Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-02-03
THE ARGUS.
DAILY AND
LOCAL BRIEFS.


tract to build a residence for Mr..
Frank Bizzell.
The beautiful little poem we
publish in this issue would make
a most admirable rule of life.
AND still the pie hunters of the
Rep-Pop fusion persuasion are
abroad in the land-unsatisied.
THE Newborn Fair this year,
which comes off on the 28th of
February, has secured a wild
west side show attraction.
The woman Wlo is continually
lecturing her husband either con-
siders him a fool or else she has
forgotten that a word to the wise
is sufficient.
The work of surveying the city
with a view to ascertalning the
cost of sewerage system is about
completed and as soon as the
maps are made out Capt. Price
will submit them to the Board of
Aldermen.
ALL the large tobacco buyers
are still on this market and prices
have not been better this season
than they are at present. The
few farmers who have not sold
their tobacco could not do better
than bring il in at once.
A REPRESENTATIVE of the
Palmer Company Man
ufacturers of electrical merchan-
disc OF Norfolk, has been in the
city for some days looking after
the establishment of a branch
house here. He has also been to
Mt. OLIVE to give that town fig
res on an electric light plant.
The resignation of r. E.. Pres
ton, as director of the United
States mint, was last week tender
ed to the President, to take eff
feet upon the appointment and quail
ification of his successor. Mr..
Preston has been connected with
the Treasury Department for
more than forty~two years.
The title page of the Woman's
Home Journal for February shows
a "Gibson baby''-a chubby little
pigeon-toed cherub IN the arms of
a ''hufily" attired and graceful
looking woman, looking down in
admiration on her burden. Ar
fist Gibson is the father of the or
iginal of the baby picture.
THE advertising columns-of
THE ARGUS are proving extreme
ly interesting these days to frugal
bousekeepers on the alert to
drive bargains aLspecial sales;
and the merchants, too, who pa
troDize our Columns find that it
pays them in the volume of
tradeJtney secure by thus cater
ing to the intelligence of a thrifty
reading public.
The following is a list of mar
rage licenses for the week ending
February End: White-James D.
Kellet to Bette Taylor, r. FL.
Potts to Louisa Daniel, Jack
son Whitley to Annie Dickens.
Colored: Leonidas Cole to Lsura
Turner, Eddie Herring to Eliza
beth Cox, Richard Robinson to
Penny F'alson, John Sanders to
Ann Eliza Evans.
THE ARGUS is always glad t.
note progress, and our neighbors
across the way. The 6. U. & R
Co.. by their announcements
seem to US to be strictly ''upsso'
date" Though in business emily
FIVE months. they every month
have announced something new,
and besides those already men,
toned have en- route an invoice
of elegant upholstered folding
choir chairs that will be used a
residences on funeral occasions
without charge. They have
moreover, so far sold all TIT
carts they could make, and ar,
kept constantly busy in their re-
pairing department., as well.
A PARAGRAPH from the Laws
of North Carolina. session 1891
says shat any person who shall
place unwholesome matter of am
kind upon the banks of Littl,
River or any of its tributaries il
Wayne county in such a name.
as to contaminate the water shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor.'
There have been instances il
which trees and brush have beef
cutinto the river and the Colds
boro Water Company will en-.
deavor to prosecute the guilt,
parties. It is the aim of thi
company to give the people o
Goldsboro pure water, and witt
the law to help them they vii
no doubt succeed.
Mr.. James Cole is an employ
of the Wayne Agricultural Work
and he is known to be frugal an,
economical, which characteristic
have caused him to save a create
part of his earnings. He has in
vested his wages in real estate
from which he gets rents, an
from this source, together wit
wage money, he had accumulate
about $3.50, 90 which he had in hi
trunk at home. Monday after