Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-01-21
LOCAL BRIEFS.

The crop of new ADVERTISE
ments continue TO grow daily in
the columns of THE ARGUS
HER many friends will regret
to know that Mrs. Jack EasOn is
quite i'll al her. home in this city.
MEssRs. J. w. and George A.
Perry, of Princeton, were in the
city to-day interviewing our bus
mess houses.
Mr.. r J. Switzerland, Jr.. of
Mt. Olive. was in the city to-day,
where he has many friends who
are always glad to see him.
REV. John e. Burrus, a Uni
v~ersalist preacher Of Alabama,
will preach at Walnut Greek
church, near Boston, next Sunday.
Mr.. W. c. O'Berry. a pros
porous young farmer with a de-
sirable plantation neal Dudley,
was in the city making purchases
of farm supplies to-day.
MIR. r. D. Holt is having i'm
provements made to the old build
ing next to the machine shops of
Messrs. Dewey Bros, and it is
said it will be occupied rs a res
%taurant.
Mr.. N. Berger has moved
with his mother from their resi~
deuce on Ashe street in this City
to his farm near Pikeville, where
he a personally superintend
his farm WO K.
The enterprising furniture
firm Of Royal & Borden il this
city r erecting a mammoth
chair factory and paint shop on
the grounds of the Southern
Railway near the ~"
REV. J. L. B,gwell, accompa>
MED by his wife and several
children, ar ived in the city Satur
Gay evening and ere the guests
Of Mrs. L. D Giddens during
their stop here. They left Monday
to visit relatives in Hyde county.
The news comes from Pike
vile that Com missioner w II
Ham is seriously i'll at his homo
near that place. His friends IN
this city ana elsewhere through
out the county wish for him a
speedy restoration to his Wonted
good health.
THE special sales OF goods with
which the millinery and fancy
goods firm of M. E. Castex &
Co Of this city, r ~overstock-
ed is attracting right much at
teution and their store is visited
daily by all army OF customers in
search of bargains.
Smithfeld Herald: Robert N.
Dixon, of Chatham county, was
placed in jail in Raleigh last
week charged with p~ostoffce
robbing. He is only 16 years old.
He has already served "a term of
eight months in the w~orkuouse
for crime.
THE Jesse Bum residence in
Pikeville township, which was
vacated by Joe Bum, son of
the late Jesse Bum. last Satur-
day, and which belonged to FL
Well & Bros was destroyed by
fire Sunday, the work of an
incendiary. Another occupant
was to have moved into the
house to day
Mr.. N. Men. Buie, from the
Angle section of this county,
was in the city to day and paid
the ARGUS office a visit. He is on
his way to Kiuston where he is to
engage in putting up large grist
mill machinery. Besides being a
professional miilright by trade,
he is one of Wayne county's sub
stantial farmers.
The death Of Mr.. Robert Peel.
a native of Wayne county, and
OIOll0T I'll N4lS- ~. l.. I'm iii, W
Cured last Wednesday. OF paral-
ysis, at his home ia Gainesville,
S. c., where he located some %
years ago, and was a successful
merchant and farmer. He was
81 years of age.
HIS many old friends here are
glad to see in the city to-day Capt
D. L. Fillyaw, the popular con
ductor on the Atlantic Cast Line.
He was in charge of the Shoo-Fly
train that it was designed to wreck
last winter, and is here as a witt
ness in the case. Also engineer
Morris, who IS as good as ever
pulled a throttle.
The past week has been a busy
one for the tobacco warehouses of
this city, and large sales have
been made every day. The plan
tiers are fast marketing the bal
ance of their crop, and with the
cont;nuation-of the present prices
the barnes in this section will soon
be empty. Although there is no
perceptible rise in the price of