The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-09-25
MAY BE JOINT CAMPAIGN
rats and Republicans Possibly
Meet on Stump-The Big Cruiser
Fire Department Headop.r.aI
eiord Cotton Mill-News and Per.
sOnaI Notes.
Especial to The MoSca,r

Ho itIueTdry OF the
Guilty campaign. AS the Republicans
put out a full ticket on SATURDAY. =,
may be that final action will he do
'erred at this meeting until after a
conference Of the chairmen Of the -
ecutlVe committees of the two nartias
with the view of for q in
canvass. The republicans express CON-
hdence that they will elect their ticket
out on what grounds they alone know
for the democratic ma in C,n
oerland is about 600. Leading demo-
Gratis take no stock in the eDnbljca
luli ticket, considering it a "bliud )"
ana that the republicans only hone to
capture one or perhaps two members
OF the Legislature by the votes Of anti
prohibitionists.
News has been received here OF he
deaCn at VermilliOn, South Dakota of
Ddhlel l.. Lyon aged 16 years, recall
lus DC times. Fifty-four years ago
"neil onlE ~ years Old he was foreman
u me Dig carriage factory corner Ct
LICK ana Person streets, then n of
the O extensive in the south. In
1901 Mr.. Lyon moved to PENNSYLVANIA,
and thence to the far west.
MI. VIM. Owen, midshipman in the
navy, spending vacation here, who has
seen the cruiser North Carolina, saws
mat It IS an Immense snip Of 1900
tons, 525 feet long, drawing "a or %
1eet OF water, and can never get I'D to
Wilmington. That city and the rest
or the state should agree on South
port. EXcursiOniStS can 20 to Will
mlngton, and then down the river bv
the steamer Wilmington, the CITY Ct
Fayetteville" and other craft which
can be pressed into service.
ayetteville people heard with in
teTest OF the recent marriage of Mrs.
Fannie P. Jones in the parlors Of the
state hospital at GoIdsboro. She is CT
our folks, daughter of the late George
3. B~rOadfOOt, and great grand niece Of
George E. Badger.
Nothing in the way Of literary enter
tainment has been heard IN Fayette-
vile in years, comparable to the lee
ture on Martin Luther by Professor
Haltzhausen in the auditorium of the
city graded schools last Sunday, both
in subject matter and matchless de-
livery.
The fire department expect to move
soon into their new headquarters on
Gillespie street, and Will add another
hose wagon to their equipment.
Mr.. James A. Johnson and Miss Ire
va Malloy, of Lumber Bridge, will be
united in marriage at that place to-
morrow. |
A good many people from Raleigh
and other points on the line Of the RAJ
leigh and Southport r. r. spend SUM-
day in Fayetteville. Strangers find i'll
a good town in which to spend Sunday
or any other day.
Mr.. J. H. MyrOver, Of this city,
speaks at Lumber Bridge next Satur-l
day. at the big meeting which will be
held for erecting a monument to the
Confederate dead Of Robson county.
He finds it impossible to fill the ap-
pointment at Red Springs.
DR.. l.. B.. Evans of ClarktOn, Who'll
made the notable speech in the con-
gressiOnal convention nominating
Brown, of Columbus, spent yesterday
in the city, visiting his sister, MISS
Bette Evans, who is sick in the Hight
smith hospital
Miss Alice Haigh has been elected
teacher of the fourth grade in the city
graded schools.
The new cotton mill of 25,0 spln-)
dies. and also to make cloth, is rapidly
taking shape. When finished 1t Will
be the largest in all this mill system.
At their meeting last evening the
Grays Of the Independent Light imam
try battalion made arrangements VI
organize a rife team.
Mr.. John B. T~illinghast, secretary, is
mailing the premium list of the coun-
tv fair, beginning Tuesday, October
23rd and lasting four days, and which
PROMISES to be the best fair OF many
Years. Persons desiring n or more
comics can have them for the asking ID
person or by mail.
The Charlotte Evening Chronicle OF
Saturday claims that Charlotte leads IN
the record for good health, its temper
arv annual death rate for that city
hnine 10 per 1000 in July, which was
CLOS per cent. 1t gives Durham 29.5;I
Greensboro "a; Raleigh %; Salem
1S o. Salisbury -; Weldon 1863; VIII
mina+on 1873. According to the report
of Dr. A. s. Rose. city physician, there
<yara : deaths in Fayetteville during
Auo7,s+ all colored. The town has a
nonn1ation Of 5000 or 10000 inclusive
of the suburbs, but the populatioh
Within the corporate limits, on which
the report Of Nj. Rose is based, is about
5000. This makes Fayettevilles tenn
porary death rate less than one per
cent. or 0083.
Misses Mary Powell and Ernesune
Anderson Of Fair Bluff, and Mr.. faul
Tassier of New Orleans are the guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. John c.. Gorham on
Green street.
The new. cotton factory, 5000 SPIN
a,ae of the Raeford Power and Manu-
featuring Company a been put IN
The main building is $50
bv n feet, with IS feet in the clear,
u.;+b on adjoining mower house 9 by 50