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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1897
Page
5
A tasteful building designed for Pinehurst residents offers a Ladies Parlor and Cafe on the lower floor and a second floor Reading Room with Daily Papers, popular periodicals, a Billiard Room, Smoking Room, Bath Rooms and a Barber Shop for convenient use by all residents.
Southern Pines notices list visits by M. F. Utley to Raleigh and A. H. Root to Pinehurst. Murray Forbes and B. W. Edgerly are in town and Milton, N. HS, resident plans. Mrs. T. Catlin rents to a Washington county family. P. I. Beck returns from Pennsylvania with family. J. R. Baker buys Hugh Black place. others travel or move. Seaboard adds track. trolley excursions urged. new tenants, crime note, Block plans, and a New England supper with chalk drawings and auction profits noted.
At last Friday's meeting the Pine Ridge Intellectual Improvement Society elected P. A. Gillis as President Daniel Bunnell as Secretary D A Currie as Marshall and J D Fry as Monitor for a four week term The debate favored ample fortune over education and the next topic will compare anticipation and realization Deadfall.
Last Saturday two hand organs with oukeys attached toured the town causing a stampede of shoppers and gawkers. The unusual scene shadows the Aberdeenians who had two circuses in the week, now left green with envy at the local competition.
The wife of J. Hi. Hall died last Monday morning. Mrs. J. K. Malloy of Salisbury visits her sister Mrs. J.H. Powell. Dr. H.C. Williams returning from Baltimore reports Mr. Page slowly improving. Names on the weekly roll of honor at the academy include Mary McKeithen Mabel Johnson Talbot Johnson Vashti Tund Richard Rush Mildred Williams Fannie Powell Inez Seawell. W yardmaster for the Seaboard Air Line was fatally injured by a shifting engine last Monday evening and died about 8 a.m. Tuesday. Landlord Powell now offers a few winter boarders. Sportsmen from the north are encouraged to patronize the Powell house for hunting.
Augustus Caddell teaches the public school in West End for the winter term. Mrs. Nelson B. Jones, sick seven weeks, is able to be about the house. A horse stealing case postponed again to Saturday the 27th. The dispute concerns buyer and seller over payment and possession, with a settlement to be sought in court.
A Boston restaurant uses a peculiar sung bill of fare where waiters recite prices for items like butter-cake and exes. The verses assign cents to each item and even to “ice butter-cakes,” creating a rhythmic accounting of charges.
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