The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-21
Correspondence of the Messenger.)

VI ~ a1SSs(AEeCi-t
Fayetteville. N. c.. September Is.
November eth, Sth and 9th are the
days set for the next annual fair of
the Cumberland County Agricultural
Society, of which Mr.. Walter Watson
is president. and Mr.. q. w. Lawrence
secretary. While this yearly exhibit
ton will retain its special agricultural
and industrial features. no efforts will
be spared by the officers TO provide
good racing on what is said TO be the
best track in the state, and TO furnish
other amusements and attractions Tor
the large crowd which 10 confidently ex-
pected to be in attendance.
1t is announced that there viii be a
large Indignation meeting Of popu-
lists in FYea Hill township. in this
county, next Friday. 21st instant. at
which Marion Butler and other nota-
bles of the defeated party will be pres
ent. Doubtless the mass OF those who
assemble will De melted by nothing
more than a desire to vent their ILL
humor; but in their so-called 'indigna-
ton" gatherings the willy Butter has
some other object which will make it
self manifest between now and the
November election.
Mr.. J. T. Tolar, residing on Hay
mount, about a mile from the business
center of the city, lost his dwelling by
fire yesterday afternoon, with an in
surance of $500 on the property. which
only partially covers the loss.
The remains of Mrs. Atkinson. aged
IS years, will be laid 10 rest at f:30
o'clock this afternoon. she was Of
English birth and came 20 this county
some years before the war. the wife
of Mr.. William Nicholson. and after
his death married the late Mr.. Matthew
j. Atkinson, for years master mechan-
ic of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Val
ley Railway Company. Her grandsOns.
Mr.. David Nicholson, Of Monroe. and
Mr.. Robert Atkinson, of Florence. s.
c., arrived here this morning TO attend
the funeral.
All the candidates for the United
States senate have their followings in
this section, and no small contingent
lines itself up in behalf of Hon. a. NJ.
Waddell, who has been a favorite in
the upper Cape Fear country for many
years-ever since, leading what was
considered a forlorn hope. he SHE'D his
castor into the congressional ring. and
routed horse, foot n dragons. Oil
yer Dockery, the wheei-norse OF the
republicans. Eloquent, scholarly, we'll
equipped in state and national poll
tees, a true North Carolinian and an
answering democrat, Colonel Waddell
would be as able and worthy a MEM
Der of the upper, as he was for eight
years a member of the lower house Of
congress.
DR.. H. w. Lilly and Messrs ". F.
Leak and Thomas VI. Rose have asSo-
ciated themselves into a company for
the urpos of conducting a l~ong-dis-
lance telephone business from Hamlet
in connection with Fayetteville and
other outlying towns The high bust
ness character of the men associated
in this enterprise Is a safe guarantee
~ ffG nrnrsar arnan N a-sarv de-
tail
Thieves tried to break through and
steal the contents of the pantry and
dining room of Mr.. w. Ct. Hall on Hay
street night before last. The window
~fastenings baffied their efforts. but
they raided the kitchen, n carried
off a few provisions.
The public and private school OPEN
ings throughout the city yesterday
were gratifying in point Of numbers.
and everything indicates a per
scholastic year The numbers on the
roll OF the graded school are 30 per
e n greater at the beginning than for
any previous year since 1892.
The lodge Of Independent Order Of
Odd feilows, numerous and fourishing
In this city, initiated about a dozen
members in h second degree last
evening.
The First Presbyterian church, Rev.
III. T. Graham pastor. is now having
needed repairs and alterations made,
but the o. will cause no interruption
OF h regular Sunday services.
The cotton planters and grape grow
ers OF this section are obliged to make
regular drumming tours to get hands,
so scarce Is labor, and are paying
prices 40 or so per cent. higher than last
season II Is a common thing now for
a housekeeper TO sit the family down
to cold bread. a cup OF coffee and a
piece of cheese, the cook having gone
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