The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-06
PERSONALS.

as an the CITY.
Mr.. j. Ii. Gill left yesterday morning
for Baltimore.
Mr.. Clarence Poe returned to the city
yesterday morning.
Mr.. e. B. Barbee returned to the city
yesterday morning.
Mr.. r. T. Gray returned to the city
yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. J. A. Jones went down to Louis
burg Yesterday morning.
Rev. Baylus Cade returned to the
city yes terday afternoon.
Mr.. Fred Walters is quite i'll and has
been carried TO Rex Hospital.
Senator Williams, of Cumberland,
came in yesterday afternoon.
Miss. Isabelle Bryan is visiting at the
home of Mr.. A. p. @. Bryan.
Mrs. w. III. Hughes left yesterday
morning for Portsmouth on a visit.
Mrs. Andrew King and children re-
turned to the city yesterday afternoon.
Miss Eliza Pool and Miss Bessie
Brown have returned from Amherst,
Mass.
Miss Carrie Strong has returned from
spending the summer in Western North
Carolina.
Mrs. Y. e. Turner and Miss Turner
have returned from the mountains of
Virginia.
Miss Della Purnell left yesterday for
Salem Academy. Judge Purnell accom-
panied her.
Miss Anne Mcdowell Erwin, of Nor
canton, is the guest of Miss Matt Mere
dith Simms.
Rev. James Thomas, of Wilson, pass
ed through the city yesterday on his
way to Oxford
Mr.. C. G. Stone left on a business
trip yesterday for points IN Eastern
North Carolina
Miss Jennie Welsh, of Marion, is
visiting her cousins, the Misses Fortune
on Newbern avenue.
Miss Minnie FL. Moore, who has been
visiting Mrs. Ell. il. Watson, has re
turned to Greensboro.
Representative q. b. Patterson, of
Robson, was here yesterday in the mat
ter of the cotton rate.
Miss Jones, of Asheville, who has ac-
cepted a position with Messrs. Pearson
and Ashe, arrived yesterday.
Miss Matte Gill, of Wake Forest,
came in yesterday afternoon, and is the
guest of Mrs. John d. Briggs.
Mr.. w. Ell. Jones, of Norfolk, who has
yesterday morning for home.
Mr. Whitfield Cobb, formerly with
Mr.. J. d. Boushall, has entered upon
his duties with the Raleigh Gas Com
pany.
John Kerr, prominent young at
torney of Warrenton, was here yesterday
to appear before the Corporation Com
mission.
Mr.. George Thompson and Mr.. Geo
Thompson, Jr., left yesterday for Pitts
boro to attend the funeral of Mr.. James
Thompson.
Mrs. Fannie Woddell, Miss Lizzie
Ashe, Miss Josephine Ashe and Miss
Birdie Dunn left yesterday afternoon
for Ashevile.
Mr.. Richard Seawell, who has been en-
gagged in surveying the Black Diamond
route in South Carolina, is in Raleigh
on few days leave.
Mrs. r. Il. Potts and children, who
have been spending the summer in West
ern North Carolina, returned to the
city yesterday morning.
Miss Pauline Cameron left this after
noon for Raleigh to join her mother,
who will spend the winter there, we
learn.-Fayettevile Observer.
Mr.. j. G. Meares and wife came in
yesterday afternoon from Norfolk and
will spend a few days here, the guests
of Prof. George ID. Meares.
Mr.. Alton e. Ames, who has been on
the North Carolina timber survey with
Mr.. w. w. Ashe left yesterday morn
ing for his home at Fairfield, Maine.
Rev. DIR. Eugene Daniel and Prof.
James Dinwiddie went to Oxford yes
terday morning to attend the Albemarle
Presbytery, which met there last night.
After three weeks absence attending
associations in Western North Carolina,
Mr.. j. w. Bailey, editor of the Biblical
Recorder, is again at the editorial desk.
Miss Gertrude Johnson and Miss
Consuello Yznago went down to Frank
linton yesterday to attend the marriage
of Miss Mamie Clegg, which will take
place Thursday night.
Miss Mary Davis, who has been steno-
grapher for Mr.. II. i. Gray, has ac-
cepted a similar position with Mr.. J.
d. Boushall, State Agent of the Aetna
Life Insurance Company.
Mr. T. r. Hay and daughters, Misses
Rosalie and Ella Hay, accompanied by
Miss Mamie Hay. left yesterday after
noon for the mountains of Western
North Carolina where they will spend
some time.
Mrs. w. S. Primrose, president of the
Woman's Missionary Union, and Mrs.
T.. g. Penick, vice-presdent of the
Union, left yesterday morning to attend
the sessions of the Albemarle Presbytery
+ at Oxford
Mr.. j. r. T Thrower, Jr., engineer on
the Atlantic Coast Line, is visiting
friends in Raleigh. He is one of the
best engineers in the country and a sue
cessful buiness man. He served his
time as a machinist in Raleigh and be-
gan his career as an engineer on the
Raleigh and CASTOR railroad. Mr..
Thrower has many friends in Raleigh
who are glad to see him here again.
lieutenant Settle sent away five re-
cruits yesterday. Two of these Were
sent to Jackson barracks near New Or
leans and two TO San Francisco whence
they sail for the Philippines. One of
the latter was Clarence III. Weathers. Of
the Raleigh Company that went to Cuba.