The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-14
COBLE AND DORTcH OUT
So it is Stated Upon the Streets of
GoldsbOro.
DORICH DIsAPPROyED OF MANAGEMENT
Financial Condition of the Institution in Excel
lent Shape. An Old Time Party at the
Amory. Smallest Drummer
on the Road.
Especial 10 News and Observer

Goldsboro N. c., April 13.-It is rumor-
ed on the streets here tonight that the
resignation of Mr.. W. T. Dortch as a
trustee of the orphans home, was ac-
cepted by the board at its session here,
only upon the urgent request of Mr..
Dortch this being the third time he had
made a similar request. The reason as
signed for this step on the part of Mr..
Dortch the same source says, is due to
his disapproval of the management of
the home. Trouble has been brewing
for some time and it seems.t to have reach
ed a climax in the acceptance Of both the
resignation of Mr.. Dortch and of Mr.
Coble
During the life of this magnificent mon
ument of Odd Fellowship some four wo-
men have served as matron, the. posi-
ton at present being filled by a supply
1t is earnestly hoped there will be no
further friction between the trustees and
the management. Its financial condition
is said to be most excellent and the num-
Der of children provided for the largest
of any previous year
Armory Hall was the scene of
festivity last evening. Compliment
ary to Misses Carrie MCGEE
and George Lee, there was given a So
cial party at which refreshments of cake,
cream. bananas and other fruits were in
abundance. A delightful feature of the
evening was the music furnished jointly
by the K. P. band and orchestra and a
number of old time innocent plays that
carried us back to days not so frosted
with age In the gay throng were many
Of Goldsboros brightest and sweetest girls
and some of her gallant boys. AS re-
suit of the reporters glance the follow
ing ones We're photographed as in at
tendance: Misses Clara Shaw Annie
Pipkn, Margaret Castex, Clara Spicer,
Stella O'Berry. Helen Wiel, Rachael Bor
den Elizabeth Borden, Pearl Fort, Han
nah Dewey, Ellen DoFtch, Lucy Hatch
Annie Lamb, Carrie MCGEE, George Lee
Carey Jenkins, Rachael NJ Borden, Sadie
Darden, Ethel Smith, and Lucy Shannon
Doyle Privett, Alex. Fulghum, Irwin Por-
ter, Jack Shannon. Graves Smith, Edwin
Lee, Douglas Creech, Herman Smith, d.
Turpentine, Claude Higgins, Arthur
Shaw, Gordon Smith and Charlie Swndell
Chaperones-Misses Hattie Dewey, Mary
Bc@dea. Mrs M. L. Lee Mrs. E. B. Bor-
den. Mrs. Chas. Slocumb and Mr.. r. r.
Robinson.
A cold rain is falling but there has
been no frost here to speak of. Ger
tainly nothing of a frosty nature" the
least calculated to interfere with the
bright prospects of the candidacy of Geo.
E. Hood whose friends claim that at no
time since his candidacy was announced
has there been any doubt of his nomina-
nd hat h ;c
strength increases.
Services at all city churches tomorrow
At st. Stephens church there will be
specially interesting service at 4:3O p. m.
Miss Helen Privett will render violin
obAgato to sacred selection Beyond the
Gates of Paradise" solo by Robt Shaw
The SUPERIOR court. Judge H. R. Star
buck presiding, convenes Monday, 18th.
There are about 60 cases on the criminal
docket, 80 of these continued, and SO cases
On TIE civil docket.
C. H. James, of Greenville, Pitt county,
is in the city today. Mr.. James says that
he has opened at Smithfield branch fac
tory OF the Southern School Desk Co., of
which he IS the promoter. His desk,
simple device combining desk and seat,
bids fair to supplant the old desk and
bench. the room taker and back breaker
so long in use in the county schools.
The pea crop prospect is quite en-
couraging. The fields around the city are
white with bloom and pods are forming.
By the latter part of the month it is
thought shipments will begin.
James M. Thornton the youngest and
smallest travelling salesman on earth is
in town. Jimmy is little shy of news
paper men. Jimmy sells the Southern Sweet
Gum brands of the chewing article. He is
about AZ feet high, IS years old and
weighs SO pounds. He was born in the
county of Sampson where the huckleberry
grows to perfection, but halls directly
from Cooleemee, Davie county, his pres
ent home.
Jimmy does not smoke cigarettes and
does not refer to his father as the old
man. Success to the little fellow
Clerk % the Court Ormond is besieged
with pension applicants The blanks
under the now pension act have not yet
been SUPPLIED and the matter is at
standstill. There are now in force pensions
in the county as follows: 26 widows and
IS soldiers. Under the new provision the
number viii be increased largely.
James A. Bryan. of Newborn, has ac-
eepted the invitation of the Thos Ruffin
Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy,