The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-05
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

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Mrs. NJ B. Bryant received tele-
gram Saturday announcing the death of
her sister, Mrs. E. A. Barbee, in Berk-
ley, Va.
The street car conductors came out
in their handsome new uniforms yes
terday. These were furnished by
! Messrs. Whiting Bros. of this city,
The Epwcrth Chapel picnic yesterday
| took quite a number to Fuquay Springs.
During the day the Governors Guards
ball team was defeated by the North Side
team by a score of 8 to Z.
The general delivery and stamp win
| dows of the postofice were closed yester-
| day, it being legal holiday. Sunday
hours were observed in the delivery and
| collection of mail.
Yesterday the various officials in the
| Capitol and State buildings were closed
| Legal holiday, Fourth of July, beinS
| observed. From one flag pole on the
| Capitol floated the United States flag
and from the others the North Caro-
lima flag.
| DR.. Sledd. of Wake Forest College,
was here yesterday on his way to Wake
| Forest from the University, where he
delivered a course of lectures before
the University Summer School. The.
first lecture was a general review Of
poetry in the South, the second on
| Timrod and the third on Poe.
Today General Toon, Superintendent
of Public Instructions, delivers an ad-
dress at Trap Hill, Wilkes county.
Yesterday he spoke at an educational
rally and Confederate reunion at
Whitehead, Allegheny county, and last
night at Sparta.
Mr. Ganny Wall, whose farm is near
Shotwel, Wake county, sends to the
News and Observer q cotton bloom
) which opened on July End Mr.. W. c..
Allen superintendent of the county
home, sends two that opened on July 2.
No excursions reached Raleigh yester-
day as expected and announced. There
were number of visitors to the city from
near by towns to take in the ball games
| and bazaar. There were no excursions for
On a special occasion when the railroad
companies grant reduced rates no eXcur-
sions can be run by individuals
Leesville High School in this county
opens August u, 1901. The prospects
for the next session are now very en-
cCuraging. A large boarding patronage
is looked for. Those who expect to en-
ter a first class academy will do well
to write to Prof. j. E. Dowd, Flint NC,
for catalogue or any information which
may be desired
The directors of the Mechanics Dime
Savings Bank had their semi-annual
meeting on July End and declared the
usual per cent semi-annual dividend
payable to stockholders of record July
| 1st. 1t is a matter of congratulation
to the friends of this thriving institu-
ton that it has steadily gone forward
since it first opened it's doors, each six
months proving better than the six
months previous.
The penitentiary directors are able to
find profitable employment outside the
prison for all the male cCnVicts they
can spare fro mthe farms. Forty have
been sent from the pententiary to
Dover. to build lumber railroad. The
contract is for eight months work. Fiji
tysix are quarrying granite at Ashe-
| boro: and at other places there is a de-
mand for convict labor al good prices
But what to do with the female con-
VictS is not So easy a problem. With
the closing down of the shirt factory il
will become a still greater problem and
one that the directors are not finding
easy to solve.
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