The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-28
PERSONAL.


is in the city.
Judge Conner, of Wilson, is in the city
on legal business.
Mr.. Il. X. Bruner has gone to Norfolk
on a business trip.
Mr.. III. Il. Norris, of Apex, is in the
city on business of legal nature.
Mr.. j. w. Thackston has gone to the
Western part of the State ON business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles III. Pagan yes
terday went down to Morehad for a few
days. li,-lI sa
Miss Theodore Marshall has gone to
Ridgeway on a visit to her friend, Miss
Lula Hawkins.
Mrs. NJ. T. Norris and her daughter,
Miss Mamie, are back from two weeks
stay at Morehead.
Mrs. Thomas q. Elliott, ST., is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Oliver Womble, on
North Blount street.
Mr.. James Fl. Pou, ex-State chairman
of the Democratic executive committee,
was here yesterday on business.
Capt. T. G. Boswell, of Portsmouth. a
Pullman car conductor, is sick at the
Park Hotel. 1t is believed that he has
fever.
Mr.. and Mrs. Omega Foster, Mrs.
Spencer, Messrs. Thos. Pescud, Louis
Mailer and Frank NJ. Stronach yester-
day returned from Morehead.
Misses Gertrude and Emma Johnson,
who are visiting in the Western part of
the State, will go to Hickory this week
to visit Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Wigs.
President Holiday and Prof. b. S.
Skinner, of the A. and NJ. College, have
gone to Harrells Store. by special in
vitation to attend Confederate re-
union there this week
Hon. Walter Clark. Associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court, left yester-
day for Nashville, Tenn, where he will
deliver am address before the Bar Asso-
citation of Tennessee on Friday of this
week.
DE-. ID. +. Everett will leave Saturday
night for Old Point Comfort. where he
will spend a week attending the sessions
of the American and the Southern Den
tai conventions, which meet there next
week. He is n member of the Southern
convention.
Mr.. w. NJ. Allen, formerly an assist
ant chemist in the Experiment Station.
under DIR. Battle. left yesterday for his
home in Wadesboro. Mr. Allen has
many friends in Raleigh, and it is with
sincere regret that they see him go away.
Gen. r. +. Hoke and Mr. ALT w. Hay
wood returned yesterday from the meet
ing of the directors of the North Caro-
lima Railroad at Burlington Monday.
Nothing of any special Importance, they
say, was done at this meeting 1t was
a regular meeting and only routine bus
mess was transacted.
Mr.. Philip w. Averitt, who represented
the directors of the North Carolina
Railroad in the hearing on the lease
question before the master, Kerr Craige,
at Salisbury yesterday, returned to the
city last night. He says nothing of
special interest was developed at yester-
| days hearing and the State was given
until August II to present its evidence.
Maj. J. W. Wilson and DIR. D. Fl.
Abbott, railroad commissioners, yester-
day went down to Morehead to attend
the County Officers convention, now in
session there. Commissioner Ohio
Wilson went down Monday. The Com
! mission is invited to meet there as a
| Board of Equalization and make such
suggestions to the convention as may
seem to them proper. Mr.. Chas. Pagan.
clerk to the Board. accompanied them.
| Col. John w. Hinsdale, of Raleigh, ar
rived in the city yesterday. He is here
to take dispositions in the case of stoke
ley VS.. the National Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company. which will be tried at
Duplin court week after next. The case
grew out of the refusal of the company
to pay the death claim on the life of the
late J. B. Stokeley, on the ground that
| the record of the family for consumntion
had not been truthfully represented
Wilmington Star.
Mr.. Preston Lewis Gray, principal Of
the William Bingham School. Mebane;
n. c., was in the city yesterday. Mr..
Gray is a distinguished graduate of
Washington and Lee University, having
taken the degree of B. l.. there in 1890.
He is young man of energy and ex-
perience, possessing those qualities es-
sentia to a successful teacher andi ad-
ministrator He will spare no pains to
maintain a school of high rank worthy
of the fame of the distinguished educa-