The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-17
IN AND ABOUT rHG Uxxx.

IN AND ABOUT TE& UxTx.
Secretary of State ]. Bryan Grimes, is
confined to the house with severe cold.
Levin's orchestra left yesterday for
Chapel Hill. where it furnished music at
the dance last night.
Mr.. Ernest Douglass has accepted a po-
sition in Aberdeen, and in few days
will leave for that place.
Mr.. c. b. Williams, of the State Agri-
cultural Department left yesterday to
spend a short time at the test farm at
Red Springs.
Prof w. II. Brawley, of Peace In
stitute and Mr. W. w. Vass expect 10
leave in May for a European tour, which
will last several months
Mr.. John Hussey arrived in the city
from Tarboro yesterday. He says the
people OF that stirring place are having
a big time with a carnival
Superintendent Mann of the States
Prison, has gone to the State farm on
the Roanoke. He understands that the
recent rains have done no damage end
that spring work only has been delayed
Argument was concluded yesterday in
the Supreme Court in the case of Wall
ter o. Cox in the case of Wall and Huske
This was the last case on the Eleventh
district docket.
Governor Aycock is to deliver the ad-
dress at Red Springs Seminary at the
commencement which begins on May 18th.
He is also invited to speak at Rowland
on the cath of April.
The Capital Club is to be greatly i'm
proved There will be meeting of the
members on Monday to discuss the mat
ter. and between $1,000 and $4,000 viii
be spent in the contemplated changes.
Mr.. Ernest Martin, who for years has
been one of the Seaboard Air Lines en-
gineers. proving faithful and able has
resigned and is now the assistant super
intendent of the Martin Hosiery Mill at
Raleigh.
The Red Birds defeated the Fayetteville
Street Hard Hitters yesterday by 10 to
10. Ralph Crowder and Rand formed
the Red Birds battery, while Holmes
Arendell and C. Barbee appeared for
the Hard Hitters.
DR.. b. f. Dixon, State Auditor, will adj
dress the Charles Robertson Camp OF
Confederate Veterans at Franklin. Macon
county, on May 18th. Some of his school
Springs, May 6th Concord Graded Schools
May 22nd, Kenly Schools May 9th.
Mr. E. L. King, VINO has been baggage
master on the Seaboard Air Line be-
tween Raleigh and Monroe for eleven
years. has been transferred to the diyis-
ion between Charlotte and Wilmington,
and left yesterday to take. up his new
position.
Mr. R. E. Prince. who was for several
years with the Young Hardware Company
of this city, will open a hardware store
for himself next week at pa South Will
mington street. Mr.. Prince is one of
Raleigh's most progressive young bust
ness men and will receive a liberal share
of the public patronage.
A numbr .of Raleigh Elks left yester-
day for Wilson, where an Elk Lodge was
established last night. In the party
Messrs Rawley Galloway, James Jordan,
j. p Ray. Geo. Hardin NJ. L. CRAFTSMAN
and r. T. Cowan. A delegation from
Durham also went to Wilson.
Mayor A. NJ. Powell has returned to
the city He went from here to Wilson
to attend the Royal Arcanum meeting
and afterwards visited Rocky Mount,
Goldsboro and Kinston. He reports great
progress in Eastern North Carolina and
says that he finds real estate rapidly ad-
vancing.
Mr.. Allen X Smith, president of the
Bank of Smithfeld. who was in the city
yesterday. expressed great qualification
at the result of the road election in
Smithfield township on Tuesday. The
roads will now be worked by taxation
twenty cents on the 800 and sixty cents
on the poll and the majority for this was
seventy-seven.
SMOKE la Josephine" and Young
Fritz
A woman in love is mere or less fool
ish; man is invariably more.