The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-19


Local data for Raleigh Yesterday:
Maximum temperature, 90; minimum
temperature, "A; mean temperature,
Sc. Total rainfall Trace.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
The rate by the Seaboard Air Line
to the unwilling is one fare for the
round trip
DIR. Ivey will preach at the Edenton
Street Methodist church this morn
ing and tonight.
Rev. DIR. Alderman will preach at
the First Baptist church tomorrow
morning. There will be no service at
night. ~
Come by the Seaboard Air Line to
Vance Monument unwilling. A quick
trip is assured. One fare for the
round trip.
Andrew GosIon was arrested yester-
day by Officer Creighton for assault
be tied Monday.
Mr.. Neal Spence. the bicycle man,
is building a diminutive locomotive
car and railroad track, to be operated
at the next State Fair.
In the absence of Rev. DR.. Pittenger
the Rev. A. B. Hunter will conduct
the services and preach at the Good
Shepherd church today.
The Seaboard Air Line gives one
half rates to the Vance Monument I'M
yelling. Be sure to go. You will have
a safe and comfortable trip.
For the past two days many of the
business houses of the city have been
plagued with swarms Of winged ants.
They appear in countless numbers.
The rate given by the railroads to
visitors to the meeting of the Com
missioners of Agriculture of the
Southern States is fare and a third
for the round trip.
Stock is now being subscribed in
Raleigh for a $4,000 wholesale and
retail shoe store. a gentleman from
another State is heavily interested
and the people here are subscribing
rapidly.
Hiram Lodge No. 40, A. F. and A..
NJ, will meet in regular convocatlon
Monday evening, August 90. 1900, at
8 o'clock. A full meeting of the MEM
bership is desired, as work in the sec
ond degree is expected.
Al L r. hr
Heart today, the eleventh Sunday
after pentecost, are as follows: Ser
mon and mass at II o'clock. Sermon
and benediction at s. Services con
Quoted by Father O'Brien.
The four-monthstold son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Mitchell died at their res
idence on East Davie street at 6
o'clock yesterday morning. Funeral
at $3.50, from the residence. Friends
and acquaintances invited to attend.
1t was published in this column a
few DAYS ago that Holder Mcdowell,
the boy whipped by his parents at the
Station House, for purloining articles
from the Federal building was four
teen years old Mayor Powell says he
was only twelve, and this was his
first offense.
T.. A. johnson, a colored lawyer of
this city, will leave tomorrow for
Boston, to attend the conference
called by Booker Washington to take
some steps looking to the encourage
ment of industrial education and en-
terprises among the negroes of the
South. This conference will be in
session two days-Thursday and Fri
day. 49, aMR
The funeral of Miss Irma Them.
daughter of Mrs. Phil THEM, was
held yesterday morning at 9 o'clock.
The services were conducted by Rev.
G. 7. Adams. The floral tributes
were beautiful. The interment was
made at lakewood. The following
gentlemen acted as pail bearers: DR..
J. M. Fleming, G. G. Koonce, James
Royster and w. J. Young, Jr.
st. Mary's kindergarten, under the
direction of Miss Louise t. Busbee,
will open on Monday, September 3rd,
in it's new home on the corner of Har-
gett and Salisbury streets. the WIN
CASTOR" office on the corner of the
old TAYLOR place, which has been late
ly remodelled and is now made to ac-
commodate the little men and wo-
men" Miss Busbee desires that the
parents of the Undergraduates send
the names of the children to her at as
early date as possible.
Squire Robt. Nichols has knife
that is something of a curiosity. II
was sent him by his brother in Miss
issippi who was member of Forests
cavalry, and the knife was made bS
him. 1t is II inches long when open
ed. the blade being inches long
The ornaments to the handle are oil
brass. and on one side is cut an eX
cellent representation of Genera
Forest, and on the other is a picture
of mounted soldier. The knife has
a keen edge and is good for many
years service
TEACHER WANTED-THE TRUSTEES