The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-16
Especial to The Messenger.

especial TO The MeSSenger.t
Fayetteville, June 12.-The Pythiar
memorial services, which were to hay.
taken place yesterday, have been post
poned to next Sunday, the 18th inst
and will be held in the handsome as
sembly room of Castle Hall, of Cum
berland Lodge, No. ).
The official board of HAY Stree,
Methodist church has made compIaint
of the shifting of trains over the lowe,
Hay street crossing of the Atlanti.
Coast Line railroad on Sunday morn.
ing during religious services, the
church being in the immediate vicinity
DR.. G.. b. Patterson, Messrs. O. K
NimOcks and j. NJ. Goddard were ap-
pointed a committee to request Mayor
Mcmillan to station a policeman at the
crossing on Sunday.
The death of Mrs. Annie E. McMiI-
Ian at her home near Parkton, aged So
years, remove from earthly scenes Il
venerable and truly Christian mother
In Israel. She was the widow of the
late David Mcmillan, and leaves three
sons and three daughters.
The information received here is that
the matter of the location Of the state
test fruit farm, which, it was thought,
was definitely fixed, has been reopened;
and Mr.. +. r. Rose, secretary of the
chamber of commerce, has written to
Commissioned of Agriculture Patter-
son aSkinO that tho 1tairnC of fh;C Can-
ton be heard: that no point in eastern
North Carolina is better adapted for
this farm than Fayetteville.
Rev. Father Kavenaugh, of Will
mingtOn, conducted his first service in
st. Patrick's Catholic church yesterday
morning and greatly pleased his hear
ers by all the evidences at the sacred
desk of the cultured priest and scholar
~ divine.
Mr.. George B. Huske, civil engineer
Of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad,
who has been quite ill in the High
smith hospital is materially improv-
ing, though still seriously sick.
The Southern Real Estate Company,
corner of Hay inc Donaldson streets,
mas sent to a company of Northern cap
italistS varieties of Cumberland coun-
ty soil adapted to viniculture. The
Northern company has already Sent an
agent here, and purposes the invest
ment of about 100000 in a vineyard
at some point which gives satisfaction.
That Cumberland county is an almost
ideal grape-growing section is shown
III the large vineyards of '"Tokay,"
the most extensive, it is said, east of
the Rocky Mountains, owned by Hon.
W. j. Green, and leased by Messrs.
Garrett, of Weldon; the Happy Val
owned by Mr.. G.. w. Lawrence,
and Bordeaux" the property of Mr.. J..
M. Pierce, besides smaller vineyards,
with many individual grape ~raisers.
Large areas of he county meet the re-
qnirements for a grape-growingcountry
- rolling surface, we'll watered, with
loan mixed with sand, and sub-clay.
These qualities We're recognized more
than fifty years agoby the first grape
growers, Henry L. Myrover and w. T.
Horne, who planted ~Tokay," DR.. w.
c. BenbOw, afterwards of Greensboro,
and DIR. Scott.
The following Confederate veterans
friends left today for the reunion
at Louisville: Major A. A. McKethan,
Major q. II. Hall, Captain !. ID. Nc
NELL, Mayor G. B. Mcmillan, Hon. G.
III. Rose, Messrs.. A. H- Slocomb, w. G..
Hall, A. 2. Johnson, J. B. Underwood,
l.. Clark, ]. H. Culbreth, T. G.
Major J. r. Mcdonald died at $50
Saturday morning at the resi- |
dence of his son-in-law, Mr.. A. H.
Watson, No. 800 Russell street, aged |
nearly 50 years. His fine record as a |
soldier has already been given in The |
Messenger in the notice OF his illness. |
He engaged in business here after the
war, but removed to Tennessee many |
ago. He leaves two sons, Messrs. |
Edward and James A. Mcdonald, and |
daughters, Mrs. A H. Watson, of
this city, and Mrs. Harry Rupples, of |
Memphis, Tenn, to which place his re
Mains will be carried. to be laid by
those of his wife.
Miss Julia Sanders, now of Corsica !
Texas, is spending the summer |
with friends in this section.
Mr.. A. S. Huske, In behalf of the
Of the Fayetteville section, |
writes a letter of thanks to Captain J.
] CrOsswell, route agent of the South |
ern Express Company, including Mr.. |
]. p. Womble, local agent, expressing |
for the efforts made to further |
the interests of fruit and vegetable |
growers in their shipments.
Rev. David Farley, the venerable
and gifted pastor of the Presbyterian
of the Covenant at Manchester, |
a few miles west of this city, has ac-
the invitation of Camp $50, !
Confederate Veterans, to
preach a special sermon to the old sol
diers setting the time as Sunday, July
9th, in the First Presbyterian church
of Fayetteville. The correspondent |
predicts such a gathering as is seldom
seen, for the occasion will be impress |
sive, and no one is more beloved than |
this eminent divine.
Two or three nights ago the north |
bound mail and passenger train on the
Coast Line railroad had q |
experience when some miles |
from Richmond. 1t plunged head long