The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
CITY ITEMS.

VII @tst ~
Pastor Glenn invites the cooperation
of all Christian men and women in the
revival that is being conducted at Cen
trial Methodist chnrch.
Rev. DR.. Norman, pastor of Edenton
Street Methodist church. has returned
to the city and will today occupy his
pulpit at both the morning and evening
services.
The Secretary of State yesterday
completed his distribution of the 124th
Supreme Court Reports. He expects an
other installment of the reports from
the printer Tuesday. He will then put
the books on sale.
Captain @. l. Hudson has been busy
this week constructing wires and fit
ting up offices preparatory to the OPP
ening of his telegraph school. He
has about finished the preparations and
will begin his school in few days
Apex News.
Another divorce suit was started. in
Wake Superior court yesterday. Chancey
Branch, colored. asks dissolution of the
bonds that bind her in matrimony to
her husband. John Branch. She says
in her complaint that he has forsaken
her to live with lewd woman.
Mr.. g. s. Woodland, of the United
States regular army, will today be mar
r1ed to Miss Alice Rogers who lives near
Myatt's mill, this county. He is a ma
a ~.
ON furlough, which expires September
25th. His command is at Fort Screven.
Ga.
State Treasurer Worth yesterday
morning received telegram announcing
the extremely critical condition of his
brother Mr.. Daniel Worth, at Guilford
College. Mr.. Worth was paralyzed some
five months ago and it is feared that the
end is now near. Treasurer Worth went
to G1iilford College to see him yesterday
afternoon.
Patent ROLLER curtains for top buggies
are something new and very convenient.
They are so simple that we wonder SOME
one did not invent Them years before.
The illustration i'm j. w. Barber and
Sons space elsewhere in today's paper
shows the old and the new way of adj
jlrsting curtains. The man who made
this invention ought to get rich.
Mrs. Jackson Pool died suddenly in
Auburn yesterday morning at 4 o'clock
She was nearly seventy years old and
lived with her son, Mr.. A. L. Pool. She
leaves three children. A. Il. Pool, Mos
COW Pool and Mrs. VIM. Watts. Shewas
and will be greatly missed, not only by
a member of Mt. Moriah Baptist church
from which the funeral will be con-
Quoted by the pastor.
Rev. A. l.. Belts, pastor of Pilot Bap-
fist church, will resign next month in
order to go to Louisville, KY, to finish
his course in theology in the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary Mr.
Belts has done fine work in Raleigh,
and will be greatly missed not only by
his own membership and church, but
by the Christian workers of all de-
nominations.
The Alamance Grocery Company, of
Burlington, was yesterday Incorporated
by the Secretary of State. It's capital
stock is $4,000, and the incorporators
ore Eugene w. Reade and Joseph G.
Reade, Of Mt Tirzah, Person county,
and Thomas Il. Allen, of Burlington,
Alamance county. The business pro-
posed is that Of buying and selling gro
ceries, canning and preserving fruits and
meats.
The State has lost one of its best
hotel men in Mr.. III. T.. PayIor. who
has gone to Athens, Ga. to take charge
of the Commercial Hotel. lie was for
Kenon Hotel at Goldsboro and about
three years with the Briggs House at
Wilson. He is well known to the
travelling public and has many friends
among them that will wish him success
in his new home.
Several Raleigh people have been
awarded one OF the bicycles offered as
prizes by New York newspaper TO the
person making the largest number Of
words out of the letters in the papers
name, but Master Cyrus Thompson, son
of Secretary of State Thompson. is the
first to win 1.-TWO of them. He made l.
geo words and yesterday he received a
letter saving he had not only received
one of the bicycles awarded each day
but the number of words made also emit.
tie him to one of the ''fimal award" bicy.
cles which are separate and apart from
the daily award machines