The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-13

proyements-Hydropho.sa Develops
in Charles Ledbetfer.
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lSpecis. TO The Messenger.)
Fayetteville, March THE funeral
services toek place at 1 O'Clock yester-
day afternoon from Hay street Meth
odist church, Of which she was a mem
Der, over the remains Of Mrs. William
Widdifeld. who died at the home of
her son~in-law. Mr.. j. L. kennedy, in
this cTy, aged 70 years. The deceased
was the widow Of the late William
Widdifeld. and leaves two sons,
Messrs Samuel Widdiield. of Sanford,
and William Wi6difeld. Of this city,
and two daughters, Mrs. J. L. Ken
Greensboro.
Captain J. Z. McNeill, president of
the Cumberland Cotton Growers AS
sociation, has returned from Raeford.
sEhere he delivered an address in the
auditorium OF the institute, and while
in the irving town he organized Il
fire company of about twenty young
men, giving instructions in drill, etc,
in case Of IRE.
The new vault Of the Bank Of Fay
etteville ia completed. It is lined in
the interior with l IL inch drill proof
plates, aEf, counting the doors, it con
tains $4,000 pounds of steel.
Another child has ben bitten i'm this
city by 2 dog-a daughter of Mr. Nash
Sanford, living in the Holt-Williamson
mill ,sestion in East Fayetteville. q
telegram from Mr.. Carl Ledbetter yes
terday afternoon from Richmond
| where ahis SOL is in the Pasteur insti
tute FOR treatment, gives the painful
intelligence that hydrpphobia has de-
| veloIbsd.
Nj John A. Steele, head of the
Cape Fear Dry Goods Company of this
city, accompanied by his c~oalnsel, Mr..
H l. Cook, his witness, Captain n.
H. RIcGeachy and Mr.. ]. .. Williams,
anGlhis physician, Dr. J. e. McGougan,
left yesterday for New York, where he
has entered suit against O. street a
company for damages on account OF
injuries sustained en- getting off a car.
Nh Steele was 0 badly hurt ne to ne
cessitate treatment in 4 hospital n
long confinement in the house, eve
after he was able to be moved to this
cNy.
Mr.. Theran Blackburn, a trusted
empIoye of the Burns clothing house
OF this city, and Miss Kate Lassiter,
daughter of DR.. Lass5ter, of Benson,
were married at that place at 2:3O
s'clock yesterday afternoon and arrived
.Fatteville "Shoo fly train at II O'Clock
last night.
Mr.. w. II. Brown, street commits
Sinnoy. with hic fovs.x urac r~,1-yAf;p
for gravel at the ~half way" bridge on
quantity of perrified hickory wood,
some of it beautifully ,carweH-proba-
bly, by Indians.
Mr.. 7. F. Parker. who has long been
with the McDiarmid Wholesale Lum-
Der Co., has resigned, to take a. posi-
ton with the Cherokee Lumber Com
pany, Paramount, ". Va. with head
quarters in this city
Company r, second regiment, will
have state and national inspection in
the armory tonight, commanded by
Lieutenant E. r. NICK ethan, in the
absence of Captain N. H. McGeachy.
Mr.. NJ. F. Jefferson, recently mana
ger of the Singer Sewing Machine
Company in this city, has been sum-
moned to Washington, D.. c., by the
death of his mother.
Mrs. Oliver Evans haE gone to San
ford to visit her mother, who recently
broke. her hip by a fall. She is the
widow Of the late DR.. G. C, Newly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hunter G.. Smith have
gone to Appomattox. Va, to attend the
funeral of the formers step mother.
The correspondent has investigated
TIE telegram to the World from Paris,
giving the death of a young woman i
named Ethel Gachy Brown from this
cny. No such woman is known here
or ever lived here. There is no family
living here by that name.