Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-20
LOCAL BRIEFS

enough to go in when it rains or
was going to rain.
Successfully photographing
the brain may show wheel in
huence to the extent that millions
have taken the bicycle into their
heads.
DR.. J. S. Bizzell, of the popu-
lar firm of Bizzell Bros. & Co.,
who has been on an extended bus
mess trip through Georgia and
Tennessee, has returned to the
city.
SAYS an exchanges: A live
merchant remarked that if he had
one hundred dollars invested in
merchandise, he would advertise
it as regularly as if it was a ten
thousand dollar stock. Now,
that man has the right idea of
things, and is succeeding. How
man can depend alone upon
chance to sell goods in this com
-petive age is a problem un-
solved.
THE competitive target shoots
ing between two picked teams of
the Goldsboro Rifles came off
Friday at the new range given by
DR.. M. E. Robinson. Lieut..
Gulick's team won by eight
points. Capt. T. II. Balm won
the 100 yard prize, making a
0f 81 nf noccihlo OK
r. A. Creech won the 200 yard
prize, making a score of 20 out of
a possible 25.
THERE was a large number of
farmers in the city to-day from
all sections of the county and sur
rounding counties. They report
farming operations under good
headway for the ensuing year
and diversified crops the slogan.
This is as it should be. When the
farmers diversity their crops
and raise their own home sup>
plies. prosperity is then at their
very doors, and come to abide
with them SO long as they cons
tinue thus.
GoLDsBoRo is getting to be
such city that we can no longer
see from one side of town to the
other, and therefore we need to
adjust ourselves to the changed
condition from twenty years ago.
We need sewers, telephones
and fire alarm system
and especially do we need the
last. Whenever the fire bell
sounds the people rush wildly
about the streets asking, "where
is the fre?" and generally no one
knows. Even the drivers of the
hose wagons have to go first in
search of the place, and may be
going from instead of toward the
fire. Let's have the electric fire
alarm system.
The report that Nansen has
reached the North Pole and is on
his way back is important, if
true. He is as likely as anybody
to have got there and as likely to
get back, and there is no inner
ent improbability in the success
of an expedition that was most
carefully planned, after the sug~
gestions of many explorers ex-
perience, and was in entirely
competent hands. Nansen has
been gone nearly three years,
and it is time for him to be get
ting back, if he is coming. But
Arctic explorers are among those
whom we are not to expect till
we see them. Rumors do not
fly fast in Siberia and there could
be no news of him at all unless it
were positive news. AS the res
ports are by no means positive
or definite in form, we shall
have to wait somewhat longer.
But everybody will hope for
Nansen's success. Some day
somebody will achieve this goas
and it may as easily be Nansen as
another.
From time to time THE ARGUS
has urged the equipping of our
water works system with a first
class filtering outfit, in order
that at all times the public may
be served with clear and whole
some water. But up to this
time nothing has been accom-
plished in this regard, and, appa-
rently, no heed has been paid to
our suggestions by the powers
that be. There is nothing SO detri-
mental to the progress Of city
than unwholesome water sup.
piled by public works. 1t is
worse than no water works al
all. Prospectors of desirable
class for citizens are quicker and
more effectually turned off from
] a town by unwnolcsome water
q. than by a score of other OBJ
,r;Jiections combined. Ii anyone
~ will observe the thick mud
- dy water that is at this very time
being supplied through our city
water work, due to the heavy
an freshets in the rivers-that are
linfof regular and frequent occur
, strence-the wisdom of THT
o. ARGUS in urging a filtering out
fit will be at once apparent. Wha
say our city fathers? What j:
their Interpretation of the city''
contract with the water Compa
ny? Does the present water NEE
the requirements of the contract
It is time for this question to bs