The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-19

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securing of business manager is
giving the directorate much trouble
They wisely have determined that to
| be the most important matter con-
nected with the enterprise, and are
| finding it a very serious proposition.
| While the names Of many competent
men have been under advisement for
more than a month"; no satisfactory
| arrangement has yet been made with
any applicant.
! AS there seems to be II feeling in
| the State that this correspondent
hasn't been doing his duty recently
by the Daily Tar Heel, it may be an
appropriate occasion to sly that the
/ impertinent talk of unsympathetic
| news gatherers of the paper going to
Durham, and now to Salisbury rather
ratified this community, which takes
such pride in the nursing into walking
condition of two great morning news
papers ''as good as the Washington
Post and like the Charlotte Observer
and carrying the full press dispatches,
full to the brim if not running over.
1t thought it had done enough to let
the Tar Heel become weekly, but
when it came to making of it a wan
derer and an orphan by shuttlecock-
ing it across the confines of Green's
boro, back and forth from Durham to
Salisbury it becomes time to speak
The real hitch in the matter is said
to be between President Grant and
a majority of the board of directors
and the president of the Tar Heel
Club, Blackburn. Blackburn insists on
daily, as at first planned. Since the
business men of the daily have rec
ognized that the so-called Butler
Rollins syndicate is something more
than a bluff, they have agreed to let
the other fellows put up the money
to run that, while they prefer TO run
a weekly perilling less cash but as
they claim reaching more readers Of
a proselytable character than the
daily. Blackburn so it goes, refused
to meet with the board at it's last
session here, so dead set is he on hav-
ing him daily at any cost, and 1t is
from his present efforts to interest
capitalists, first in Durham, then in
Salisbury that the reports have oligi-
mated.
To Celebrate Labor Day.
The Central Trades Council of
Greensboro have perfected arrange
ments for notable celebration of
Labor Day" this year. Among other
attractive features will be a mercantile
and trades parade with appropriate
floats, etc. beginning at ten o'clock.
Two bands have been secured for the
music and there will be twelve mar
shals, one from each labor, union Mr..
r. r. Wyrick will be chief marshal,
his assistant being Mr.. Frank Crutch-
field. Among the noted orators who
have been selected to address the
meeting, assembled in the Grand
theatre after the parade will be: W.
E. Faison. of Raleigh; Mayor T. j.
Murphy, Mr.. A. Wayland Cook, Rev.
DR.. II. w. Battle and Rev. DR.. d. H
Detwiler, of Greensboro. The city al
n. x~..x .1~xx,
and officers of the fire department will
be present in body. After the
speaking there will be an outdoor EN-
tertainment consisting of bag races,
potato races, wheelbarrow and barrel
races, pole climbing and a fiddling
tournament. aen
c. T.. Mclean. Esq, a prominent
lawyer of Burlington, has moved to
Greensboro for the practice of his
profession.
The train due here from Mt Airy,
at II o'clock yesterday and due to
leave for Wilmington at 1870, arrived
at six last evening. 1t was blocked
at Ararat near Mt. Airy. bv reason of
the Nderailment of some freight cars,
which were somewhat broken up. but
no one was injured. nor was the dam
age very great.
Reports here that there was beer
war on at Reidsville and that ten cent
beer was retailing for five cents bot
! tie, caused several Greensboro citi-
zens who complain at having to pay
| twenty cents a bottle for what they
get here, surreptitiously to pay a visit
to Reidsviile yesterday.
Died Among Strangers.
gentleman giving his name as
James d. Worrell after an illness of
several days. died here last night at
| a boarding house. He was attended
| by one of the best physicians of the
| city, but beyond his name, although
| told of his critical condition. he de-
clned to say anything about his ante
| cedents He is evidently a man of
| means it being known that he was
worth at least $4,000. Nothing in his
papers have been found to indicate
| his whereabouts, except that he was
| a native of Cumberland county. Par
| ties there have been telegra phed to
| to ascertain who he is and what dis
position to make of his body, which
| is now at the undertaker's awaiting
| Instructions.
John Williams, colored, was ar
| rested this morning as suspicious
character from the fact that he was
selling pants worth seven and eight
J dollars for one and two dollars. When
examined. two pairs of pants were
| found crammed down his back under
| his coat Information just received
| from Salisbury is to the effect that he
| is wanted there for breaking into a
clothing store and he will be surren-
dered to Salisbury officer when the
noyt train rolls in from that direction.