The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-05
CITY ITEMS.

The State Bar Association meets at
Morehead today. Most of the Raleigh
delegation will go down this morning.
Wake Superior Court cOnvenes here
Monday, Judge Fred Moore presiding.
1t is criminal term and the docket is a
heavy one.
The funeral of the late Mrs. J. J.
Bagwell, who died on Sunday. was
held yesterday from the Baptist church
at Auburn.
The meeting of the A. and NJ trustees
for election of a president, will be held
this afternoon at ) o'clock at the Var
borough House.
Mr.. Peach has come to town. He un-
packed his valse at Dughi's, of course.
And by his side with dOwny cheek ana
blushing face, is Miss Plum. pretty
pair they are.
Yesterday afternoons passenger tram
on the Southern had on board fifty-fve
passengers for MOrehead going down,
most of them to attend the meeting of the
State Bar Association.
Prof. E. L. Middleton, of Cary, says
that he is not a candidate for the office
of County Superintendent Of Public In
structiOn and has declined to let ms
name go before the board.
The June number of the Nickel Maya
::
fascinating story of the Spanish-Ameri-
can War, written by Mr.. Walter r.
jackson, of the News and Observer.
At the recent session Of the State
convention of the Daughters of Rebe-
kah, l. O. 0. F., held in this city. Mrs.
w. NJ. Hurst, of Fayetteville, was
elected president for the ensuing year.
Argument will tomorrow be heard by
Judge Brown, at Morehead. in the mat
ter of the Seaboard Air Line petition
for more time in which to file their case
on appeal in the HYGIENE Ice Company s
damage suit.
Some Raleigh "steppers" went down
to GoldsborO yesterday to take part in
q ''Coon Cake Walk" given there last
night in the opera house. Two bands
furnished music and there was ''hot
time in the old town." they say.
One Of the youngest Of Raleigh's
financial institutions is the Mechanics
Dime Savings Bank, and it is also one
of the strongest and most popular. The
statment published elsewhere today
shows that it has deposits aggregatng
$40, 46S.2O.
The C. C.. Thomas Company, of Dur
ham, was yesterday Incorporated by the
Secretary of State. The capital stock
is So, 900 and G. c. Thomas, w. w.
Whitfield and J. o. Lunsford are the in
corpOratOrs. The business proposed is
the buying and selling of general mer-
chandise at wholesale and retail.
The new mill at Laurinburg, known
as the Scotland Cotton Mill, and Monday
chartered by the Secretary of State, has
already, it is learned, placed an order
for 5000 spindles. complete, including
steam power and heat and electric lights,
fire extinguishers, etc. The product of
the mill will be soft yarns, 22's to 4O's,
the plant to cost about 100000.
Quite number of lawyers went to
Morehead yesterday to attend the State
Bar Association which meets today.
Among them were: Major John d.
Shaw and Cameron Morrison, of Rock
ingham; w. j. Adams and J. C. Black,
of Carthage: J. L. King. of Greensboro:
Cyrus b. Watson, J. G.. Buxton and
Lindsay Patterson, Of Winston: A. l..
Brooks, Of Greensboro. and Armistead
Jones and JAS. C. MacRae, of Raleigh.
The Cheraw Is. c. Land and Lum-
Der Company, capital $4,000 has been
organized at Cheraw. S. c., with the
following officers: President. G.. T..
johnson. Raleigh, n. c.. Vice-President,
Ernest Williams. Lynchburg. Va: Sec
rotary and Treasurer, John NJ. Turner.
Raleigh. n. c. This company acquired
some 10000 acres Of timber land near
Cheraw short time ago, and will es-
tablish lumber mills and otherwise de-
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