Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-11-25
LOCAL BRIEFS

Mr.. B. B. Raiford has made
his appearance on our streets
with the old reliable Turner's
North Carolina Almanac for the
year 1898.
Now that we have had several
heavy frosts it will soon be time
for "'simmon becr;" but great
havoc has been worked on the
persimmon trees throughout this
section Of late.
REV. Stewart Mcqueen left
last week for Montgomery, Ala.
where he goes to accept the recs
torship Of prominent Episco-
pal church of that city. HIS fam
lily will remain for the present
and follow him to their new home
next week.
THE business of the Goldsboro
Grocery Co. is increasing from
day to day as the firm become
better known among the retail
merchants through this part of
the State. They cater to the
wholesale trade only and do not
handle orders of consumers.
A COUNTERFEIT silver dollar
every now and then is reported to
this Office. We do not know
whether it is the same old dollar
being pushed along or another one
of the same kind. But it is coun.
terfeit, and should be looked out
for.
GOLDsBORo is headquarters
for the stock trade of Eastern
North Carolina, as is shown every
season by the large number OF
horses and mules that are sold
here. In a few days they will be
arriving by the car load. Al
ready there have been some
shipments, but they were spe-
cial orders of fine stock.
THE DeWolf Hopper Opera
Company, sixty-fve strong, will
play in Raleigh on the OH Of
December, and the Southern
Railway will! sell round trip re-
duced rate tickets from this city
on that occasion. The reading
public will remember the furor
that this company created with
the opera Wang" in the large
cities.
Mr.. E. A. Humphrey has
moved his Office from the Law
Building into one just rented
from Mr.. S. W. Isler opposite
the Court House. Mr.. Hum
phrey has recently been made at
torney for The Southern Realty
Exchange, which deals exten-
tensively in valuable properties
all over the country, but espe-
cially throughout the South.
SOME sneak theft, not having
the fear of the law duly instillec
into him, has stolen Mr.. D. M
Hardy's macintosh, from his Law
Office in the court house, bu
failed to steal the cape that be
longs to the coat Mr.. Hardy
asks that the thief return th'
coat, Or else come and get tht
cape also, that he is no halfway
man, he either wants the entir,
outfit Or none at all, that the cap,
is no good to him without tn
coat.
WHEN Mr.. Chas. Smith wa
removed as freight agent of tn
A. & N. G. r. r. at this point b,
the new Republican administra
ton of that road. the compan
owed him, after a careful an
competent checking up" money
This was his record for some si
years of service. After a servic
of six months his Republican
Populistic successor has bee
removed from Office, summarilJ
for owing the company money
being some $500 short" Thu
runs the record of the unhol
gang that now have swing in Of
fetal place in North Carolina.
QUITE a compliment has bee
paid to the Goldsboro Wate
Works, and its system of tiltr;
ton, whereby the purest {
water is served to our citlz I'll:
Mr.. Frank Evans, the progre!
sive superintendent of the plan
has recently received letter {
enquiry as to the managemer
and filtration Of this particula
plant, from Herr Nicholas SINH
chief engineer Moscow Wate
Works. Moscow Russia. This
evidence Of how for the fame
the Goldsboro Water Works plsi
bas reached.