The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-25

Raleigh and Cape Fear.
700 a. M. AIS p. m
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sherwood Higgs & Co.-Dry Goods.
THE WEATHER TO-DAY.
Local forecast for Raleigh and vi
cinity: Fair Thursday.
Local data yesterday: Highest
temperature, Sc; lowest temperature
6S: mean temperature, II; preciplta-
ton. 0.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Mr.. ]. T. Richardson went to Au-
burn yesterday on visit to his
mother.
Mr.. J. Rosengarten has returned to
the city from the North. where he
has been to purchase his fall stock.
Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire left
yesterday for Charlotte to attend the
funeral of the late Col. Hamilton c.
Jones.
Mr. Calvin Privett. now located al
Jacksonville Fla, who has been visit
ing his old home in Goldsboro. spent
yesterday in the city.
Messrs. 7. S. Mann. T. M. AIRING
ton and Daniel Allen left yesterday
for Honeycutt's pond, near Angler
where they go after the 'finny tribe
Mr.. Hubert Briggs, who was oper-
ated on Monday for appendicitis, is do
ing we'll and it is expected he will be
carried to his fathers home on Sat
urday.
A divorce suit on the ground OF
abandonment was yesterday begun by
j. d. Smith. of this county. against
his wife. Tennie Smith. The plain
tiff is represented by Mr.. NJ. n. Amis.
The First Baptist Sunday School,
colored, will have its annual outing
today at Southern Pines, and large
crowd is expected. The superintend-
ent of the school is James II. Young.
Chairman Simmons has made an
appointment for Hon. Joseph A.
Brown to address the people at Eliza
BEETHOVEN on Thursday, September g.
the day of the Bladen county conven-
ton.
The friends of Mr.. Eugene l.. Har-
ris regret to know of his illness. He
has been sick with fever ever since
last Thursday and his condition is re-
ported as not improved, although he
is not critically i'll.
Mr.. w. A. Myatt, whose stock of
merchandise was damaged by the fire
yesterday, asks that his thanks be re-
turned to the Raleigh Fire Depart
ment, which saved much for him by
its prompt and efficient work.
Congressman Charles r. Thomas,
of the Third District, passed through
yesterday en- route to Moore's Creek
battle ground, near Wilmington, where
day at the celebration of this historic
battle field.
Col. Paul s. Means. of . Concord,
was here yesterday. 1.-The Democracy
and the crops of Cabarrus are both
in fine shape" said Colonel Means,
when asked as to conditions. This
tells that the Cabarrus folks are
winners, both politically and materi-
ally.
Mr.. c. c. Wheeler, the Confederate
veteran who was brought here from
Creedmore, Granville county, and
whose leg was amputated at Rex Hos
pital day ago, is doing very WE'LL A
wound received during the war was
giving trouble and this made the am
putatOn necessary.
A number of Raleigh young men
have gone to Richardson's pond, eigh-
teen miles distant, for weeks out
ing fishing and squirrel hunting. In
the party are: Morris Green, T. c.
Powell, Lee Gattis, Everitt Fort, Rob-
ert Watt, George Warren and Har-
vey Johnson.
All arrangements are complete and
the indications are that a large crowd
will go down on the excursion this ev-
ening to Chalybeate Springs, which
will be conducted under the auspices
of the B. Y. p. U. of the Tabernacle
church, at the head of which is the in
defatigable Mr.. 10 H. Weathers, an
ideal excursion manager.
Mr.. Lewis T. Brown after a visit
home has returned to Goldsboro,
where he is the manager of The Hotel
KennOn. There is much praise for
the hotel under the efficient charge
of Mr.. Brown. and the guests who
stop there are delighted. The Ken
non is rated with the best of hotels
in the South and is worthy of it.
Mr. r. N. Simms has returned to
the city from st. Louis. where he has
been to attend the National Baraca
Convention, which was held in that
city, and also to take in the EXPOSE
ton. Mr.. Simms. the first vice
president of the convention. was re-
elected. We had a big convention,
said Mr.. Simms, and the EXP osition is
great
NEW PHYSICAL DIRECTOR.