Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-09-17
News Adrift.
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BRIEFLY RELATED.
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Prepared for the Busy
Readers.
Mr.. Will Wood left Tuesday
for Randolph Macon College.

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for Randolph Macon College.
Miss Fannie Dawson has lef.
OH a visit to friends in New
York.
DR.. J. Fl. Mcmillan and wife.
of Edenton, were in Elizabeth
City yesterday.
Mr.. Mack Fletcher is having
a brick building erected on
Poindexter street.
Mr.. F. L. Garrett has return
ed from ten days vacation
spent in New York.
Mr.. S. S. Lamb has entered
the law school of Manning and
Shepard, at Raleigh.
Mr.. P. DeLon and wife were
at Norfolk this week, witness
ing the great bicycle races.
Lieut.. E. c. Chaytor and wife,
now stationed at New Orleans,
are in the city visiting friends.
Corinth Sunday school held
picnic yesterday, which was
largely attended and much en-
joyed.
Messrs. Roscoe Turner and
Joseph Spence returned this
week from a delightful trip to
Hatteras
Miss Mary Evans, of Powells
Point, who has been visiting
Miss Mary Bell, has returned to
her home.
Miss Mamie Mitchell and Sis
ter. of Norfolk, are visiting the
family OF Mr.. Geo. Williams, on
Road street.
The Orioles defeated the
Heavy-Hitters in two games of
ball played this week at Albe>
malle Park.
The farmers are very much
discouraged by the drouth.
Some of the crops are dying for
want of rain.
Superior Court will convene
in this county next week. Ju~
rors and witnesses had better be
here on time.
G. c. Allen and family res
turned from Nag's Head Tues
day afternoon, after an absence
of two months.
On Saturday morning last
death took from his fond parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. X. Koch, their lit
tie 6 year old son Henry.
A fresh coat of paint on the
front OF Mr.. Applebaum's Water
street store has added much 10
the looks of the building.
Little Miss Florence Fore
man, of Norfolk, Va, is visiting
her grandmother, Mrs. c. l..
Foreman on Pennsylvania ave
nue..
The three masted Schooner,
Harland w. Huston. of Bethel,
Del, arrived this week with
a cargo of coal for Davis coal
yard.
Married in this city, On the
I 3th inst, Mr.. William Seth
Portlock aud Miss Mary Louise
Fanshaw, both of Princess Ann
county, Va.
The seven year old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin V. Da
venport, living Oh the Cohoon
farm, near E. City, was buried
Wednesday.
Mrs. w. S. Whitson has gone
to Washington, N. c., to act as
oreanist in a revival meeting
that is being held at that place
by the Disciples.
Among the students Of the
University of North Carolina
are Everett Thompson, Harry
Greenleaf, John ID. Harris anc
Frank HolloWell, of this city.
Mrs. Maggie G. Blount viii.
commence her private school tot
bows and girls on South Roao
street at Whedbee Castle Sept
goth 81. Patronage solicited.
:: Mis-. BETTE Whaley and Mrs
MARSHALL, both of New Berne
spent a few days last week IN
Elizabeth City, the guests o
Mrs. w. J. Smith, on Burgess
street.
Mr.. T. T. Whitcomb, who ha
been at Currituck for sometime
undergoing treatment for a can
Ger, has returned and is 1mprov
: ing rapidly. His friends are dc
5 lighted.
Il Mr.. John F. Higginbothan
: and Miss Dora L. Etheridge, Q
'fNorfolk, Va, were married II
this city on the 10th inst b.
Rev. !. IL. Hall, of the Metho