The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-24
Especial to The Messenger

Hotel Lafayette, has bought the
Martin stock, fixtures. etc.. on
the corner of Market Square. and gilll
conduct both establishments 1t is
known as the McDufie drug store, and
L2s been a drug stand for at least six
ty years. The late DIR. S. j.. Hinsdale
owned this valuable property, and tor
many years before, during and after
the war, successfully carried on the
drug business there, and accumulated
a handsome estate. Mr.. R. b. King
began business when only 10 years old,
and by strict attention, energy, keep
ing his stock up to a high standard.
he has steadily prospered for fourteen
years, to the qualification OF his many
friends.
Mr.. G.. S. Webster died at his home
at Hope Mills on Thursday. aged so
years. He leaves a wife and several
children; he was a good husband and
father, a kind friend and neighbo..
Mr.. Webster lived in Fayetteville many
years, his calling being that of timer;
and the correspondent is Of the i'm
preston that he learned his trade with
the late Bishop" Andrews, who for
llidhy JSolo DS1o1O LIZ Wal l. Oh
a large manufacturing and merchan-
disc tin business IN an immense hip
rooted wooden building on the corner.
of Person street and Market Square,
where now stands the handsome Nc
Kethan brick and stone structure.
There was a pretty marriage yes
terday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Sarah McFadyeI near Raeford, in the
western part of the county. which
united her daughter, Miss Christina
McFadyen, to Major J. w. McLaug1-'
lin, one Of the most influential citi-
zens of Cumberland. Rev. Mr.. McLau
rim, pastor of Raeford Presbyterian
church, performing the ceremony. Ma.
jor and Mrs. Mclaughlin will make a
wedding trip to the principal northern
cities.
Mr.. G. w. Lawrence, secretary and
treasurer of the Cumberland County
Agricultural Society. makes a suggas-
ton in a letter to Mr.. F. r. Rose, sec
rotary of the Chamber of Commerce,
which is we'll worth consideration. 1t
is that the city buy the fair grounds
for a park. ideally situated, with a
fine lax skirting them, and that the
society buy another site alongside n
of the railroad tracks, and nearer to
the centre of town. One great nb-
stacle to drawing crowds to the fair
has been that after visitors reache!
here they had to go a long distance
to the grounds, entailing great ex-
pense in hack hire.
Yesterday afternoon, at the residence
on Haymount, Mrs. A. H. Slocomb, Jr.,
entertained a number of friends with
a car party, complimentary to- Mrs
Cook, Of Florida. and Miss Horne, Of
Lilesville.
A special train passed southwark
through here yesterday, carrying sew
eral hundred laborers for the Panama
Canal.
Mr.. Geo. H. Haynes, a travelling man
of Winston, is quite sick with the strip
at The Hotel Lafayette.
DR.. Joseph Butler, of Gainesville,
Fla, is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. A
L. McCaskill, on Maiden Lane.
Captain and Mrs. J. M. Goddard are
visiting friends in Lumberton.
Colonel T. c. James, of Wilmington,
was a Fayetteville business visitor yes
terday.
Mr. J. C. Cooper, of Oxford, is max
ing a visit to his uncle, Mr.. O. ]
Cooper.
The National Bank of Fayetteville
has leased for a term of twenty-five
years what is known as the Kyle
building, on the north corner of Hay
street and Market Square, which has
been occupied by Mr.. Courtney in dry
goods. 1t is a double structure with
two fronts, is in the heart of the
city, and is an excellent stand for a
bank. 1t will be equipped with vault
and all other fixtures complete fol
banking. 1t will be interesting to
note here that il was in a building On
this spot, owned and occupied by the
late James Kyle. both as store and
residence, that on the Goth of Ma
1881, a fire broke out, which laid more
than half Of the town in ashes.
Mr.. E. A. Poe, for years president 81
the American Brick Makers Assocla.
ton, conducting extensive brick works
in the southern outskirts of the city
has installed a plant for the making OF
cement blocks, apparently as hard as
granite, which will prove good mate
rial for paving, and doubtless also fo1
building.
The Raleigh & Southport Railroad
will make a station of Carver's Fails
"a beautiful spot, a great resort Oh
driving parties of young people. Nea
by are Eureka Springs, the water Of
! fine medicinal qualities. The bridge
across Little River is completed. ths
steel bridge over the Cape Fear is
nearly finished, and the Raleigh &
| Southport Railroad will make connec.
ton with Fayetteville early in 1906.
Plans are being canvassed here for
the building of an opera house, long
needed in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. E. Hotchkiss, OF
Harrington, Conn, who have been Wis
iting relatives here. will spend ths
| winter at Southern Pines.
Mrs. Alice Taylor. residing in TIE
| eastern part of the city, grows bean
tiful American Beauty roses in pro
fusion. She can make this a proftabl.
| industry, for they always commant
high prices for weddings, parties, etc.
and she could sell them without ths