The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-18

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CHAS. E. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT
Carolina Ice Company.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Cotton Receipts here yesterday Il
bales. Price, rs to Z Ia.
The meeting of the Book Club set
for today has been postponed.
The Euchre Club will meet with Miss
Margaret Smedes this afternoon at .
o'clock.
The Hollowbush orchestra has been
engaged for the summer at Wrights-
vile Beach.
State Auditor Dixon yesterday went
to Cary, where he delivered the adj
dress at the closing of the high school,.
A collection will be taken at the
Church of the Good Shepherd Sunday
morning for the relief of the Jackson
vile fire sufferers.
Arrangements have been made Tor
vaudeville at Pullen Park here during
the summer These attractions are al
ways literally patronized.
Here's Durham Herald paragraph
printed at Raleigh: Here's betting
that we get our market house before
Raleigh gets her auditorium"
The public is invited to the Senior
Recital of Miss Emmie Rogers, which
will be given in the chapel at the Bap-
list Female University tonight QSth)
at $3.50 o'clock.
Rev. ]. w. Jenkins, superintendent of
the Methodist Orphanage, preached at
Stantonsburg last Sunday. The col
lection for the Orphanage amounted to
almost seventy dollars.
Cotton continues to tumble in price
The best cotton sold here yesterday
brought only IA cents. Some of the
buyers here predict still lower prices
before the new crop comes in.
go to Fuquay Springs on their annual
picnic next Wednesday, the END.
Tickets on sale at j. A. Pope's candy
store. Prices % and so cents.
Services will be held at IL o'clock a.
m. today and tomorrow at the Print
tive Church, near the Soldiers Home.
Preaching by the pastor, Elder w. A.
Simpkins. Public cordially invited.
County Treasurer Williamson says
he is receiving many inquiries in re-
gard to the per cent bonds ($14,003)
soon to be issued by Wake county un-
der an act passed by the last Legisla
ture. The bids will be opened at noon
on June LIST.
What's the matter with the many
candidates for judge and solicitor in the
Eighth district making a descent upon
the new Governor (Turner) this morn
ing. He will be in power for four days
now, and in four days-many appoint
ments might be made, you know.
Mr.. Numa Hoyle editor of the Jones'
boro Progress, and City Clerk of Jones'
boro who is in the city, says the Jones
boro High School is closing most pros
porous session, having had an attend
connected with the News and Observer
and has many friends in Raleigh who
are glad to see him.
Mr.. r. T. Gray, who was appointed
on a committee of the Auditorium COM
pany to confer with the owners of the
Academy of Music, declined to serve
because he is one of the executors OF
xxyi11 ole ono of
trustees of the Methodist Orphanage,
the owners of the property. Mr.. w.
Jones was appointed in place of Mr.
Gray.
The Observation-Disclosures chapter |
Daughters of the Confederacy, are is |
suing invitations to the Confederate |
veterans of Wake county and their fam |
lilies to assemble at the Grove, near Sol |
dier's Home, on Newbern Avenue, on |
June Bird, 1901, for a basket picnic. The |
Daughters of the Confederacy will on |
that day present the Cross of Honor |
to all Confederate veterans who are
entitled to receive it.
Referring to the election of Mr.. John
Powell as county commissioner of
Warren county, the Warrenton Record |
pays this compliment to Raleigh's up
right mayor: "He is brother to Mayor
Powell, of Raleigh, and should he prove
as popular with our Warren county
people as his brother, Mayor Powell |
of Raleigh, has to the people of our
capital city, he is destined to hold the
office of commissioner for sometime"
This is the day set for the meeting
of the tax-listers of this county at the
court house to hear the members of |
the State Board of Tax Assessors ex-
plain the new revenue law and instruct
them in their duties under it, This is |
the first of a series of similar meet
ings to be held in other counties The |
effort will be to secure uniformity of
assessment of the tax values and the
taxing of property that has hitherto es-
capped the burdens of government
Major c. L. Patton, of the University
Publishing Company, New York, who
has in charge the work of having made