Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-11-26
LOCAL BRIEFS


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WE IRE requested to announce
that r v. B. E. Perkins will com
meuce h series of Sanctification
meetings at Woodland on the fifth
Sunday in this month,
Mr.. J. IT. CHM has purchased
from the Bank of Wayne the
residence onAshe street. between
Maj L D. Bass corner and the
residence of Mr. l. F. Dortch.
Mr.. W. T. Dortch IS makins
preparations to move lis family
from his country seat near the
CITY to the E. A. Wright dwell
ing, at the East end of Walnut
street.
THE Gegro who stole the two
COWS from Sampson county,
has made a full confession as to
his guilt and is now in Jail wait-
ing to be given an opportunity
to pay the ransom for his crime.
1t is reported that Santa Claus
is coming in this direction and
the advertising columns of the
ARGUS will tell in due time
where he will make his head
quarters.
Mr.. A. w. Shippman, the as
sistant superintendent of the
Wayne Cotton Mills, who has re-
Gently undergone a severe fever
illness, has so far improved as to
be out again.
MIR. Fred Holt returned Saturday
from a bird hunt in Duplin coun~
ty. He had about so birds with
him and says he has killed 100
since he left, four days ago. Mr..
Holt is an expert with gun and
is never so happy as when hunts
ing.
JUSTICE w. F. Rose, of Fork
township, reports performing
the marriage ceremony for Mr..
Wade Smith and Miss Nora Cox,
daug hter of Mr.. and Mrs, w.
Rufus Cox, at the home of the
brides parents in that township
on last Wednesday night.
THE sale of the dwelling house
and lot adjoining the lots of E
Edwards, j. M. Hollowell and
Richard Brown came off at the
court house on Friday after
noon at three O'Clock. as ad-
vertised, and was purchased by
Mr.. Will M. Smith, for the sum
5000.
MEssRs, Smith & Yelyerton's,
the oldest hardware establish.
ment in the city, is ''a map of
busy life" and clerical activity
these days, with customers mak>
ing purchases in all needed ar
ticles in the line of their large
aud varied stock.
Rev. J. Hiram Grant, after
spending some days visiting his
parents Maj aid Mrs. II. L..
Grant and witnessing the mar
riage of his sisterTi u S day Light
in the First Baptist church, left
Friday for his home in Meridian,
Conu., where he has charge of
the Baptist faith.
The melancholy days of
dreary November have come at
last and if weather prcgnostica-
tors are not mistaken in their ins
depreciation of the signs por-
trayed the Indian summer days
of the past few week are a thing
of the past until springtime
comes again.
The newly elected Board of
County Com missioners will COM
mence their duties on the 7th of
December, before which time,
however, they will hold caucus
meeting in this city to map out
their plans for future actions.
Mr.. j. F. Denning comes to
the front with the first large pork
ers of the season. He sold two
large ones on foot Thursday to
Messrs. S. Cohn & Son for the
sum of $50. They were raised on
Mr.. Denning's lot, and will be
killed as soon as the weather gets
cool enough, when their weight
can be ascertained.
JULIUS Herring. alias Henry
Bennett, colored, was arraigned
before Mayor Hill Thursday
charged with stealing two COWS
that were the property of Mr..
Henry Hoobs of Sampson county.
The COWS were brought here
Wedf 5day by Herring and
were offered for sale at reduced
rates which fact was reported to
I'll police and he was detained
to await the arrival of Mr.. Hobbs
this morning, who identified his
property. Herring was placed
in the county Jail to secure his
appearance at the next term OF
the Superior court, when he will
be given an opportunity to prove
his innocence,
THIS market is fast filing pre-
dicoious made some months ago
by men of experience, that it was
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