The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-21
PERSONALS.

Mr.. John b. Bullock, of Bullock, was
here yesterday.
Mr.. James r.. Young, of Henderson,
is at the Park.
Ex-Mayor j. II. Bridgers, of Hender-
son, was here yesterday
Editor j. A. Thomas, of the Louis
burg Times, is in the city.
Mai. William 4. Guthrie, of Durham,
spent yesterday III the city.
Capt. r. A. Young, of Polenta, john
ston county, is in the city.
Mr.. Joseph 2. Caldwell, editor of the
Charlotte Observer, is at the Park.
Mrs. Il. C. Bassick and i. G. Bassick,
of Bridgeport, Conn, are at the Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. L. Harris returned
home yesterday from witt to rela-
tiyes.
Mr.. Ernest Haywood has returned
from business trip to Chicago and
New York.
Mrs. James BoyIan. who has been
quite i'll for several days, is much
better.
Mr.. II. p. Strause, of Henderson, is
at the Park, the guest of his brother,
Mr.. N. p. Strause.
Mr.. HI. C. Olive, of Apex, former
State Senator from Wake, spent yes
terday in the city
Mr. o. I'll. Foster, who has been
threatened with pneumonia, was much
improved yesterday.
Miss Mary Almond Nash, of Char
lotte, is visiting the Misses Busbee on
West Hargett street
Miss Rosa Broughton and Miss Nellie
Lougee went to Durham yesterday af-
ternoon To visit relatives.
Col. John w. Hinsdale returned yes
terday afternoon from Beaufort, where
he attended Carteret county court.
Mai Il. J. Hale, editor Of the Fay
etteviIle Observer, is here to attend
the meeting of the Central Democratic
committee
Mrs. Hal NJ. Worth, who has been
relatives here for several days, return
ed Yesterday afternoon to her home
at Worthwhile.
Rev. o. L. Struggled, financial agent
of the Baptist Female University, left
yesterday on trip in the interest of
that institution
Prof. w. L. Poteat, of Wake Forest
college, is here TO attend the meeting
of the executive committee of the State
Teachers Assembly.
Maj. S. M. Finger, ex-State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, who
has been here several days, left yes
terday afternoon for his home in New
ton.
Col. Ham Jones, having imbibed his
fill of the different brands of Republic
canism ON tap in town this week, yes
terday returned to his home in Forest
vile.
Rev. ID. III. Tuttle will deliver his lee
ture on 1.-THE Battle of the Bottles"
next Sunday night. He has delivered
it in several places in the State, and
this unique temperance lecture has
been well received.
Messrs. Thomas ID. Meares, NJ. c. s.
Noble, ID. G. Love and b. +. King, of
Wilmington are here to appear before
the executive committee of the Teach
ers' Assembly, in behalf of that pleas
ant summer resort, Wrightsyille.
Mr.. #. NJ. Lampkin returned yester-
day from trip to Chapel Hill in the in
terest of Whiting Brothers. He says
the greatest improvement in Chapel
Hill is the electric lighting plant by
which that good old college town IS
now illuminated.
Rev. DIR. r. w. Carter announced to
the congregation of the First Baptist
church this week that Rev. A. Car
ence Dixon will be unable to hold a
series Of meetings. here in April, on ac-
count of pressing duties at home. Mr..
Dixon will probably be here to hold
a series of meetings in june.
Mrs. pattie d. b. Arlington has re-
ceiyed an offer from a Northern
and lecture at certain salary per
week. She attained deal of notoriety
throughout the country when she
went INTO court in the suit against her
for libel, and plead her own case. Mrs
Arlington has not yet decided whether
she will go on the lecture platform
and accept the sroposal Of the mana
ger.
Rev. A. p. Tyer, financial agent Of
Trinity college, was here yesterday
in the interest of the college. He il
now engaged in the raising Of an en-
dowment for this college of the Metho
dists that is doing such noble worl
in this State. Mr.. Washington Duk'
offers to give to the endowment fund 0
the college one dollar for every tw'
dollars contributed by anyone else
The Methodists of the State who hay
the interest of the college and tn
denomination at heart earnestly hop
that under this plan the college ma