The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-15
rA.ETrsyaaa.E NEWS LETTER
Tie daughters Of tire Confederacys
CcnfcnrrtaeSl Railroad Extension
To Manufssct1rc Truck Crates
News ard Personal Notes

News ard Pcrs4snal Notes
: Correspondents OF The Messenger.e
Fayetteville, September a-The fol-
lowing have been Installed as officers
OF Ieb Stewart Chapter. Daughters Of
the ConfesieEacy for the ensuing term:
Mrs. Il. h Kyle honorary president;
Mrs John ID. Macfae. president; Mrs.
II. G. Smith and j. NJ. Matthews. first
and second vice presidents: Miss Carrie
Mallett. historian: Mrs. r w. Motley,
corresponding secretary; Mrs Jane
lSholar. recording secretary; Miss Mag
gle Macarthur, treasurer. The follow
ing delegates have been appointed:
Airs. II. Med. Robinson. TO the genera.
convention at San Francisco; Mrs.
John ID. MacRae. Mrs Herbert Lutter-
lloh and Mrs Hunter G. Smith To the
Estate convention ut Morganion. with
Mrs. i. Ii. Currie, Misses Carrie Nal
lett and Mamie M~ctiilway rs alter
mates. The t~reasurer's report for he
year just ended shows total receipts
.S5S9.46, ID total disbursements
iS2S9.25, leaving a balance Of Sloo.2l.
IA donation OF 500 was made To the
ISoldiers' Home Il: Raleigh
Charles E<iy. the negro wEo escaped
from the insane asylum at Golds3oro
and was ~recaptured In u house in the
southern suburbs Of this city. will he
lcarried back To Goldsbeor today. His
iinsanity seems TO be Il hxed delusion
that somebody is trying To poison him.
land that cause his flight from the
asylum
Yesterday a pretty marriage took
place al kirmon. at the family home
Iof Mr.. J.T. McCorquriole, which
united Mr.. Duncan Nordan and Miss
Josie McCorquodale, Rev. V. G. Smith,
ipastor Of Sunnyside Presbyterian
lchurch, performing the ceremony. The
hause decorations were tasteful in
. woodland greens, and the maid of
: honor was Miss Lou McCorqlodole,
) with Miss Fntinie May Cannon a the
!. lpretty flower girl
An important railroad extension is
: lforecasted here. though ii has not
Isolidified INTO a certainty yet. IL is
!, 1.-THE utilization Of the abandoned road
[ bed Of the old Cape Fear and iadkin
? VALLEY Railway between Fayetteville
and Hope Mills, by which the Aber-
2 !deen and Rockfish X. X. may make
. connection at this point with the Ra-
I leigh and Southport. The Atlantic
) Coast Line X. r. ms all its trains
between here and Hope Mills over its
= rnain line, and some time ago Mr.. 4.
3 X. Rose, secretary Of the chamber Of
commerce, who had I'm view the lay
e ling of a trolley line over this unused
Iroad-bed, was informed by an Atlantic
g lCoast Line attorney that the company
z lmade no claim TO his abandoned track
q If this be so, there are seven miles OF
Igraded road bed ready for the iron,
: latter a little repairing and grading up.
The Fayetteville Lumber and Man
: Iufacturing Company will put In at
2 Icnce Il machinery plant for making
y lettuce baskets and various truck
{ ~,crates.
> The funeral services too place yes
:, Iterday morning from st. Johns church
" lover the remains Of William Martin,
;. 1.-THE infant son OF Mr.. w. nj. Martin,
. the mother having passed away only a
: few days since.
Mr.. Charles eagle, the popular head
, Iclerk during the W~rightsville season
V lat the Hotel Tarrymoore, Is presiding
J. in his place at the Hotel La Fayette,
h latter Il visit to friends in Durham.
Mr.. ii. Bowden, Of Wilmington, was
la Fayetteville visitor yesterday.
!, Miss Eta Stedman has returned
from Rockbridge Alum Springs. Va.
: Miss Alma Molly left today TO enter
II the Southern Presbyterian College fol-
If Women at Red Springs.
J. The Cross Greek Building and Loan
Association. of which Sheriff Frank
III. StedmSn is secretary and treasurer
: has proven such a popular enterprise
,f with both large and small investors
lc THAT il has peer decided TO hold oper
IS the first series during the month OF
r lSeptember. More thar LOO shares
o Ihave been taken and paid for. 1t Ii
: impossible to overestimate the good
leffect here on business energy and
' confidence by the establishment of thi:
enterprise me the Southern Life In
$ surance Company.
. At last evenings meeting of the
;, ichamber Of Messrs. New
:. lin ard Russell were appointed a com
mittee to visit Buckhorn Falls, th'
- lplant of the Cape Fear Electric Powel
lCompany, and ascertain the progress
:. lof that great work. Mr.. +. X. Rose
- secretary of the chamber, was request
- led to use every effort 10 secure mai
r facilities on the extra "shoo fly" trains
drumming out OF Fayetteville.
D. At the last meeting Of the loca
board OF managers OF the state coloree
= normal school, Rev. j. G.. Smith, pastot
z Iof the colored congregational church
was elected first principal of tn
school.