The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-21
THE GUSHING FOUNTAIN-HEAD.
Mr.. Bash Improving the Water Sup
ply-Suft for Damages-Thief Caught
With His Spoil-Matters Industrial,
Social and Personal.
Correspondence of The Messenger.)

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Fayetteville, n. c., November Is.
Mr.. II. c. Bash, manager, is making
substantial improvements in the mains,
pumps, ETC., of the walterworks plant
not h stand-pipe system, but that
which has supplied the needs Of Fay
etteville for more than fifty years, the
water-as cold as ice, as pure as the
air, as clear as crystal-being conveyed
through great bored logs from the
fountain-head, a magnificent bubbling,
living spring, which wells up from the
base of Haynount, under the brow Of
the Die arsenal eminence. Mr.. Bash
is a careful, capable business man;
and, If his patrons will avoid waste of
water, which diminishes the pressure,
he will give them good service.
In the superior court this week,
Judge Timberlake presiding, Mr.. j.. S.
Mcneil, in his suit against the At
lantic Coast Line, Railroad Company,
was given a verdict OF $4,000 for dam
ages sustained in an accident on the
road while he was in the service of the
company.
AT the Davis house on Green street
an overcoat belonging to Mr.. Tatum,
a guest, was missing a day or two
ago, and suspicion was directed to-
Yards a negro named Adams, recently
employed as porter. Yesterday Officer
Benton arrested his man with the over
coat on his ARM, apparently about to
take a train on the Atlantic Coast Line.
The colOred Howard school lin con-
naotinn with the static c0lnrp6 Norma al
schooD, Of which a negro named Simp-
son is superintendent, has been at
loggerheads witt the township school
committee for a week or two past, the
committee being bent on deposing
Simpson, who they contend, is unfit for
the place, County superintendent of In
struction T.. B. Newton has come to the
aid of Simpson, counsel have been en-
plOyed, and the matter\iS to be settled
before the board of education.
A delightful function" CHATS a good
word) was the bal poudre in the opera
house last evening, rendered by the
young ladies in compliment to the
young men, and also in courtesy to
visitors now in our midst. Not so eX-
}~tensive as ait the fair ball was the par
there of blushing beauties on the floor,
but very lovely flowers were they, as
in rich dress their graceful figures I'M
dulated in the waltz to the music of
R~emsburg's splendid Big Six" orches-
ira. The girls, too, admirably conducted
the entertainment; and the manage
ment of Miss Pauline Cameron, the
chief, who gracefully distributed ger
man avors of American beauty roses;
of her assistant, Miss Daisy Smith,
and the committee, Misses Fannie r.
Mckay and Fannie Williams. was ex-
cellent, while Miss Alice Matthews
could not be excelled as leader Of the
german, danced by the following
| couples:
Miss Pauline Cameron and Mr.. John
c.. Gorham; Miss Daisy Smith and
Mr.. E. r. McKethan; Miss Alice Mat
thews and Captain e. T. Watson; Miss
Eliza Williams and Mr.. H. McGeachey;
Miss F. r. Mckay and Mr.. P. w.
| Haigh; Miss Fannie Williams and Mr..
A. j.. Cook; Miss Lillian Slocomb and
Mr.. A. S.. Williams; Miss Katie Haw-
ley n Mr.. A. B. Williams, Jr.; Miss
Mabel Arnold and Mr.. J. c. MacRae,
Jr.; Miss Lottie Thornton and Mr..
Emmett Pemberton: Miss jamie Nc
Diarmid and Mr.. George HOlderness;
Miss jamie Mcclellan and Mr.. w. w.
Sutton. Very welcome also in the
dance were Mrs. J. D. Williams, Mrs.
w. N. Williams, and Messrs. j. K. Will
liams, J. S. Mcneil, r. L.. Williams,
E.. w. ~Overbaugh, A. r. Williams, c..
w. ELLIOTT, Jr., G. A. O'Hanlon, Kyle
| Pemberton.
The Tolar, Holt and Hart mill is
nearly completed, the roof on, nearly
all the interior work finished, and the
building almost in trim for it's ma
chinery. 1t has few superiors any
where in the manufacturing centres Oh
the south.
Mr.. Maine, of THE New York city
Copeland cotton firm, has, through Mr..
Newton Smith, agent, secured a large
body Of land suitable for his contem-
plated goat farm.
The McDuffie drug store business, es-
tablished more thar half a century ago
by the late DR.. S. J. Hinsdale, one of
the most skilled analytical chemists in
the south, will be conducted by Mr..
Noah E. Bunting and Mr.. J.. Hicks
Bunting, both of Wilmington, on be-
half of the heirs Of the lamented DR..
w. Z. They are men of high
and capacity, and will do
JuStlce 10 the trust in their hands,
Mrs. walter L. Holt, one of the most
charming entertainers in Fayettevi1Ie
society, received her friends YESTERDAY
at a chrysanthemum tea, ali the an,
polntments OF which were superb H..
profuse, and the hosnits ,
1ty or the table lavish and delicate
MISS Maggie Carson entertained r
young friends last night with a ~
querade ball, ait which the &C las
were remarkably fine, the DR. sui e
MIR. Lemmie Crosswell. A"ial aio
Mr.. and Mrs. Will s
Dothan, Ala, Ire visiting ~Sioconlp, VI
Nh. and Mrs. A. H. Slor ..n helr parents
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