Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-09-02

MT. OilYe Lodge, L. ". u f.,
No. 1o4, meets every Monday
night at 7.45. ALI visiting mem
bers in good standing are cordially
invited to attend. j. r. Smith,
NC.
Presbyterian Church; every LIST
Sunday morning and night. Prayer
meeting Tuesday nights. Rev,
Peter Mcintyre pastor.
ARGUS BUREAU,
JNO R. SMITH. Mgr :
August 81, 1897.
For. the good of our town, $50
they say) Nit. 1t is current re-
port here that the W. & w. Rail
road Company have settled on
plans to lay another side track
through the centre of MI. Olive,
on the west side of the main track,
and then use the new track for
the main line and the now main
for a side track, This will neces-
sarilY make our streets much
narrower, and, in short, will be a
curse to the business portion of
town. 1t really looks like the
railroad authorities are determined
to get all they can out of Mt.
Olive and do as little as possible
for the upbuilding of the place.
We venture to say there is not q
town on the W. & W. road be-
tween Goldsboro and Wilmington
that pays anything like the freight
that Mt. Olive pays, and but about
three towns between Wilmington
and Weldon, including Goldsboro,
| that furnishes them with as much
business as Mt. Olive does, and
yet all these smaller stations can
have nice, commodious brick ware
houses, while we have to put UP
with an old pieced-up wooden rat
den that is an eye-sore to the town
and much too small to accommo-
date their patrons. 1t looks to
the average citizen of Mt. Olive
that the company could and should
give US q new, commodious ware
house and a side-track out Of the
centre of town; in fact, in some
respects it should regard and re
spect the wishes of a cooperating
and well-wishing community
With the side-track even as it is,
the main street is always decorated
with the empty and loaded box
cars, many of which are filled
with guanos and ~ish-scrap ma
nures that can be easily traced and
detected by their peculiar and dis
agreeable odors. Some of our
best citizens talk of the advisable
ity of holding a mass meeting and
selecting one or two representa-
tives to go down and demonstrate
with the officials and get them, if
possible, by mild means, to de.
sist of marring our beautiful little
city. We believe the railroad au-
thorities would not totally disre-
gard nlnety-nine per cent. of ouI
citizens wishes and so advise
that we let our wishes be known
to the authorities at the earliest
possible moment. Much more
could be said concerning our treat
ment by the railroad authorities,
but We refrain from further com
ment with the hope that an
amicable settlement may be &C
complished.
Capt. Pay and wife of Viii.
mington were visiting the family
of Mr.. H. T, Ham, Saturday and
Sunday.
MIR. j. A. Westbrook is on an
extended trip to Texas and will
be gone for a month.
Miss Annie Broadhurst who
has been spending several days
with the family Of Mrs. G. Davis
IF near Seven Springs. returned
Monday. Mr.. Clarence Davis
bringing Der home.
Miss Lizzie Westbrook of Fai-
son is spending a few days with
Mrs. J. A. Westbrook.
The most economical route
from which to start the railroad
that soon must find its course
headed Seven SDrinsWard, is
Mt. Olive. 1t is the shortestdis-
lance from Mt. Olive to Seven
Springs of any point on the rail-
road, and there would not be q
trustle fifty yards long to be
built over the whole course OF
the road from this point, Most OF
the people would give the right
of way for the benefit it would be
to their property. The whole
distance is high and dry, and the
road could be built for about
what it would cost to build
bridge over Neuse river. Should
the road be built from some other
point it would have to cross
the river to get to the springs
Again this is one Of the best secs
tions that road could be bull
from, for the reason. if the road
were built from here To the
ISprings it could be easily ex
tended on to New Bern ard ther
to still further extend it there is
no better country to be opened
up by.a road than from here