The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-15
DEATH OF MIR. w. J. RIDGE.
Stock Company to Manufacture Sand
Lime Briclx-The Nash and Dav-
idson Monuments - Editor
Reece and the Ground
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Especial to News and observer)

Greensboro, N. c., March 14:-A tel
egraphic message from Bluefield, West
Virginia, announced the death at the
hospital there at 4 o'clock this morn
ing of Mr.. w. j. Ridge, of Green's
boro. The remains will reach here
for burial tomorrow Mr.. Ridge was
highly esteemed citizen and leaves
a wife and five children living here.
He was fifty-two years of age. For
some time he has been in West Vir-
ginia as general organizer of the en-
dowment rank of the Knights of Py-
thias and had been a member of the
lodge here for fifteen years and held
a $4,000 endowment policy. He had
been in poor health with kidney
trouble, and yesterday while discussing
his work In an office in Bluefield sud-
denly collapsed, was taken by friends
to the hospital. never regaining con,
sciousness. He will be buried with
knights of Pythias honors
Major w. W. Wood and wife went
to Charlotte this morning in response
to q telegram announcing the critical
allness of Mrs. Wood, nee Miss Fan
Burwell, their daughter-in-law, and a
great favorite wherever she is known.
DR.. Charles u. McIver has return
ed from attendance at a meeting OF
the Southern Educational Board held
in New York City last week.
At a meeting of the directors of the
new Chamber of Commerce, now in
process of organization, last night,
committees reported one hundred and
twenty-five members and annual sub
scriptions and membership fees to the
amount of three thousand dollars. AT
the next meeting to be held the first
week in April subscriptions to the
amount of five thousand dollars an
oil Nv will hn
stitution and bylaws will be adopted,
a salaried secretary elected, and the
organization perfected.
A stock company is being organized
here with a capital Of $4,000 to man.
ufacture what is known as the "sand
lime" brick, made of sand and ce-
ment. The splendid new five story of
flee building being erected here by Mr..
G. N. McAdoo and now nearing COM
has stood the general ordeal of this
unprecedented freezing weather with
out a sign of damage.
Mr. G. j. Fisher, secretary and treas
urer of the Hardware Manufacturing
Company, has resigned that position
and is succeeded by Mr.. oliver Ben
bow, of Jamestown, who has purchas-
ed a controlling interest
Work at battle-ground.
With the opening weather all kinds
of building work has taken an impe-
tus. Even at the Guilford Battle
Ground, six miles distant force of
thirty men is busy now every day, en-
gagged principally in work on the Nash
and Davidson monuments being erect
ed by the government at a cost of
ten thousand dollars. Major Joe More
head, president of the Battle Ground
Company. is plum happy, as he drives
out every day to see that everything
is being done right. He declares that
the celebration next Fourth of July
will be the greatest event in the his
tory of the association. Besides the
of these two monuments, two
others will be completed on time one
of them being to the memory of Major
Robert Mebane.
Col. A. M. Waddell, of Whining
ton, direct descendant of General
Nash, has accepted an invitation to de-
liver one of the dedicatory addresses
Editor Joe Rece, of the Record who
knows more about the ground hog
and ground hog influence on the
weather than any dozen other editors
in the State, is very much ratified at
what he calls the rattlebrain efforts of
the United States government specials
to destroy the little hogs reputation as
weather signal
Chief of Police Scott received notice
from Concord this morning that two
negroes, wanted there for house,
breaking, had been located in Green's
boro. He heard that two men answer
ing the description had been seen i'm
the cotton mill settlement around
Proximity. Two officers were sent out
there to Arrest the men, but while the
officers We're in one locality the ne
groes were evidently burglarizing in
another, as it was discovered that the
home of Joe Williams had been broken
into and a quantity of provisions and
wearing apparel stolen while the fam
lily was absent. No trace of the thieves
has yet been found.
The handsome building on the cor
ner OF Market and Elm Streets, oppo.
site the postoffice, just completed and
belonging to ]. S. Wynne, of Raleigh,
is occupied on the ground floor by
the Galloway Drug Company. 1t has
just been opened to the public and is
one or the finest and most elegantly
squipped stores in the South Mr.
Rawley Galloway, of Raleigh, is the
head Of the firm, and to him, or some
body, is due the credit of fitting up
really a palace of beauty and art.