The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-18
Tadex TO New Advertisements.
Academy of Music Peck's Bad Boy.
PERSONAL.

here yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Whitaker returned
home yesterday,
MFR. L Burkhead returned yesterday
from Lexington.
Mr.. T. Nd. Pace, Of Snow Hill, is regis
tered at the Park.
Mr.. John B Kenney has gone to New
York on business.
Miss Katie Belvin yesterday returned
home from a visit.
Mr.. W. E Borden, of Goldsboro, is Wis
iting relatives here.
Mr. W. B. Merrimon is in the city,
greeting his many friends
Frank Ferguson, R. L. Prempert DR..
a Fl. Michaels, Of Durham.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Borden, of Colds
boro, are at the Marlborough.
DR.. n. NJ Johnson, the Durham
physician, spent yesterday in the city.
T. R. Purnell, Esq has gone to Colds
boro, where Wayne county court is n
session.
Mr.. W. f. Smith and Miss Mary G.
Smith, of Glenn Springs, S. O., are in
the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Hodges aud Miss
Hodges, of Wilson, are at the Var
borough.
Mr.. W. r. Walker, agent for CHM &
Co., left yesterday for the eastern part
of the State.
Mrs Sam Hall and her daughter, Miss
Hattie Hall, of Albany, Ca, are visiting
Capt S. A. Ashe.
Mr.. J. B. Sneed, of Greensboro, former
clerk at the Park Hotel, is here He is
now ION the road"
Capt. Charles NJ Cooke, Secretary of
State, returned yesterday from his home
at Louisburg, where he spent Sunday.
Mrs. George W. Watts and Miss Annie
Watts, who have been the guests of
Mrs. K. II. Jones, returned TO Durham
yesterday,
Representative J. A. Cheek, Of Hills
boro, was here yesterday, mot on poll
tics, as he explained, "but on revenue
business"
Last night the regular monthly meet
ing OF the Raleigh Druggists AssOcia
ton was held in their meeting room over
McKimmon's drugstore.
Dir. Mills Brown is very sick at his
residence on South Wilmington street
He had several spasms yesterday after
noon, and in critical condition.
Mrs. Leard. who has been visiting her
husband here for several days, returned
TO Chester, s. O., last night. Mr Leard
accompanied her as far as Monroe.
DIR. Clement Manly, of Winston, pass
ed through here yesterday en- route to
Newbern on private business He says
Sam Jones is creating quite stir in
Winston
Rev d.. | Mex Pittinger has gone to
Greensboro. The plans for the new
Cathedral of the Good Shepherd are now
being considered, but have not yet been
completed.
Mfr. Dodge, advance agent for Gustav
Frohman's Lost Paradise" is at the
Marlborough. He says William Morris,
the originator of the leading role in
Henry De Miles great play, heads the
cast.
Mag. asd Mrs w, A. Graham, have
issued cards of invitation TO the mar
riagc of their daughter, Miss Susan
Washington Graham, to Mr.. Caspar
Wake, Of Richmond The ceremony
takes place at Forest Home, their pleas
ant country place in Lincoln county,
Sept 25th.
One of the ardent silver convention
advocates said yesterday: "a large num-
Der Of the merchants and business men
of the city have been talked with, and
are strongly in favor Of the silver con-
yention, and when it is held number
of them viii be present, lending their
aid in behalf of the peoples money"
A Raleigh banker said last night:
%'You newspapers may not have noticed
it, but it seems singular to me that John
NJ. Miller, the bank examiner who dis
covered the crooked work of Holland at
Charlotte, is now filling the place of the
defaulting cashier He took charge not
many days ago" The king is dead,
long live the king
Prof. E L Mofitt, editor of the Chris
Eian Sun, returned yesterday from Elon
College. He says that college has the
largest enrolment in its history, there
being now 115 students on the register.
There are AZ young men in the boarding
club. The executive committee met at
the college Monday night, but transacted
only routine business.
Mr.. A. H. Adams, one Of the travelling
men of the Durham fertilizer company,
is here. He says the new combination
of North Carolina and Virginia fertilizer
companies is in the interest of economy.
The goods of all brands viii be shipped
from each factory, effecting large saw
ing to the consumer in freight rates.
And with the ending of the sharp COM
petition there will be large reduction
in the operating expenses