The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-11
BAR ASSOCIATION MEETS
Counting the Members and Their FAM
lilies. There Are J96 Prescnt-Ad-
dress of Welcome Made by Mr.. c. r.
Toms-Presidcnt kcran Replied to
the Address OF Welcome and De;iv-
cred His Address.

Especial to The Charlotte Obseryer)
Lake Toxaway, July 5.-The largest
meeting ever held of the North Caro-
lima Bar Association ven tonight
in the ball room of the Toxoway Inn.
Counting the members and their farli-
lies, there are 136 In attendance. Be
sides these, there are quite a number of
summer guests to swell the crowd.
The executive committee this after
noon elected p new members. Mr..
Zeb. Y. Walser, chairman of the execu-
tive committee, was absent tonight at
$50 aud Mr.. {, W, Tillett was re-
quested to call the meeting to order
and did so. He said he was glad the
executive committees choice of Toxa-
way as a place Of meeting had been
approved by this large attendance. In
announcing Mr.. c. T. Toms, of Hen
dersonville, to make the address Of
welcome he said that Mr.. Victor S.
Bryant, Of Durham, vas absent and
that Col. Kenan would make Il re-
Spouse to the address of welcome. ill
cjdental to his address as president.
L n III Nd "CIC otII j ASIStk
and we'll taken. On the stage sat
President kenan, Judge PritcharG,
Chief Justice Hill, of Arkansas. Secre-
tary Biggs and Mr.. Tillett. Mr.. Toms
closing tribute TO the women wa es-
p~ecially well spoken and applause of it
from the men was spontaneous and
hearty.
This gave Col. Kenan a good start
o. H. tool M u,1,,,- x,o ..I ,-o,
the ladies' hearts in the beginning and,
read in the c%Oloners happiest style, his
whole speech vas rewarded all along
with laughter and applause.
At the conclusion of the presidents
address, Mr.. Tillet read the report of
the executive committee. 1t re-organ-
lied with Zeb Y. Walser as chairman
and l.. c. Smith as secretary. Col. L.
S. Kenan was elected president Of tic
Bar Association in the place of the
late Col. II. c.. Jones. Later Mr.. Til
lett read Il proposed amendment to the
J bylaws, merely routine. Lieutenant
| Governor Winston read The names Of
| the % newly elected members. Sec
rotary Crawford Biggs announced as
the committee on publication, O.. +.
Mason, of CASTOR: I. w. Davis, of
New Hanover: 4. B.. andrews, Jr., Of
| Wake, and the committee on the nonI-
nation of officers was as follows: Z.
/ n. Busbee. -. \. Foushee, K. \. Hack
EFT, S. Fl. McRae and T. S. Rollins.
Judge T. b. Womack presented a
bill to be given into the hands of a
committee, which committee will con
slider it and advise the association at
its next meeting whether it would be
wise to urge it's passage by he 1egf>-
lature. The bill provides a procedure
for the disbarment of attorneys-at-taw.
Mr.. +. H. Busbee spoke in favor Of
the bill. saying that as law in Alabama
it has worked well. Judge WomackTs
motion ito refer" passed.
Mr.. Locke Craig read a memoir Of
the late s. n. Reed and Mr. T. w
Daub read one of the late John FL.
Gore, Jr., who was drowned III the
Cape Fear river. After Secretary
Biggs haR read a letter ron the Bell
Telephone Company and the Transyl-
vania Company, Offering their Hines
free to the association and its nren.-
hers, Judge w. s. O'B. Robinson NOV
ed al resolution of thanks in his w
style. Of course the thanks were eA-
tended.
In closing tonight's session Colonel
kenan spoke very feelingly OF his
predecessor, President H. G. Jones.
They entered the university together,
graduated together in 1854, entered
tn Confederate army at. the Same time,
both were attached to the same reGi-
ment and were wounded in the same
battle and imprisoned together and led
lives since the war remarkably similar.
In public assemblies and social gather
ings they often net and their relations
We're always the most cordial.
This was all of the meeting, and it
was then only 10 O'clock. The. big time
had merely begun. The guests had
the freedom of this splendid hotel. a
description Of which is not timely
enough to send by wire. ana not the
least enjoyed of their social diversions
was the singing of Miss Celeste Will
der and Mr.. John G. Broadnax, who
had a choice audience in the ball