The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-05
TO MEET WEDNESDAY,
Showing Made BY the Grand Lodge
will be Remarkable
Mrs. Howell Cobb Iniured-Charters
by the State-Suits Against Theatres
for Presentation Of THE Clansman.'
Dinner e, Old Men and Women.
Raid on an Illicit D%istiIIery.
Messenger Bureau.

The Grand Lodge of Masons meets
Wednesday of next week. and Grand
Secretary Drewry says the showing
made will be most remarkable. A
year there We're 333 subordinate
lodges, while now there are $50. The
uumber of members now reaches TO-
000. this being a gain of 1000. Il is
expected hat the attendance Will be
as large as was yer known.
Mr.. ]. X. Doughton of Allegheny
county. today took charge of the TEL
ler's desk in the state treasury. Chief
Clerk Moody remarked that Mr..
Doughton was the fifth teller in FIVE
years, and said that his four predeces-
sors made 1t a DIN to either get pro-
noted or married.
In an interview with the physician
who is attending State Treasurer Lacy.
he remarked hat the treasurer was
improving and might be out in ten
lays, unless there was some set back.
Charters are granted the Street
Brothers Lumber Companies, of War
saw, capital stock 100000: also the
Buckhorn Land and Timber Company
Of Raleigh, 7. S. Jerman and others
stockholders, the amount of capital
stock being $4,000.
State Auditor Dixon returned to-
day from a visit to Cleveland and
Rutherford counties. where he has
been for the past ten days.
At the Marlborough House last night
Mrs. Howell Cobb. the wife of the pro-
prietor. fell from a stool while at
tempting to light a gas jet in her room.
and her left arm was disiOcated at the
elbow by the fall upon the floor.
There are to be suits, it seems.
against the theatres here and at Louis
burg for the presentation Of the play,
1.-THE Clansman.' by the Corlnne
Runkle Company. The play was pre-
scented here Friday evening, and along
some lines it was based upon Dixon's
Clansman, but it was written by the
stage manager of the Runkle Company
and the names, are all changed, as we'll
as most of the situations. For exam
pie the part of the little girl in Dixon's
play being cut out and a lot Of funny
business being introduced. The Runk-
els will not present the play any more.
The MethOdists in this conference
have decided to be very active in
pushing their missionary work. AM
the action taken at the conference of
their presiding elders. which was in
session until late last night means the
holding before spring of a missionary
institute in every one of the districts.
It is understood that the purchase of
the we'll located site for the auditorium
here means that Raleigh will enter the
field as a candidate for the place OF
holding the next Democratic State con-
ventiOn. For several conventions have
been held at Greensboro because there
was no place here suitable for such
great gatherings. 1t seems to be the
determination now to do away with
this lack Of accommodations. The stet
should, in fact. have been taken years
ago.
Needham &. Broughton has been
paid the remarkable compliment OF
being elected superintendent Of the
Baptist Tabernacle Sunday school for
life. He has held that position for rs
a
United States District Attorney Skin
ner has received his commission of re-
appointment for four years from the
first Of next February.
It is/expected hat there will be a
large number of delegates at the state
convention of the North Carolina Cot
ton Growers Association which meets
in the hall of the House of Represen-
tatives here tomorrow. President JOhn
S. Cunningham says there is no abate-
ment of interest in the movement.
More than 100 aged men and wom-
en- dined today together at long tables
in the Fayetteville Street Baptist
\ CIucU mere, DClitS ScINcu ny d ilu1I1OCI
Of ladies from that church and from
the First Baptist church. For a num-
Der of years this has been the custom
A charter is granted the Globe Par
,or Furniture Company. High Point
S1o5,000 capital. J. F. Rountree and
others stockholders.
Postmaster Bailey. of Raleigh COM
pleted payment to the free delivery
carriers. the InOun paid being $64,
sol for December, an increase yer q
year ago Of ore-third.
A meeting of the creditors of the
Franklin-Martin Drug Company. bank
rupt. Fayetteville, is called for January
18th before Victor H. Boyden. referee
Interested creditors are in Baltimore
Charlotte and Lynchburg. Liabilitie'
are $1,000, with over $4,000 pen &C
counts due.
Deputy Collector w. G. Pool, raidet
an illicit distillery seven miles from
Chapel Hill, destroyed it and got evi
dence to cOnvic two owners.
Insurance Commissioner authorize
the Peoples Mutual Benevolent Asso
citation of Raleigh. TO reinsure in tn
Southern Life at Fayetteville.
Sickening Shivering Fits