The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-14
,nAiNs LEAVE RALEIGH DAILY.
rHE WEATHER TODAY.

1870 a. m. AIS p. m.
IHE WEATHER TODAY.
Forecast for North Carolina: Fair
Tuesday and Wednesday, colder Wei
-nesday: light to fresh west winds be-
coming north.
The Weather Yesterday.
Maximum temperature, ~; mini
mum temperature, 46; total precipita-
ton for "a hours ending p. m. pes
terday, o.
In AND ABOUT TIE CITY.
His friends will regret TO learn that
Mr.. Charles Z. Harris is confined TO
his home by sickness.
me Sons of the Revolution will
nold a banquet in this city on the
evening of November 18th.
The clerks of the State AUDITORS
Office are kept busy this week writing
pension warrants for Confederate vet
Grams.
DR.. c. w. Burkett has gone to
Washington, ID. c., to attend the an
nual meeting of Directors of Expert
ment Stations of the United States.
Work on the new mission house OF
worship of the First Baptist church
being erected corner of Boylan avenue
and North street continues in progress.
Mr. T. X. Bruner left yesterday for
Washington. d. c.. to attend Il meeting
of the executive committee of the IN
terstate Pure Food Company. of which
organization he is the treasurer.
Judge Thomas r. Purnen has re-
turned from Wilmington where he has
been holding Federal Court for the
past three weeks. The term OF the
Federal court here will be opened on
the fourth of December.
Sunday was the birthday anniver-
sary of Mr. A. Il. Forrest. one of the
deacons of the Tabernacle Baptist
church. and he made this the Occa-
sion of a helpful talk before the sun
day school of the church.
Mr.. ]. T. Rowland ex-deputy
sheriff, went to Portsmouth yeester-
day, being called there by a tele-
gram informing him that his mother,
who is seventy years Of age, had been
stricken with paralysis.
Mr.. William a. Jones, son of Mr..
Jesse A. Jones, is now with the Citi-
zen's National Bank. He is a young
man of energy. pluck, and ability, and
his success will be gratifying to the
many friends if his father and him.
self
Rev. John W. Jenkins, Superintend-
ent of the Methodist Orphanage. re-
turned yesterday from Rocky Mount
where Sunday at the Methodist church
lection was made for the orphanage
mere.
At the Baptist churches in this city
Sunday the congregation were asked
10 notify the committee on prepare
ton for the entertainment of dele
gates to the Baptist State convention
how many persons each home could
entertain.
The friends of Mayor w. C. Petty, Of
Carthage. will be grieved to learn that
ne is again critically i'll, and for some
days lately was partially paralyzed.
was here yesterday brought this dis
tressing news.
Mr.. A. Dughi will banquet the news
papermen of Raleigh Thursday night,
the principal item on the menu be-
ing a "home raised North Carolina
night walker" a fine o'posSum which
has Toasted on the fruits of Dughi's
store for fifteen months.
Mr. J. d. Smith, who was seriously
injured by a loose plank on the depot
platform at the Atlantic Coast Line
depot at MaxtOn last week, was no
better yesterday. and will probably
be confined to his home for several
weeks.
Col H. p. Smith. editor of the
National organ of the Junior Order,
has returned from a visit to Brook
lyn. n. Y, where. as the State Coun-
cilor of North Carolina he attended
the reception given to the j. .. L. "A.
M. Board of Directors of New York.
The Southern train going west Sun
day afternoon dropped sparks on the
grass near Mills Wagon Factory, and
rills were burning, with the flames
nearing the factory. when the fire was
detected by Mr. w. d. Smith, who
called a negro to help him in eXtin-
gushing the conf1agration, and but
for their promptness the factory
might have been destroyed.
At the Edenton Street Methodist
church Sunday twenty-five persons
were admitted to membership in the
church. There were fifteen baptismS.
Another large number will be re-
ceived into the church next Sunday.
The increased membership of the
church is the result of the great goS-
pei meetings held during the past, two
weeks.
Joe Smith, colored. and Henry Ward.
were before Justice of the Peace Reid
yesterday. charged with vagrancy and
stealing rides on trains. They We're
sent to Jail for thirty days each. with
costs of $3.50 each. Ward is a feeble
minded lad from Wake Forest and is
inst out after serving a term in Wake
Forest for vagrancy. He was found
here in a Seaboard Air Line car by a
detective.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
The Directors May Elect Mr., X. Nj.
Phillips as the Secretary.