The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-06-24

Important Meeting OF Omcerx-New
stock Company-Sanitarium An
nex-Noonlight ut Bonnie Doom"
Base BaII-News and Personal.

Correspondence OF The Messenger
Fayetteville, June Il.
An important meeting is going on to-
day at the Hotel La Fayette OF the
officers OF the Cape Fear Electric Pow
er Company. OF whom there are pres
ent Messrs, J. S. Manning, OF Durham.
president; W. NJ Morgan, OF Fayette-
vile, vice-president: r p. Gray, OF
Greensboro, secretary and treasurer:
W. l. Holt, OF Fayetteville, and s. w.
Trawick, of Atlanta, directors and z.
c. Angle, of the New York General
Electric Company. The officials give
out nothing for publication farther
than the assurance that work is pro-
crossing satisfactorily on the construc-
ton of the plant al Buckhorn falls.
Mr.. T.. c. Williams, Jr., wholesale
grocer of upper Hay street, is abou to
form a stock company, for an increase
of capital and the enlargement of the
business, in which prominent men
signify a willingness to take shares.
Mr.. l. a. Williamson, of the Hotel
Morgan mills, who has critically ex-
amined Mr.. Williams books, states
llldI LII Illdlld5ClllCllI VI luc uSllCS
has been first-class and the profits
good. Personally, there is not a more
popular nan in North Carolina than
T. G. Williams, Jr.
This morning The Messenger CORE
spondent made the round of the new
n to the Marsh-Highsmith sani-
tarium On Green street, for the oc-
commodation of white charity pa
tientS, and both charity and pay col
ored patients. The equipment through
out is of highest grade, n the
nurses home in this anne is the pic
ture Of comfort and convenience. The
sanitarium has just got in a Bradham-
Deane water instrument and clothing
sterilizer exactly like that used in the
Pierpont Morgan Maternity hospital
in New York. Truly the Marsh-High-
smith sanitarium is Fayetteville's
great benefaction.
Last evening, at Mr.. w. l. Hollis
beautiful country place, Bonnie
Doom" the following party greatly en-
ioyed a moonlight picnic: Mr.. n Mrs.
w. l.. Holt, Mr.. and Mrs. S. III. McRae,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Slocomb, Jr., Mr..
H. Nj. Pemberton and Miss Bessie IN
derwood, Mr.. Z. H. Williamson and
Miss Maud Haigh, Mr.. J. c.. Thomson
and Miss Mary Warren Cameron, Mr..
II. p. Elliott and Miss Fannie Williams,
Mr.. G. B.. Underwood and Miss Fannie
Kyle, Mr.. A. b. Williams, jr., and Miss
Lille Slocomb, Mr.. n. H. McGeachey
and Miss Martha Williams, of Whining
ton. Mr.. Ambrose Williams and Miss
Wheeler, of Durham, r. P. Gray, of
Greensboro, S. w. Trawick, of Atlanta,
and E. c. Angle, of New York. There
were boat rides on the lovely AXE,
walks through the extensive grounds,
n a choice supper at midnight.
The married mems club defeated the
Fayetteville professionals in a game OF
ball at the park yesterday afternoon by
a score of s to 6, with the following
lineup: Married Men-L. A. Williams
son, c.; Tyndall, p; Maloney, lib;
Hedgepath, 2b; Baynes, s. s.; Randall,
3b: Barrett, /. f.; Holland, c. f.; J. B.
Underwood, Jr., I. f. Professionals
Macarthur, c.; eagle, p; Mcmillan, lib;
Pemberton, Oh; Woodward, s. s.; Tay-
lor, 3b; Monaghan, |. f.; Williamson,
C. f.; Haigh, +. f.
Mr.. S. H. MacRae, attorney for the
company, appeared before the board Of
aldermen at yesterdays meeting, ask
ing that the town government grade
and prepare for track the street leading
to the wharves of the Fayetteville and
Wilmington Steamboat Company. At
ter some discussion, the matter vas re-
ferred to the street committee.
A patent has been issued by the gov
eminent to Major B. r. Huske, vice.
president of the Huske Hardware Com
IN inventor of a vegetable harvester,
a knife of lngenluS mechanism for cut
ting the lettuce and other leaf crops
A movement is going on to celebrate
he Fourth Of July in Fayetteville in
the old-time style, and an arrangement
committe, of which Mr.. L. H. William
son is chairman, will meet e Monday
in the town hall to prepare a suitable
programme of exercises.
Mr.. S. r. Horne, graduate of the Bal
timore College Of Pharmacy, and MEM
Der of the drug house of Messrs. H. Z.
Horne & Co, stood his examination be-
fore the North Carolina Pharmaceuti-
cal board at Morehead City with dis
tinction. Mr.. Warren Horne, also Of
the firm, has been made a member of
the state examining board. an enviable
distinction for one so young in the pro-
fession.
Mr.. Isaac A. Murchison, the talented
city attorney, went up to Raleigh to
argue before Judge Shepherd the case
of the Fayetteville Gas Company VS..
the town of Fayetteville.
% Smith, the farmer Of Cumber
land county, whose strange case of OBJ
tanning money under false pretense has
already been given in The Messenger,
has been carried to the insane asylum
at Raleigh.
Mrs. Ashley Gusts, of Tarboro, and
Miss Annie Nash, of HillSboro, are
| guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. L.. Holt on
| Haymount.
Miss Weller. OF Sedalia, Missouri, is
visiting Rev. and Mrs. J. s. Moody on
Haymount.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Macarthur, of Flor
ida, are spending a few days with Mrs.
Alex Macarthur or Ramsay street.
Second CoIOred Priest in United
States.