The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-04-28

land. fifteen miles from Jacksonville,
they have the summer range.
II. Z. Hinton was civil engineer Tor
the A. c. l.. and twelve years ago de-
cided to locate at what he considered
would become fhe best town betwcei:
Wilmington and New Bern. He Is now
a busy merchant in Jacksonville and
owns II 1870 acre farm and town real
estate. He believes this will be a good
sized town and fogyism viii disappear
like a morning mist.
On the 10Th inst. J. E. Koonce, phar-
ca sit. was nominated for the mayor
atty of Jacksonville. Another ticket -
whispered about, but has not yet ma
teriaIized. Marine and Hurst is the
new firm title for w. Y Marine N Co,
and if will save lots of trouble in the
mixing of mail for the Jacksonville
firm and that at Marine village down
the river. where w. y. Marine lives,
and Is one of the wealthiest men i'll
the county, with big stores and planta-
tons, Ind schOOners, pleasure launch,
etc. He had only $50 when he was p
and with that he started business.
When George Hurst was II he was
fatherless and motherless, n his
brother Ben and he O alternate
terms at school, as when the one was
studying the other WAS chipping tur-
pentine boxes. George is now emb
of the Jacksonville firm of Marine x
Hurst. and Ben is member of Roberts
& Hurst, the heavy grocery house of
New Bern, and they are fine men i'll
every way.
Parker Il Quinn is a very successful
firm here, established about Il year
ago as Il branch of q. B. ID. Farker's
big business at Chinquepin. Mr.. Par
ker returned home last week from the
Wilmington hospital much improved.
While at the hospital Mr.. Quinn visited
lnm and after looking 1T the register
told Mr.. Parker he was registered by
some misconceptiOn as a labOrer.
That's all right, smilingly replied Mr..
Parker, lam iabOring with suffering.
The Parker & Quinn establishment is
general and has added Il millinery de-
partment in charge of Miss Carrie
Lindsay from Baltimore.
Mr.. J.. L. Quinn is % years of age
today, and one of the best equipped
business men in Jacksonville. He was
Torn at Chinquepin, became clerk. theE
salesman and accountant for Uncle
larker. then partner and manager Of
the branch house, to which he has
drawn trade from twenty miles away.
Jacksonville has trade i'll some sea-
sens from further than that and cattle
nave been brought from all land di-
IectiOns. Ex-Sheriff F. W. Hargctt
has shipped 25 to 30 car loads of cattle
and sheep Il year and still ships, but
rot so extensively. He is the biggest
stock man hereabOuts. and disposes of
. TO & car loads of horses and mules, )
cars of buggies and about as many
wagons. and lots of fertilizers. He has
two good farms and raises the most of
the feed for the stock and has a nice
home and lots in town. He was sheriff
zone of the BEST for eight years and Is
one of the most widely respected and
regarded citizens of Olrslow county.
His father, L. w. Hiirgett, is a jolly
gentleman of a years, who looks less
than 60, who oversees the farm near
Richland, and PECULIARLY tells the sheriff
that folks take him for a .
brother.
About three miles, as the bird flies,
and about seven miles by road, J. W.
Granger, of kinStOn, owns 4 big tract
OF land, of which about @ acres are
IL garden truck, located on a penin-
Sula, with northeast and northwest
branches of New river, and the report
is that the late damaging frost didn't
hurt Il bean.
The Jacksonville region will yet be-
come Il glorious garden land.
Thp1.o iS no uI1oStinn nc to tho coil
being adaptable to berry and vegeta-
bic growth as can be proven by Clerk
of Court ]. w. Burton, who was. born
II bred i'll the county, II is one of
its most patriotic citizens. He was a
country clerk, then commissary man
ager for the w. \. and n, now IL
branch of the A. G. L., succeeding
which he was acting n active post
master for six years, and has been
clerk Of the Superior court for half a
dozen years. Mr.. Burton knows all the
lands and owns houses and lots in
Jacksonville for which he expects great
development in a few years. His rev
'erred father. StrattOn Burton, now IS
years of age, when offered a carriage,
says, No, I'll take a little constitu-
tiOnal' and he walks without a stick
to town five miles, and has chats with
his chums and refuses to ride back.
He used TO be superintendent of the
board of education and Il widely
known pedagogue.
Grandma Burton tells him it would
look better for him to ride, and he an
swerS it would look better for her to let
servants run the house, but she
l~aughingly says, Nav, naw." Mrs.
j. w. Burton, of Jacksonville, presides
over her millinery house and has fair
visitors from over this and neighboring
counties, but the girls i'll his county
are lovely whether they wear IA scoop
bunnet,' or an Easter hat.
Last Hope Vanished.