The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-13
CANE IN PRAIRIE SCHOONER.
Long Journey From Nebraska. CarnI'
val Not Wanted. Other News.
sSpecial 20 News and ObserverD

TSpecial 20 News and Observer
Greensboro. " C, April 1.-THE city
authorities have emphaticaIly sat down
won proposition 10 holi another Street
Carnival IN Greensboro.
NessrS. a. NJ Scales, NJ c. S. Noble OF
CbaocI HilI. ana ]. I. Foust. OF Greens,
Doro who compose the executive commit
tsa az the State A and II. College for the
eolored race. met here last night and made
q thorough examination OF the affairs OF
the COLLEGE. They found the college en-
tirelT out OF debt and in better financial
condition than ever before. while the WORK
going on there i pronounced to be ent re-
Iy satisfactory and encouraging.
An oil fashioned prairie schooner
drawn by two able-bodied horses, stopped
IN f'fr,5-t Of the Benbow Hotel CT Mai1
street Yesterday The wagon contained
Efr. Joseph Trueblood. his wife, two child
rem. dog and valued family rooster
Mr.. Trueblood had left Northern Nebras-
ka six months ago and bad travelled all
the way with his family. dog and rooster,
going to Virginia 10 make his home lie
stopped here to enquire the way to Dan
Vile Va and said he liked this country
so well he wished he had known about 1t
before he had made his purchase in Vlr-
ginia He said he was an Invalid when
he LETT Nebraska, but the trip across the
continent in the open air, even through
the winter, which had been so severe, had
already made him strong and well. He
had been overwhelmed with kindness ever
since he struck the warm hearted sunny
Southern territory and was already de-
lighted with the prospects before him.
The hearts OF the firemen and the fire
insurance men of Greensboro were made
glad this morning, when it was announced
that the City Fathers, through Mayor
, Osborne, had signed contract for the
purchase of first-class latest model fire
engine, as an auxiliary to the present fire
fighting apparatus The engine purehas-
cd was the la France No. g.
General Manager of the Bell Telephone
Company, w. T. Gentry, who has just re-
turned from his European trip, arrived
here this morning from headquarters at
Atlanta and will go over the telephone
situation here with the Citizens Commit
tee tonight. 1t is generally believed here
that unless Manager Gentry calls in the
circulars issued sometime ago announcing
an increase of rates after April 1st, and
which has been suspended awaiting hi
coming, there will be an independent cltl
Zens exchange established at once, USING
the automatic service system, which j
row ON exhibition at the Benbow Hote
and doing wonderful work
The Trinity College Gee Club will give
Il concert in the Grand Opera House here
on the night of April % for the beDefit o
Greensboro Female College Rebuilding
Fund.
People here are much interested. in ;
hrnl h.. II - 4
of Asheville, which will shortly be ISSUED
from a Greensboro publishing house. I
will he volume of $50 pages. bound II
cloth and viii have the title: "Greensbor
from 1905 to 1904, being facts. figures
traditions and personal "reminiscences col
lated by James w. Albright, who WA
born in Greensboro in 1885. when it wa
a village and had seen it grow to its pres
ent size.
Outside of the great affection whic,
was felt here for the late /. E. Avery. VIII
lived here several wears ago and impress
cd all with his fine and lovable characte,
closer tie to his memory has been fol
sine, il is learned that his fiance wa
sprung from good old Guilford stock. Mis-
Johnson. or at der desire to be Gale,
Mrs Avery, was the daughter Of Mis-
Johnsie Evans, who was raised here an
was a granddaughter of Gov. Moreheac
When Col r. d. Johnson was here du,
lug the war he became charmed with til
grace and beauty of Miss Evans, and 4
ter the war, sometime in the 10s. he wa
married 10 her at "Blandwood in TIL
city. the Morehead residence, now used
Keelev Institute.
Miss Marie Reynolds. of East Orang
n. j., granddaughter of Hon. Levi y
Scott. of Greensboro. has been invited [
allow her portrait to be placed on exhib
tion in the collection of portraits of rel
resentative American women in the w,
mans Building at the st. Louis Fair
Miss Mary Lee Joyner. who Las bee
conducting a fiourishing school nea