The semi-weekly messenger., 1905-03-31

Special 10 The Messenger.D
Fayetteville. March ae-The Raleigh
and Cape Fear. Railroad may hug The
river 50 closely in coming into FAY
ettsville as to make IL necessary to
have its headquarters in the eastern
part uf the city. but its arrival wor,,i
be good opportunity for the uti;.xa-
tion of the passenger station Of the
otd Cape Fear and Yadkin Vallcy
RAILWAY. now the property ot the A.
lan-ic Coast Line Railroad Company.
and Tor years unused. It was situated
on what was known in old times as
Military Green. It's rear on Franklin
street, and has waiting rooms for white
and black, baggage rooms. etc. as we'll
as 4 complete suite of Offices on the
upper floor. II Is a much handsomer
building than the passenger station OF
The Atlantic Coast Line railroad: and.
although II bad condition, a every
vac.sat tenement gets To be in some
mysterious way. paint anu new glass
would put Ii all right IL would also
make a beautiful passenger station II
ar. sohn Blue. president OF the Aher-
1eea and Rockfish railroad should ex-
tend his line from Hope Mills 10 this
point Lastly il would make fine cen
:er Tor the electric railwaE system.
when that is established in FayeI.e-
vile.
II. ". Parker. an uphoisterer or Per
son street. has received warrant :rom
The government, for over Sl.5o0 he
having been an enlisted man in IN"
Fedora! army, and this amount being
his pension a. si2 a month. with the
arrsarages.
Mr.. Charles e. Rose, of the law iirm
q Rose and Rose. has been appointed
uy Judge Ferguson receiver OF the I'M
dertaking business OF ]. +. McNeiil
and Son, colored The senior member
| cf the firm has been dead for some
time. and was in his day one OF the
most influential and highly esteemed
citizens OF his race.
There is almost nothing doing in
sup -rior court up 10 dinner time yes
terday not cas- had gone 10 the jury.
I'll. s-it Of l. II. Wynne vs.. Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad Company IVES
>9m?-Cmised Yesterday morning.
Nj s H. MacRae has completed his
extensive additions and improvements
to ihe building and grounds O! 'he
! 3insia!e dwelling on Haymount. ia Ak
| IN i one - The most attractive resi-
| ,tr,,,s III the sublrbs. am il Will be
oecsH.eA ~ M and Mrs. Z. J. Lilly
az .aEii.y.
| Sexton J. W Faircloth now has u
F., force Of hands IN beautiful old Cross
/ Creek cemetery. doing the spring
cleaning and dressing up. Marvelously
| thick lie the dead here, nor could they
| wish couch more magnificent can
opy of elms. and oak, and pine; car
pei of green grass: garniture of flow
| ers, and bud and trailing vine: music
OF murmuring waters; setting OF gol-
den sunlight and cloudless sky.
| Mrs. Margaret Aver daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. S. G.. Aver. has returned
| from New York City, where she mas
been for some time under treatment fog
a disease of the ear, and has been
much benefited.
| Sheriff Frank II. Stedman, of New
| Hanover, arrived here yesterday, and
is heartily. greeted by his many cid
! friends.
| Mr.. J. II. Hart and his daughter
| Miss Edith Hart, of East Orange. y.
j., are stopping at the Hotel LaFay-
| Solicitor G C. Lyon and Mr.. X. =.
White, of EliZabethtown, were here
yesterday in attendance on superior
court
Mr.. Duncan Murchison, telegraph OPP
| orator of the Atlantic Coast Line tSail-
| road at this place, has been chosen by
| the operators of that whole railroad
system to represent them at the Te:ee-
| raphers' convention in Buffalo in May.
Eave Walker, a negro living in Car
yer Cheek township, disappeared last
| Wednesday and there has not been a
| trace OF him .:once that time. He
| started for home from a funeral which
lo Ead attended, and that was the last
| sen rf him.
~. r. A. Addington, superintendent
| Of the Norfolk Lumber Company at
| Dunn, who was SO badly injured Dy a
| fall in the mill the other day. is now
patient in the Highsmith hospital.
and is rapidly improving.