The state chronicle., 1893-05-14
NstTES ABOUT TOWN.


day, morning and night.
Services at the Christian Church
will be held today at IL o'clock a.
m. and p. m. Sunday School at 9
q. NJ.
Rev. Bsylus Cade, of Richmond,
Va, will ill the pulpit of the Tab
ernaole church tomorrow morning
and evening.
DR.. Skinner will occupy the pull
pit of the First Baptist church to-
day and during the absence of DR..
Carter, the pastor.
There was a'picnic Of the younger
people at Brookside Park yesterday,
there being present about fifty lads
and lassies, who enjoyed the occa-
sion to their hearts content.
The fourteen gentlemen who are
employed in the Auditors Depart
ment of the Seaboard Airline, will
leave here on the 26th instant for
Portsmouth, the new general head
quarters.
The annual report of the Balti-
more Building and Loan Associa
ton appears this morning. It is
strong and reliable organization
and Mr.. James Willard, of Dur
ham, is General Agent for North
Carolina.
On memorial day a large and
deep wicker basket was lost at the
Confederate cemetery or at Metro
politap hall a large tea tray was
also lost. Any information regard
ing these missing articles will be
gratefully received by janitor Tobe
Marshall at metropolitan hall.
There was fakir in town yester-
day humbugging our citizens with
spectacles. He sold one gentleman
a pair for $500, apparently fine gold
spectacles, which he said he had
found in Lynchburg. On carrying
them TO jeweler it turned out that
they were not worth more THAI
81 25 at mcst He sold several pair
to others, telling each one plausi.
bic story, ard made good margin
on each sale.
The electric cars will run down
to Rrookside Park today and open
summer ears will be run which viii
be foand very pleasant. Manager
Huff Is now running twelve min
nte schedule from the A. & NJ. Col
lepe 10 Brooksidc Park. This is {
fast schedule, but the cars make i
right straight along. TIE layins
of the rails on the Pullen Park lin
will begin tomorrow.
A slight change in the schedul
of the Raleigh and CASTOR and Raj
eigh and Augusta passenger train
will take effect today. Train NJ
3S for Portsmouth will arrive at
m, and leave at 11:15. Trai
Al for Hamlet and Charlotte will al
rive at 4:1O p. m., and leave at 4:3
p. n. There is no change in tn
Atlanta and Washington special.
For fine line of shoes of a
kinds call on G. A. Sherwood & O.
They have especially fine shoes fc
ladies, misses and children, and wi
make big run this week on Kybe
cloths. If there is found to
fault in the workmanship or mate
rial they give new pair. Shel
woods is also the place for d,
goods and ladies supplies of a
kinds,
TIE revival ct Central NJ. ]
church continues with increasin
interest. There has been sever
converts, and good many reque
the prayers of the church, many
whom are old, gray-haired men ar
women. Services today will be CO.
Quoted by Rev. MIR. Bagley at IL
m, p. m, and at 8 p. m. Ever
body invited to attend all these SO
vices. The services at 4 p. m. wi
be principally to the young.
Philadelphia boasts the large
railroad shed in the world. T.
Enquirer says the Pennsylvan
railroad shed at Broad and Marx
streets covers nearly five acres
land and takes ever 100000 poun
of sheet copper to roof it, viii
alone costs over $4,000. Mess
Randolph 4 Cloves, of Connectic,
furnishes the material and will r.
day and night until the contract
completed.
1t is understood that there v
be an elegant new hotel built
Kittrell to replace the Davis Ho
recently burned. All arrangeme,
have been completed and Mr.. Da
will be in charge. It is said that
will cost $4,000 and that $500
= will be subscribed by Northern CT
italists and $4,000 by citizens
Kittreli. Kittrell has always be
popular resort for Northern p
pie and this has always made it
important point. The building
the new hotel will make it still mi
important and attractive and '
doubtless increase the value of pr
erty there.
Yard wide floor oil cloth zoo.