The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-09-02
Local M a t ters

The graded schools in Raleigh will
open next Monday.
There were six drunks in the RAJ
leigh police court Monday.
The Holly Springs High School has
oDened with the best attendance in
It's history.
Prof. r. L. Pittman, of Falrmont.
has accepted the principalship of the
Apex Graded School.
An old-time Fiddlers' Convention
will be pulled off in Raleigh Monday,
which will be Labor Day.
Ethel Mooney, young white wo-
man from Nash County, was placed
in the Insane Asylum Saturday.
Miss Edith Register, OF Raleigh,
has been elected Assistant Superin-
tendent of Schools for Wake County.
The entrance examinations were
held at the A. & NJ. College yester-
day. and this prosperous school will
now get down to business.
Mr.. K. S. Kingslove, an inmate at
the Soldiers Home in this city died
Monday afternoon. he came to the
Home from Wilson County.
Mr. ]. NJ. Wall died at the Sol
diers Home in this city early Tues
day morning. He was a member of
Company E. 59th N. c. Regiment.
A charter was granted Tuesday to
the Raleigh Cabinet Works Company.
The company will manufacture and
sell furniture, Office and store fix
lures, etc.
frankie Raymond, white woman,
was tried in police court Saturday
and sentenced to thirty days in the
work-house for being a nuisance. Her
attorney gave notice of an appeal.
Maj. Chas. H. Gattis, District Pas
senger Agent of the Seaboard Air
Line, left Raleigh yesterday with an
excursion party for the North. They
will visit Niagara Falls, Thousand
Islands and portions Of Canada.
Raleigh is to have a new theatre
in the near future. It will be built
about midway the first block south
of the Capitol and Fayetteville Street.
1t will known as the Grand. Mr..
John C. Drewry Is one of the prin-
cipal stockholders.
Mr.. C. H. B. Leonard, post-office
inspector, with headquarters at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, has been transferred
to Greensboro and will make that
city his headquarters in the future.
Mr. Leonard was assistant postmaster
at Raleigh during Mr.. Bailey's last
term.
A bold robbery was committed ir
Raleigh Friday niWht when a THE
snatched a purse from Miss Mar!
Gurley as she was walking dowr
Fayetteville Street. Later In the eve
ming a negro boy was arrested fol
the crime, but didn't prove to be the
culprit.
Mrs. R. J. Harrison died at her
home In Cary Saturday. She was
about sixty years of age and leaves a
husband, r. J. Harrison; one son,
r. c. Richardson. and three brothers,
A. R. Hodge, of Neuse; DR.. W. T.
Hodge, of Raleigh, and Mrs. 8. G.
Hodge, of Rockdale, Texas.
The Olive Chapel School, White
Oak Township, has been awarded
the silver prize cup offered by the
Wake County Branch of the Woman's
Association for the betterment OF
public schools. Last year the cup
was won by the Holly Springs High
School. The cup becomes the perm
anent property of the school that
wins it three times.
Tilman High, who eloped with the
fifteen-year-old daughter of Mr.. Jas
Markham, Of Wake County, some
days ago, has been arrested in Rich
mond, Va, and an officer from Ra-
leigh has gone for him. The specific
charge under which he will be
brought back is forging the name Of
J. F. Davis to a ten-dollar check
drawn on a Durham bank, but High
will probably have to face other
charges also.
Ennis Ingraham, who didn't like
the Laughingho clearinghouse
'bug-house" department, at the Pen
1tentiary, took French leave Frida!
night. Ingraham is a white mar
thirty-three years old, from Cumber
land County. and was serving tern
of four years for bigamy. He hat
been transferred to the criminal in
sane department few months befor'
he escaped.
Later.-Ingraham has been recap
tured in Cross Creek Cemetery a
Fayetteville.
PELLAGRA AT STATE HOSPITAL