The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
m AND ABOUT THE CITY.

IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
pr. H A. Register will sing at the
First Baptist church this morning.
The roof is being put on the Raney
Memorial Library. 1t is the first tile
roof here.
The Book Club will be entertained
Monday afternoon at 4 O'clock by Miss
Nella Grimes.
There are already between 500 and l.,
600 guests at Southern Pines and the
outlook is for the best season ON record.
News from Greensboro states that Mr.
B. G. Rogers, a druggist formerly from
Raleigh, is at the point of death in that
place.
Raleigh made a very fine record last
year as to immunity from fire losses.
1t is said the total loss did not exceed
$500.
Died, January 9th, Mt the home of his
parents in Johnston county, Daniel Gould
Fowle. infant son of J. Walter Wyatt
and Martha Fowle Wyatt.
Quarterly communion will be held at
Christian church this morning at II
o'clock by the pastor. The evening SER
vice at 1870 o'clock, will be evangelistic.
The Oak City Lyceum, a colored lit
erary society here, Will be addressed
Monday might by e. A. johnson, a color
ed lawyer here, on the Rights of Mar
ried Women"
There will be a subscription dance
Wednesday night in Henry Hall. This
is the last dance that will be given in
Henry Hall, as it is soon to be occupied
as an armory.
1t is stated on the streets that Mr.
John G. Drewry viii be a candidate for
the nomination for the Legislature be-
fore the next Democratic county CON
was - per cent
Eighty-three shares of stock in the
Raleigh Savings Bank. par value SO.
was sold here last week for 5000 per
share The banks dividend last year
cent.
Services at the Church of the Good
Shepherd today at II Il. m. and G:3O p.
IN. In the absence of the rector Rev. DR..
Pittinger, Rev. Mr.. Bratton of St.
Mary's will conduct the services and
preach.
Rev g. T. Adams will occupy his
pulpit at the Central Methodist church
this morning and evening At Edenton
Street Methodist church this morning
and tonight the pulpit will be occupied
by the pastor, Rev. G. B. Smith
The penitentiary authorities have made
contracts to furnish 100 convicts to work
on the railroad to be built to Snow Hill
and so to work on the Aberdeen and
Rockfsh railroad in Moore county. The
convicts will be supplied in about week.
The nuptials Of Miss Katherine Boy
land Haywood and Mr. Benjamin Whit
ley Baker, will be solemnized at Christ
church Wednesday morning at 1920
o'clock This will be one of the notable
marriages of the winter and a social
event of unusual interest.
The pulpit Of the First Baptist church
will be occupied today by Rev. John E.
White He will preach at IL o'clock. AT
night at 7:30 a mass meeting of the
Baptists of the city will be held to dis
cuss city missions. Addresses will. be
delivered by Rev. ]. 0. Alderman and
Rev. j. e. White.
There was not a more pleasant or hos
pitable occasion during the past month
than the annual gathering of the sales
ladies and statesmen of the A. B. Stron-
ach Dry Goods House on Thursday even
ing last at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. n.
B. Stronach, 511 North BloOdworth
street. BY special invitation the sales
people had their annual evening which
brought together employee and employer
in the most cordial and pleasant terms
when all for awhile could forget the
busy whirl which surrounds their daily
hours
"Rob Peter to pay Paul" That is
what they do who take stimulants fol
weak nerves. Hoods Sarsaparilla gives
true nerve strength.