The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-25
Personal.

Mr.. James A. Briggs has gone to New
| York.
Mr.. Alf A. Thompson spent yesterday
in Durham.
Mr. B. f. Montague is back from a trip
to Winston.
Mr.. J. A. Thomas, of Louisburg, was
in the city yesterday.
Col. Z. G. Harrell yesterday returned
from trip to Greensboro.
| Prof j. B. Brewer, of Murfreesboro,
is in the city on business.
Mr.. w. l.. McLendon, of Wadesboro,
is in the city visiting friends.
Governor Russell yesterday afternoon
returned from Wrightsville.
Mr.. w. G. Wharton, of Greensboro, is
in the city, on private business.
Miss Louise Crawford, of Goldsboro, is
visiting DR.. Crawford's family.
Mr.. Joseph f. Watson has returned to
the city from Mt. Vernon Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. O. Smith has gone
to Ocean View for ten days outing.
Nj. sYepnont G. Register has lust re-.
turasS from ,aotwo weeks visit to New
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Miss Blanche Blake is back from Dur
ham, where she has been visiting Mrs.
Sam Kramer
Mr. and Mrs. J. f. Jordan, formerly of
this city, now of Nashville, Tenn, are
here on a visit
Mrs. l.. Y. Spame, who has been visit
ing Mrs J. 0. Smith, returned to Wash
ington, D. c., yesterday.
Mr.. D. A. Hendrix, of Reidsville, one
of the most popular citizens of that good
town, was here yesterday.
home, after having spent three months
visiting friends in New York.
Mr.. Philip w. Averitt has returned
from Atlanta, where he went to attend to
some important legal matters.
Mr.. John T. Oliver, of the staff of the
Reidsville Review, was here yesterday.
He represents Reidsville as going for
ward.
Miss Susie Moseley, of Rock Hill, S.
c., who has been visiting the Misses Kir-
by, went to Goldsboro yesterday to visit
| friends.
Mr.. w. G.. Brewer, of Wake Forest,
was in the city yesterday. He is one of
Wake countys best men and strongest
Democrats.
Judge Ernest Gary, of South Carolina,
and Mr.. Bart Evans, brother of Cover
nor Evans, were here yesterday, on their
way home from New York.
Mr.. 2. A. Garter, of New York, is in
the city. Mr.. Garter was once in business
in Raleigh He is now travelling for
New York dealer in cotton goods.
DR.. J. III. Wheeler, Of Greensboro, is in
the city, spending a few days with his
uncle, Rev. e. G. Glenn. DR.. Wheeler has
been spending the summer at Morehead
City.
Miss Lizzie Wynne has returned from
Selma. where she has been on a visit.
She was accompanied home by Mrs.
Waddell, nee Miss Alma Wynne, of
Selma.
Mr. A. c. Zollicoffer, of Henderson, is
in the city to hear the last of the Raleigh
Paper Mill cases. He is referee to pass
upon the priority of claims against the
company.
Mr.. L. X. Bruner passed through Raj
leigh yesterday afternoon on his way from
Norfolk to Morganton. He says the pros
poets for building the electric railroad
from Morganton to Blowing Rock are
very fine.
! Sheriff Kearnay, who has just entered
on his twentieth consecutive year as
sheriff of Franklin county, is in the city.
He is not only model sheriff, but wise
and discreet politician. He is invincible
in his county.
Prof. Edward Vernon Howell, of the
State University, is in the city visiting
at DR.. w. l. Registers. Prof. Howell has
just returned from Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and New York, where he has been
examining the laboratories and purchas.
ing the apparatus for the pharmaceutical
laboratory at Chapel Hill
Mr. A. X. Smith, Register of Deeds of
Johnston county, is in the city. He is
fatter and handsomer than when he was
enrolling clerk of the Legislatures of
1898. He is probably the youngest
man ever chosen to that position. Ger
tainly he was one of the most efficient.
He says that the crop of cotton and Of
Democrats in Johnston flourish as a
green bay tree.