The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-13

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1870 q. m. AIS y. m.
TILE WEATHER TO-DAY.
Local forecast for Raleigh and vi
cinity 10 D. m. Thursday. showers.
The Weather Yesterday.
Maximum temperature So. mini
mum temperature u; rainfall o.12
inches.
In AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Mr.. W. s. Primrose left yesterday
for Reidsville. where he goes 10 adjust
some fire losses.
There were a dozen wagons on the
market yesterday with watermelOns,
and the prices have fallen consider
ably, but will continue very profitable
to the grower.
DIR. Austin Fleming, of Louisburs.
was a visitor to Raleigh yesterday, the
guest OF his brother. Mr.. Percy d.
Fleming.
The Third Regiment Band has en-
dorsed Baxter Durham as drum major
of the band, and his appointment to
this position will be requested.
The final meeting of the committee
on the selection of the Eastern Test
Farm has not yet been held, and prob
ably will not De called this week
Mr.. T. X. Bruner is in Calgary. Can
ada. spending a few days before he
goes to Portland, Oregon, to the con-
wention of Pure Foodists' of Amer
lea.
HAYWOOD Penny. colored. about
fourteen years of age. was sent TO the
roads for twenty days yesterday by
Police Justice Badger for carrying a
pistol
State superintendent ]. Y. Joyner
has returned to North Carolina from
Atlantic City. but will not be in Raj
eigh until Monday He will spend
Saturday at Wilson's Mills.
State Chemist B. ". Kilgore has
returned TO Raleigh from Virginia
Beach where he has been recuper-
ating. He will spend several days IN
the city before he returns.
General r F Hoke, DR.. '. E. 1ur-
ner and Mr.. Van Wyck Hoke left yes
terday for Greensboro 10 attend the
annual meeting OF the stockholders OF
the North Carolina Railroad.
Capt H. II. Faucette, until recently
a conductor on the Seaboard Air Line.
has become the keeper of the gates
al the rear Of the Union depot, sue
ceeding Mr.. John T. Gattis, who re-
signed.
Mr.. T. H. Cherry, of the Department
Of Agriculture, is confined at his
home by serious sickness He has
been absence from his desk on sta
tistics' several days and has been
soreTy missed.
Messrs. H E Glenn. NJ 4. Parker
and J. C. Ellington returned yesterday
from Morehead City. where they have
been on a jolly and successful fishing
trip with Messrs. W. F. Parker Ernest
Douglass and DIR. u. 5. Rowland.
Sanitary Inspector Sale s-lys taat In
a few days he will begin to enforce
the new city ordinance with regard
10 the use of metal garbage cans in
place of boxes or barrels Get the
cans az once and avoid trouble is his
message.
State Librarian Sheriff. said yester-
day that Volume % of the State Re
cords. as heretofore reported to con-
tain the census of the families OF
North Carolina, does not contain the
census. as this is to be published in a
subsequent volume.
A gentleman from the North. step
ping off southbound Seaboard train
yesterday in Union Station. saw the
tall. stately ferns without the shed
beyond the tracks. remarked: "Ah,
What luxurious tropical growth; what
lovely palms: Ah.''
The Greek fruit and novelty stands
on the sidewalk at the rear end OF
the market house have been removed
by order of the board Of aldermen.
and the change is a great improve
ment for cleanliness and for the coal
venience of pedestrians.
Only about half of the periodicals
published in the State have as yet
made their report TO the Department
of Labor and Printing. The reports
should be mailed at once in order &c
have the work facilitated this part o.
the annual report and completed early
The executive committee Of the State
Hospital was in session here yester-
day. but only routine business was
transacted. There were present Dr.
r. II. Stancill, of. Margarettsville: DIR.
L. j. Picot, of Littleton; Mr. : q
Middleton. of HallsvilIe, and Mr.. John
w Thompson, of Raleigh.
The little son of Mr.. john II. Ne
Ginnis. electrician of the Raleigh Con-
struction oCmpanv. whose head was
bedly cut when wheel Of a carrI3Se
passed over il near the corner of Har-
gett and Salisbury streets. Was getting
along nicely idst night. several
Bnrnett's Vanilla Extract has out
lived criticism. II is the best vanilla
extract that can be bought
State Farm i'm Fine Shape.
II is learned from Mr.. T. VI. AIRING
ton chief clerk at the states Prison