The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-06
NEW MILL FOR CUMBERLAND
Company Organizing at Raeford-New
Grocery Company FOrmed-Crossed
the Ocean to Her Marriage-News
and Personal Notes.
Especial &c The Mesenger.)

Especial tC The Mesenger.)
Fayetteville, October 1.-THE cotton
mill movement 2t Raeford in the west
ern part of the county, fo~recasted by
the correspondent in the letter OF
Thursday to The Messenger, is already
taking gratifying shape. A company
is organizing for the erection Of q
factory on Nicholson and Rockfsh
creek, with a capital of s125, 900, OF
which nearly three-fourths are al
ready taken. Raeford, by the way,
is one of the most prosperous towns
in the state, doing a fourishing busi-
ness. with a fine tributary farming
section, and, above all, a most excel
lent academy, which has been of IN
calculable benefit to that whole sec
ton.
With the building of the last two
mills. the Flora and the Raeford, Cum
berland county will have II cotton
yarn and cloth factories, all large
and costly; four belonging to the
Hope Mills Manufacturing Company
bn Rockfsh; the Holt-Morgan and
the Tolar-Hart-Holt on Massey Hill;
the Lakeview and Holt-Williamson
within the city; the Cumberland en-
Beaver Creek, and the two already
named. In textile plants there are
also the two extensive Ashley-Baily
silk thread and weave mills, with
many other industries, two pine prod
uct manufacturing companies, pillow
foundry, wooden ware work, iron
works, etc.. etc.
Sheriff Marsh yesterd val
Sheriff Marsh yesterday levied on
the property of the Armour Meat and
Packing Company in this city for
taxes due, u uniting to $3.50, and
the sale will be made next Thursday.
At II o'clock Saturday night Nellie,
the little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
j. B. Underwood, Jr., Of this city
won the prize OF the handsome pony
and buggy in the voting contest OF
the r. B. King Wholesale and Retail
Drug Company. Her vote was a little
over 5000 in a total of about $4,000.
and the six highest competitors were
as follows, in the order named. Hex
ter Virginia Lilly. Jane Strange Huske,
Matte L.. Anderson. Mary Is.
Burns. Margaret Cotton, Emma T.
King.
The w. M. Martin Company, Of this
city has been organized, the stock
holders as follows: w. M. Martin, r..
C. Harrison, ]. \, Sinclair, r. H. Dye
The officers are: R.. G.. Harrison, pres
-ident: N. A. Sinclair, vice president;
w. M. Martin, secretary, treasurer and
general manager.
At 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon,
at st. Patrick's Catholic church in this
city, Mr.. George T. Rulley, foreman
In one of the Ashley-Baily Silk Mills,
was married to Miss Ada E. Emshaw.
There was a touch of romance in
this marriage, from the fact that the
bride crossed the sea from England
to marry the man Of her choice.
Mr.. B. T. Bostlck, of Red Springs,
has been brought up to the Highsmith
hospital for treatment.
The Dunn Chapter United Daughters
of the C~onfederacy will furnish a
room in the new dormitory of The
Soldiers Home at Raleigh, which they
will name "Chicora' in tribute to the
memory of the southern soldier kitIeC
al the battle Of Averasboro, and bur
led in Chicora cemetery, near Smith
vile and Dunn it is a beautiful LITTLE
country burying ground, where the
writer made the Confederate memoria
address about thirty years since.
Mr.. Charles D. Gilmore. ex-couuty
commissioner, now assistant register
of deeds, is critically i'll with typhoid
fever at his home in Caryer's Cree:
township.
Mrs. Ralph Jessup and children re
turned to their home in Florida yes.
terday.
Rev. ]. n. Cole. presiding elder o,
the Rockingham Methodist district
was in the city yesterday.
Major B. r. Huske has returned
from a business trip to Charlotte an,
High Point.
Mr.. A. E. Rankin and Mrs. Alex SEES
SONS are visiting Mrs. Lucy Rank.
at Mars Bluff, S. c.
Rev. Father Marion, until recently
priest Of st. Patrick's Catholic church
in this city, has been assigned to The
church in AshevilIe. Rev. Father kav
enaugh, of Wilmington, takes ST. Pat.
rick's and the church at Southern
Pines.
Mrs. Hatfield, of Sanford; Miss Jen.
ME MCLAUGHLIN, Of "Elease," and Mis-: