The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-09

colder.
Local data for Raleigh yesterday: Max
imum temperature 60; minimum temper
ature, 60; mean temperature, "a; total
rainfall, 1.2s.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
The decorations of the stores on Fay
etteville street is going forward rapidly.
State Treasurer Lacy is greatly i'm
proved and it is expected he will be
back in his office today.
Mr.. Jarvis j. Phillips is out after his
recent illness of two months with typhoid
fever.
Secretary Joseph E. Pogue, of the
State Fair, was greatly improved yester'
day and is able to be out.
Rev. J. C. Troy, of Durham, was in the
city yesterday. He states that in Durham
the contest for prohibition is in excellent
shape.
The Governors office took on the look
of cold weather yesterday morning, for
a fire glowed and seats were had about
the hearth.
The rain yesterday morning is said to
have saved the clover crop about Raj
egh, which is reported as larger than
ever before.
The State University Medical College
here has now nine students taking the
graduating course. Five more are ex-
pected this month.
Mr.. Roger Flint was in the city yester-
day in the interest of the Gaskill- Mundy
Levitt Carnival Company, which will be
Here during Fair week.
Work ON the Methodist Orphanage is
being rapidly pushed and this building,
one of the best in the State, is expected
to be ready in November.
Mr. j. E. Colt. of the firm of Colt &
Garren, Fairview Dairy, has left for
ithaca, N. Y, where he will enter Cornell
University to take up some special work.
A Raleigh horse won first prize We'd
nesday at the Piedmont Fair at Winston
Salem. Petronelle, owned by Mr.. George
NJ Hardin, of this city, won the 2:3O heat
Time 2:19A; purse, $500.
Dr. Joel Whitaker and Mr.. O. Max
Gardner have returned from Chapel Hill.
where they invited and urged the Uni
versity football team to play the A. and
NJ. team, but they had no success.
Curator H. H. Brimley, of the State
Museum, is back from a trip to Western
North Carolina, where he has been seeking
for North Carolina exhibits for the st.
Louis Fair. He comes home quite sick,
but is improving.
Mr.. Lock Craig, who was here yester-
day on business before the Supreme Court /
left fos his home in Asheville yesterday
He appeared for Sheriff Page, OF Wake,
in the appeal case concerning the pay
ment by Judge Purnell of his income
tax.
Solicitor C. c. Daniels, of Wilson, was
here yesterday on his return from Vance
county court at Henderson. The most
important case tried there, he says, was
that of Charley Bruton, a negro, who
was sentenced to 25 years Tor breaking
into house.
Hon. S. M. Gattis, of Hillsboro, was
here yesterday. He reports that the Emo
Cotton Mill is doubling it's plant and is
putting in a weaving room. The South
ern Broken Stone Company, he says, has
large pumber of hands at work getting
out rock ballast for the Southern Rail
way.
Mr.. Frank B. Skaters, the business
manager of Miss Adelaide Thurston, who
presents Polly Primrose" here next
Thursday night at the Academy of Music,
was here yesterday. He is a most clever
representative of charming lady, who
presents play that has won storm
of approval, and which will draw big
house here.