The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-26
DAVIS MEMORIAL MEETING
Resolutions and Speeches OF Condo
Ience-The Cumberland Fair-Street
RaiIway-New Savings Bank-News
and Personal Notes
Especial to The Messenger

Especial to The Messenger
Fayetteville, October 22-Yester1ay
afternoon at 4 O'Clock an impressive
meeting was held in Pythian Hall.
commemorative Of the death of Mrs.
Davis, under the auspices Of the
Mrs. E. ]. Hale president, and attend
ed also by Camp 852, United Confeder-
ate Veterans, G. NJ. Rose, commander,
and many prominent citizens. A conf
mittee, with Col. c. W. Broadfoot as
chairman, was appointed by the Vet
Grams, to draft resolutions, with like
committee on the part of the Daughters
Of the Confederacy. These resolutions
were fOrcible, earnest and graceful.
With good weather this week, there
is bright promise that the Cumberland
fair will be one of the most successful
in its long history. The exhibits will
be extensive, the racing very fine, and
the attendance will embrace people
from all this section of the state and
upper South Carolina. There are al
ready here 20 or 25 foreign horses Of
high speed, and more are expected.
The fair has been we'll worked up, and
Tallinghast, president and secretary,
deserve great credit for their manage
ment. Mr. Arthur Armfields the chief
marshal, has published his staff of as
sistant marshals, made up of promi-
nent young men here and in the cOun-
try. The many novel side shows will
be a feature of the fair.
A new savings bank has been Or
ganized here with a capital of $4,000,
and Mr.. Leighton Huske as president,
which will begin business next week.
Contractors of the Pittsburg Bridge
Company are here to secure quarters
for a large force of workmen in build
ing the new iron bridge for the Allan
tic Coast Line r. R. over the Cape
Fear river in the northern outskirts
Of the city 1t is understood that it
will be very handsome structure
equal to the other bridge over the river
placed there by the old Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley Railway, at a cost OF
100000.
The Fayetteville Street Railway Co.
will at an early date begin laying
trolley line to run from the boat land
ings on the river to the passenger sta
tion on upper Hay street, taking in the
Holt Morgan village, and embracing a
circuit of the city Of about three miles.
The line will have accommodations for
freight as we'll as passengers.
The democratic county ticket is rea-
sonably safe from top to bottom, al
though the majority may be reduced
from first anticipations Registration
is slow, and the meetings on the can
vass have not been we'll attended, on
account of the hard work on the farms.
But Cumberland may be counted on
for at least 500 majority.
Mrs. Fiers, of Sunbeam, Va, will
visit friends in the city during the
far.
The correspondent has been Informed
that a strong movement is making here
to organize a fire insurance company,
and that Mr.. G. J. Cooper is one Of the
principal promoters of the enterprise.
He is a business organizer OF re-
! markable ability and breadth Of view,
and has been chiefly instrumental In
achieving the great success Of the Fay
etteville Life Insurance Company, OF
which he is general manager. He was
former cashier of the national bank
of Fayetteville, which he organized and
nJaoed on a splendid financial footing.