The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-12
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

Rev. t. D. Bratton, d. D., will offciate
at Christ Church this morning.
Mr. Charles E johnson. Jr., has been
made the accountant in the Mechanics
Dime Savings Bank.
Mr.. Geo. n. Adams is still seriously sick
at the home of his father Mr.. Len I'll.
Adams, on North Person street
Catalogues and watermelons are begin
ming to show up well on the Raleigh mar
ket, coming from this county.
Mr.. r. P. Harton requests that thanks
be returned to the many friends for cour-
tesies shown during the illness OF his wife.
Rev. Jno. T. Jenkins. after a few days
visit to relatives here, left yesterday morn
ing for Mount Olive, where b will conduct
a revival meeting this week.
Mr.. R. T. Gray left yesterday for Green's
boro, where he went to attend meeting
of the executive committee of the State
Normal and Industrial College.
Prof. H. A. Manning, of Ayden, Pitt
county, was in the city yesterday. he IS
confident that the election for graded
school there will result favorably.
Mr.. n. B. Broughton and Mr.. w B.
Tarkinton have gone TO Holly Springs,
this county, where they assist IN the work
of Township Sunday School Convention
to be held there today.
Rev e. P. Ellington, of Rockingham,
was here yesterday. He came to take his
wife home. She has been in Rex Hospital
for an operation and returns home re-
stored to health.
Mr. r.. P. Dickson left last night Tor
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, where he goes as dele
gate to the international Convention OF
the Retail Clerks Union. and will repre-
sent the Raleigh Union.
President f. p. Venable, of the State
University. was here yesterday on his way
to Kittrell where he spoke on behalf OF
local school taxation. He says the Unl-
yersity Summer School has been very sue
cessfu.
There viii be an excursion run from
Weldon to Raleigh next Thursday, July
10th. The train leaves Weldon at seven
O'Clock in the morning and starts on the
return trip from Raleigh at seven IN the
evening.
The Raleigh Male Academy, of which
Mr.. Hugh Morson is principal, will re-op-
en- for the fall season on the first Monday
in September The school will be conduct
ed at its present location and the outlook
is for an extremely good attendance.
Mr. H. H. Brimley. Curator of the
State Museum, yesterday received a letter
from Commissioner of Agriculture, S. L..
Patterson Mr.. Patterson writes that he
is slowly regaining his strength He is at
his home at Yadlxinville Valley, Caldwell
county.
The State Board of Education will meet
again tomorrow to finally settle the mat
ter of consolidating the colored normal
schools OF the State. Superintendent joy
ner will get back from Boston tomorrow
and after the meeting will leave for Knox
lille. Tenn.
Rev J. b. Larkins, formerly pastor of
the Baptist Church at Clinton, N. c.,
passed through the city yesterday on his
way to Henderson. where he will assume
the pastorate recently vacated by the Rev
DIR. ]. D. Hufham, who is now the pastor
of the church at Warsaw.
Don't forget the picnic on the Cape Fear
River next Tuesday by the Sunday School
of the Christian Church. Go and take a
swim in the river. catch fish, gather
huckleberries, play in the sand, go boating.
Don't forget that the train leaves at 1880
sharp in the morning and returns at seven
in the evening.