The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-08-14
fEITEEILLE NEWS LETTER
Prominent Candidate for Sheriff With
ura"s-EOr Additional Mail Service.
Hotel Improvements -
Monument to a SoIdier-Ne,ys and
Personal Notes.
Especial to The Messenger.l

especial to The Messenger,)
Fayetteville, August S.-Captain 7
d Mcneil, Of this city. who had an
nounced himself a candidate for the
Office Of sheriff Of Cumberland count
writes to Mr.. J. H. Myrover, chairman
OF the democratic county executive
committee, Withdrawing his candidacy,
and relinGuishing, for this campaIyu.
all political aspirations. Captain Nc
Nelll is eX-state senator. president Of
the Fayetteville chamber of commerce
as we'll as president of the National
and State Firemen's Association, a
prominent North Carolinian, and q
nan OF broad public spirit. He is
hardly beyond the prime of life. and
there are many years of honored public
service in him still.
Mr.. +. K. Rose, secretary of the
c1alnDef or commerce, is making an
effort with the p~ostofice department at
Washington to have a mail service es-
tablished on the Fayetteville and Co.
lumbia "Shoo fly" train, which has
Just gone into operation. The success
OF Mr.. Roses effort would be of great
benefit to Fayetteville and Columbia
business men especially, and to the
whole country traversed by the line.
Large quantities of material are be-
ing hauled for thing the floors of the
office, lobby, pool ana billiard rooms
and barber shops in the Hotel LaFay-
cite building. There will be no let-up
now in extensive exterior and interior
improvements until it is one of the
handsomest hotels in North Carolina
! Inc dining room, not surpassed in the
state, has just been finished.
A curiosity in navigation, a gasoline
launch, made wholly at home, has been
put on the Cape Fear, and christened
Blue Bell by Mr.. G. w. Davis. the
builder and navigator.
Young Edward Grady, son Of Mrs.
Hunter G. Smith, who has undergone a
critical operation for appendicitis in
tn eHighsmith hospital, is rapidly re-
covering. He was taken while at
Wrightsville Beach.
The county commissioners have or
dered a stock-law election at the mill
Of Allen Holmes for part of the terri
tory Of Cedar Creek township.
NJ. H. L. Goodwin, democratic nomi-
nee for congress in this district, writes
to Mr., J. H. Myrover, chairman of the
democratic county executive committee
offering his services in the approaching
campaign, to go anywhere, at any time,
where good may be done for the coun-
ty. ticket, and expressing his determi-
! nation to increase, If possible, the DEM
| naratia mo inpity- in this cnn Opoccinr91
district.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Brothers have
gone on a trip to Virginia, Atlantic
City, New York and Canada.
A movement is making to erect q
monument to the memory OF the late
Captain John McKeithan. who lies in
a neglected grave at Longstreet church
IN the western part Of the county. He
was captain Of Company A, 5th North
Carolina cavalry. In war he was d
lion; in peace he was as gentle in man
ner. as sweet in nature as a woman,
and filled with such winning courtesy
l that his friends were wont to call him
| the first gentleman in Cumberland,
with better right to the title b a had
selfish pompous George ".
There is an Illustration of the build
ing activity in Fayetteville in the fact
that. although the plant Of Mr.. E. a.
Poe is very extensive and has recently
been enlarged, and although he Is
turning out brick to its full capacity.
! the erection Of the farmers warehouse
! is DELAYED solely from the impossibillty
of getting material.
The public building for fire depart
ment and public headquarters on Gill
lespie street is nearly finished and
ready for occupancy. It is Of attrac-
| tive architecture, and greatly sets on
that part Of the city.
A revival meeting is going on TINS
week at Sunnyside Presbyterian church
on the east side OF. Cape Fear river,
conducted by the pastor, Rev. '. U.
| Smith. and his brother, Rev. L. Smith.
Of Manly, n. {.
At the Harnett county democratic
convention at Ellington yesterday w.
T. HARRINGTON was nominated for the
senate. J. C. Clifford for the house, II.
G. Stewart for register OF deeds, j..
Lanir for sheriff, Floyd Taylor Tor
clerk of superior court, G: n.
Grantham. J. T. Smith and I. A. Har-
rington for commissioners. 1t was a
very large convention, taxing the seat
inc and standing capacity of the court
house