The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-03
In AND ABOUT THE CITY.

Mr. w. r. Davis is very sick on
North Salisbury street.
Mr. Ceburn d. Harris will leave
Raleigh in a few days on an inspec-
tion trip through Eastern Carolina.
ON this trip Mr.. Harris will examine
both human foods and feeds.
State Treasurer Lacy and Mr.. n. B.
Broughton went to Durham yesterday
to deliver addresses at the meeting
of the colored Interdenominational
Sunday School Association now in ses-
sion there.
Mr. f. M. Peterson, State agent for
the Sun Life Insurance Company, has
returned from trip to Buffalo, n.
Y, and other Northern points having
gone to have his eyes treated. He
returns much improved.
A dog with tinkling bells on it led
a man aboard an afternoon train here
yesterday. The man is blind and
holds a chain attached to the dogs
collar. The animal is a beautiful one
and acts as if he knew exactly what
to do for his blind master.
Mr.. Jones Fuller was here yesterday
from Durham. He says everything is
moving forward in good shape for
the electric road to connect Raleigh
and Durham, that the survey has been
completed and that other necessary
preliminary matters are now being
given attention.
Rev. Livingston Johnson. Secretary
of the State Baptist Convention and
Rev. r. J.. Bateman went west yester-
day to attend q meeting of the Pilot
Mountain Baptist Association which
meets ten miles beyond Winston. Mr..
Bateman goes in the interest of the
Baptist Female University.
The superintendent of the Raleigh
public schools, Mr.. h. t. Moses mas
returned from Edenton where he as
sisted in their Summer School for
Teachers held there. Mr.. Moses is de-
lighted with Edenton and the people,
speaking in highest terms of the place
and the hospitality received
Mr. Russell G.. Woglum, the new AS
sistant State Entomologist arrived In
the city yesterday from New York
city Mr.. Woglum is a young man
of ability and graduated last year
from Cornell Universit. He will COM
mence work with the State Depart
ment of Agriculture at once.
The special train over the Mills
road for Ellington, for the big cele-
bration today will leave at $3.50 this
morning and not one minute later, as
it has to get out of the way of the
westbound Southern train which ar
rives here at $40. All who expect to
go should be at the train before half
after eight.
The st. Agnes Hospital. at ST.
Augustine School, when completed will
cost about $4,000. The labor is
furnished by colored students, and the
stone is quarried by students from the
rock quarry, owned by the school.
The work on this building has pro-
crossed only to the laying of the
foundation.
State Senator Chas. a. Webb, of
Asheville. was here yesterday after
visit to Western North Carolina on bu-
siness. His friends are looking pleas
ant at him. shaking his hand and in
dulging in all manner of Fluctuations
as Mr.. Webb has a new young lady at
his home, Miss Julia Banks Webb, and
he is a very happy man.
Mr. Clarence H. Poe, editor of the
Progressive Farmer. will leave Raj
eigh next week for Norfolk, where he
will participate in the organization of
the Southern Agricultural Press
League, on August LIST. All the
prominent and leading farming pa
pers and journals of the South will be
represented in the League.
Hon. John d. Bellamy. of Whining
ton, is in the city and today goes to
/ Ill flCrf1 hn d. 70 ,la1;
address. He is just back from Buena
Vista Springs, Franklin county, Pa,
at the top of the Blue Ridge, not far
from Gettysburg. He says there are
many North Carolinians there and that
at night the rule is to get under the
blankets.