Mrs. Olds. There also came
kilograms from quite a number of the
chapters of Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, notably Thomas Ruffin chapter,
Reidsville; Bethel Heroes chapter,
Rocky Mount; Jefferson Davis chapter,
WhiteviI,e; New Bern chapter. New
Bern. Mrs. Olds was president of the
North Carolina division, Daughters of
the Confederacy.
a romantic secret marriage has just
come to light here. The bride is Miss
Bessie Gully and the groom Mr.. H.
Mel. Crowson. The marriage took
pace DIT LflliIiStoH, ApIIi-oIu, anu ndS
been kept a profound secret until now,
the only person in Raleigh knowing of
it being Mr.. Val Perkins, who was a
witness to the ceremony. At the time
Miss Gully was visiting in Ellington,
II Crowson, accompanied by Mr..
Perkins, went there and had the cere-
mony performed quietly. Crowson
and mis- friends returned here, and the
bride continued her visit. Yesterday
C,ouyoan 1nni1oI fo pnnyQ RI yVodoc-
boro, and his secret bride was visiting
in Louisburg, sc he wired her to come
to him and sent a note to the girls
father, Joseph p. Gully, informing him
Of the marriage and Of his purpose to
carry her with him to his new home.
She arrived on the evening train, and
the two continued their journey on the
same train to their new home.
Judge Thomas r. Purnell, Of the
United States court here, issues an
opinion in the we'll known Bonsack
case, United Cigarette Co., VS. r. II.
Wright, in which objections to the an
swer are sustained and the plea of the
statutes of limitations is overruled ana
an order made that sundry interroga-
tories ~propounded be answered by the
return day in October. The case in
| wolves the sale OF large numbers of the
noted Bonsack cigarette machines in
Japan some years g when Wright
was the special agent of the company.
Mrs. M. H. Lawrence, superinten-
| lent of the Rex hospital, in this city, is
| critically ill in Lynn, Mass. She was
very ill at Virginia Beach three weeks
ago, out recovered sufficiently to go
| north for special treatment.
There were heavy breaks at both the
tobacco warehouses here the past week
and the expressed satisfaction
at the prices received, prices ranging
as high as $50 and $50 per hundred.
Judge Purnell, in the Federal court,
makes a ruling in which he refuses to
allow eight petitions for receivers GER
t~ificates in the case involving the set
Element of the affairs of the Carolina
and Northern. the Southern Saw Mill
Company and the Atlantic Seaboard
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