The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-20

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Rev. B. w. SpiIman, of this city, has
been called to the pastorate of a
church in Baltimore.
The Seaboard gives special rates to
the Virginia-N North Carolina football
game in Norfolk next Saturday.
The Current Literature Club meets
this morning at 1870 o'clock at the
home of Mrs. B. L. McAden, on North
Blount street.
Bishop Cheshire preached at Hen
derson Sunday night. His sermon was
a memorial discourse on the life and
service of the late William S. Petit
grew.
December 18th has been decided up
on as the date for "Esmeralda," the
play to be presented here by the Raj
eigh Dramatic Club. The play is now
being rehearsed. Nf
President Samuel Spencer, of the
Southern, accompanied by the direc-
tors, left Washington Saturday in a
special car for a trip over the system.
This is the annual inspection tour.
Rev. o. L. Struggled, financial agent
of the Baptist Female University,
spent the past week in the eastern
part of the State. He secured more
than $500 for the University at New
bern.
Mayor Powell yesterday fined Will
Paline.' Sf.2Is for disorderly conduct,
ard w. HI. Bostick $4.25 for the same
offense. Will Brown and Mark
Knight were placed under a $25 bond
to appear at court for ARRAY.
Mr.. Cyrus B. Watson, of Winston. is
here to argue some cases in the SUI
preme court From here he will go to
Oxford, where he appears on Thurs
day as one of counsel for Rev. Il. j.
Gattis in the Gattis-Kilgo SANDER
trial.
Mr.. S. L. Patterson, Commissioner of
Agriculture. left yesterday to attend
the agricultural meeting at Macon,
Ca, on November %. Senator F. ii.
Whitaker will attend as well, and pro-
baby Col. Beneham Cameron and Col.
j. s. Cunningham.
. Dughi left yesterday for Selma,
where he has charge of a large din
ner given by Mr.. "A. NJ. Noble. From
there he goes to Fayetteville, where
he will superintend dinner given by
Mr.. w. n. Morgan. At the latter
place covers are to be laid for 125
guests.
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After a painful illness of several
weeks Miss Mary A. King passed
peacefully away at 9:10 o'clock Satur-
day night, at the residence of her
brother, Mr.. w. w. King, 1876 Saunders
street, in the S0th year of her age.
She was buried at the old home, Mt.
Herman" IL miles from Raleigh, at B
o'clock Sunday afternoon.
In the North Carolina delegation in
the next Congress the sable figure OF
George H. White, the only negro. will
be missed. He is succeeded by Claude
Kitchin, Democrat. Two notable
figures who go out are Judge alinney.
of the Eighth district, and Richmond
Pearson, of the Ninth. Both are Re
publicans, and both are succeeded by
Republicans-Spe Blackburn and
James NJ. Moody.
Major James w. Wilson spent Satur-
day in Raleigh. He says he is build
ing 1000 horse power electric plant
at the Roanoke Navigation and Water
Power company's works at Roanoke
Rapids, near Weldon. 1t will furnish
power for the silk mill and cotton mill
of the Putnam Textile company, two
and one-half miles distant; also light
for Weldon and power and light for
several other industrial enterprises.
Mr.. j. w. Albright, of Asheville, has
issued twenty-five page pamphlet
entitled, ga Sketch of Methodism in
Greensboro, n. c." 1t contains the
history OF Methodism in that city
from it's earliest stages to the present
time. The book also has directory
of the eleventh session of the West
ern North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
which holds it's session in Greensboro
from the 21st to the 27th of this
month.
The weather bureau states that
cloudy weather predominates over
large portions of territory today. A
moderate storm is central over Iowa
and Illinois. which is causing threat
ening weather with rain throughout
the central valley from the Gulf to
the Lake degion. with snow in the Mis-
SOUR Valley. The largest amount of
rainfall was 1.34 inches at Chicago.
The temperature is quite high
throughout the Southern States and
the Atlantic coast. A limited area of
colder weather prevails in the extreme
Northwest. where Miles City reports 6
degrees below zero. The storm on
the North Pacific coast has undergone
no change.
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