Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-04-14
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Second UnSS Matter.
GOLDSBORO. N. c., APRIL IA tS9
SEVEN YEARS OLD.

Seven years ago., ON TUESDAY, Aprll
z, 1885, was printed the first number
Of The DAILY ARGUS. Seven years
is not q long period in the life of a
community like this but what great
changes have occurred within that
time can be appreciated only by
those who have been resident all the
while and stand this morning and
retrospect the progress, IN an hun
bred ways, that has been accom-
plished as the years rolled by. So
many of us go on from day to day
absorbed in the pursuit of our in
dividual a~Yocations that we scarcely
realize that every city that is really
iiving is renewing itself continually,
and it is only by occasional compar-
isons with the past that we "a
measure the progress already made.
The newspaper is, after all, but a
reflex of the community in which it
lives. This is true the world over,
and civic pride and civic spirit a
always be accurately sized up, and
the efforts being made in every
branch of commercial, intellectual
and corporate activity fairly adjudged
through the columns Of the local
papers.
Seven years age, when this writer
first launched The ARGUS upon the
tide of public favor and allied its
destiny with that of its people it
was considered a venturesome move
to undertake a daily paper in the
town, and few Of our fellow-citi-
zens were sanguine enough to expect
it to survive many weeks. It had
been tried before in Goldsboro, from
time to time, and had failed. That
seven years have rolled back from
our shoulders tells its own story of
how the paper has weathered the
sea of venture and this morning
opens a new volume in which to re-
cord its continued prosperity.
Looking back over what the city
has accomplished in these seyen
a it is wonderful to behold and
gratifying to contemplate. Factories
of every kind, electric lights, water
works. business expansion and ma
terial development, on a wide scale,
mark the course of the Intervening
years. And The ARGUS has KEEP
its lead in this period of progress
simply by trying continuously to de
serve it. It has neve sacrificed tn
absolute independence cf thought ant
high purpose Of doing it's con
scientious duty, regardless o
thrift or influence, by which i
made its first appeal TO public conf
dence. Nor has it ever failed to re
cognize that this is peculiarly an az
in which to large and ~increasin;
numbers Of people the daily pape
affords the only, if not the best
opportunity of Intellectual enlight
eminent; that they are dependen
upon it for their knowledge of lite
nature, science and art. quite as niue
as for information on current affair
as well, also, for moral elevation, an
IL has never lost sight, for an il
slant, of the fact that the increasin
number Ct readers it addresses dali
are not men only, but even more tn
women and the children; it hs
therefore ever strived to keep i
columns clean and wholesome an
be a welcome visitor to every hous
hold it enters.
The ARGUS has ever recognize
its responsibility to Goldsboro ar
the close dependence of its own pro
perity with that of the communit
and has used it's best efforts to fost
and maintain every liberal ente
prise that promised advancement
the city. 1t has had no interests