The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-29
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Correspondence Of The Messenger.)
Fayetteville. ". c., March Is.
Judge Fred Moore is holding Cum
berland superior court this week, the
docket being made UP Of civil business.
Today, according to the calendar ar
ranged, there will be two suits against
the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
w. Jones are plaintiffs. Judge Moore
has previously held court here, and
stands high 10Th with the bar and the
general public.
There is now hardly a question of Sc
curing the $125.000 capital for the new
Fayetteville and Wilmington Steam
boat Company, with a street electric
railway for freight and passengers
The wharfage here is pretty much all
the property Of the steamboat lines al
ready in operation. but there is ample
liver front, easy of access and conyen-
ent for landings. 1t has been suggest
ed that, in connection with this enter
price and the Cape Fear Power Com
pany, the piece Of track branching
from the Atlantic Coast Lin railroad,
and RUNNING to the roller -four mills,
put UP by Styron & Co.. and after
wards owned by r. NJ. Nimocks & Co,
can be again utilized IN some way TO
great advantage, as an extension to
the river wharfs, and as part of a belt
line.
The cordially with which the civil
engineer, Mr.. Ernest Cooke. has spoken
of our material advantages, and, bet
ter still, the substantial evidence which
he is giving of his faith therein, are
very gratifying to our people. He places
Fayetteville very high as a future
manufacturing centre. has already
made investment here. and has just be
come one Of a with Messrs.
w. L. Holt and w. NJ. Morgan, of this
city, which will build a wool and cotton
mill.
The Messenger correspondent learns
that the Ashley Bailey silk mill, the
success of which may be called almost
phenomenal, will put in several addi-
tiona looms for the weaving of a beau
tiful black taffeta; it mas recently been
turning out chiefly excellent white and
gray silks.
Expressions Of satisfaction are gen
eral in this city at the denomination OF
Hon. A. NJ. Waddell to the position OF
Wilmington's municipal head. II
street talk in Fayetteville that the next
town election will be hard-fought, and
both Captain A. 3 William s, o
chairman Of the board of county com
m~issioners, and Captain Isaac n. CLARK
formerly master mechanic Of the Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway Com.
pany, are spoken of as formidable com
petitors of the present mayor, Col
onel w. S. Cook. who is a very strong
man, and whom it will be difficult tC
feat.
The proceedings in the Fowler.
Thomas congressional contest will be
resumed tomorrow. a recess having
been taken from last Friday by requesr
defeat.
A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the sam
who knocked Mr.. Reid down on Ha!
street a few nights since-attacked Mr.
Turner, of Robson county, On tn
railroad track a night or two ago, blu
found that he had tackled a tartar, i,
spite of his slung-shot, and was finall.
beaten off, and put to fight. Mr.. Tur
ner received severe bruises in the fight
MeSsrs. II, l.. Clark and E. r. Nc
Kethan, already prominent in theil
profession, have formed a partnership
for the practice of law. and will con
ond floor Of the Thornton block on Ha!
street.
Mr.. Frank SIocomb. an esteemed
Fayetteville young man. now engage
in business at Dothan. Ala, will seol
marry Miss Nora Carlyle. daughter o
a prominent physician of that city.
Mrs. J. A. Oates, Jr.. and her daEgh
ter, Miss RoXie Lee Dodd. are in Win
ston to attend the marriage of Mis-
Brown, daughter of Rev. H. A. Brown
General LeDuc. who has been TO
some time a guest at "The Pines" tn
beautiful winter resort of Major ant
Mrs. John B. Broadfoot on Haymount
has gone to Jacksonville. Fla.
Mr.. D. G. Wade, a prominent nava
stores and lumber operator of this sec
ton, has returned from a business tril
to Florida.