The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-29
SwANSBORO NEWS.
Live Little Town Pushing
to the F~rOnt-Many New Buildings
Now Being Erected
Swansboro. July 26.

SNdISDOTO. July %
Our town has been booming lately.
Several new dwelling, n some other
houses having been built in the last six
I'll new streets have been opened,
improvements OH streets made. some
new families nave moved in. more lum-
Der is being sawed this year and ship
ped than at any time since swans
boro Lumbe Company established
their plant here. The company now
are building a new mill 36x9G feet, new
commissary store 32x4S feet. filled with
goods, new wharves and sharpies, new
boats, ETC., besides a new steam launch,
fast completing. At first circular saws
were used, but in the new mill, a band
saw will be used and a planning mill at
tached. They saw now about 80, 900 feet
per day, but expect ito saw 5000 feet
when the new mill is completed, which
will be about two months
Rev. B.. H. Matthews. of Norwood,
has bought a LOT, on which he is put
ting up a new dwelling and is going to
build a new school academy for a high
school,.
A large bricklin, OF 100. 900 brick has
just been built and burned by the mill
company. SchoOners are coming
and going all the time, carrying AVA
lumber to the northern markets from
our saw mills. Last week schooners
Hargrove. Dorchester and Anderson
cleared. the total amount on the
three vessels being about $4,000 feet,
yesterday schooner Sussell, Captain
Thomas. came IN and is now loading,
all three masters
Our town is booming and the pros
pect now is that it seems to all to be
better for a railroad than yer. A
harte for a railroad from Kinston to
Jacksonville, we lave already, and the
extension of that charter from jack
sonville on to Swdnsboro assured, if so,
We lave at no great distance, a rail-
road to and then our viii
lage of 400 inhabitants will soon be as
many thousands.
Last night Misses Katie. Daisy Pitt
man. Lulu Hatseii. and Zulu Rogers,
vent out in the hannel opposite the
town and Don caught IS trout, besides
others kinds of smaller fish and f1oun-
ders.
Mr.. John Stanley is our best fioun-
derer. He atcheS some nights ds high as
$50 pounds.
The crops in and around Swansboro
are very promising indeed. They are the
best we have had so far. for many
year. Mr.. Dan H. Russell. on his is
land farm here, says he has never had
better prospects UP to date. The melon
crop is good too and they have been in
great demand: up to this week about
about $500 per hundred wholesale was
the price, but now they are on the de-
cline fast. Melons on the 4th of July
sold readily for % and 30 cents.
We have now here six stores, and two
coal drink and ice cream saloons, two
baker shops. three churches, three
ship or boat building shops, one ship
yard for hauling up vessels. Soon we
will have two school buildings, a No.
l work and bicycle shop, two black
smith shops, four preachers, a doctor
OF medicine, a qdack doctor, a post
office and a fortune teller. All we need
now is a grist mil and a railroad, and
If kind Providence allows US. We will
have that before we die.
Politics is all over the world, we
guess. In our county about so candi-
dates are aspiring to keep from work,
and all democrats so they say. There
is only one candidate so far but what
has s or s opponents. and he shall have
one too Don Don't be scared, David,
some news next time.