The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08
FAYETTEvnLE NEWS LETTER.
Heavy Shipments OF Lettuce-Con-
victs Strike CampeAccident tO
Miss Noft-News and Personal
Notes I'm Brief.
fspecial to The Messeneer.l

Especial to The Messenger.)
Fayetteville. April 6.-The movement
OF lettuce to northern markets from this
days past. 1t is estimated that on
Monday and yesterday at least 5000
baskets were shipped. and a large
amount is moving off today. The let
tuce growers. as has already been
shown in The Messenger, are very
numerous here. and several are extern
sive growers-the most extensive. per-
haps. is Myrtle Hill farm. of which
Mr.. s. ii. Strange is the efficient man
ager, and which has about leo beds.
Messrs James Tomlinson and d. Camp
bell are also large growers
The county commissioners nave given
orders for the removal OF the convict
camp. at present located near Kinks
bury a few miles north OF the city. to
Blanth's creek in Seventy-First town
ship. This Is taken to mean work on
the old Centre and Western plank roads
and the Chicken road.
Miss Clanssa Mott residing at the
old family homestead Eve miles west
Of this city, was out in The yard arrang-
ing her flowers. when the ane broke
by which she supported herself. giving
her a violent fall. and fracturing her
hip.
Rev. B. L. Hoge, Of Georgia, last
night began a protracted religious
meeting in the First Baptist church
OF this city. He Is a man of much force
in the pulpit, and is a Virginian by
birth.
Cross Creek Lodge No. 4. Order OF
Odd Fellows. has elected Mr.. David
Caster as representative and DIR. A. S.
Maultsbv as alternate. to the Grand
Lodge which meets at Durham on the
10th of May.
Mr.. Emmett Pemberton, ex-chisf of
b fire department of this city, now
in business at fairfield. S. c., has been
visiting relatives here.
1t is now about the end of the first
week in April; and. whether becaHse
the leaders. the leaders and the rank
and file are silently massing for a
hot campaign, OIL because the munici-
pal election will be a perfunctory walk
over, there is not a mayoralty ripple
on the surface now. Captain r. A.
for the mayoralty, and who would have
been a powerful candidate, was obliged
to withdraw by the. positive advice of
his physician.
The correspondent learns that two
Or more families of this city have de-
termined to make arrangements to IN
port white servants from the north.
- AioJ 1oG PtO'N -
cessful. but they cannot be worsted, for
the house help situation here is intol-
cradle. The silk mills, which employ a
large number here of hands, all negroes,
congo the labor market. especially
the women and girls. who would other
wise be cooks and chambermaids
There is no prospect of any improve
ment for a while. either, for now the
truckers. especially the berry growers
will be offering high prices for pickers
From the best information the CORE
spondent can gather, it may be esti-
mated that in this immediate section
only about enough of the fruit Is killed
to make the rest OF the crop all the bet
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Patterson lave
removed from this city to Greensboro
to the regret Of Fayetteville. Mr.. Pat
terson was until recently with the Arm
field Wholesale Grocery Company. +"
Mrs. A. A. Mclean. of Maxton. J.;
visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Arm
field, on Haymount.
Colonel and Mrs. Peter Mallett have
gone to New York. but Will return late-
in the season to occupy their handsome
new residence on Haymount-