Tuesday, October 28, 2014

'Local and Personal' from Elizabeth City's Fisherman & Farmer Newspaper, October, 1901

"Local and Personal” from Fisherman & Farmer, Elizabeth City, October 3, 1901

The public school opens next Monday morning.

The oyster plant resumed operation last Monday.

Mr. George Dewey spent Monday in Edenton.

Mr. E.F. Aydlett is in Raleigh this week on business.

Mr. and Mrs. P. Delon have returned from a Northern tour.

Mr. George James has accepted a position as salesman with The Fair.

Mr. Jno. L. Sawyer left for Baltimore last Thursday on a business trip.

Mr. George Dewey has accepted a position as salesman with Love, Evans & Co.

Messrs Alex and George Sawyer of South Mills were visitors in the city Monday.

Mrs. Alaice Cartwright is on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Jas. Scott at Moyock.

The Blades Lumber Company have shut down their mills while placing new machinery.

Miss Mary Markham of Olivet arrived in the city last week to enter Tillet’s Select School.

Mr. Hal Shaw of Shawboro has returned to the city and will resume his studies at A.C.I.

Mrs. P.W. McMullan has returned from Hertford where she has been on a visit to relatives.

Mr. Walter Bembury of Hertford arrived in the city Tuesday to accept a positon with Aydlett & Co.

Miss Elizabeth Bateman of Edenton is here on a visit to her aunt, Mrs. Mattie Leary on Church street.

Mrs. Sarah Jackson who has been quite ill at her home on Fearing street is improving, we are glad to state.

Mr. A.S. Archiball and Miss Bessie Meads, both of Portsmouth, were married here Monday, Rev. R.C. Beaman officiating.

Misses Addie Sivells and Sadie Wilcox have returned home after spending several days visiting relatives and friends at Moyock.

Mr. Clyde Crawford has resigned his position with The Fair and left yesterday to enter Roxboro High School at Roxboro.

Messrs Guy Brocket, George Fearing and Tom Forbs will leave Monday for Baltimore, where they will enter a business college.

Mr. Walter Sawyer left Thursday for Baltimore where he will enter the Junior class of the Medical Department of the University of Maryland.

Culpepper, Griffin, Old & Grice have moved into their new office on Main Street. They have one of the best equipped insurance offices in the State.

Box 137—Phone16—Residence 98 Roade Street. Stumble over any of these and you can get fixed on the Coal question for the coming pinchy weather.

Miss Byrde Kramer has accepted a position as book-keeper for J.R. Pinner. Miss Kramer is a graduate of the Southern Shorthand and Business College of Virginia.

Prof. Paul Spence of Elizabeth City, who was elected principal of the white graded schools of this city, has arrived and will this week enter upon his duties here. The prospects for a large and prosperous school are very promising.

The revenue cutter, Violet, is in port at this place.

Mr. Marshall Pool spent part of this week in South Mills.

Miss Mary Grice spent a short while in Norfolk last week.

French flannels for waists at reasonable prices at Fowler & Co’s.

The steamer C.W. Pettit is off the marine railway greatly improved.

The Naval Reserves were inspected Friday night by Inspector Hobgood.

Miss Lucy Turner, who has been on a visit to friends in Norfolk, has returned.

Messrs. Geo. Beveridge and Louis Balford spent part of this week in Camden on business.

Misses Wilmer and Effie Sawyer spent Sunday in South Mills, the guests of Mrs. B.B. James.

Prof. E.T. Burgess and Mr. Sam Squires of South Mills were in the City this week on business.

Mr. L.L. Winder returned Saturday afternoon spending some time in Baltimore on a business trip.

Mr. Arthur Burgess has resigned his position at Hill’s Café and accepted one with Fulmer & Whitehurst.

Mr. Eddie Whitehurst, who has been on a visit to friends in this City, has returned to his home in Norfolk.

Her many friends will be glad to learn that after several days confinement by sickness, Miss Patti Sanderlin is out again.

Mr. Joe Burgess left yesterday for Asheboro where he will enter Asheboro High School. We wish him a successful year.

Colonel Ryan, who has been in Hertford several days in the interest of his insurance company, has returned to the city.

Mr. Charlie Grice has resigned his position as book-keeper for Love, Evans & Co. and will leave Monday for Baltimore to accept a similar one. Mr. Luke Brothers has accepted the position resigned.

Mr. Clifton Sawyer and family leave to-day for their country home near Salem. Mr. Sawyer was formerly with Love, Evans & co. While here they have made a host of friends and all regret exceedingly to lose them.

Miss Etta F. Halstead of Henderson spent last week at this place visiting friends and relatives. She has returned to Elizabeth City, where she will spend quite awhile with her sister, Mrs. George Beveridge.

Miss M. Violet Brothers, who is in Washington, D.C., taking special course, has been offered an engagement for the entire season as Dramatic Reader, by the Manager of the “Star Concert Company,” which she has declined. Miss Brothers is quite a gifted young lady and we trust that the high purpose of her life will be fully attained by her. Her friends will commend her actin in refusing the unusually fine offer made her to enter a concert company. We feel assured that she will win greater success along other lines.

The editor is in Edenton this week attending court. Solicitor Ward is attending court at Edenton this week.

Mr. E.J. Shephard spent several days in Berkley on a visit to his son.

Miss Maggie Bell of Shawboro was a visitor in the city Wednesday.

Miss Maggie Hinton of Mumford is visiting relatives and friends in the city.

Mrs. G.W. Ward is at Manteo, recuperating after an extended attack of typhoid fever.

Mr. J.B. Ferebee has moved into his new tonsorial parlors in Flora Building on Main street.

Mr. R.B. Creecy Jr. has opened a night school in the Griggs old building on Road St.

Mr. J. Haywood Sawyer, one of our most able lawyers, is at Edenton this week attending court.

Mrs. Elizabeth Estelle Woodhouse of Oceana, Va., who has been on a visit to her parents, returned home Wednesday.

Miss Bessie Morgan, a charming and accomplished daughter of Mr. P.H. Morgan of Shawboro, was in the city Wednesday.

After spending some time in the city, the guest of Miss Connie White on Main street, Miss Adelaide White returned to her home in Hertford Monday.

The Union revival services now in progress at the First Baptist church grow daily in interest. The seating capacity of the largest auditorium in the city is inadequate to meet the great crowds that throng to hear the great Evangelist Geo. Stewart. This prophet of God is assisted by the great singer, Mr. Ramsey. We confidently trust that great good will result from this meeting.

Manteo Items
Mrs. W.J. Griffin spent a few days in Elizabeth City last week.

Miss George Harrison has accepted a school over on the banks.

Mrs. B.H. Creef has gone to Baltimore for her fall and winter stock of millinery.

Messrs Creef are building a nice new schooner which they intend using as a freight boat on this route.

Mrs. R.W. Smith and children have returned from Virginia Beach, where she has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Nelson Holmes.

Mrs. G.W. Ward of Elizabeth City is stopping at the Tranquil House for a few days recuperating. We hope that our sea breezes will be beneficial.

Rev. R.A. Willis preached at Wanchese on Sunday morning and at Manteo at night, but owing to the inclement weather, only a few were out to the night services.

The many friends of Mr. O.C. Lillybridge will regret to hear of his death, which occurred Friday, the 20th, at his home in Baltimore, caused by heart trouble and asthma.

South Mills Items
Mr. Geo. H. Jacobs is on the sick list.

Last Sunday being the fifth Sunday there were not any services in any of the churches.

Mrs. C.W. Sawyer of Deep Creek, Va., is visiting her parents and friends at this place.

The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Foster regret to learn of the illness of their little child.

A sneak thief entered the barn of Mr. Henry Williams last Saturday night and relieved him of a bale of hay.

Mrs. J.G. McCoy, Mrs. John Culpepper, Miss Sallie Culpepper, Miss Laurel Hollowell and Miss Laura Deal, all of Deep Creek, were the guests of Mrs. W.E. McCoy last Monday.

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