Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-05-15
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Dr ". J. Lumsden and wife
will return to day from a trip
| South.
Pedestrians would just at this
time appreciate a heavy rain,
and farmers need it.
The mercury has been hover
ing around the 90 degree point
for the past few days.
Mrs. Mat Baker and child, Of
Norfolk, are visiting Mrs. Bakers
parents on Purse street.
SO far this month there have
been but two real estate transfers
recorded at the registers offer.
Send us one dollar and this
paper viii appear at your home
every week during a year. See?
Having all the store houses
full, tn Crystal Ice Company
has shut down for a couple of
weeks.
The yacht Brant, with her
owner Commodore Chceseboro
Oh board, anchored i'll the harbor
yesterday.
The excitement on Water
Street "Wednesday was caused BY
a runaway horse. The damage
was slight
Mr. Hal. Vaughan, who now
lives in New York, arrived here
Tuesday to visit his parents on
Church street.
What is known as bohemian
hall, on Fearing street extend
ed, IS being torn down to make
room for three cottages.
MI. NcWtOn Underwood has
returned from Raleigh, where he
went to attend the Grand Council
Of the Royal Arcanum.
The police court has been
rather lively this week, but no
serious ohenses against the corr
pOratlOn were committed.
Ex-Statc Auditor G. w.
Sanderlin and wife now living
ii Washington City, are visiting
relatives OH Fearing street.
Mr.. W. O. Shannon, now of
Henderson but formerly a Eliza
beth City boy, spent several days
with his brother here this week.
Mr.. w. II. Miskell, a we'll
known Elizabeth City printer,
left Saturday to accept a case in
the State printing office at Wins
stOn.
Mrs. NJ A. Shipp returned
Tuesday from kinston, where
she went as 4 delegate of the
W. +. NJ. S. of the n. c Con-.
ference.
Those who receive a copy of
the FiauE%3l.N & FARMER this
week, who are not already subs
scribcrs, are invited to subscribe
atOnCc
Work on the old DismalSwamp
Canal progresses, and it Low
looks as if the fondest hopes of
the people Of this section Will be
realized.
The hook and line fisherman
is now having all the fun he
wants catching specllle perch in
the upper part of the beautiful
Pasquotank.
Eggs are down to six cents,
aud the market dull even at that
price. This IS lower than they
were ever known to be in Eliz-I
abeth City before.
A corps of painters, under di-
rection of Mr.. Thomas Bland,
are furnishing the handsome res
idence of Mr.. c. II. Robinson on
Main street with a new coat
Mr.. Jos. Batliner, manager of
of the Edenton agency of Pabst
celebrated Milwaukee lager beer,
was in the city Wednesday and
favored this office with a call.
A colored man named Bell
bled to death from hemorrhage
of the lungs at his home III the
fifth ward Wednesday morning,
His life was insured for $1,000.
Advertising S the electric cord
that connects your business with
the purchaser. To turn the
current off is to dismiss him
from your door.-PTHtcrs' INK.
DR.. P. John and Geo. w. Cobb,
delegates from Pasquotank coun-
ty, left Tuesday to attend the
State Republican Convention
which met at Raleigh yesterday.
Mr.. w. w. Fairbanks, of
Maryland, arrived here Wednes-
day to spend few days with his
family, who are visiting Mr..
John NJ, Jewell, OH Road street.
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