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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1891
Page
8
Washington reports stationary temperatures for Virginia with south winds. North Carolina sees showers and slightly warmer in general, while Kitty Hawk and Wilmington remain at stationary temperatures. South Carolina experiences showers with south winds and stable temperatures.
Seaboard Air Line offers reduced rate Detroit tickets for National Encampment G A R at 21.35. Alliance Rally at Youngsville drew about five hundred attendees with speeches by Matthew Davis and Ex Senator Green. Seaboard tickets Raleigh to Wilmington for Grand Lodge I O C F meeting at 7.05. sales Aug 3–7, limit Aug 8. Dr F P Hobgood resigns presidency health reasons at Richmond Female Seminary. Mr J F McLaurin of McCall S C requests escort for an "ebon gentleman" who is then taken into custody.
Gov Holt returned yesterday from Wrightsville where he met Guard officers and urged larger state funding. He stressed the State Guard’s role in peace and prosperity and called for no expense to enrollees during annual encampments. A Newton band serenade at headquarters pleased the governor.
Oxford figures M. John W. Overton Judge E. T. Boykin Wake Forest professor J. B. Carlyle Hillsboro’s Chas. M. Parks Staunton visitor Lucie Smith from Staunton and Nellie Massey at A. and M. College. Oxford residents E. W. Graham and W. S. Black depart. Idaho lawyers Savidge and Gorman call. Sallie Wyche travels via Wrightsville. Pell returns from Virginia Beach to health benefits.
Major E P McKissick left The Charleston News and Courier to join J B Steele in managing the Battery Park Hotel at Asheville North Carolina The Chronicle notes his bright prospects and states journalism loses a promising young worker but North Carolina gains his services in hotel management.
Mr. Orrin Smith of the Hargett and Bloodworth streets corner suffered paralysis yesterday morning and is now in critical condition with complete loss of sight. Mrs. Sasser, mother of Mrs. Dr. James McKee, also suffered a second stroke yesterday. Sue remains gravely ill and recovery is feared.
Farmers' Alliance Warehouse sold two loads of this year’s tobacco yesterday in Raleigh. The shipments came from Chatham and Wake counties and fetched good prices, signaling a healthy market for the crop.
A refined social at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. C C Williams corner Johnson and Wilmington streets last Thursday night honored Miss Della Williams of Charlotte N C who has visited them this week Elegant music was provided by Mr and Miss Kleuppelberg and Mr C C Williams.
Misses Hellen Primrose Sophia Busbee Lillian Bevers Lizzie Williams and Masters Johnson Busbee Tom Womble and Hugh Primrose staged an entertainment at the Soldiers Home residence of Mr W S Primrose. The event raised three dollars and the young performers deserve commendation for supporting a noble cause.
A report on Camp Russell near the capital describes the Soldiers' Home as a pleasant, beautiful location with a growing library and a diligent matron Miss Williams. It lists inmates with counties, recounts conversations of veterans recalling battles such as Gettysburg and Cold Harbor, notes sixteenth veterans attending a Pensioner's Reunion, and urges public donations to improve the facility run by Treasurer W. C. Stronach.
The notice promotes a new big store in August offering goods at cost in the Racket Store and Fayetteville street store. It also announces a two day August excursion to Richmond by Hope for All Lodge Odd Fellows with separate cars for whites and colored people, round trip $2.50, via R G Railroad, leaving August 12 and returning August 14. Further particulars from Morris Watts and Warren A. Alston. A music teaching position is available in Raleigh, addressed to State Chronicle.
1891 June notice announces a full line of Summer Millinery including white Yachts Vassar Sailors in straw Leghorn Neapolitan flats shirred mull hats flowers gauze ribbons. Ready trimmed goods offered at greatly reduced prices as stock is not carried over to summer.
Cleveland County offers for sale its entire jail bond issue of 10 000 dollars comprising 100 bonds of 100 each. Issued under an act ratified March 3 891 these 6 percent bonds pay semiannual interest and mature July 1 1901. Private sale, per par value, to purchasers. contact J W Garrett or R L Ryburn for details.
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