The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-12
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THE WEATHER TO-DAY.
Local forecast for Raleigh and vi
cinity: Fair; warmer.
The weather yesterday: Maximum
temperature, rs; minimum temper
allure, So; mean temperature, ga; pre-
cipitation, 0.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
The Tucker building is being
touched up with paint on the wood
work portion. this freshening it up.
Mr.. J. w. Bailey left yesterday for
Nashville, Tenn, where he goes to at
tend the Southern Baptist convention.
Rev. DR.. T. N. Ivey is attending the
Aurora. N. C. District conference and
will return to the city next Saturday.
General Theo. F. Davidson, who de-
livered the Memorial Day address
here, left yesterday for his home at
Asheville.
Mr.. D. H. Milton has zone to Sails
bury on account of the death in the
sanitarium there of his brother-in-
law, Mr.. Snugg.
Messrs. Locke Craig, julius Martin
and Zebulon Weaver, of Asheville,
who have been attending the Supreme
court left for their home yesterday.
Prof John Hamilton, of Washing
ton, D. c., a farmers institute special
list from the Department of Agricul-
ture, was in the city yesterday.
Charles Crabtree, an old one-armed
white man who stays about the Coun-
ty Home, was yesterday put in the
county Jail for beinr drunk and dis
orderly.
The Potato-Beetle is the subject of
chronological circular No. 8, just is
sued by Entomolo~ist Franklin Sher-
man, Jr., of the North Carolina De-
partment of Agriculture.
The bill at the Metropolitan Theatre
tonight is False Father" comedy
drama. "Ten Nights in Bar-room'
with Carrie Nation a visitor, will be
put on tomorrow night.
Governor Aycock left yesterday for
Winton, Hartford county, where he
of the school. From there he goes to
Snow Hill where he speaks.
Major William M. Pegram, of Bait
more, "a representative of the Manu-
facturer's Record of Baltimore, is in
the city and will go to eastern North
Carolina in the interest. of that paper
Sheriff w. M. Warren, of Nash
county, yesterday morning brought to
the penitentiary here a white boy OF
twenty to serve a sentence for the lar
ceny of $50 from an old Confederate
soldier.
Messrs. w. G.. Briggs and Geo. L.
Tonnoffski went to Durham yesterday
to attend the meeting of the Odd Eel
lows. They will extend an invitation
to the Grand Lodge to meet in Raj
eigh next year.
Mr.. w. K. McClarin, the general
foreman of the Western Union Tele-
graph company in this district, was
mere y6StGTudy. ne INV q
line put up from here to Benefits
Vile, South Carolina.
State Treasurer B. r. Lacy will
speak at the closing of the school at
Eagle Rock, twelve miles east of Raj
eigh today at half past one O'Clock.
The sermon will be preached by Rev.
r. J. Bateman at eleven o'clock. A
number OF. people from Raleigh will
attend the exercises.
Dr. b. F. Dixon, the State Auditor,
saws he had fine time at Raeford,
when he delivered the address at the
closing of Raeford institute. They had
a big crowd. 1t is an excellent school
with magnificent building. Prof. j.
A. Macleod is principal
Young Harry Vann, son of Rev. r
T. Vann, who was injured at Wake
Forest some time ago by the accident
al discharge of a gun, left yesterday
for Philadelphia, where his lower Jaw
and chin are to be treated by DR.. w
w. Keene, a specialist. The injury has
healed nicely and Young Vann is in
better shape than was expected.
Haven't seen a Lumsden since I've
been in this county, said a Mr. Lums-
den, who has lately come to America
from Scotland and who was here yes
terday. Mr. Birch Douglass took him
to see City Tax Collector c. f. Lums-
den, but he had gone to Durham, and
the Scottish Lumsden will meet the