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TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
Bank receiver to be asked for the Gastonia Banking Company. Doors closed yesterday by J. O. Ellington, Bank Examiner. John E. Love is president of the bank, and James A. Page cashier. Amount due depositors said to be $138,000. General belief that the bank will pay creditors in full.
Rev. A. Shorter Caldwell of Barium Springs has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church at Albemarle and will move his family there next month.
South Carolina Baptists will hold their State Convention at Chester. Among the ministers from North Carolina are Rev. Dr. A. C. Barron and Rev. J. A. Adams of Charlotte.
Miss Nannie G. Mebane, daughter of Mrs. E. C. Mebane of Greensboro, was married yesterday to Mr. John Tabb Donoho, of Milton, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Dr. E. W. Smith, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.
The cantaloupe growers of the vicinity of Maxton have organized for the marketing of their crop under the name of the Maxton Growers Association. The officers are H. C. McNair, president; A. E. McCormick, vice president, and Roy McNair, secretary-treasurer.
Event of high social interest in Maxton was the marriage of Miss Annie Lane MacRae, and Mr. R. M. Williams, which was solemnized in the Presbyterian Church, the minister being Rev. Dr. H. C. Hill. Miss Mary Fuller Roberson of Fayetteville was maid of honor, and Dr. L. R. Kirkpatrick, best man. The marriage was of Statewide social note.
Miss Carrie Etta Wearn and Mr. Ralph Perkins Conley, were married yesterday at the minister being Rev. Dr. T. F. Marr, of Tryon Street Methodist Church. Shortly after the ceremony they left for Lenoir where a reception will be tendered them by the groom's mother. The groom is a native of Lenoir but now a resident of Charlotte.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hagood will celebrate the fifth anniversary—the wooden wedding—Tuesday evening, cards having been issued by them to several hundred friends.
Miss Lucile Withers, student at the Baptist University for Women at Raleigh, comes home tonight on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Withers. Accompanying her will be Miss Mary Johnston, of Thomasville.
Mr. W. W. Supplee, president of the Supplee Hardware Company of Philadelphia, who has been a guest of Mr. W. W. Watt for several days, left last night for home.
Governor-elect R. B. Glenn, of Winston, is a guest at the Buford Hotel.
Mr. D. H. Anderson leaves this morning for Havana, Cuba, for a stay of several months.
The Aeriel Male Quartet of this city will give a concert at Monroe on the evening of December 2, for the benefit of the Ladies' Aid of the Methodist Church.
