The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-06
Paper Crepe Hat
Fad, and Other
Summer Stories.

MADE OF are wearing these
PAPER CREPE. dainty articles OF
head-ge They are
made of what is called paper crepe,
and if the sales of this paper be any IN
dex, the number of such hats IN the city
must be very large.
within the past week., said one
stationer. 81 have sold thousand rolls
of this paper at IS cents a roll. 1t costs
us cents. The profit on it is large be-
cause it is what is known as perishable
goods-a fad that may die any day and
leave us with large stock on hand. The
paper comes in all conceivable shades.
and some of the most beautiful hats I've
ever seen were made of it."
Another stationer said he had sold
many hundred rolls and that the demand
was still active. Quite number OF
stores in the city handle the paper and
all are doing good business.
The town of Plymouth has a sulphur
fountain The find was accidental, but
the inhabitants Of
FOUNTAIN OF the town consider it
YOUTH no less a blessing
AT PLYMOUTH. for that. They think
it is equal to strik
ing "ile" in Texas. and if it is half that
is claimed for it centenarians will, in
1850, be as thick on the street as flies.
and the disciples of Ponce de Leon will
be ashamed of themselves that they never
hunted in Plymouth for the Fountain of
Youth The Elizabeth City Economist
thus tells of the wonderful find:
'Some three months ago the citizens
of Plymouth wanted better water to
drink and battle in than the surface well
water where microbes and wiggletails
and other vermin mostly dwell. or the
muddy water of Roanoke river that opens
it's mouth at their door steps. and they
determined to have an artesian well into
the bowels of the earth in search of a
cool and refreshing draft of good water
that had no mud or microbes. And they
dug and dug and kept digging and when
the digger and borer had gone down two
hundred feet and upwards, they struck
q hard granite rock, and the borer was
amazed and was about to throw up his
hands and his job. But the people back
cd and braced him and when he got
through a rock eight feet thick, there
came up gush of pure sulphur water
that spouted health among people who
had been classed as invalids and
now the old re-tried town that sits like
a queen at the mouth of a great river and
commands it's trade, has a. healthy flu
ture, and the happy people that claim
it as their home will rise like the strong
man in his unshorn might and will make
their old home what God and nature in
tended it to be, the seat of commerce and
manufacture the home of an educated
and cultured people, ready for every OPP
portunity that passes near them and
worthy of the illustrious men that have
illustrated their past history"
A news letter, printed in Sundays pa
pers, made the startling announcement
that 25-pound stur-
A FISH geon had been
STORY FROM caught at Morehead
MOREHEAD. by trolling. TIL S
news, if true, is i'm
portant as it marks an era in the pisca-
torial history of the world, for the
sturgeon is not built on the hook biting
plan of architecture and from the days
of the flood up to the time of the More
head incident no fish of this species has
and line.
Curator Brimley, of the State Museum,
is especially anxious to have this story
investigated. "And if it proves true" he
added, Il would give quite bit for that
sturgeon. l think the truth about it is
that the writer of the article just got
names mixed. The fish caught was prob
ably a sero. or crab eater"
Mr. r. D. Cronly, of the Atlantic Coast
Line, was in the city yesterday, returning
from Jackson Springs
MANY VISITORS in Moore county,
AT JACKSON where he went last
SPRINGS. week to take his
family. He was most
enthusiastic over the place as a summer
resort.
1.-The water is said to have wonderful
curative and health-restoring powers. y
he said. "Of course as to that i know
nothing except that l have seen num-
Der or people who claim to have been
greatly benefited by it. But l do know
that they have one of the incest little
hotels you'll find at any resort-large
rooms, handsome furniture, electric lights
baths, water works and all conveniences
The management sets a good table and
everything possible is done for the CON-
fort Of guests. There are many nice peo-
pie there for the summer. II the place
was properly advertised it would be a
great resort
The most remarkable hot weather SER
mon on record this season was that
preached Sunday al
TEMPERATURE Circleville. Ohio, by
IN HEAVEN Rev. V. Whey, pastor
$50 DEGREES. OF the Second Bap-
fist church. He fig
ured it out that the temperature of Heay.
or was SIG degrees Fahrenheit. The cap.
ticn Of the sermon was From Starlight
to a Furnace, or S26 Degrees in Heaven.
and his text was Isaiah XXX, %: More
ever the light of the moon shall be a:
the light of the sun, and the light O
The sun shall be sevenfold, as the light o
seven days, in the day that the Lore
hindeth up the breach of his people, an,
healeth the stroke Of their wound" Com
menting OH these words, he said:
The thermometer has been known t
rise 11S degrees in the sun, but. in orde
To afford an apt illustration setting fort
the trua condition of h0th the light an