The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-27
PERSONALS.

Maj. J. W. Graham was here Mon
day afternoon.
Mrs. Il. p. Carr is here from Chapel
Hill on business.
A. III. Michaels has gone to South
Carolina on business.
Paul A. Noel has been to Oxford
on important business.
Thos. A Boone, Jr., has gone to Char
lotte on important business.
Oscar T. Smith went east on the
early train yesterday morning.
Rev. A. A. Pruden, W. A Erwin and
A. E. Lloyd went to Raleigh yesterday.
Mrs. III. H. Markham attended the
Oxford Female Seminary commence
ment.
Jno. i. Lea, prominent tobacco
man, went over to Granville Monday on
business.
Jno. Il. Britt, the well-known and
popular editor of the Oxford Ledger,
was here Monday.
Jas. S. Manning, one of Durham's
leading lawyers, went to Raleigh yes
terday morning on business.
Edward Parrish Whitaker, the
bright little eight year old son of ID.
w. Whitaker, is critically i'll.
Rev. j. j. Landsdell, a prominent
citizen of Person county, was in the
city yesterday visiting his relatives.
John w. Markham, a prominent
merchant of Chapel Hill, was in Dur
ham yesterday on important business.
Rev. Mr.. Wellons, one of the best
men in the State, is attending Elon
College preparatory to the commence
ment.
Miss Addie Claypool is visiting the
family of Maj. Leo. ID. Heartt. Her
home is in Newbern and she has been
attending school at Salem.
Messrs. Bailey Hopgood and Clifton
Mangum returned yesterday morning
from Oxford, where they had been to
attend the closing exercises of oxford
Female College.
Mrs. r. G. Stanard with her mother,
Mrs. J.. p. Morris, have gone to Will
liamsburg, Va, where they were sum-
moned on account of the critical ILL
ness of relative.
3 Capt. Robt. S. Kirkland was in the
city yesterday morning on his way
home from Fairintosh, where he had
been spending several days as the
guest of Col. Benehan Cameron.
Capt. A. Mangum, of Flat River, was
here yesterday morning on his way to
Raleigh to attend the Federal court,
where he has a number of clients,
whose interests he will closely look
after.
Col. and Mrs. Peter Fl. Maybe, of
Richmond, Va, have been visiting
their daughter at the hospitable and
elegant country home of Col. Benehan
Cameron, Fairintosh. 1t is an ideal
country home.
Mr.. James Norwood, who has been
spending several days with friends in
Durham, went back to Hillsboro Mon
day afternoon. He was the popular
representative of Orange county in
the Legislature of 1892.
Rev. G. 2. Bostic lectured at the
court house last night. There was a
fair audience to hear him. He will be
remembered as former pastor of
the First Baptist church in this city
and is quite popular in Durham.
DIR. Jno c. Kilgo went to Green's
boro Monday night where he delivered
the address before the graded school of
that city. There is no discounting the
fact that all who were SO fortunate as
to be there heard something good.
Tt is indeed gratifying to see Rev.
Geo. j. Dowell, pastor of the Second
Baptist church, able to be at his post
again. For the first time, since a long
and protracted attack of sickness, was
he able to preach for his people. He
is popular with Durham people with
out regard to sect or creed and they
rejoice to know that he has sufficient
| Iy recovered to be able to minister to
} his flock.