Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-07-30
BRIEFS.

this city.
Miss Lille Kornegay. of Samp.
on county, is visiting Mrs. Mat
tie Manly.
Miss Idalydia Irwin Paylor, OF
High Point, is visiting her brother
Mr.. Fl. L. Paylor at the Hotel
kennon.
"A stone from Jerusalem was
brought to Raleigh for the cor
nerstone of the proposed Episco-
pal cathedral.
MISSES Douschka Pass OF
Mocksville, and Lizzie humphrey,
of Raleigh, + visiting the
Misses Giddens.
Mr.. Junius Slocumb and fam
lily, who have been spending some
time at White Sulphur Springs,
have returned to their home in this
city.
James H. Young, Of the Re>
publican State committee. says
there will be no Mckinley cleo
toral ticket in the field in this
State.
The ice factory has placed their
new boiler in position and it is
ready to furnish the additional
steam chat is required for their
machinery.
WHAT about the Bryan-W Watson
Cluhl The court house will soon
be finished and it is time that some
action a being taken by the
Democrats of Goldsboro.
GRASS has been allowed to grow
up in the walks that were recently
laid off in the court house square
and the work has been stopped al
together. Is this the end of it!
WHAT about the electric light
question? Perhaps it would be
best for those that ire wise to
have their lamps trimmed and
burning when tie present con-
tact expires.
TEE date on which M. r. E.
Pipkin's big excursion leaves here
for Norfolk is Tuesday, August
18th, instead of August 10Th, as
the types made it appear in this
paper yesterday.
A CALLED meeting of Wayne
Lodge No. 112 A. +. M. will be
held tomorrow evening at S
o'clock for work in First De-
gree. A full attendance is de-
sired. By order of the w. M.
The modest edifce of ST.
John church looks dark and de
serted these nights where of late
has been continually heard the
agouizing prayers of sanctified
saints and the happy shouts of
newborn souls.
A SELECT party of young peo-
pie were out hay riding in the
moonlight until a late hour last
night and jubilant voices made the
welkin ring with shouts of laugh
ter and merry songs.
The Bright Jewels of st. Paul
church will give a Butterfly Festi-
val next Friday evening in the
rooms formerly occupied by the
7. M. G.. A, All the delicacies of
the season will be served and the
public is cordially invited to attend.
THERE was a meeting of the
Board of County Commissioners
in this city Monday to, inspect
the improvements that are being
made to the interior of the court
house and to order the payment
of some accounts for labor and
material.
PROF. J. Y. Joyner, a former
superintendent of the Goldsboro
city schools, but now of the facul-
ty of the State Normal School at
Greensboro, is in the city, where
he has many warm friends who
Ire always glad to e him. I"
THERE was a big baptising at
Mount Olive to-day and several
new members were added to the
Baptist church, the result of the
series of revival meetings hat
Rev. Jno. T. Edmundson, the
evangelist, is conducting at that
place.
Mr.. j. M. Hollowell has ac-
copied a position as bookkeeper
for the National Bank of this city.
His many friends congratulate
him upon his preferment, and the
Bank also is to be congratulated
on securing such competent SER
vices.
THE death of Dock Thompson.
the old colored man, who for
years has acted as janitor for the
Bank of Wayne and prior to the
beginning of his service
there was employed by
the late Albert Day at his
store, in which latter capacity he