The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-10
\ PECULIAR MISSIVE.
Durham Lady Receives II Hard Tack
Durham Goes acknowledgements.

Durham Lady Receives Il Hard Tack
Durham Goes Forward
Durham. Aug. 9.-(SpeciaD -When the
mails reached Durham yesterday they
contained Il peculiar missive. 1t was a
large cracker such as is furnished our
soldier boys for bread. 1t was about
) by 31a inches in dimensions, baked hard
and of Il light brown color. Some idea
can be obtained about how long it would
take to digest it when it is known that
it came all the way from Jacksonville.
Fla. without sustaining the least
break On one side of the cracker was
this address. Miss Pearl Cox. 30 Morris
street. Durham. \. c." On the reverse
side was ut the top a well drawn cage
with pen and ink followed by this in
scription: a Soldiers bread. John w.
Foster, Co. X. LIST Regiment. \. c. l..
S. A.. Jacksonville. Fla" The cracker
had no covering on it at all Tough
bread, that.
Mr.. Thos. D. Waight has returned
from MullenS. s. c.. where he has been
looking after the tobacco business.
Mr.. T.. l.. Bryan went yesterday to
Smithfeld. where he will engage in the
years a popular citizen of Durham, he is
n native of the good old county OF
Chatham. He will be Il valuable addl-
ton to the Smithfieid tobacco market
Miss Hattie Freeland has gone to
Chase City for a couple of weeks re-
creation.
Alderman G. \. Jordan spent Sunday
in Chase City with Mrs. Jordan.
Durham is going through one of the
hottest seasons these people have ever
experienced but the weather cnts no
figure in retarding the work in the I'M
precedcntedly large number of buildings
in course Of erection. There is money here
and it is being invested in good build
ingS.
Mr.. c. NJ. Lewter. one of Durham S
Oldest and most highly respected citi-
zcns. went yesterday to Wilson where he
accepts position with the American
Tobacco Co.
In the absence of Chief Wo6dall Off
Ger W. G.. Crabtrce is acting chief and
he is doing the job well too.
Mr.. Benjamin \. Duke spent yes
tcrday in Oxford looking after the in
terest of the Orphan Asylum. lie has
donated large sums of money TO that in
sttution and takes n deep interest in
whatever pertains to its welfare.
Miss Octavia Holloway has been
here on visit at the hospitable home
of her uncle. Mr.. Robert Holloway, and
yesterday went to her home in Oxford.
DR.. JnO. c. Kilgo returned this morn
ing from Monroe, \. G.
Mr.. II. l.. Propst. one of the South
ern's efficient force Mt this pint, spent
Sunday ir Lexington with his family.
Mrs. =. w. Vaughan and her two
bright little daughters. Misses Annie
Louise and Ida Carr have gone to the
White Sulphur Springs near Mt. Airy
for II month
Chief of Police ]. \. WoodaIl is Wis
iing his mother. who is quite sick in
SmithGeld.
Mr.. A. II. Page. the great lumberman
of Aberdeen. was at the Carolina last
night.
Miss May Woodward has returned
from Wilmington, where she visited re!a-
tiycs.
Rev. and Mrs. w. C. Tyree are tax
ing rest at White Sulphur Springs.
Rev. .Jno. y. Cole is with Mrs Cole
and bis sister in Mecklenburg county,
Va.
Mrs. Lee s. Bath is here from vii
mington visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs II. r. Howerton.
Mr.. r. Morris Bevis and family have
gone to Franklinton to visit relatives.
They will he absent n couple of weeks.
Rev. w. c. Maxwell former pastor
of Pear Chapel. is here from Norfolk on
a visit to friends in this city.