The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-12

De a Truck farm, and he has lust bought
% acres, with 30 in cultivation, devoted
" toDaccO, corn, cotton, peanuts and
potatoes, with house and barn located
one mile west.
Eight years ago he began live stock
BUSINESS with Carter & Brice. of Wal
lace. and is of their interests
mere; he is a iOviai gentleman and ever
alert business man.
Newport is behind in manufacturing
out has combination mills and gin own
ga py the senior merchant, w. S. Bell.
jr. The saw mill has capacity OF
about 1000 feet Of lumber per day
grist mill has a 3 1-2 foot burr, and
the cotton gin has a 80 saw stand all
propelled by engine of 80 and boiler
or 90 horse power.
Lumber is made for building, and
Tor fish boxes, and 1900 cabbage boxes
VIII be made here this season.
MI. ". s. Bell, Jr., was a clerk in
1867 and with $500 started for himself
IN 1868 and has been a merchant here
ever since. He owns farms one and
one-half and three miles from town,
and a nice home and a number of lots.
Officially he was postmaster eight years
n railway agent eighteen years, and
is n of the most highly esteemed citi-
Zens Of Carteret county. His son, c..
A. Bell, was acting railroad agent un-
Ger him, then got the appointment six
years ago and he is also telegraph op-
orator, and a live business man; he is
a thoroughly go-ahead patriotic citizen.
The Newport postoffice receives four
daily mails by rail and one rural free
delivery, n should have two more
rural routes, One of which is fOrthcOm-
ing. Cicero Mann, the postmaster, has
been so different times, ten years in
all; he buys truck and deals i'm multi
far1ous goods and owns garden farms
in and near town; he is completing n
of he prettiest homes Jon the division
which will cost about $1,000, and be
ready for a house warming in a couple
of weeks.
In the postoffice building is the Beau
fort and Newport telephone line, op-
Grated by Miss Marietta Hewitt, and
for convenience and attention the post
office can be highly commended.
Before the war of the sixties 7. B.
Mann was a busy man in the woods in
timber and turpentine operations, and
after hOstilities he started a store in
1866 and in 1874 his son, Monroe Mann,
became partner after clerkship-and
the Monroe Mann store is a busy one
to this day: his home is frOnted by a
garden Of Horticulture. His father, re-
ferred to, was postmaster, and he be-
came postmaster, and now his brother
holds the position. The A. and n. c..
tapped where Newport is now, in 1857,
n the region could have been a grand
II long ago. The railway company
became an a~ggravatiOn of spirit, and
since the lessees have taken hold the
Improvement is like new life-mOre
trains, better accommodation. fewer
free passes, and the poor mans freight
attended to as we'll as the rich. With
seaweed and oyster shells to make lime
Of, and other fertilizing properties at
Land, cultivation was neglected until
George n. Ives came along n made
Il clearing in the woods, made a Splen.
Cid farm and showed how.
Mr.. Ives came south to Beaufort
from Connecticut to go into the oyster
business in 1874 and for % years was
the largest dealer in the south, but the
firm now, G. n. Ives & Son, of New
bern, are about out of the oyster bust
| ness, it being Overdone; they are still
big dealers in fish at Newbern, and
sold $500 shad n one day this spring,
and have steam and horse power seins
on the Neuse river, five naptha
launches, including the Sappho, the
fastest in North Carolina.
Mr.. Ives brought the first sharper to
N-~-xl C~--- Llo T-:, xrhsol Io
still owns, and the fleets of sharpies
are all patterned after her. He was
the originator of the Newbern Fair,
and organized the first ice plant in
Newbern. which now has 80 tons ca
pacity, capital $4,000, of which he has
the greatest amount of stock. Many of
the most successful wholesale fish men
on the sound worked for Mr.. Ives and
he is a pioneer in many laudable ell
~terprises.
E. A. and J. A. Meadows, Of New
bern, have been of great benefit to this
region, as however poor a man would
be they let him have fertilizers n
other advances, including money, and
never pressed a man yet. A poor crop
made the Meadows help the more.
The Duke Syndicate OWNS blg tract
Of land three and one-half miles from
Newport with club house, fish pond
and game preserves, and they purpose
selling it in 100 acre farms; it should
become a great eXpanse of truck grow
ing as with 6 to s inches of dark dirt
with clay subsCil it is an ideal garden
land.
J. L. Bell, a Newport veteran, has
cotton coming up; he generally aver.
ages 400 pounds of lint to the acre, but
he has put in only half the usual acre
age. He has 20 acres in tobacco, and
big fields in cabbage and white pota-
tees and a variety of garden products.
Mr.. Bell is one of the noted farmers OF
Carteret county, and although over 20
has more vim and energy and clear
headed business faculty than all the
younger element who think they know
il all.
From the little Newport railway sta