The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

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IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Prof. w. G. Socket came in from
Auburn yesterday and reports the
watermelon experiments to be coming
along nicely.
The Tabernacle Sunday school will
run their annual excursion to Will
mington, July 5th. Round trip $500
and $3.50 to members of the school.
Seventeen trade marks were yester-
day filed at the office of the Secretary
of State. These were by the Swift
Fertilizer Works, of Georgia
Mr.. j. w. Bailey left yesterday for
Jackson Springs. He reports that
there are now between 800 and 400
attendants at the Baptist Mid-Sum-
mer meeting there.
Mr.. Cary J. Hunter is advertising
for bids for the additions and i'm
provements to be made on the main
building and chapel of the Baptist
University for Women.
Besides the regular Sunday SER
vice of the Tabernacle church the
congregation will be treated to electric
fans today. This will add much to
the comfort of the hour.
Two new mail wagons have arrived
and will be placed in service by the
new contractor. Mr.. Sylvester Pen
nington, who begins to haul the mail
between the station and the poStoffice
July first.
A continuous crowd streamed int~
the five and ten cent store from seven
o'clock yesterday morning until eleven
last night, and the doors had to be
closed several times to prevent n
crush on the inside.
About twenty of the Lexington ex-
cursiOniStS got left here, yesterday.
Through the courtesies of Mr.. I. e..
Green arrangements were made tC
take the ladies and children among
them home this morning.
A fishing party composed of DR.. w.
J. Hodge, II. M. Little, Buck Pool and
3. w. Upchurch broke the record
around these parts the other day
when they landed a thirteen pound
salmon out of Crabtree Creek
A pile of wood caught on fire yester-
y
but was discovered before the fire
gained any Roadway by Mr.. M. M.
Green who Immediately formed a
bucket brigade of the employees and
extinguished it.
The friends of superintendent Mann
of the States Prison will be sorry to
learn that he is sick with tonsilitis
He was to attend the State COnven-
ton as n delegate from Hyde county
and had bought his ticket, being taken
sick afterWard.
The B.. Y p U. of the Baptist Tab
ernacle will meet in the Sunday school
room this afternoon at o'clock. Mr..
a. H. monaghan, the leader for this
afternoon, will speak on ''ThoSe whom
Christ will gather into His kingdom"
The public will be welcomed.
Raleigh is daily growing in popu-
larity as an excursion town. A large
crowd numbering eight hundred were
here from Lexington yesterday. They
were given the freedom of the city
and seemed to be having a pleasant
time. They returned home last night.
Mr.. 3. r. Adams, the efficient man
ager of the grocery department of the
L. II. Adams Company, received an
order yesterday for eight quarts of
peanuts, four of Spanish and four of
Virginia, to be shipped to Manama-
dura, South India, which went for
ward yesterday. This speaks we'll for
this enterprisng firm.
The remainder of the Raleigh
crowd who attended the convention in
Greensboro arrived home yesterday, all
expressing themselves AS highly
pleased with the hospitality of Green's
boro. Especial praise is heard of the
Guilford Hotel which entertained the
Wake delegates.
Messrs. Charles e. Johnson d Co.,
the well known cotton brokers, say
'labor conditions throughoute tn
South today are much worse than they
have been for many years. They were
worse last year than they were the
year before. They are worse this