The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-21
PERSONAL.

DR.. Hawkins has gone to Louisburg
on business.
Mr.. w. s. Barnes, of Hillsboro, was
here yesterday.
District Attorney G. B. Aycock spent
yesterday in Raleigh.
Editor Stevens, of the Newbern Jour
nal, is in the city.
Miss Alice Borden, of Wilmington, is
visiting Miss Laura Kirby.
Mr.. r. B. Raney spent yesterday in
Greensboro on insurance business.
Mrs. Myers, nee Miss Berta Smith, is
m the city, on a visit to her parents.
Mr.. E. A. Keeling spent yesterday in
Raleigh. He is now located at Wilson.
Mrs. w. b. Mann and little Eleanor
are visiting relatives and friends in Ok
ford.
Mrs. DR.. Barker has returned to the
city after an extended stay at Cleveland
Springs.
Mrs. r. o. Burton and children have
gone to Elkin to spend. the month Of
August.
Mr.. NJ. p. Borden, of Chicago. men,
Der of the Chicago Board of Trade. is
in the city. t.,,s
Mrs. G. s. Jackson and Mrs. Haywood
White and little son have gone ON visit
to Louisburg.
| Justice Walter ontgomery, of the SUI
1preme court of North Carolina, has gone
/ TO his old home in Warren for a few
days.
Mr.. Claudlus Dockery, chairman OF
the board OF directors of the penitentiaFy,
returned to his home in Rockingham
yesterday afternoon.
l. Mr.. Chas. A. Cook, of Warrenton,
was here yesterday. He left on the at
ternoon train for Oxford, where he goes
to attend to some law business.
Miss Mary D. Pitman, who has beer
attending the ira ming schoOlat the Pres
byterian hospital in Philadelphia, is il
Raleigh for a three weeks visit.
Mrs. r. D. Blackwell and daughter
Miss Mamie, arrived In the city yes
terday from Piedmont Springs. They
are. here visiting Mr.. s. D.. Wait 4.
Miss Mamie Cowper yesterday return
ed from Blowing Rock, where she ha.
been spending the summer. She was
accompanied home her sister, Mrs. Han
f. Attorney General Walser left yester
day for his home at Lexington. HI
says he thinks the State has a very
strong case IN the telegraph-rate injunc
ton suit.
4 Mr.. and Mrs. Frank S. Spruill wer'
here yesterday on the way to their home
in Louisburg. Mrs Spruill has beer
spending the summer at Asheville and
cleveland Springs.
Messrs. B. H. Griffin and e. B.Dewey
of this city, and Mr.. e. B. Barbee, o
Raleigh, returned to-day from a FISHING
trip to Newport, where they slaughtered
the inny tribe.-Goldsboro Argus.
Mr.. w. B. Upchurch, vice-president o.
the State Farmers Alliance, was her
yesterday attending the Alliance pic-ni
at the A. and NJ. College. Mr.. Upchurcl
is one of Wake county's best farmers.
Mr.. J. A. Martin, one Of the leading
business men Of Hickory, spent yester
day in Raleigh. He reports Hickory al
on a building boom: Buildings to cos
l$50,000 will be, finished in Hickory. ths
fall" he said to a reporter.
Mr.. S. G. HOlleman, of Carthage, wa
in Raleigh yesterday. He says that the
town is growing rapidly. The Tyson {
Sons Buggy Company is erecting a large
60x120 carriage factory of brick. Mr.
Jones has recently completed hand
some $1,000 residence. A Kentucky gen
Etleman is putting up a forty room hote
to cost $4,000. Other building is goinl
on, and the extension of Mr.. Petty's rail
road is giving life to the old town.
Col. G. w. F. Harper, of Lenoir, presi
dent of the Carolina and North Western
Railroad, and Mr.. L. T. Nichols, super
intendent Of the road, spent yesterday
in Raleigh. Col. Harper says that hi.
road-an independent line-has done
very well during the past year. He re
ports the number Of visitors at Blowing
Rock this year as many times larger
than during any past year, and he is con
fdent that it is destined to be the great
lest mountain resort in the South