The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-12
ra AND ABOUT rnE CITY.


Yesterday before Clerk of the Court w.
Nj. Russ. Mrs. Mary +. Clifton widow
of Wiley Clifton, qualified as administra-
trix of his estate.
The Missouri, on which ship Midship4
nan David Worth Bagley, of Raleigh, is
an officer, will sail from Newport News
today fer Guantanamo.
In the State Treasurers office they say
that the sheriffs are settling up for taxes
better this year than ever. All but eight
have paid up their 1903 taxes.
MI. William Wyatt, student at Wake
Forest College, who has been confined TO
his home here by sickness for the past
few days, has returned to Wake Forest.
Rev. N. S. Jones, who has just returned
from a trip to Florida, will leave this
afternoon for Wilmington, where he will
preach at the First Baptist church on
Sunday.
Messrs. r. W. Winston, r. B. Boone,
Victor S. Bryant and Howard A. Fou-
shee, of Durham, who appeared in the
Supreme Court in the jug case, return
ed to Durham yesterday.
Mr. w. R. Crawford yesterday gave
to the Associated Charities 100 pounds OF
beef and pork to be distributed among
the poor of Raleigh Ihis was appor-
toned by special committee of ladies
I. OF the association.
Solicitor Armistead Jones is back ftom
Ellington, where he attended Harnett
county court He says that eight or nine
negroes were sent to the Cumberland
county roads, having been convicted of
larceny and fighting.
'Enlarging the Catholic Orphanaga'
was the head line that should have APP
pcared over local item in yesterday
mornings paper. A most regrettable
blunder which was unfortunately over
looked made it read otherwise.
DR.. R. H. Stansell, of Margarettsville,
and DR.. L. j. Picot, of Littleton. who
were here to attend the monthly meeting
of the executive committee of the State
Hospital. returned to their homes yester-
day. The board transacted only routine
business.
The funeral services of the late Mr.. D.
l. Fort will be conducted from the First
PRESBYTERIAN church at eleven o'clock this
morning. Rev. A. H. Moment viii CON
duct the services and the interment Will
be at the Wilder home place On the Nil
burnie road.
Mr.. C. o. Bail, who has just returned
from business trip through the South.
says the banquet of the North Carolinians
at the De Soto Hotel at Savannah last
Saturday night was a brilliant affair. He
says there are over 500 North Carolinians
in that city.
After attending number of Farmers
Institutes in eastern North Carolina,
Commissioner of Agriculture S. l.. Pat
terson, DR.. b. w. Kilgore and DR. TAFT
Butler returned to the city yesterday.
They say the meetings have been very
successful and the attendance ercourag
ing.
Something more than two weeks ago
the trustees of the graded school decided
to elect another teacher to relieve the
congestion IN the second ana thlfu grades.
Monday night ut the regular meeting Of
the trustees elected Miss Lizzie Hvrnan.
OF Scotland Neck, who viii enter u9on
her work this week.-ScotianG Neck
Commonwealth.
Mr.. John e. Ray, of Raleigh, while
with Mr.. j. T. Bland, an attorney of
Burgaw. in the, Union Depot yesterday,
recalled that thirty years ago he and Mr..
Bland members Of different societies at
Wake Forest. were debaters or the same
side Mr.. Bland has gone to Wake For.
est and Mr. Ray will go today to attend
the debate tonight.