The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-19

The News and Observer
FRIDAY. April 49, 1901
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THE WEATHER TODAY.
Local forecast for Raleigh and vicinity
to o'clock p. M: For today, rain;
colder.
Local data for Raleigh yesterday:
Maximum temperature, "a; minimum
temperature, 40; mean temperature, 81;
total rainfall, o inches in twenty-four
hours.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY
There will be a dance at the Olivia
Raney Library tonight. Tickets for
sale at McGeachy's drug store.
The w. C. T. u will meet this af-
ternoon at o'clock, at the residence
of Mrs. W. H Worth.
So far Raleigh water seems to be
living up to its promises. but there, Il
be time enough TO throw bouquets when
\ it has stood the test of heavy rain.
The children's concert at the Catholic
rectory win be repeated tonight. This
is for the benefit of the Sodality. Adj
mission Is cents.
The Woman's Missionary Society of
the North Carolina Conference will
meet in Wilson, May 1915. There will
be number of delegates from Raleigh.
Prof. j. B. Carlyle, of Wake Forest
College, will deliver the address at the
closing of the Winston white graded
schools on May 18th.
The sheriff of Camden county has set
tied the taxes of that county with the
State Treasurer The amount was
$1.746.64
The westbound trains yesterday were
filled with delegates on their way 70
their homes from the ROYAL Arcanum
meeting at Newbern.
DIR. A. A Marshall, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, will on next
Sunday preach the University sermon
before the faculty and students of the
State University, at Chapel Hill.
There will be no ball game this after
noon, the game between the A. and NJ
and Oak Ridge teams having been can
celled. Tomorrow afternoon Trinity
and Wake Forest will play.
Adjutant General B. S. Royster, of
Oxford, who has been in the city FOR
several days, left for his home yester-
day after attending to routine work in
his office.
2 Visitors from Eastern North Carolina
report much cotton held there by the
farmers. 1t is said that in Greene
county there are 5000 bales more than
this in Pitt and great deal in Craven.
The farmers there look for low prices
this fall.
The Southern Railway is preparing to
reduce some of it's grades and straight
en- it's track at points between Salisbury
and Old Fort. The work will probably
involve the changing of nearly twenty
five miles of track
A gentleman from Richmond county
says the farmers in that section are
near the end of cotton planting for this
season, and heavy crop is being
planted and more fertilizer being used
than of any previous year in the past
ten years.
The executive committee of the South
ern Educational Association which
met at Winston yesterday will select
a place for the next annual convention,
and Raleigh ought to be the choice.
Cannot some organized effort be made
in this direction?
Yesterday afternoon, at $3.50 O'Clock,
Rachael, the infant daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. w. B. Tarkinton died in the
thirteenth mOnln OF ner age. Inc IuH-
eral will be held this afternoon at 4:30
O'Clock from the residence. 546 West
Jones street.
Mayor A M. Powell Mr.. E. L. Hac-
ris and Mr.. G. M. Norwood returned
yesterday from Newbern. where they
went as delegates to the State conven-
ton of the Royal Arcanum. They re-
port most successful meeting and the
greatest of hospitality from the people
of Newbern.
The many friends in Raleigh learned
yesterday with deep regret of the death
of Mrs. Williams Spicer, in Goldsborn.
AS Miss Addie Switzerland she was
known to many here. She was married
in November, 1899, and leaves one child,
a boy, aged seven years.
Efforts to force the payment of sub
Scriptions to the stock of the auditor
ium by some relinquents is being made.
The directors meet this afternoon at the
office of Mr.. G. M. Busbee and will