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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-11-18
TIT. OLIVE LETTER aa
. Condensed ChroniC1ing OF the
Events that Transpire in ri
That Town and T
Section. 20

Quite a number of the Colds
boro boys we're visiting in town
Sunday. Among them were
Messrs. David FarrioI, Wayne
Bass. Geo. McGee, Granger
Kornegay. Lorraine Bass and a
number of others.
Mr.. G. B. Hatch bought a u
months old calf from Mr.. Fisher
Kornegay that tipped the scales
at 800. who can beat this. IF the
farmers would pay more atten-
ton to the raising of such stock
they would be independent of
making set cotton.
Mrs. Annie M. Smith died
Tuesday morning Nov. 18th at 2
o'clock a. m. and was buried this
evening at 2 o'clock p. m. She
died in the faith of our precious
Saviour who said, believe in me
and you shall be saved" She
had many friends and relatives
who will deeply mourn her loss.
She leaves two daughters, one
married and one single. The
whole community sympathise
with the bareaved daughters.
Mr.. E. J. Walker, of Mt
Olive, has a copy of the Farmers
Journal, published in Goldsboro
and dated August 81, 1872, which
says in a local column: "Messrs.
Hugh Humphrey and H. J. Ham,
sold the first two bales of cotton
from this county on Friday even
ing and Saturday morning of las
week. Both bales were purchased
by Messrs. Gregory, Galloway &
Co, at 20 cents per pound"
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Indigestion is often taken for con-
8 lmption. The word consumption
means wasting away, and dyspeptics
often waste away as badly is consump-
tives.
The reason people waste away is be.
cause either they don't get enough to
eat, or they don't digest what they dc
eat.
If the latter is your trouble, take
Shaker Digestive Cordial. This will
help you to digest your food and STOP
your loss of flesh.
Shaker Digestive Cordial is made
from herbs, bar ks and the juices of fl vi
by the well-known Shakers at Mouni
Lebanon. It possesses great tonic AND
digestive powers.
Shaker Digestive Cordial has cured
many supposed consumptiyes twhe
were really ~dyspeptics), by simply
helping their stomachs to digest theii
food, thus giving them noursshmenl
| and new strength.
sold by druggists. Triol bottles 10c
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ARGUS
JNO- r. SMITH, Mgr.
No0 ~ 1907

Mr.. Jim Carr was in town Sat.
urday.
Miss Fife Brown is visiting
Miss Annie Flowers.
Miss Katura Switzerland is
spending a week with relatives
and friends at Faison.
Mrs. Mamie J. Hoyett, of
Jacksonville, N. c., is spending
some time with Mrs. III. T. Ham.
There was quite an interesting
performance given in the open
air Tuesday night and it will be
repeated Wednesday night.
Mr.. VIM. Saunders is very ill.
His mother Mrs. Jessie Saunders
and brother John came Monday
and will remain with him until
he is improved.
MI. Need Morgan cut his foot
severely Monday evening with an
ak, cutting one of his toes through
and others severely.
What has become Of the pros.
poets for a bank? You know it
would help the town and what
helps the town helps you. Talk
it and help it along.
We r glad to welcome Mr. J.
K. Bell and family to u excel.
lent little city and hope they may
fine it as pleasant as many others
have found it to be.
Mr.. AID. Royal the evangelist
sanctification preacher was in
town Saturday aud is holding &
series of meetings at the Rhodes
school house. The meetings are
largely attended.
Mrs Charity Howell has beer
Spending few days with hel
daughter Mrs. VIM. Sasser, neal
Goldsboro. Her grand daughter
Miss Essie Saser returned hom,
with her to spend a few weeks.
Mr., and Mrs. G. A. Griswold
of Dover, are in town, having
been called by the sudden illness
of Mrs. Annie Smith, VIII,
is Mrs. Griswold's mother
Mr.. julie Cox and daughte
g Miss Maggie are also here. hav
ing been called on the same sa,
mission.
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PIKEVILLE LETTER.

PikeYille, N. G., Nov. 17th'9
Dear ARGUS Mayor K. b.
went down to your city
yesterday on a business visit.
There is a sa~nctlfication revi-
val going on here this week, con-
Quoted by Rev. G.. M. Levister
Each service is being attended by
unusually large congregations and
much interest is manifested.
Miss EHe Blow returned home
Thursday from a short visit to
friends in your city.
Rev. A. T.. Orn1ond filed his
regular appointment at Mount
Carmel church Sunday at II
a. M.
There was quite acrowd pres
ent at tho debate here Tuesday
night. The subject for discussion
was aResolved that the stock law
be a benefit to Wayne coun-
ty =" Both sides of the subject
were handled in a mastery manner
by the speakers and after duecon-
Esideration the judges rendered
their decision in favor of the af-
frmative. & gfa
Rev. F. W. FAIRIES, of your
city will preach here in the alliance
hall, on the fourth Sunday in No
vember, at 2 o'clock p. m.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Williams,
formerly of this section but now
iof Greene county, happened to q
very distressing accident last Fri.
day. Soon after dinner they went
out to the field, which was some
considerable distance from The
house, to work, leaving their two
small children in the house. In q
short while they discovered thai
their house was on fire. They i'm
mediately ran to the house and OF
reaching the burning building the,
managed some way to rescue on
of the children and were compel
ed to leave the other one to perisl
in the flames. Mr.. and Mrs
Williams have the sincere sympath,
of the entire community, wher
they are we'll known.
J. F. II.
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FREMONT NEWS.

Fremont, N. c., Nov. II, '97.
DEAR ARGUS:-The low price
of cotton causes times to be a
little hard with our people just
now. r. .-.-.
Cotton picking is now about
over in our section.
We are glad to note that our
"iJity" Hall is being painted, and
hope to see the building soon
completed. a79a esa E41
Several of our young people
have been attending the revival
now being carried on at Pike
vile. 4a35aa 5sst
Rev. A. L. Ormond preached
to a large audience in the Metho-
dist church Sunday night.
DR.. L.. 0. Hays. of Lucama was
in town last night.
Mrs. W. H.. Massey, of Colds
boro. is visiting her sister Mrs.
B. F.. Aycock of this place.
Miss Lannie Speight and Miss
Matte Darden spent Sunday in
Greene county visiting Miss
Lille Edmundson.
Mr.. J. H. Hinnant and family
leave tomorrow for Wilson,
where they expect to make their
future home.
Messrs. F. M. Watson and J,
e.. Hooks spent Sunday in Sara.
toga-several others from Ere
mont also.
A. B. Headeu and family leave
to-day for Virginia, where they
expect ito maze their future
home.
Miss -Nettie- Farmer, a mos
Charming and accomplished
young lady of this place add Mr.
Thomas FELTON, Of Saratoga Viii
son county. were married tc-da,
at 2 o'clock at the residence o
Mr.. and Mrs. BllF. Aycock, in tn
presence of a small circle o
Immediate friends and relatives
1.-The ceremony was performed b,
Elder P. d. Gold, of Wilson. Th
wedding march by Miss Lauri
Speight of Fremont.
OBSERVER
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horses with the boys again. He
will swap if he is given one half

horses with the boys again. He
will swap if he is given one half
a chance.
MRS. BIB. Nitherington spent
a short while in Goldsboro last
week visiting Mr.. Mordecai With
erington and family.
Mr.. J. +. Faison spent a couple
of days in Goldsboro last week,
and reported a very pleasant
trip.
Miss Lydia May Fryar, one of
Faison's most beautiful and at
tractive young ladies', took the
northbound train Wednesday
morning for Baltimore, where
she goes to visit her friend Miss
Alice Pigford. She expects to
visit Washington, D. c., while
away, and will be gone three
weeks or probably a month.
Rev. e. W. Cakes, of Boston,
Mass. began preaching for US
last Thursday in the Presbyte>
rian church, and will continue
this week. He seems to be Sec
ond to none as a Bible student
and exponnder of tbs gospel. We
are always glad to have him with
US.
Our street commissioners is to
tie congratulated on the improve
ment of the streets by the recenl
work. Summons the boys again
soon.
There seems to be quite a lot OF
sickness in this community now.
and they keep our doctor busy
healing their diseases.
After all complaints and growl-
ings about short crops, there-has
been a very good crop of every
thing gathered IN this section,
and the farmers haven'tanything
to kick at but five cent cotton.
Miss Bumgardener, one of the
teachers it the James Sprunt In
stitute, Kenansville, visited the
home of DR.. Faison Sunday.
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If You Need
DRUGS

John R. Smiths Drug Store
For them. There you will find Ia q
the leading Patent Medicines
Sundries, etc. I will meet all
competition and sell you
GENUINE ARTICLES
AS cheap as you can get them
elsewhere. IF you want pure
drugs go to headquarters for
them. Thanking you for your
liberal patronage of the past and
soliciting a continuance of the
same. l am Respt Yours
adf JOHN r, ILL.,
The Druggist. Mt. Give. N. G.
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Eczema
All Her Life.

MI. E. d. Jenkins, of Lithonia, Ca,
SAYS that his daughter, Ida, inherited a
severe case of Eczema, which the usual
mercury and potash remedies failed to
relieve. Year by year she was treated
with various medicines, external appli-
cations and internal remedies, without
result. Her sufferings were intense,
and her condition grew steadily worse.
All the so-ca11ed blood remedies did NOT
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Z If you want some cheap goods
don't fail to call on j.. r. Smith,
he is selling granulated sugar at
81 cts and other things in propors
tion.
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Hon. Warner Miller has had SO
much experience in sitting up with
political remains that he doesn't
mind the present New York situa-
ton the least bit.
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You may eat cheap food and not be
seriously hurt by it; but you cannot
take cheap medicines without positive
injury If you use any substitute for
Ayers Sarsaparilla, you do SO at the
peril of your health, perhaps of your
life. Insist On having Ayers and nc
| other.
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It you want drugs go to j.. R.
Smiths drug store for them. He
will sell you a guaranteed chill
cure for 25 cents.
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

II Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
let's All druggists refund the money
lit fails TO cure. 26c, sssaa
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ARGUS BUREAU,
Faison, N. @.
November, II.

MI. D. B. Faison, represent
ing the firm of Luppert Scales
q Co., Winston, called on our
merchants Monday with a nice
line of tobacco.
Mr.. T.. j. Holmes, Of Colds
boro, was in town Monday selling
groceries for the Goldsboro Gro
Gerry Company. Tom is a hustler.
Judge Fuller was here Sunday,
visiting his daughter Mrs. 1. F.
Hill.
Mrs. DIR. Faison, from BIN
nettsvil.e, S. c.. is visiting rela-
tives in town.
Miss Kate Switzerland, one of
Mt. Olives fair ladies. is visiting
her many relatives in our place.
We are always glad when she
comes.
Mr.. R. G. Homes, of Clinton,
was seen On our streets Monday.
Guess he came over to trade
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For a barrel of the best -four,
or pound of tobacco for the
money, call on Lewis & Hines.
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e to reach the dis.
ease at all until S.
SIS. was given, when
an i'm m e nj
was at once noticed.
The medicine was
continued with fav-
orab1e results, and
now she is cured
sound and well, her
skin is perfectly
clear and pure and
she has been saved
o what threat
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ened to blight her life forever. -
SIS. Guaranteed purely vegetabAe)
cures Eczema, Scrofu1a, Cancer, Rheu-
n1atism, or any other blood trouble.
It is a real blood remedy and always
| cures ever after all else fails.
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FAIsON ITEMS.

Rev. E. w. Cakes Preaching in
the Presbyterian Church
Sickness i'm the COuntry-Per-
sOnaI Mention of People
Coming and Going.
Below will be found an iater-
esting chapter of current events
that have transpired for the past
week in the town of Faison and
the surrounding section. This
chapter is recorded by two pop
ular young gentlemen of Faison,
who will continue their cOntribu-
tions from week to week, and
those who receive a sample copy
can secure the ARGUS regularly
by leaving the price of subscrips
ton at the store of Messrs. Lewis
& Hines.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26

The natives eat much decayed fish.
They are all honest.
Thousands of miners from other ma
tons will &c.
Hay grows as high as mans head.
Hardy vegetables can be raised
All streams show true gold assures.
Take plenty Of -four. Buy all you
think you need, then buy more. Last
winter a man killed himself because
he had five pounds of baking powder
and no -four.
Under act OF congress communities
of miners can make their own laws.
No thief gets a fairer trial any
where, nor any prompter execution.
Make caches on platforms six feet
high. Wolves.
1t will pay you to wait year or
two. 1t costs $1,000 now and will cost
5000 then.
All distances are gigantic. 1t is 1000
miles from Sitka to Klondyke.
A boat leaving Dawson, Sept. 20 is
chased to the mouth by freezing
water.
All wood in the Aleutian islands
grew on glaciers in Alaska.
Whole forests break into the sea.
Some streams are bridged by gla-
ciers.
Some wood is beautifully polished
by glacier action.
Avalanches in the interior are I'M
known.
Owing to dryness there is not much
suffering from the cold.
Take a 1870 rife, with telescope
sights.
One small tribe makes $4,000 a year
from silver fox skins. They are worth
$3.50 each.
Exposed portions of the body freeze
n three minutes.
Enough library: One Bible, one
Shakespeare.
Snowshoes not needed in the mine
country.
Buy mines from discouraged miners.
Trading companies will not carry
goods for competitors.
Next year competition will bring
down their prices SO per cent.
Meals on the boat up the river cost
81 each.
Men who have gone this winter to
axe their living saving wood Will
rot have time to say much.-H. S.
Garfield in the Herald.
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HUSBAND AND WIFE IN KuoSTA.
Their Relations Are Marked by Every
Evidence of Mutual Courtesy.

This is curious custom you Amer
leans have OF referring to your wives
by their husbands names, observed
Glanvock kaplon, an intelligent Rus
sian traveller, says the St. Louis Re-
public. L supposed the American
held his wife in as high esteem as
the Russian holds his, but if at home
l should speak of my better half as
Mrs. kaplon my friends would at once
conclude that my domestic relations
were not as pleasant as they should
be and that l was thinking of a legal
separation. When l first heard an
American speak of his wife as Mrs.
Jones, for example, felt almost like
presuming on my acquaintance by in
truding into his private affairs and
asking him what the trouble was at
home. Yet | soon learned that the
custom was universal over here, but
still | cannot get used to it. My
wife is the plain, blunt way l speak
in Russia of the lady who, l suppose.
would have to call Mrs. Kaplon in
polite society in America. In some of
the more fashionable circles of st.
Petersburg this American social GUS
tom has been adopted, though l was
told by a prominent government Of
fetal not long ago that the car dis
approved of it."
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RUM WAS KING OF COMMERCE.
1t was a Power in New England and
the African Slave Trade.

The power of rum as a commercial
factor in the colonies was at its
height about 1850, says the Brockton,
Mass, Times. That year the royal
treasury report gave SO distilleries in
Massachusetts turning molasses into
rum. This formed the store for about
900 vessels engaged in various branch
es of trade-4O0 in cod fishing, 200
mackerel fishing, 100 whalers, etc.
Newport kept pace relatively with Bos-
ton. Refuse cod fish paid for much
of the molasses.
Connecticut attempted to prohibit
distilling, because it made molasses
scarce, but the prohibition was very
hastily stopped when the citizens
found that business went where rum
could be obtained. Rum proved the
best New England commodity in all
trading operations. Rum was the In
dams choice; in fact, his only &C
ceptance, as payment for his peltries;
it was chosen with equal eagerness by
this Virginian or Carolinian in ex-
change for his tobacco. The New
foundland fisherman wished it in re-
turn for cod fish, and, most important
OF all, on the Guinea coast New Eng
land rum entirely vanquished French
brandy as a medium, for acquiring
slaves. The commerce in rum and
slaves afforded all the ready money
that paid for any merchandise in Eng
land. 1t was the driving power of all
commercial machinery. The circuit
was powerful at every step. The Yam
kee vessel laden with homemade rum
sailed to the African coast. The rum
was bartered to great advantage for
negroes. The negroes were carried to
and sold at large profit at the West
Indies, and it's distillation in Newport
and Boston started afresh the round of
New England money making. Some
times trade was so brisk that the
Sometimes trade was so brisk that the
market was stripped of rum.
In the year 1852 Isaac Freeman
wanted a cargo of rum for the African
trade. He sent to Newport, where
were then 80 great rum distille1ies in
full blast. His correspondent wrote
that he could not have it for three
months. There are so many vessels
loading for Guinea we can't get our
hogsheads of rum for cash. We have
been lately to New London and all
along the seaport towns iii order to
purchase molasses, but we can't get
one hogshead.'
The ship masters were not above
watering the rum to make it go as
far as possible. Old Merchant Potter
instructed his captains to trade with
the blacks, worter yer rum as much
as possible, and sell as much by short
messur as you can
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HUMAN DUMMIES TO ORDER.

There is in London a gentleman who
makes business Of supplying human
dummies for receptions, parties, etc,
and who incidentally branches out into
helping the advertiser. The way in
which he does this is graphically told
in PearsOn's Weekly and may prove
interesting to the n anagers Of depart
ment stores in this country: Last year
l supplied no fewer than 500 dummy
customers to the leading West-end
shops. At the beginning OF all the
stOck-taking sales they thronged into
my clients establishments, eIbowing
each other in the rudest manner in
their eagerness for bargains. They
bought quantities of goods, which,
needless to say, were never delivered.
You've no idea how this dodge infiuen-
ces the general public. 1t simply made
all of the sales. Naturally none of the
dummies knew each other, and
doubtless some of them smiled at each
others gullibility, as they mistook one
another for genuine customers Five
shillings a day | charge for dummy
customers, but, then you see, the work
is light and the hours are short
Talking of shops, last year l supplied
two West-end drapers with a shop
walker apiece Probably neither of
them had ever been in an establish
ment of the kind before. AS a mat
ter of fact, both were gentlemen down
in their luck. | selected them for
their exceptionally fine personal ap-
pearance and courtIy bearing. Both
firms subtly circulated a romantic
rumor in connection with them, and
for time society nibbled at the spicy
tit-bit, and, of course, lost no oppol
tunfty of getting at the shops i'll
which the heroes of the stories were
employed Those two dummies
doubled the business during their stay,
and when their novelty had worn off,
l knew one was presented with ESQ
note in addition to his salary.
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VALUE OF THE NEWSPAPER.
1t is the Most Effective Way of Reach
ing the General Public

1t is the experience of the largest
advertiser, who spends hundreds of
thousands annually-that newspaper
advertising is the most effective,
Some of these advertisers use the
billboards, but only supplementary to
their newspaper announcements. It
is also true that circulars and sample
copies of trade newspapers" make an
expensive and Intellectual medium of
reaching the rgain-seeking public.
4 household in which the local paper
is a stranger, in nine cases out of ten
will be found poor field for enter
prising merchants. The family that
does not take a paper, as a rule, is
not in a position to take advantage
of bargains 1t will be found bound
hand and foot to the credit system
buying only where credit and not bar
gains is given. Intelligent men and
women have not the time nor the in
clination to read circulars, trade papers
with column or two of news renashed
from the daily papers of the week
preceding. Curiosity may lead a few
nonpurchasers to read them; they soon
reach the waste paper and rubbish
receptacle. Experience has demon
strated that as a regular and effective
means of reaching the public the
newspaper with standing in the COM
munity in which it is published cannot
be eQualed-EXchange.
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FELINE VITALITY.

It's an old saying that "a cat has
nine lives,' and, like most old sayings,
not supposed to have any truth in it.
But from recent Investigations it
really seems that cat can hold on
to life under circumstances where any
other creature would die A cats life
may be proved to be, at the least,
three times the worth of a dogs. Put
cat and dog of the same age in
a "lethal chamber" such as they have
at Battersea the cat will always out
live the dog. On one occasion it was
noticed the dog was dead in five min
utes, and the cat still breathing forty
minutes later. A cat has been known
to recover after two hours immersion
in cold water, and another came back
to life eight hours after apparent death
from a dose of prussic acid.
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WATER IN PASTURES.

One of the things which needs atten-
ton at the present time is the water
supply in the pastures. Animals must
have water to drink or they will soon
perish. When they are not totally de-
prived of it, but are given an INSULT
cient quantity, they suffer greatly and
their owners do not obtain from them
as large a profit as they should re-
ceive. But quantity is not the only
thing to be considered. Quality, also,
is of great importance. And it is here
that trouble is more likely to occur
There are very few farmers so thor
Oughly careless as to confine their
animals in pastures that are, even in
times of severe drought, destitute Of
water, but there are a great many who
are not nearly as careful as they
should be to provide water that is
pure.