The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-04


Raleigh, May 30.-The commencement
exercises Of ST. Mary's Female Col
lege here, the property OF the Episco-
pal diocese in the state ann South
Carolina, were held today.
Five bishops were present. Nelson,
Of Georgia, Bratton, Of Mississippi,
Cheshire, OF North Carolina, Strange
Of Eastern Carolina and Horner Of
Asheville,
The trustees elected Richard II.
Lewis, Charles E. Johnson, w. E. Or
win and George C. Royal as the ex-
ecutive board. The nomination of Rev.
Dr.. McNeely DuBose was left 10 the
bishops and in thirty days tn etrustees
will meet and elect. 1t was decided
to build a $50, 900 dormitory and din
ing hall TO accommodate a hundred
students
The commencement sermon was
preached by Bishop Bratton, whose
theme was Personal Responsibility
Dt Students and Graduates to the
world"
United States District Attorney Har-
ry Skinner left for his home at Green
vile today, after having successfully
prosecuted many cases in the federal
court. He said Immediately before
leaving that the fines and penalties
imposed considerably more than paid
the cost of the term Of court. He de-
clared that court to be in the interest
of Temperance and morality, as it
punished moonshiners, while the state
courts are powerless In this respect.
He said that State Solicitor Rodolph
Duffy had told him that he could not
get an Indictment of m~oonshiners in
his district.
The trustees Of the A. and M. coll
lege here elected today DR.. Henry Nc
Kee Tucker, physician, increased the
salaries Of Profs. Hill, Thompson, and
Riddick; appointed J. 7. Ellington, T..
T. Ballinger, r. H. Kicks, and @. L.
Clark, all practical farmers, a COM
mittee to supervise the agricultural de-
partment of the college and the farm;
Chose D. A. T%ompkirs, w. H. Ra-
gan, c. w. Gold, M. B. Stickley and
N B. Broughton as the executive
committee; W. H. Raglan w6 serve
chairman whenever the governor is
absent. The trustees. upon the rec
ommendation of President George T.
Winston, established a department. of
Modern Languages, which the alum
nj and students have long desired and
in which German, French and Spanish
will be taught. Four Instructors were
added in the electrical engineering,
mathematics, entomology and poultry
breeding. An expenditure of five
thousand dollars for needed repairs of
buildings was authorized, and eight
thousand dollars for efuipping the va
rious departments, particularly that Of
mechanical Inc electrical engineer
ing. ~
The Beckett commission which has
charge of all the insane is called to
meet June 6 at the Western Hospital,
Morsantcn. This is at the request of
Superintendent Murphy of that insti-
tuition, who has invited DR.. Drury, the
superintendent of the Virginia Hospit-
al at Stanton to be present. The
commission will specially confer with
DIR. Drury, who is regarded az an m
iRent authority. 1t will consider mat
ters appertaining to all the hospitals
new buildings, repairs and any other
needs of present buildings for the ep-
ileptics, who are to be colonized at
Raleigh, where provisions are to be
made for -four hundred. This will en-
able many more insane to be received
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