Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-04-01

or, will soon have Mr.. Y. H.
Knowles new brick building
completed and also the one he is
building for Mr.. II. T.. Ham.
1t is to be hoped that the talk
of a Bank for Mt. Olive will
soon develop into a reality. Such
an enterprise would be a great
help to the town as we'll as a
great convenience to the trucks
ers. I don't think there is a bet-
ter opening in the State than Mt.
| Olive for a small Bank.
Mr.. j.. H. Brown, of Chadborn,
N. c., visited Mr.. j. H. West
brook Thursday.
! Mr.. Thad Jones, of kenans-
vile, was a business caller in the
city Thursday.
Mrs. L. K. Elmore visited
Goldsboro Thursday and return
ed that evening.
Mr.. Oscar Pearsall, of the well
known grocery firm of Hall &
Pearsall. of Wilmington, called
on our merchants Friday.
Miss Annie Switzerland is Wis
iting the family of her uncle MI.
B. B. Witherington, of Faison.
Mrs. B. F. Lee, of Smithfeld,
visited his mother Mrs. T. r.
Lee Sunday and left Sunday
night.
Mrs. D. f. Newell, who has
been visiting her daughter Mrs.
L. II. Lambert, at Black Creek,
returned to her home Sunday.
MI. Geo. Lewis visited his
father Mr., Dave Lewis, neal
Dudley, Sunday and Monday.
Mr.. q. T. Ham left yesterday
for northern manufacturing cen
tres, where he goes to buy his
ISpring stock of goods.
Miss Gertrude Rogers, of Fai-
son, is visiting Mrs. Clifford
i Owens this week.
Mr.. M. S.. Witherington ane
wife, of Goldsboro, spent Mon
day with the formers sister Mrs
!, R. J.. Switzerland.
Jas. Elmore has left Mt. Olive
to take a position with the A. G
! l.. at Rocky Mount.
Z Look out for mad dogs! On,
of Mr.. Prices fox hounds wen
} mad last week and was kille,
l near Mt. Olive. The papers ar,
: full of deaths caused from by
8 drophobia, and yet this last mis-
, cradle pie hunting gang tina
convened at Raleigh. calm.
themselves representatives
would not pass MI Parker's do.
tax bill. It would be advisabl
for those having dogs of any valu
e to fasten them up for a fey
weeks, for no one would b
: blamed. for killing a dog tina
-even looked suspicious.
81 Marcus Ham, formerly an as
sistant telegraph operator here
4 is spending a few days here wit
friends.
G. B. Hatch spent Sunday i
Duplin visiting the family G
. Rcbt. Joe Williams.
G. b. Price and Jas. R. Hate
Il attended church at Friendshi
d Sunday.
Rev. Rice Carroll filed his u:
ual appointment at the Baptis
. church Sunday to quite a Iarg
congregation.
The many friends of Mis-
e Olivia Fits will be glad to hea
g that she is rapidly recoverin
yfrom her recent illness.
IS Robert. Grady, of BurgaW
spent Sunday with the family ,
E Grady.
lr All that Mount Olive needs no
IS to make it absolutely the be
'r town in the State is a cotton mi
and other manufacturing interest
Is for we are in a very healthy cl
mate and have good water, raj
;. an abundance of cotton, thousant
of dollars worth of truck, and a
a now raising as good tobacco
is raised anywhere in the Stat
and even our huckleberry Gro
IL which is a wild and uncuItivatt
Sc one, brings far more money in
the community than the best Gu
: tivated crops of some sections.
Mr.. d. j.. Aaron is spending
IN few days with his family.
:. Our truckers have not receiv,
es fancy prices this season for onion
They have been very low, al
shippers are not anxioes to she
IT. their returns.