The semi-weekly messenger., 1905-08-29

Mrs. Allen, given III The Messenger OF
last Saturday, seem, from the details
since learned, to have been planned
Grafton. Mrs. Allen, who was the first
TO take her life, and who was living
with married daughter. gave to the
latter some directions with regard to
dinner, remarked that she was going
out for visit, and was quiet and COM
posed through all. The careful writ
ing of her will, and placing it in the
Bible, showed that she acted under no
sudden or desperate impulse.
Jackson, from all accounts had been
acting queerIy' for year, and had
more than once threatened to take his
life. Just before his suicide his de-
meanor was so strange as to alarm the
family. He was what is called
''Sanctified Calvanist,'' and was a lead
er in their meetings. All that fanati-
cal religious frenzy probably set him
crazy.
The Merchant Mills ON Old street, of
which Captain ]. ID. Mcneil is(owner,
have put in d new cotton ginning plant,
with model machinery In every part
while the building has been doubled in
size, having a drive way for wagons
through its centre. There is a 4O-horse
power gasoline engine in connection, to
be used in times Of low water.
W. III. Downing, of Cedar Creek
township, brought the first new cotton
to this market on Saturday.
Misses Kate and Bette Wilkins
and Ida Startling, of Goldsboro, are
visiting friends here.
Mrs. Holding, of Rocky Mount. is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. T.
Johnson, on Maiden Lane.
Mr.. NJ. n Raynor left yesterday
morning on the Richmond "Shoody"
train ON a business trip.
The funeral services took place on
Sunday, at his home in Seventy-First
township, over the remains of Mr..
James D. Worrell, who died of typhoid
fever at Greensboro, whether he had
gone to pay visit.
Messrs NJ n Raynor and 0. B.
Wightman, of this city, both travelling
for northern drug houses, had mar
row escape a day Or two ago, While On
a business trip through Wake county
Their conveyance got into an over
flooded creek running into Neuse river,
the team had to swim, and the water
came up to their waists, even seated
in the carriage.
Miss Jennie Murchison, of Whining
ton, has been paying visit to Miss
Jeanne Pemberton on South Dick
street.
Miss Kate L. McKinnOn has re-
turned to her home at Maxton, after
visit to Miss Margaret Gotten on Hay
mount.
Mrs. J. j. Jackson, Misses Carrie
Jackson and Camille London, Of Pitts
boro, are the guests of Captain and
Mrs. J. H. Currie at their country
home, southwest of this city.
Mr.. !. A. Moore. of the Southern
Cotton Oil Company, has gone to Black
Mountains to join his wife, who has
been spending. the summer there.
Miss Mary Norcott Broadfoot gave a
pleasant card party last evening at
''Pine View" the beautiful family
home on Haymount, complimentary to
Miss Jennie Murchison, of Whining
ton, and Caro- Gray, of Radeigh. Card
tables occupied the broad verandah,
brilliantly lighted for piazza party,
and the evenings entertainment was
delightful. The first prize was won by
Miss Alice Mathews, hand painted
pin cushion ornament; the consolation
prize my Mr.. John Rose, a water melon
with an African baby seated thereon.
The score cards, representing water
melon slices, were very artlstlcally
painted by Miss Maud Haigh. The
ices were frozen melon juice, and the
dishes, salads and dressing were in the
melon pink and green.
The Jeb Stewart chapter Of the
Daughters of the Confederacy, of
which Mrs Hunter 6. Smith is presi-
dent, will give a short programme Of
entertainment, including refreshments,
at the armory of the Independent Light
Infantry battalion at noon tomorrow,
at which time the following Confeder-
at eveterans will receive crosses of
honor: Eli Broadfoot, III. FL. Barkett,
Downing Stephen Gales, B. Hales, j.
W. King, Charles Kennedy, NJ. Nc
Donald, Colin McRae, Ell. Nunnedy, A.
Overton, J. T. Sinclair, Henry Ussary.
The Independent Light Infantry will
attend the Robson county Home
Coming" tomorrow, going down in a
special car attached to the 0:3O o'clock
freight train to Red Springs.
Yesterday, in Magistrate Overby's
court the counsel for the Aberdeen and
Rockfish R. r. Co, appealed to the su-
perior court from a decision giving
Jessup $50 damages for COW killed
on the track Of the road.
The Barnes & Strange Company
have established a plant on the Cape
Fear river for the manufacture OF
white oak slaves and oak and pine
lumber.
Mr. George Ell. Talley and Miss An
ME L. White were married yesterday
afternoon by Magistrate D. n. Mclean
at his residence on Haymount. The
bride is one of the prettiest girls i'll
Seventy First township, and the groom
is an industrious, successful young
farmer
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mclean, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Elliott, and Mr.. Claude
Mclean, of Florala, Ala, passed
fhrouoh here Yesterday RI attend the