The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-24
In AND ABOUT THE CITY.

Rev. r. H. Whitaker, who has been seri-
0usly Ill for the past week, is a little
better, though still quite i'll.
Judge H G. Conner left yesterday for
Fayetteville to attend the meeting of st.
Andrews Brotherhood in session there.
Bishop Gailor viii preach at Christ
church tonight, services beginning at 8
o'clock The public is cordially invited.
Rev. T. w Jenkins left yesterday for
Hamlet where he will preach today in
the interests of the Methodist Orphanage.
Capt. Thomas Arlington, who has been
III for some time. is in much better health.
This viii be gratifying news to his many
friends.
Mr.. John T. PuIlen left yesterday for
Winston Salem, where he went to deliver
an address before the Young Mems Chris
tan Association.
The meeting being held at Caraleigh
Mills is arousing much interest. 1t is be-
ing conducted by Rev. R. S. Stephenson
and services viii be held tonight.
Captain John Duckett,. of the Depart
ment of Public instruction, left yester-
day for Eureka, Wayne county, where he
went to deliver an address at the closing
OF the school.
Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, Bishop of
Tennessee. who today delivers the com
mencement sermon at st. Mary's, is In
the city a guest of Rev. DR.. T. d. Bratton
at st. Mary's.
The Virginia State Bar Association,
which meets at Hot Springs, Va, August
22nd, has invited Chief Justice Walter
Clark to deliver the annual address and
he has accepted.
Henry Poole. under arrest on the charge
OF the larceny of s19327 from the Sea-
board Air Line freight office yesterday
gave bond in the sum of 800 for his ap
pearance at court.
Professor w. L. Poteat, of Wake Forest
College, was here yesterday afternoon.
He has just returned from Hickory, where
he delivered the commencement address
at Claremont College.
Judge James E. Shepherd returned
yesterday from a business trip to Char
lotte Monday he will leave for New
York. where he goes to take dispositions in
some important case.
Dr. r. T. vann, president of the Baptist
Female University, returned yesterday
from Orange county, where he went to
deliver an address at the closing exercises
of Prof McDufhe's school.
ar r. NJ Simms has returned from
Wadesboro. where he delivered the COM
menceinent address at the Pee Dee In
stitute The address is highly spoken of
and there was a crowded house to hear it.
DR.. Joseph Rennie, of the First Presby-
terian church, of Norfolk, who today at
eleven O'Clock breaches the baccalaureatc
sermon for the A. and NJ College at the
Presbyterian church is in the city at the
Marlborough.
DIR. George T. Winston. President of the
A. and NJ. College, returned to the city
yesterday from New York, where he was
one of the orators at the banquet given
by the North Carolina Society at the
Waldorf Astoria on the twentieth of May.
Prof. L. B. Capehart, one of the best
and most capable colored teachers North
Carolina has produced. has been teaching
or several years in Jackson, Miss He
has returned to Raleigh to remain. He
owns property here and prefers to live in
Raleigh.
Rev. w. w. Bays, D. D., of Salisbury,
went to Louisburg yesterday morning
after spending the night with Mr.. Stain
back He viii preach the baccalaureate
sermon at Louisburg Female College to-
day He is a kinsman of the famous
Munsey, one of the States most eloquent
divines.
The Excursion Today
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