Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-07-23
BELCROSS, Camden Co.

Pasquotank county, Is Elsiti'iS
Mr.. Henry Brown.
Miss Annie Boushall returned
last week from visiting friends
and relatives III Edenton.
Miss Annie Brothers, OF Eliz-
abeth City, was visiting Miss
Lima A. Gilbert last week.
Misses Mamie and Beulah
Trafton spent last Friday III E.
City shopping and visiting.
Rev. T. c. Wood is confined
to his home by sickness. We
hope he will soon be out again.
Mrs. Mary Harrington is visit
ing Mrs. Sudie Ferebee of Ellis
abeth City, who is reported quite
sick.
The passenger travel on the
Norfolk & Southern Railroad
has greatly increased for some
time past.
w. w. Garret, our enterprls-
ing merchant, reports a decided
improvement in his trade fer
the last month
Miss Lille Grandy, Of Eliz,
abeth City, and teacher at the
Oxford Seminary, Oxford, n. c.,
is visiting Mrs. Blanche Ferebee
this week.
Quite a number of Camden
people went to Mays Head on
the Baptist Sunday School ex
cursion of Elizabeth City last
Tuesday,.
Miss Lima A. Gilbert, who has
been quite sick for some time,
we are glad to know is improving
and we hope she will soon be
entirely we'll.
Mr.. Geo. Derrickson, of the
Blades Lumber CO. of E. City,
was i'll Camden a few days ago
prospecting for lot of timber
near this place.
Rev. K. r. Overly received a
telegram last Saturday from
South Mills, N. c., announcing
the death Of Isaac Burnham
Esq, of that place.
The recent change in the
management of the school sys>
TEN of this township does not
seem to give satisfaction, as the
former management did.
Mrs. Alice Morrisette is quite
sick at the home Of her father,
B. F. Gilbert, Esq. She is under
the care of Or. c. J. Sawyer, and
we hope for her speedy recovery.
Misses Mary and Sophie Wood,
accompanied by Miss Annie
M organ, of Berkeley, Va, spent
Tuesday at their home, return
ing to Berkeley on the evening
train.
The train men on the trains
Of the N. S. r. r. say Belcross
has the prettiest girls and ugli
est men Of any station On the
road. We are grateful for the
compliment.
Frank Brown, of this place,
son of J. w. Brown, Esq, who
has been sick for some time with
typhoid fever, we regret to say,
is not any better and fears are
entertained for his recovery.
The painters will begin to
paint Sawyer's Creek church
this week. The ladies appoints
ed to solicit funds to paint the
church have been successful, and
the work will begin at onc,.
Mrs. Waiter r. Gilbert, with
her daughter Ruth, leaves for
her home i'll Berkeley, Va. to-day
(Frlday.) Mrs. Gilbert, is
native of this county, and has
been visiting her friends and rel
atives here.
The writer had the pleasure
Of attending a reception last
Friday night, given by Miss E.
Tamplin Gilbert, in honor of
her guest Miss Ella w. Early.
The reception was attended by
the elite Of this place, also from
E. City. And under care of our
charming host the evening was
delightfully."- spent. We desire
to return thanks for the invita>
ton.
Miss Ella w. Early, who has
been the guest Of Miss Emma
I. Gilbert, left for her home at
Allander, N. c., Thursday.
Miss Ella is graduate Of c. B.
F. Institute at Murfreesboro, N.
c., a very charming young lady,
and while here made host of
friends who are sorry to see her