The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-13
Confederate, Mexican and Spanish Wal
J Veterans to Meet.
To Join in Reception to the President.
A Raid i'm Chatham COu4y-Sched-
ule of the A. and VI. Football Team.
Tom Dewey Must Serve Six Years
Sentence.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, \. G., October 0.

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cry and Deputy Marshal Sharp. There
is no clerk for the Washington court
though later one may be appointed,
hence enc was taken from here.
Deputy Collector Stancil made a raid
last night near Durham and got an
illicit distillery but the operators made
their escape.
The decoration of the city for the
state fair began today, the city hall
being the first building to receive at
tention. There is no sign Of rain, and
the dust problem is one which the peO-
pie have TO ace.
Joseph q. Brown of the American
Bankers Association left for Washing
ton, D.. g, TO attend its annual meet
ing. The Trust Company section
meets tomorrow, and the general asso-
citation On Wednesday.
Postmaster Bailey of Raleigh says
that during the past three days ne has
collected from three persons ten dol
lars, penalty for enclosing matter of
Il higher i'll that Of It lower class.
These persons sent packages of low
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serted.
Insurance Commissioner grants a Ii
cense to the order of United CONNER
cial Travellers Of America. 1t is a
fraternal organization.
Colonel Chas. Z. Johnson of Govern
or GIenn's personal stoff has provided
very pleasant quarters for that and
the general staff for fair week, when
- all the members will be here.
\ Julian S. Carr will go in quite eX-
] tensiyely for bee culture at his beauti-
: full farm, OccOneechee at HlllSDOrO,
and will have 3OO boxes. \ lady in
enc of the Piedmont counties has the
largest number of boxes in this state,
some 0 n.
During three nights of fair week at
the city hall here, amateur MINISTRIES
will give performances i'll aid Of the
Masonic Temple fund, and expect very
large audiences.
Revenue officers made a raid near
Truth, in Chatham county, under the
direction of Deputy Collector w. q.
Pool, and captured 4 60 gallon illicit
distillery, in full blast. y negro who
was operating it was captured, but de-
\ MED that he was the owner and said
that he was hired to do the work
While the place is near Truth there is
evidently very little knowledge of
truth by some Of the people there
abOuts. The distillery was between
two dwellings, and in about $50 yards
of each, on one side being that of the
negro operator mentioned, and On the
other than of Il white man. The latter
declared that he never had the least
idea there was a distillery in that Sec
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ishment at the discovery. The officers
told him in no uncertain terms that ne
was a star liar, and put him out CT
action.
1t was at first thought that there
would be no state reunion of the o n
federate veterans here his year, but
Julian s. Carr, commanding the North
Carolina division, calls for a meeting
in the capitol on the evening of the
18th. 1t is expected that the veterans
will figure very prominently in the re-
ceptiOn the next day given President
Roosevelt. The Mexican wal veterans
will muster all he men they can on
that occasion. while the first II
second veterans. . . . . . . . . -. 49,.
second regiments of the Spanish-Amer-
lean veterans will also parade, upon
call by t~heCOOlnelS, Joseph L. Arm
field and VIM. H. s. Burgwyn. 1t is
expected that the latter veterans will
make the personal acquaintance OF the
President.
The foot ball team of the Agriculture
al and Mechanical college, which play
ed the University of Virginia Satur-
day at Charlottesville. is certainly a
~good-looking and substantial one. As
has been stated the cadets this year.,
show up larger than ever before. Some
of the ones from the mountain region
are strapping fellows, six feet high.
Tn eam will play John Hopkins at
Baltimore on the 14th; the University
of South Carolina at Columbia on the
Goth: Georgia archaeological School or
the University of the South, SeWaenee
at Atlanta November 4th; University
of North Carolina at Raleigh Novem-
Der 18th: Washington and Lee Uni
versity at Raleigh November 18th, n
Davidson College at Winston on the
30th. !
The inspection for cattle ticks in
several of the Piedmont counties is in
progress by two United State officials,
ans is being made very close indeed.
1t seems to be quite hard to eradicate
the ticks in certain sections.
The supreme court has settled the
case of the ~defaulting cashier, Tom
Dewey, of the wrecked New Bern
bank, from which he got $4,000 Or
Whereabouts, and he must serve six
years in the p~enitentiary. The deci-
sion of the supreme court will not be
certified down to the clerk of the SUI
perior court at New Bern until he
first Monday in November, this being
the rule, SO he has almost a month of
liberty yet. He is out on $4,000 bail.
The number of convicts in the pen
itentiary now is a little smaller than
it has ever been, some of the most
noted criminals in the state are there,
most of these being in for long terms.
Strange t o say, what are known as the
thirty-year men, have to be watched
even more carefully than those who