The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-06


entity. Fair.
Local data for Raleigh yesterday
Maximum temperature, 10; minimum
temperature, So; mean temperature,
Sc; precipitation, o.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Annie E. Brown, the evangelist, is
again preaching at st. Paul's Metho-
dist church, colored.
Work on the addition to the Raleigh
cotton mills is to begin at once, the
contract for this having been given TO
Mr.. c. P. Snuggs.
The Wake Forest and A. & M. teams
will meet here on Tuesday and a spe-
cial over the Seaboard will be run
from Wake Forest.
Mr.. S. w. Terrell, of Rolesville, was
in the city yesterday. He announces
himself a candidate for the office of
county commissioner.
The annual literary address at the
commencement of Whitsett Institute
will be delivered on Tuesday, the nth
of May by Governor Aycock.
Two more pupils entered Kings
Business College yesterday, these be-
ing Miss Matte Balm, of Goodwin, and
Miss Eva Highsmith, of CAROLS
Store.
The Raleigh colored baseball team
is gaining victories over the cOlored
team in Wilmington. On Wednesday
the score was to in favor Of the
Raleigh team.
Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire,
Rev M. M. Marshall and Rev. A. B..
Hunter returned yesterday from Pitts
boro, where they took part in the or
dination service of Rev. t. A. Cheat
ham.
The annual meeting of the Associa-
ted Charities has been postponed by
the advice of some members of the
governing board. Governor, Aycock
was to have delivered an address, on
citizenship"
Mr. Duncan Cameron, son of the
late Gen. F. H. Cameron, of Raleigh,
who has been with the Standard Oil
company in Hong Kong, has been
made manager of the company's bust
ness in Canton, China.
Mr.. C. l.. Davis, of Wake Forest, left
will take charge of the Cel-i-ko
branch there. Mr.. S. z. Douglass
goes to Savannah to take charge of
the business for southern Georgia.
A cordial invitation is given by the
church to the young people of Raleigh
to attend the service at Fayetteville
Street Baptist church tonight for the
young people. Several good speakers
1Icin a a ri
DIR. J. w. MCGEE, ST., who is i'll at
his residence, was somewhat improved
last night. His daughter, Mrs. Mar
vim Grant, of Conway, S. c., has ar
rived and is with him. The many
friends of this able physician regret
his illness and hope for a speedy re-
covery.
Many people look at the blk box
like affair being erected over the top
of the rear of the Academy of Music
and wonder what it is. This Will give
a greater height to the stage and
working room above for the handlers
of the scenery.
The ball game to take place at Win
ston on the 18th between the A. & M.
and Trinity ball teams will probably
Durham and Raleigh. 1t is expected
that an excursion train will be run
that day, starting from Raleigh.
Manteo Lodge of Odd Fellows are
taking steps to erect an Odd Fellows
building here. $4,000 has been voted
to purchase a lot and the matter is in
the hands of a committee composed
of Messrs. c. NJ. Busbee, w. c. Nc
NacLf,o w RIalxp w w ROh9 f0 &
and W. T. Barrow.
Mr.. Dave Berwanger, accompanied
by Miss Selma Hanft, is expected to
arrive in New York from Hamburg On
the steamer Patricia next Wednesday.
Mr.. Solomon Hanft will leave Raleigh
Saturday to meet his sister and Mr..
Berwanger in New York and they will
arrive in Raleigh on the twenty-fifth.
Work is nearing completion on the
flats being made above the Southern
Express office on Fayetteville street,
the property of Mrs. Florence P. Tuck
err. The Southern Express office is
also being improved and new fittings
will be put in. 1t is expected that the
work will be completed this month.
Gardener Terry. of the Capitol
that hereafter because of the many
violations. every person detected in
the act of pulling roses, stealing other
flowers or treading on the grass will
be prosecuted to the full extent of the
law. Some of the most valuable rose
bushes in the square have been badly
damaged by persons stealing the buds
at night.
To attend the graduating exercises
of the Medical department of the Uni
verSity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill last night, the following members
of the faculty left here yesterday DR..
IL. "A. Register, dean; DR.. w. I. Roys-
ter, DIR. Kemp p. Battle, DR.. r. II.
Lewis. DIR. A. w. Knox, DIR. MacNider
and DR.. III. Mckee Tucker The grad
yates were in the party. these being
Messrs. NJ. C. Guthrie, of Southport;
F. L. Sharpe. of Statesville; J. H. Stan
ley, of Four Oaks, and A. p. Willis, of
Mars Hill.