The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-21
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
The Raleigh Amateur ball club LETT yes
terday for Durham to play series of
games with the Durham club.
The Oak City Guards were on the streets
last night at work perfecting themselves
in the movements of the company.
DR.. B. F. Dixon has gone to Atlanta to
attend a meeting of the commissioners to
revise the roster of the Confederate yeter-
ans.
The will of Mr. George N. Adams was
probated in the office of the Clerk of the
Court yesterday. Mr.. Stonewall ]. Adams
is executor.
The Baptist Boys Brigade will not go
to Wake Forest until the last of August
on account of their inability to secura
tents at present.
Mr. w. NJ Thompson, of Onslow, who
has been here for the past few days. left
yesterday morning for Gates county on an
educational speaking tour.
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Rev. j. w. Jenkins returned to Raleigh
yesterday from Person county and other
points, where he has been in the interest
of the Methodist Orphanage.
Mr. Ralph B. Fortune, of Marshville.
was here yesterday and took the Seaboard
&a1o, chOfs
" to return to his first love, the Seaboard.
The infant of Mr.. and Mrs f. A. Bel
win died at their home, corner Martin and
Swain streets, Sunday night at o'clock
from meningitis. The funeral was held yes
terday.
The revival services at the Pilot Mill
Baptist church will be continued this week
and Rev. r. S. Stephenson will preach to-
night. On Saturday night there were fif-
teen petitions for prayer.
Mr.. E. B. Fowles, of this county, who
is attending the Normal at the A. and M.
College. has been elected principal of the
Monroe graded school. He graduated with
honor at Wake Forest in June.
Mr.. Gibson Catlett, of Winston, repre-
senting the Southern Tobacco Journal, is
in the city. He is here seeking points on
the Raleigh tobacco market to be used in
a big special edition of the Journal.
Mr.. r. p. Dickson has returned to the
city from GAINESVILLE, Ohio, where he went
az a delegate to the international oCnven-
ton OF the Retail Clerk Association. He
reports most excellent and profitable
meeting.
Mr.. Ralph B. Fortune, of Marshvile
who was in Raleigh yesterday, says that
Prof Dowd. formerly at Leesville. Wake
county, will open his school at Marshvile
tomorrow with fine prospects for a spleen
did school.
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Mr. Frank Ferguson, we'll known and
popular travelling salesman for the shoe
house of P. ]. Harvey & Co., of Lynn.
Mass, has taken rooms for his family at
Mr.. Robert P. Jones, corner Dawson and
Hillsboro street.
President George T. Winston is back in
the city from Waynesville, where he took
a twoweeks outing While in Haywood
county he addressed the institute at Clyde
He finds great improvement in all that
section.
Judge James F. Shepherd has gone to
Charlotte, where he is counsel in the Oliver
case, wherein certain business transactions
of Fred Oliver are being heard on a suit
by his brother and sister, charging deceit
IN certain sales.
Mr.. Geo. w. Blacknall, who has been
Here for some time in the interest Of
Stephen Condit Cigar Company. left this
morning for points in Tennessee. While
here his original advertising with Aunt
Betsy and the OK cart caught on"
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at his home with sickness and is threaten
ed with typhoid fever. His son, Mr.. Ed
win Johns, who holds a position in the
Office OF Mr. r. B. Raney, was taken home
a few days ago and now has typhoid fever.
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The will OF George N. Adams was
admitted to probate in the office of Clerk
OF the Court yesterday. He left his es-
ta2e to be divided among his brothers and
sisters The value is not yet known. but
1t consists mostly of money in bank and
personal effects.
Messrs VI. A. Parker, James T. Filing
ton, Frank Brenig and F. w. Parker re-