Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-02-11
LOCAL BRIEFS

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usual.
FARMERS everywhere r now
busy Will larInlug preparations
for the new year.
Mr.. Thos. Holmes is spending
a few days, s'of the road" with
his family in this city.
Mrs. Jane Thompson is quite
sick at her home in this city, her
many friends regret to know.
MISS Lena Newell, of Castoria.
is in the city visiting her cousins,
Misses Jennie and Maggie Wells.
Mr.. h. A. Epting has opened
a furniture repair shop next 10
the fish market on East Centre
street.
IT was a pleasure to his many
friends to greet Capt. j. E.. PEI
terson on the street again tos
day. after a len days illness of
the grip.
Mr.. w. H. Shippman has res
signed his position as bockkeep-
Ell at the Wayne Cotton Mill and
has returned with his family to
his former home in Canada.
THERE was as fiue lot of tobac-
co on tie floor of the Farmers
Warehouse in this city to>day as
has been on this market this
season. The bidding was lively
aud the prices were away up.
MAJ. H. L. Grant made a fly
ing trip to Washington, D. g.,
Saturday night and spent Sum
day there: doubtless Intending
his fences" in regard to his pros
pective position as Sergeant. At
Arms of the .. S. Senate.
On Thursday and.Friday after
noon CT this week, at 4 o'clock,
in the Baptist Sunday-School
room, Miss Cora Blum, of Cha 5
lotte, Will deliver free lectures to
women on "Health and How to
Preserve it," All ladies are ln~
uited.
Mr.. Jack Grant, of Shine, was
in the city to-day. He reports
the farmers of his section divided
in their occupation between
making. prepa atoms for another
crop and fighting the grip. He
says the dread complaint is in
almost every family in his neigh
borhood.
The Republican and Populist
Office hopefuis is this vicinity are
getting mighty weary looking, as
they huddle around the street
corners and discuss together
their several individual pros
poets and common probabilities.
The invitation TO tue pie couns
ter" seems long to them in its
coming.
MIR. John H. Morris, formerly
of the firm of Baker, Isler & Co.,
and we'll known to and popular
with the trade of this section, is
fitting up the old ARGUS building,
next door to Messrs. HI. and NJ. l..
Lee, on West Walnut street, and
will soon open ut a full stock of
heavy groceries and farmers sup
plies.
Ma. Joseph Isaacs left y~ster
d.y as a delegate from the lodge
III this city to the Supreme
Grand Lodge B'Nai Birth, which
conveues in Baltimore thi.. week
and from there he will make an
extensive trip through the North
and East in the interest of ais
furniture and crockery house in
this city.
Mr. W. H. Billings. the gen.
ial and popular caterer Of the
Hotel Kennon, received the sad
news this morning by wire Of the
unexpected dea b of his little ten
year old son at their home in
Wilmington. Mr. Billings left
this afternoon for home. Our en-
tire community will sympathize
with him deeply in his sad af>
Fiction.
The sad news was telegraphed
to this city Nondaymorning of the
death of Mr.. John j. Gay, in
Wilson, of consumption. The de-
ceased had been in declining health
for some months. He was quite
a young man, of fine business at
tainmcnts and possessing many
friends, which made life for him
bright with promise and bouyant
of hope. His untimely death is,
therefore, all the more sad.
The interment was made il
Willow Dale cemetery in this city.
the funeral taking place upon the
arrival of the train from Wilson
Tuesday afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
JUST as an object lesson-ane
these are nothing new for Colds
DEMONSTRATING the claim of thu
ARGUS and the fact that Colds
boro is the hest tobacco na1 ket il
the STATE, we chronicle just on
sale to-day on the floor of thu
Farmers Warehouse-that of Mr.
A. S. Fields, of Lenoir county