The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-04-18
Ghe Wlessenger.
DEVELOPMENT AT TEACHEYs
Progressive Men That Make Up a
Thriving Ccmmunity-New Hotel
TO Open-First Municipal Election
Will be Held i'm May.
Especial to- The Messenger.)

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Teacheys, N. c.. April 13.-The Test
farm contest is bringing forth good re-
suits along this division of the Allan
tic Coast Line, and the village OF
Teacheys, two miles north of Wallace,
in Duplin County, is awakened from
a Rip Van Wrinkle like sleep.
Captain J. c. Mcmillan the biggest
land owner ~hereabouts, also postmas-
ter, merchant, saw miller, cotton GIN
ner, brick manufacturer, farmer and
trucker, has allotted several hundred
acres to 10-acre tracts for berry grow
ing and gardening purposes at the vii
lage, and one mile north thereof by
the Atlantic Coast Line and has sold
same ranging in price from $12 to $50
per acre.
Captain Mcmillan was born two
miles from Teacheys, and went to the
war as member Of Goth North Carol ma
regiment and became captain Of COM
pany E, and was at Appomattox. be
came back to the farm and opened a
little store. He now owns 1,5O0 acres
of and in Duplin county, and a love
1y home and farm at the village, where
he has a good store, a saw mill, 10000
feet capacity, a modern 60-saw cotton
gin, and a brick yard with StatesyilIe
machine, capacity 10000 brick per day
Officially he has been member of the
legislature and member of the board
of education, and postmaster for about
80 years.
The land about Teacheys is clay sub
soil, the anne as at Willard, n has
been famous for cotton and corn and is
now for vegetables.
B.. F.. Russell disposes locally OF
about 10000 berry crates and vegeta-
BILE baskets annually and will enlarge
his works, which include saw and plan
ing mills, and crate factory. He has
a grist mill propelled by water power.
and a store with two clerks, and will
soon have four statesmen. His land
encompasses $50 acres, of which ne has
IS acres in strawberries. He started a
store IA years g without capital and
he is now one OF the solid men in the
township.
Teacheys is to be incorporated and
the first municipal election Will be held
the first of May.
The Hotel Rex with Is rooms, oath
rooms and w~aterworks, will be opened
next week with II II. Carter as mana
ger, and he will also conduct a Livery
stable.
The Teacheys Live Stock Company
incorporated with $500 capital have
started business in their handsome e
stables measuring 40 by 80 feet includ-
ing roomy stalls, and pens, and car.
riage repository and offices, the mem
bers of the company being G. H. Car
ter and his son H H. Carter. The sen
ior partner owns 1,500 acres of land in
Duplin and Pender counties and he is
a timber agent and real estate specula-
tor, and cotton and tobacco grower
He is a stockholder in the Wallace
Tobacco Warehouse and an ell around
live mar who has lately bought and
transferred his family to a beautiful
home in Warsaw
M. Mayors, who was one Of the or
ganizers of the Live Stock Company Is
also a great trader, and he will soor
build stables at Ce~ntersville, BLADDER
county, and Carter and Son propose
doing the same at Cronly or Armour.
Several new cottages are contracted
for, and a Presbyterian church will
be built in the fall. John G. Mcmillan
Jl., HAS let Tie COhLl dCt " q ulOuCAA
two story residence, on a half acre
which he purposes embellishing with
lawn, and fruits, and flowers. He be
gan merchandising when a beardless
boy with 5000. His store now con
tains S., 1000 WORTH of goods, and his 81
acre farm is profitable, and he ship:
berries and handles about 400 o n o
fertilizers. His cousin, H. D. Mcmillan
is one of the most popular clerks il
Duplin county.
Teacheys has a Masonic lodge, tive
church organizations, and a handsom'
two story schoolhouse, also a big rail
road station and the Armour refriger
atOr.
There are six good roads lead K
Teacheys like spokes to a hub, anf
there is no reason why ito should no
become a prosperous town.