The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-03
FAYETTEVILLE NEWS LETTER
Inc Big Yarn and Cloth MiIl-Per-
n Organization OF Insurance
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF Taxht
ffant-An Old Time Fair-Ncws
and Personal Notes
Especial TO The Messenger.l


Fayetteville, September e7.-The or
sanitation Of the Flora Cotton Mil
Company, sen special to The Mes
senger Monday night. and the
certainty OF the speedy erection of the
plant. naturally causes no little graf
fcation in this community. for II IL
an enterprise Of much Importance. The
personnel Of It's officers calls for moro
space in The Messenger thai vas
asked for in the first notice. DR.. III. W.
Lilly. who Is the president Of the COM
pany. will enter upon the position no
stranger 10 Its duties and responsible
ties. having served for years as presi-
dent Of the Beaver Creek Manufac.ur-
Ing company, the affair Of which ne
with distinguished success.
He is now president Of the Bank nf
Fayetteville and of the Cross Creek
Building and Loan Association. and Is
known in commercial circles SIS one OF
the best balanced and most careful all
round business men in North Carolina.
Mr.. ". ID. Mcneil, general manager.
is in the flush of a remarkably success
full career. 4 native OF this city. he
started out a poor boy with his own
way 10 make. and he has made 10
through many difficulties, and attatl-
ing the most responsible positions in
his calling, until he stands at The
front among well-equipped mill naa
in the south. Mr.. j. X. Ray. treasurer.
is now president of the National Bank
of Wetmire. and to his post with
high recommendations.
A large and enthusiastic meeting vas
held in the parlors Of the Hotel La
Fayette yesterday afternoon, the oc-
casion being the permanent organiza-
ton Of the Southern Life Insurance
Company. with Mr.. E. Fl. Williams
president, c. J. Cooper, general mana
ger. and S. Burnett secretary. Besides
the city and county, there were pres
ent as stockholders the following prom
inent citizens from abroad: ]. 4.
Brown, of Columbus; Angus Shaw. X.
d. Caldwell, J. W. Carter. A. L. Shaw,
M. L. Marby, J. b. Mccormick, r. w.
Livermore, r. L. Lee. A r. McEachesn.
J. NJ. Devane, of Robson: John Blue,
J.. w. Johnson. W. II. Skies, S. l.
Chisholm, Of Moore: Mark Morgan, A
L. James, OF Scotland: Neill Mcqueen,
of Fredawice. Ga.
Mr.. J. B. Tflljnghast, head of the
Tillinghast crockery business OF Hay
street. and a prominent Fayetteville
society man, has been chosen chief
marshal for the Columbus fair.
Tom Matthews. of Rockfish town
ship, has been arrested by deputy Unit
ed States Marshal Colvin, charged with
selling whiskey.
Mr.. Joseph Mcclellan has taken the
position Of bookkeeper in the NJ. Foib
clothing house. corner Of Person street
and Market Square.
Mr.. J. A. Huske, route agent of the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company.
has returned from a trip to Georgia
and South Carolina.
Miss Anita DeRosset, of Wilmington,
Is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. w. l..
Holt on Haymount.
There will be no delay in the en-
largement of the city electric plaat.
Specifications have been sent out, ard
bids for the work will be considered
early next month.
Major B. G. Gorham has returned
from a northern trip. during which. as
Past Grand Representative, he at
tended the Sovereign Grand Lodge OF
Odd Fellows in Philadelphia.
Mrs. j.. =. IL. mcNuLt OF
county. is one of the heirs to a large
estate. her father having been a veal
thy business man Of San Francisco
who was killed not long since in an
automobile accident.
The Cumberland and other upper
Cape Fear people seem to have male
I'D their minds to have IN old-time.
before-the-war county fair this year
That is all the talk on all sides. and
they "feel 1t in their bones" The crops
have been good. the country Is pros
porous, the city is booming, and there
will be a three days gathering like
that when the late Joel Williams CT the
late Alfred McethKan was president,
when Archie Brown used to send his
gigantic back trotter around the track
like a big fash of charcoal. and Mcfn-
tyres bay. blaze-faced horse used TO
astonish the world with his fast run