The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-20
CAPE FEAR powrR COMPANY
Power by Electricity for Fayettcyiiic
MnI-Hailway Franchise Granted
CONGRESS OF Juniors-Reai Estate
Transfers - Eespected Old Negroes
Gone-News and Personal Notes.
Especial to The Messenger.)

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Fayetteville, June 16.-The importan.
news sent last evening to The Messen-
| ger, that the Cape Fear Electric Power
Company will connect with the mills
and other industrial plants of Fayette-
vile and outlying factory districts IN
the 1st of August. Tor the electric trans
| mission of its water power, is received
| with no little rejoicing in Fayette VIII,
as this enterprise is regarded as ex-
ceeded in importance by only the upper
Cape Fear navigation improvement
scheme. The company will be able 10
| supply at once from $3.50 to 4,0o0 horse
power, with capacity for further devel-
opments and increase, and nearly all
of this will be called for from the
| start. 1t is hard TO overestimate what
| this mean for Fayetteville in n mpet-
us which will be given to manufacture
ing and the establishment of new IN
dustries, especially small plants.
The news in ,oday'S Messenger VI
the mortgage deed given TO the New
York Knickerboher Trust Company
by President J. A Mills of the Raleigh
and Southport Railroad, conveying all
the property, franchises, etc., of the
company for the purpose of making a
50, 000, 900 bond issue, has the appear
ance of a purporJ. When the name was
changed from Raleigh and Cape Fear
to Raleigh and Southport. Fayetteville
has granted to 'he company a fran
chise with rights of way over Ann,
Church, Winslow, Robinson, Hills bcro,
Franklin and Munford streets.
The congress Tor the ensuing term
of Cape Fear Council No. Is, Junior
Order United American Mechanics, has
been organized with the following Off
GERS: A. H. Watson, P; w. G. Thorn
ton, Secretary; c. D. Hall, Spe.; J. w.
Judge, E. c.; J. i. Wade. T.; d. Muir
chiscn, Chap; T. Blackburn, S. at A;
w. H. Pfister, D.; d. Caster, Page; q.
Tatum, j.
Nj. J. L. kennedy has bought the
Rosenthal residence on Rowan street,
very excellently fitted up for a hone,
and a valuable piece of property. The
Southern Real Estate Company has
purchased his Dick street dwelling
from Mr.. G. M. Watson, who will Dni!d
a residence on the lot which he recent
ly bought next to the Judd place, W
lilies west VI Tie CITY.
Fayetteville has within the past "
days lost two of It's most respected col
ored citizens. The venerable Uncle
Hugh Culbreth has just been laid away,
his funeral attended by a great gather
ing, many whites, at Evans Chapel. he
began work with the old Western Coal
Fields Railroad, 48 years ago., and rest
ed from his labOrs only a few weeks
since as gateman at the lower Hay
Street crossing Of the Atlantic Coast
Line, having been with the road
through all it's changes to the present
time, and faithful throughout. Yes-er-.
day the funeral services took place
over the remains of Monroe Dobbin, an
ex-slave, Of the late Hon. ]. c. lob.
bin, secretary of the navy in the cabi-
net of Franklin Pierce. He was a type
of the before-the-war negro, and al
ways showed his superior raising.
Last evening MI. A. H. Watson, dep
uty state councillor, installed the Off
GERS of Raeford Council J. o. U. A. ii.
Dave Wright, colored, has been az
rested, charged with being receiver Of
the goods stolen by the negro Chance
from the camp of the chain gang.
NJ. and Mrs. II. NJ. Pemberton, Mrs.
M. J. Pemberton, and Miss Alice PEN
berton will spend the rest of the sum-
mer at Black Mountain.
Mr.. George A. Holderness of Tarboro,
general manger of the Carolina Telep-
phone and Telegraph Company, in in
the city on business.
Mrs. Samuel Harrell, accompanied by
Miss Ida Farley, has returned to Tar
boro after a visit to Rev. and Mrs. Da-
vid Farley.
Mrs. Lee Holmes Of Wilmington is
the guest of the Misses Mallett on
Rowan street.
Mr.. e. w. ~Overbaugh, a travelling
man we'll known in Wilmington, is
very i'll in the Highsmith hospital. NJ.
George B. Huske. a patient in the sams