The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-17
Preparing for Enjoyable CeIehra'
ton on August 23Td
WANT BETTEI, PHONE SERVICE
Mass Meeting Held To Take Same Nc
ton Looking To Improved SrNicf-
Wedding or Miss Lamb and DIR. Judd.
Hn>ke-Other News and Personal
Note~
Especial 10 The Nsssenger.)

Fayetteville. y. c, July 12.-The
officers and members OF the Indepen-
dent Light Infantry battalion are max
ing arrangements for the celebration
Of the 18th anniversary of the COM
mand on the 23rd. of August. All
the c~onfederates and veterans OF
Cumberland county will be invited TO
participate in the exercises, Ct which
q pleasant feature will be a big picnic
dinner, besides the military ceremo-
MES. Major ]. c. Eann is now COM
mandant Of the batallian and was for
years commander OF the original COM
Pany. and one OF the best officers in
h state.
Mr.. H. L.. Brothers. a university
student and law %gradute. will practice
his profession in this city.
Last evening at "~Sunnyside Floral
Nursery" two miles west Of the city,
the home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
]. NJ. Lamb, Miss Kate Lamb was
united in marriage tc Or. J.. H. Judd,
a leading dentist of the city, Rev. D.
H. futile, pastor of Hay Street Meth
Odist church, performing the cere-
mony. The parlors and halls Of the
pleasant country home were beauti-
fully decorated, for around the fair
bride were the florists Conservatives
and gardens. offering a wealth of
flowers and greens to crown her en-
trance into a new life.
Now cometh the bride with leaf and
flower,
Her dainty form cloth all in white;
Heavens choice blessing be her
dover,
It's smiles her pathway ever light.
DR.. and Mrs. Judd will make their
home at his lovely place, "W.st
Lawn" formerly the elegant mansion
Of the late John D. Williams, on wes-
tern Haymount.
| This morning the remains of the late
Robert Strange Huske, who died al
MOrganton. as wired to The Messenger
last night. were brought to his city;
and, after services in st. Johns Epis-
copal church, were buried in the new
Cross Creek cemetery.
A timber and lumber man. Mr.. Bull
lard, operating extensively in Beaver
Dam township. in the extreme south
eastern part Of this county, states that
he finds great confusion and many
omissions in the record of land deals
in that section, due chiefly to the fact
that comparatively recently Beaver
Dam was cut off from Bladen, and
made part of Cumberland, and that
some years ago many of the Bladen
archives were destroyed by fire. The
trocirr orI 1ooot;o, Df ro;11r a,I
bounds of several bodies of land in
Beaver Dam depend now on the
knowledge and memory of old citizens
and these are fast passing away.
Last evening what might he called
a telephone mass meeting was held at
$50 o'clock in the city hall. The
community is up in arms against its
defective telephone service. and the
complaints are well-grounded. for the
whole system is defective. and added
to that, unfortunately, the operatives
Of the exchange are remiss in their
duties. That is the case Of the city,
broadly stated. But there are two
sides to every question. The mana
gers of the Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph Company admit the short
comings of their exchange. with anti
quated material. but contend that
thousands of dollars would be required
for copper metallic circuits. l~ong-dist-
ance connections. etc. That, in brief,
is the case for the company.
Miss Annie McRae has returned
home from a visit to Mr.. and Mrs.
Marburg in Baltimore.
Misses Martha and jamie Williams
+ p cn1-1;-~ tI1 100000 - . o-~~- -
the western part Of the state.
Mr.. T. H. Sutton. j.. day clerk Of
the Hotel Lafayette. has returned
from a camping party at ROxb0rO.
Misses Alice and Maggie NaIlett are
spending the summer in the noun
tains.
Miss Eva Tate. Of C~hadbourn. is
visiting friends in this CITY.