The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-12-12
FAYETTEv,uIE NEWS LETTER
Largo Subscription To Baptist Church.
Sale OF Rcalty-Sman F1re-A Meta
BILE MarrTase-Ncws and Personal
Notes.
Especial 70 The Messenger

Fayetteville, y. c.. December -
On Sunda: al the Congregation
meeting Of the First Baptist church
$500 was subscribed To the builder;
fund Of the new church. the munii,
cent donation IF $1,000 having beer
made by DR.. ]. F. Highsmith, pro.
prietor and superintendent of the
Highsmith hospital. and a physician
OF large practice.
The well known Evans house On
Haymount, occupying half a square o.
suburban property, was sold yester-
a by the commissioner, Colonel &
". Rroadfoot, TO Captain D. II. Ray,
for S3, 1000.
preliminary surveys are now max
ing In East Fayetteville. for the en-
trance of the Raleigh n Southport
railroad into the city, and the loca-
lion OF the passenger station and
freight depot.
Dr. Seaboy Highsmith. Il leading
physician OF Hope Mills, left on Sun
day night for New York. where he will
lake a postgraduate course in medi-
cine and surgery. On his return lie
will locate in this city for the prac-
tice of his profession.
At noon yesterday the alarm CALEB
on the fire department to a blaze
on the roof of Bishop J. w. Hoods
residence in the northern part of rhe
city. The hose wagons were prompt
ly on the spot, and the fire was quick
ly eXtinguished, with little damage.
The mortuary report of DIR. A. S.
Rose, city physician, shows small
mortality for Fayetteville during he
past MONTH white and 5 colored.
Mir. }. A. Carney, a prominent cit
izen of eastern Cumberland, is ser,-
ously ill in the Highsmith hospital
Mr.. and Mrs. n. B. Alexander last
evening pleasantly entertained the
Down Town Club at their residence
on Russell street.
Miss Kate G. Mourne, graduate
nurse Of the Highsmith hospital. re-
turned yesterday from Rowland, where
she has been nursing an old lady, ag-
ed 81 years, suffering from a recent
bad fall, whom she left resting com
fortably.
Mrs. 4. GARRISON is visiting her sis
Ter. Mrs. J. A. Taylor, at Dunn.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. L. Greenwood have
returned from their bridal trip, AMI
will lie at home to their friends at
Mrs. Mary Brandt S on Haymoun:.
The marriage of Major E. J. Hale
and Miss Carrie Mallett, wired to The
Messenger last night. records the
union Of two very old and prominent
families.
Major Hale vas offered the Turk
ish mission under the second Clove-
land administration, which he deciin-
ed. He was one of the seven VINO
framed the Chicago platform of 1896.
He was vice president Of the national
Democratic convention of 1904. He was
the chairman of the Battle of Bethel
Commission on the 10th of June, 1905
He was agent in India of the NORTH
Of England Trust in 1890. He was
commissioner in America of the Mar
chester Ship Canal in 1S90-91, and was
made an honorary member of the Cob
den Club in London. He was chosen
to deliver the address of welcome t
Sir Henry Bessemer, by the Iron ant
Steel Institute in London in 1888, ant
was vice president of the international
Congress on Navigation in Manches
ter in 1890.
His bride, Miss Carrie Mallett. l:
Of one of the most aristocratic fami
lies Of the Cape Fear section Of OLE
times. Her great-grandfather was Col
onel Peter Mallett, a colonial rice
planter at Point Peter in Brunswick
county. opposite Wilmington, and
during the Revolution, he vas ma;o1
in the Second regiment of North Car
DINA troops of the Continental line
She is a woman of fine mental gifts
J a historical contributor, and was pros
ident Of the association which bull
the monument on st. James square.
The correspondent has official int
formation that the Cape Fear Eiee
trio Power Company has given due
notice to the contractors and has plac
ed them under a forfeit bond of $40.
900. to have the electric TRANSMISSION
of the company's water power Il
Fayetteville in the next sixty days
The Cumberland Cotton Growers
Association met today at loon, select
ing Captain j. D. Mcneil presiden
and Mr.. F. r. Rose secretary. In'
books of subscription for a farmers
warehouse were left open until tn
second Wednesday in January. In
teresting talks were made by W. l.
Holt, J. R. Tolar. A. II. Slocomb. \
D. McGill, H. Fl. Bolton, J.. H. C1lr:ie
and others.
Rev. and Mrs. T. H. Sutton. OF
Jackson, Northampton county, arr
visiting the latter's parents at Sunny
side Nursery west of W
Sheriff Stedman, of New Hanover
county. secretary and treasurer OF tht
Cross Creek Building and Loan Ass0
citation, came UP on the noon train
today.
Misses Eta and Leila Hart arrived
today from Wilmington.
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