The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-18
The NEXT STATE FAIR.
The Fortieth North Carolina
State Fair will be held at Rail
eigh October 22-27, 1900.
THE WEATHER TO-DAY.

THE WEATHER TO-DAY.
For North Carolina; Fair Today and |
Wednesday; fresh northerly winds.
Local forecast for Raleigh and vicinity |
to 8 p. M. Fair; much cooler; lowest |
temperature tonight, will reach so de- |
grees.
Local data for Raleigh yesterday Max
imum temperature, 50; minimum temper
allure, Ga; mean temperature, 10; total |
rainfall, 0.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
The Raleigh Mission Club will meet at |
the Presbyterian church this (Tuesday) |
evening at 1870 o'clock.
Two buildings of the Methodist Orphan
age will soon be finished BY January |
list, it will be finished and can take in
fifty orphans.
Referring to Mr.. Atwater's letter urg-
ing his friends to vote for Mr.. Pou, the
Greensboro Telegram says: "Mr. Atwa-
The Ministering Circle will meet this
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock at the home of
Mrs. Julian Timberlake. Every member
is requested to be present.
The children who are to take part in
the Mother Goose Entertainment" are
requested to meet at the Mansion this |
(Tuesday) afternoon at o'clock
The weather man predicts a period of
decidedly cooler weather and last nights |
temperature was calculated to convince
one that the prediction was true one.
1t is pretty certain that Chairman
J. r. Young, who has made such an
excellent chairman, will be reelected
to that position when the committee
meets
Mr.. John Wilbur Jenkins, the new ed
itor of the Visitor, has recently
visited Baltimore, and says that he is
confident that Maryland will go for
Bryan. II
At a meeting of Raleigh Typographical
Union No. "a. held Sunday Afternoon,
twenty-five dollars was contributed to the
suffering printers of Galveston Typo
graphical Union
The Christian Drug Company of Dur
ham, was incorporated yesterday with
a capital stock of $4,000, to conduct
drug store in Durham. The stockholders
are E. c. Christian. c. A. Adams and NJ.
v. Adams. all of Durham.
On Friday of this week, there will be
delightful entertainment at the Man
sion for a charitable purpose, in the form
of a Mother Goose party, in which
about fifty little children will take part.
Let every one come and help good
cause.
The State Board of Public School Ex
aminers has issued life certificates to the
following teachers: A. E. Wolff, Dobson;
Davis Mendenhall, Kimesvile; Allen
Gentry Elkin; o. F. Thompson, Caudle;
Pearl Rodman, Monroe; Mabel McCul-
breth, Clinton; A. G. Tate Marshall.
The marriage of DR.. Della Dixon, ply
stefan at the Baptist Female University,
to DR.. Norwood Carroll, is announced to
take place soon. The groom is a success
full and popular dentist. The bride is
a sister of Revs. A. G. and Thomas Dix
on, and is a talented physician and ac
complished lady.
Mr.. Nathaniel Jones died at his home
on South Person street Sunday night. He
was 70 years old and had resided in Raj
eigh only IL months having moved here
from Franklin county He was the father
Of
Raleigh. The body was carried to Frank
lin county yesterday for burial.
Oracle Evelyn Starr the infant daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. BoIeva Starr, died at
their home Sunday morning at o'clock.
The funeral was held from the residence
at o'clock Sunday afternoon. The SER
vices were conducted by Rev. G. F. Smith,
pastor of Edenton Street church. The
body was taken to Hamlet for interment.
The Democrats of House Creek town
ship are moving forward to a thorough
organization for Bryan and Stevenson
Mr. G. l.. Penny, president of the Bryan
and Stevenson club, who was in Raleigh
yesterday says that it organized with
thirty-two members. He says the Demo-
Gratis will poll as large a vote for Bryan
and Stevenson as for Aycock. Mr.. B. c.
Beckwith will address the club on Satur-
day night at the school house near the
County Home.
Mother Goose and her many children
will give a delightful entertainment at
the Governors Mansion, Friday evening,
at o'clock. There will be musical
program with a tableaux from Mother
Goose's" rhymes between each number,
after which refreshments will be served
by little Miss Moffitt. Little Bo Peep,
The Old Woman in the Shoe and her at
tendants and many others of Mother
Gooses'' happy family. small charge of
25 cents will be taken at the door and
will include both entertainment and re-
freShments.
State Literary and Historical Society.