The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-05
A Record of Some Recent
Improvements.
WORK ON COTTON MILL
OF coll ]. S. CARR is SOON TO
BEGIN.
The BASEBALL GAME SHOWED UNDER
uneral Of Mrs. Edwards. Deaths and Ar
ress for the Month of March.
New Graded School
Trustees.

New Graded School
Trustees.
Durham. n c., April 4.--(Specal. -
The funeral services of Mrs Minnie
Seymour Edwards, wife of DR. w III.
Edwards, who died yesterday afternoon
about 6 o'clock, will be held at the First
$50 O'Clock. Rev. w. G. sTyree pastor
OF the church, will conduct the services.
The remains will be carried to Norris
vile, where they are to be inferred to-
morrow afternoon at / O'Clock.
The Lehigh baseball team arrived in
the city this morning from Winston.
They had date to play the Trinity team
here this afternoon, but on account of
the snow and the wet condition of the
grounds, the game was called off.
The son of Luther Jones had a narrow
escape from serious injury this morning.
A COW gored him, but fortunately he
escaped with torn clothing.
Eight deaths occurred in Durham dur
ing the month of March. Five of these
were whites and three colored
lightweight police arrests We're made
in this city during March, as follows
Drunkenness, 30; assault and battery
%; assault and battery with deadly
weapons, 9; keeping house of i'll fame,
10; riding bicycles on the streets at night
without lights, 2; larceny, 6: nuisance
2; carrying concealed weapons, ?; boist-
erous cursing, 1: injury to personal prop
apfy 1 fors tln
S15305. Special taxes for the month
S4445.
Messrs. Il. b. Fuller and G. w. Watts
have been elected as members of the
Graded school committee to fill the
places made vacant by the expiration of
the terms of Messrs. s. L. Tomlinson
and Leo ID. Heartt.
RECENT IMPROVEMENTS.
Perhaps a few of the recent improve
ments that have been made in Durham
aud suburban towns, and the improve
ments now going on, may be of general
interest.
In Durham may be mentioned the fol-
lowing. -Four new cottages have been
erected on Roney street bye. G. Taylor.
a number of new improvements have
been made to the O'Briant building on
Main street. A new front has been
placed in B. Enock's store. A short
time ago the old j. S. Carr residence
was moved from Peabody street and
turned around. facing billiard street, its
present position being on the corner of
billiard and Peabody streets. A number
of new improvements We're made to it.
This residence is now occupied by j.
Ed. Lyon. At Trinity College may be
mentioned the new Craven Memorial
Hall, the gymnasium and the new base
ball park. In the Wright block. corner
Main and Corcoran streets. the room
formerly occupied by the Fidelity Bank
is being remodeled fitted up and re-
painted for drug store, which will be
run by A. r. Matthews The drug
store of r. Blacknall & Son, the office
of Drs. Carr and Manning and the
Southern passenger depot have been
recently repainted and improved. The
old Wortham wooden mills have been
torn down, and the new factory of the
Union Furniture Company is now going
up. Repairs have been made to the pas
senger depot used by the Seaboard and
Norfolk and Western roads. A short
time since handsome saloon was fitted
up for W. Mangum. Jr.. on Parrish
street. The new addition to the power
house of the Durham Electric Lighting
Company gives considerably more room,
an quite a number of new lights have
been put in throughout the city. The
new Markham block, on Main street.
completed a short time ago, is one of
the prettiest business blocks in the city.
The Fidelity Bank and Royal d Borden
are in this building. On Morris street,
a nice church building, which will be
used by the Christian and Missionary
Alliance people is under way. A number
of old buildings in the vicinity of Main
Street Methodist church are being torn
down and removed, preparatory to the
erection { new and modern
church. II. V. Paul is having
IN addition built to his residence on
Pine street. G. Summerfeld is preparing
to have a handsome business block erect
cd on Main street between the stores of
the w. A. Slater Company aud Mrs. b.
Davis. Numbers of other improvements
IN the way of new buildings, etc, are
being made.
In West Durham the following new M
provements are noticed: Squire J. W.
Allen is having two more new houses
erected. which will make twelve he has
had built during the past eighteen
months. j, b. Warren is having a new
building erected. which Will be occupied
as a store by j. T. Incore. and a shoe
shop by i. y. Paschall. Il. g. Cheek
NJ. ID. Harris and several others have
had new residences erected. A new adj
dition TO the Southside Store company's
brildin9 new DiaZZaS nj the residences
of III. c. Abernethy, Mrs. Emery and
j. III. Hodges, the painting of the pas
senger shed of the Southern Railway.
and the residence of j. NJ. Hudson are
improvements that may be noted An
addition of twenty-four feet is to be
built to the Erwin Cotton mills.
In East Durham about forty new