The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-22
raYErrEvILLE NEWS LETTER
sale Of Real Estat-Illness Of Mr.. J.
NJ. Pearce-Graded school Teachers
Very Important Cotton Mill Enter
prise-News and Personal Notes.

Especial to The Messenger
Fayetteville, June 20.-Capt. E. r.
| McKethan, a prominent lawyer and
! real estate dealer of this city. ysster-
! day bought $50 acres Of the Henry
; Monroe lands lea Raeford in the west
ern part OF the county. His purchase
that he never saw the property.
| Mr.. James NJ. Pearce, proprietor OF
the extensive Bordeaux" vineyard and
fruit farm southwest Of the city. who
has been in feeble health for Il year
or more. was brought TO the city yes
! terday for treatment in the H~ighsnith
hospital.
/. Miss Kate Alderman is abe u be out
after a slight sickness.
Fayetteville wants the congressional
convention, OF course: but IL the dis
trict executive committee sends II II
Wilmington, the result will be accept
ed with GOOD grace mp here, in the
assurance that. next TO Fayetteville. no
pleasanter and more h~ospi,able place
could b. selected han Wilmington or
its resort, Wrightsville Beach. \
glance ut the district will show tha;
the convenience OF the greatest nun-
Der Of delegates viii be consulted by
holding the convention la this city
those Of Cumberland. Harnett, Baden.
and Robson, casting 1877 votes OF the
total of 1aS. For instance, the rail-
road fare from Dunn to this place Is
go cents: 10 Wilmington 1t Is $40
For the Baden delegates the river fare
is about one-half. and there Is
the same proportion OF expense for
Robson county.
! Following compost the faculty OF the
graded schools OF the ,ity for the
scholastic year CT 1e0G-07: j. A. Jones.
, superintendent; L. l.. Parker. G. G.
Davidson; Mrs. Kate Utley, Mrs. ka'e
, Bruce; Misses Margaret Whitehead,
KATE Rroadfoot. KATE Farley. Bette
. Evans, Ethel Wicker. Marion Mclean.
Mary N. Broadfoot. Kate Matthews.
; There was Il pleasant home wedding
yesterday evening at the residence OF
Mr.. and Mrs. T. ]. Hornaday, in Rock
fish township. uniting their daughter,
. Miss Matte, and Mr.. A. <. Mclean,
Rev. T. j. Baker performing the cere-
| mony. The attendants were Mr.. J. A.
! Mclean and Miss Elizabeth Wertz;
air. J. G.. Tool and Miss Hattie Belle
1Icl2edu, MI. j. II. hui hduds ahu his
. Marie Odom. After the ceremony an
elegant reception was held n We'll
ding supper served.
The funeral services took place yes
;erday, Rev. D.. H. futile officiating.
over the remains Of Mrs. p. &. Deal,
who passed away at her home in Car
ver's Creek township. aged IS years, a
member of Hay Street Methods:
! church, in this city, for thirty years.
She left three daughters and two n
The mill news wired TO The Messen-
ger last night means much for Fay
etreville, o only in the increase of
manufacturing investment and plants,
but in the establishment of large print
mills in connection also with ample
| capital, turning out a high grade Of
| goods, and contracting for the whole
| output of the Victory Manufacturing
Company.
Movements are making here looking
, 10 the purchase of he Hotel Larry
cite property fronting on hay and
Donaldson streets, and running back
to Franklin street-comprising more
| than half IA block in almost the BUSH
! ness center of the city. II Is q hand
| some four-story building, carrying with
it the rental of two handsome stores,
| barber shop, billiard and pool rooms,
| corner Office. besides a row of offices
! on Donaldson street. The present pro-
| prietor and manager, who runs the
! house in first class style, Is Mr.. NJ. Met.
! Matthews, one of the best equipped no.
tel men in North Carolina, who IL a
| prospective buyer of the property "a
well as others. The principal owners
are Col. J. e. Shaw. Mr.. +. w. ThoI5-
! ton and the estate of the late Capt.
| A. 3. Williams, there being, the writer
| learns, a mortgage on 1t of $4,000. II
| ought 10 be worth nearly double that
amount
The Poe brick manufacturing works,
In the southern outskirts of the city.
| the sheds and part OF the machinery
of which were destroyed by fire re-
| Gently, is again at work after re
| building and refurnishing with COM
| plete equipment.
A day or two ago, on his round for
news, the correspondent walked down
| the corridor on the second floor Of the
| Highsmith hospital, and in n Of the
| charity wards of the Cochran Annex
| found a negro boy about Ii years old,
| sitting on Il cot with a bandage aroun
his head. This was NeatZel Robinson.
| the nurse said, struck by another boy
on the left side OF the head with lump
of anthracite coal, when INSTANTLY his
| right arm and hand were paral yzed.
DR.. Ben II. Henderson, h colored
physician who was summoned. got he
boy into the hospital. and DR.. Seavy
Highsmith performed a successful
| piece of ~trepanning. taking out a large
fragment Of bone, the paralysis sim
| ultaneousIy disappearing. The boy has
been discharged. cured.
J. T. Harrington. general merchan-
| disc dealer al Hope Mills. has made Tn
assignment for the benefit Of his credt-
| tors Joseph Johnson, Of that place
Knox Opposes the Sea Level Canal