The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-13
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

All who purpose attending the Ep
worth League Conference will please no.
tify w. j. Young sr.
The executive committee of the insane
asylum will meet here Wednesday in
regular monthly melting.
1t is said that a newsdealer in Green's
| boro has within the last ten days sold
about 200 copies of Sapho.
Halifax street from North to Peace
streets is now being widened and graded,
very great improvement.
The meeting of the Ministerng Circle
will be held this Tuesday afternoon at
the usual place at 80 o'clock.
The weather man says we will now
have some warm weather, but he makes
no promise as to how long it will last.
Sheriff Blackwelder, of Catawba coun-
-ty, yesterday brought two convicts to the
penitentiary They are sent up for short
terms.
Miss Carrie Philips, who has charge
of Woolicott's millinery department, has
gone to New York to purchase spring
goods.
The school committee of Raleigh town.
ship will meet in the mayors office this
afternoon at O'Clock to open bids for
the new Wiley school to be built on
Morgan street.
Miss Lena Vernon Powell, who has for
over two years been the efficient steno-
grapher in the adjutant generals office
has resigned that position, and retired
from the office Saturday.
Misses Josephine and Sallie Reese
went North yesterday morning to pur-
chase spring goods for Miss Maggie
Reese. They went later than usual in
order to be present at some retail open
ings in New York.
Evangelist K. G. Pearson has accept
ed an invitation to hold a meeting at
Gastonia. He has named October eth TO
21st as the date. Why not invite him to
Raleigh? He held in 1897 the greatest
revival Raleigh has known in the life Of
this generation.
Rev. DIR. A. A. Marshall. Of Forsyt
Ga, will preach for the First Baptist
church in this city Sunday. The can.tt-
cation of this church has extended call
to DR.. Marshall but he has not yet sig
nfed his acceptance formally, though
Georgia papers say he will accept.
There will be a meeting of the Raleigh
Choral Symphony tonight at the Blind
Institution at S o'clock. A full attend
ance is desired as some new music will
be tried and the orchestra will be on
hand. All members and those desiring
to join will please attend.
Having completed a two weeks term of
court here Judge Hoke left yesterday for
Smithfield, where he holds court this
week. There has never ben an ADLER
and more popular Superior court judge
here than is Judge Hoke. Both lawyer
and laymen sing his praises. -
There are now in Raleigh larger
number than usual of winter visitors
from the New England States. There are
the boarding house of Mrs. E. b. Roberts.
on Newbern avenue, is pretty well filled
with ladies and gentlemen from Maine,
Massachusetts and New Jersey.
AT the Catholic church Sunday morn
ing Father Griffin, in his excellent SER
mon, urged upon his congregation the
duty of daily reading the Bible the 'in-
spired Word of God Mrs. Claude Smith
sang a most artistic solo in which her
voice was pronounced as fresh and clear
as when she first sang in Raleigh.
Col. John S. Cunningham, chairman of
the board of agriculture, says that a
meeting of the committee having the new
building in charge will be held within
the next ten days to examine into the
defects reported in the building and have
such steps taken as are necessary TO
remedy them. The contractor is \. it,
ner of Atlanta, and the contract price
is $1,000.