The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-07
THE FAYETTEvnIE PETITION.
II Is Turncd Down in the Legislature.
The Public Roads-New Growth OF
Pinc-Ncws and Personal Notes.
Especial to The Messenger.)


Fayetteville, ~. c., March 1.-The
Democracy Of the present day does not
seem to be an expression of the will Of
the majority. The petition. which was
| sent UP to the legislature, asking a
partial repeal of the local prohibition
law, hat Fayetteville might stand with
| other North Carolina towns under the
| Watts law, was an expression of the
, sentiments of a Very large majority OF
the professional and business men,
manufacturers. tax payers and property
owners Of this city, as Well as Of those
living outside the corporate limits and
doing business in the city. Despite this,
and despite the a hat the petition
was in accordance with what was
| pledged at the Democratic convention
at Greensboro in June, Senator Sinclair
and Representatives McGi1l and Thag-
ard prejudged the case of their fellow
citizens by speaking against their re-
quest before the Committee On Propo-
sitions and Grievances-which of course
killed the petition. The echoes of the
present legislature will be heard in the
off year" of 19O6-it is to be hoped
that there will be nothing knell-like in
the sound.
From conversations which the CORE
spondent a had with extensive row
crs around Fayetteville, it may be stat
ed that the lettuce crop of this sec
ton is very promising, but will be very
late. There was a very small output
Of winter lettuce.
The county authorities have g. big
task before them, with the coming of
open weather. 1t will take all the force,
machinery and skill they can bring to
bear, for 80 or 60 days, to put the pub
lie roads in travelling order. Through
the winter their condition, especially
south and west, has been very trying
on stock and vehicles.
An intelligent farmer of Cumberland,
conversing with the writer about the
important experiments of the national
Bureau of Forestry for the preservation
of the pine tree and the more economi-
| cal and profitable extraction of turpen-
| tine and rosin. expresses the conviction
that, should the no fence law prevail
| all over the Cape Fea and Pee Dee
| sections, future generations would
possess and enjoy newly grown forests
of lOng-leaf pine. When the law is in
| force the young long leaf is growing
thickly. This is in line with the argu-
ments advanced in the press for the
last year by Mr.. Keith of Wilmington.
Mr.. w. T. Warren, of Dunn, was
| here Yesterday to sec his wife, who
has just successfully passed through
g difficult operation at the H~ighsmith
| hospital. He is delighted at her res
| toration to health.
Mr.. J. Fl. Hart, Of the New York
| firm of Tolar & Hart, who has been
| spending some time at the Hotel La
Fayette, left yesterday for George
town, S. c., where he will be Joined
by his daughter, and they will pass
| the rest of the winter in Florida.
Mrs. John r. Mcneil. with her chill
| dren, leaves tonight to visit her sister
in Baltimore.
The chamber Of will have
| before it's meeting this morning the i'm
pOrtant matters of the extension to
| this point of the Raleigh n Cape
Fear railroad, daily and quick service
betWeen this city and Pinehurst, and
the proposed state small fruit test
farm.
Miss Isabel Bryan, of New Bern,
is visiting her sister. Mrs. Jno. p.
B]roadfoot, at Pine View" on Hay
Mount =
G. C. Smith. who has just been ap-
pointed superintendent OF the Allan
tic and Birmingham Railroad, with
headquarters at Brunswick. Ga. is
doubtless the youngest mar holding
hat position in the railway service Of
the country, being under 80 years of
age. He began railroad work when
a mere lad with the old Cape Fear
and Yadkn Valley railroad. first as
telegraph operator here, and then
train dispatcher at Greensboro. When
the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
railway was sold to the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad Company Mr.. Smith
took a place with the Atlantic and
birmingham railroad. then in course
of construction.