The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-27
MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS.
OF Cumberland Cotton Mills is Call
ed-FayettevilIe News Notes.

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Fayetteville, October pa meeting
is called Of the stockholders of the
Cumberland Cotton Mills Company
the plant of which is situated on Beav-
or creek. seven miles southwest Of the
city. for the purpose of negotiating a
loan Of $4,000 by mortgage on tn
property, and the transaction of other
necessary business. The buildings aud
machinery have been put in fine or
der, and the many factory improve
ments have made Cumberland a thriv-
ing and attractive village.
Yesterday, at Sherwood IN Gray's
creek township, Rev. L. A. Smoot pas
tor of Hay Street NJ. E. church, per-
forming the ceremony, Mr.. Edwin g.
Bailey. cashier of the bank of Greer's.
S. c.. and a young business man of
high standing. was married to Miss
Katherine Carney, daughter of Mr.. J.
a. Carney, an honor graduta of Green's
boro Female college. After a full
course luncheon at the hospltab.e
Gainey residence. Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey
ode to Fayetteville, and took the
train for their home in South Carolina.
MI. bSOl sc AlCA>clll, CIldll llldll VI IA
committee. is arranging for an ur-
usually fine tournament for Friday of
the Cumberland fair. Twelve or if
zen of the best riders of the upper
Cape Fear country will enter the lists.
all to be richly costumed, and a cost
ly jeWeled brOOch will be awarded as
a prize to the champion rider. to be
presented to the queen at the tOurnd-
ment ball that night.
DR.. H. H. Lilly. president Of the
Bank of Fayetteville. and Mr.. T. Nj.
Rose, of Hamlet, have sold out their
Hamlet telephone exchange to the
Bell Telephone Company. Mr.. George
a. HOlderness, of Tarboro. general
manager of the Carolina Telephone
and Telegraph Company, wishes to
confer at an early day with the pa
irons of his exchange in this city, with
a view to changes in the system.
Captain D. H. Ray is tearing down
the brick tenements or Anderson street
occupied for some years as cabinet
and shoe shops, etc, and will erect w
handsome office buildings, giving him
a full block of new business houses
from Hay to Old street. and constitut-
ing some of the most valuable property
in the city.
Letters have been received here from
a large manufacturing candy house,
making inquiries as to business con-
ditions, labor, rent of property, etc,
with a view to establishing a large
wholesale confectionery plant. Mr..
Raeford. the baker on northwest Maj
ket Square, is a skilluful maker of ex-
cellent candies, but there is room for
expansion of the industry.
The second fall meeting of the Hay
mount Book Club was held at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Lilly.
Miss Kate Broadfoot, president, in
the chair. and the members were very
pleasantly entertained by the hostess.
Refreshments were served. n inter-
esting papers were read on the notable
points of interest of the city Of Rome
Work began yesterday on the re-
Gently burned plant Of the Weed Pine
Product Company in Seventy-irst
township. Mr.. Lancaster. Of Rich
mOnd. Va, one of the stockholders,
a day or two ago..
Very large shipments are now being
made north over the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad. of timber. n lumber
mills south of his city. 1t is
common to see immense trains NOV
ing northward, made up entirely o.
this freight.
Buildings are being put up for ad-
ditional accommodations of Glendale
School in the western part of the
county. That and Mcpherson school
are enjoying fine patronage.
Mr.. C. L.. Taylor. of Wilmington.
who has been up in Bladen county on
business, came up by river last night,
and leaves for home this afternoon.
Col. T. c.. James. Of Wilmington, ar
rived today on the noon train.
Mrs. Herbert Lutterloh. with her
two children has returned from a
visit to Asheville.
Miss Kate Haigh, of Reidsville, is
expected here this morning, to take
part in the Observation-Disclosures
next Wednesday,.
Misses Mary Lacy. of Raleigh, and
Loise Love. of St~atesville. will arrive
this afternoon, to be present at the
marriage next Tues
day.
La Nouvelle German Club gives a
dance this evening in the armory of
the Independent Light Infantry, conf
to the forthcoming Evans
and Observation-Disclosures
marriages.. The figures will be led by
Fire Chief J.. S. Mcneil n Mr.. Chas
Haigh. Jr.
The Bank Of Raeford in the western
part of Cumberland county. is now iE
operation. with Mr.. ]. w. Moore, the
able young member of h last leglS-
as cashier.
Messrs. Moore Brothers have estab-
lished the Belgian Hare Company in
the upper part of this county, for
and fattening this delicacy in
game for market.
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