The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1900-03-31
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/ liz is very likely 4thak Evangelist Peal
son will hold meeting In the Presby
! terrain church at Raleigh as SOON as the
new church building Is finished He
has been invited to do. so, burt MS reply
has not yet been received ,- . NJ
A civil engineer in the employ OF the
southern railway lis at Donnaha MAX
ing an estimate for the bridge across
the Yadkin river, for the beneflE Of pa
irons OF the Southern living In Nadkiu.
The company may also build " beidge
across Roaring river.
Mr.. Baker, Northern captEa1des, has
lust begun the erection OF d $4,000
lumber and planning mill and dry kiln
at Folkstone, on the Newberne Branch
OF the Atlantic coast line. THE estab
lishment will be located in q fine TIM
Der region and will employ 25 to 80
hands, besides the logging foroe.
The Forsyth Roller Mills Oh Win
ION, capital stock $4,000, has been in
corpcrated. Incorporators: We. A.
Lemly. r. J. Reynolds, A. 81 HpIton,
S. r. Cromer, j. F. Griffith, "A. F.
Mesick, j. j. Norman. V. p, Mobr, and
J. J.. Wallace. The business proposed
is grinding and dealing in grain and
doing general milling business.
There are eighty-fiye savings state,
and private banks in North 6an,sina.
The returns ait the corporations apnmis-
sion show that twenty new State banks
have been organized during Che past
year, which very near one zosarSlh OF
the entire number. OF the State banks
there are fifty-three; twenty -ssnnee pri-
waite banks, and nine savings banks,
making total of eighty-fiye,
An invaluable donation to THE State
museum by r. F. Dalton is a copy OF
the time-honCred Davis HeVESai OF
North Carolina in provincial times. It
was published in 1774 and was the
property Of James Hunter, tsDa wisest
and staunchest friend OF the people in
his day. and great-grent- grand
father of Neil Ellington, and great
great grandfather Of r. f. Da&bon, the
donor. It will now rest safely b0side
other contemporaneous works. the per-
slonal property Of Jethro SnmHeE and
other revolutionary patriots. ShH 1t in
the museum. How many old RELICS OF
your ancestors have been lost and de-
stroyed ?-Greensburo Record
The other day North GaEolinian
who has travelled all over this country
and great deal in the old woGIh says
the Charlotte Observer, made ehe re-
mark that there was only One North
CaTolinban who was known Gyle world
oveA and that was Dr. Calling. the in.
vent0r of the revolving gun OF thai
name. He said he deplord this. thai
there was no great writer, or poet, o.
painter, or musician, or statesman, OF
inventor and added THAT there had
never been one in all the States his
tory. The fact is that North Caro-
linians are slngularly self-containei
and easily satisfied people. This lis Ons
Of the States without any city in tint
true, sense of that word, and where the
mass OF the rural population is so great
that 1t dominates the towns complete,
ly. The proportion Of people who tray,
Ell, as compared to the mass, is infinite.
ly small, yet it is to be doubted thai
more simple in their tastes and iylde-
pendent and homogeneous.
A charter rs granted blythe State t,
the Oxford Cotton Mills capital $685.
600, with leave to increase it to $500,
600. The mills will both ss>ils aE4
weave. j. G. Hall, E. II. White, J
M. Currin and others are the stock.
holders. This is the nineteenth mil
chartered this year. April 5th the com
pany will organize. m
( Good progress is being naade in tia
work OF constructing the Neuse Rive
Cation Mills, at the Falls CT Nerse, Il
miles north of here. The 1uildin:
will be entirely of granite, whkch ii
raised out of the quarry by derrick
and swung right into place in tlk
walls. The dam is also OF granite. I
is to be an 5000 spindle mill.
Articles Of Incorporation have been
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