Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-03-24
LOCAL BRIEFS

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is now at the home of her sol
Mr. Ed. l., Edmundson.
Mr.. Joe Essential, of the firm
of Il. We & Bros who has beer
on an extended business tril
North, making purchases o
spring goods. has returned tt
the city,
MRS. Annie Cohn has returned
from the northern millinery
centres, where she purchased {
beautiful line of spring millinery
and fancy goods which are being
displayed at her place Of business
on East Centre street. She has
added to her stock of millinery q
few select dress goods fabrics,
Our city is constantly adding
something new to its large quota
of industries. We now have a
trucking syndicate, composed OF
several local progressive young
men, who have rented three acres
of land and planted a watermelon
"patch."
REV. Collett, a colored divine,
who has been preaching at the
Methodist church for the past two
weeks, has drawn large crowds to
hear him. 1t is said that he has
had over one hundred converts up
to last Sunday and also that he has
made wonderful faith cures among
the afflicted.
THE death of Eliza Simmons
colored, occurred at her home in
this city on Saturday night. and
the funeral was held this morn
ing and the interment made in
the colored cemetery. She was
the wife of William Simmons, an
employe Of the Enterprise Lum-
Der Co., and was about 40 years
of age.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asher Edwards
have issued handsomely litho-
graphedfnvitations to the COM
ing wedding of their daughter
Miss Charlotte to Mr.. VIM. Ur-
bansky, of ST, Mary's, Kansas,
which happy event will be SOL
emn'z- ID on the afternoon of the
29tb, in Temple Oheb Sholem,
and the reception will follow in
the evening at the Hotel Kennon.
SINCE last weeks publication,
the colored people have had a
monopoly of the matrimonial
market in this county-not a
single white license being issued
since Wednesday of last week.
The following is the weeks list:
Columbus Jeter to Minnie Ham;
Richard Rhodes to Repsie War;
rem Jno. W. Stokes to Betsy A.
Broadhurst Will Whitley to
Annie McLamb.
THE Rev, A. B. C1umpler, the
leading apostle of the doctrine of
sanctjfcation in this section, is
scheduled TO arriye in this city
next Sunday and commence a se-
ries of services that are to last
some days. Mr.. Jas, C%rumpler.
an uncle of the noted divine. will
arrive here Thursday with the
tent, which will be erected
on the court house square. Rev.
Merritt and Drs. Peck
and Wilson, national officers of
the Christian Alliance, will deliv-
addresses on holiness in this
city on Thursday.
EVERY Sunday School worker
should not fail to hear Prof. Fl.
Hamill, who will make an ad-
dress in the Presbyterian church
Of this city on Tuesday night,
the 29gh inst. He is in This State
under the auspices of the Inter-
national Sunday school Associa-
ton, and is one Of the foremost
men IN the work in the world. He
is also to make a short address
on the Sunday~school Normal
work Turing the afternoon of the
same day. This is the time of the
Goldsboro Township convention.
and every school, it is hoped, will
b. largely represented.
Mr.. d. II. Wallace, who is
we'll known to the merchants of
Eastern Carolina over which
territory he has travelled for
some time as a dry goods sales
man for a Northern house, has
associated himself with Mr.. N.
Carter, of Wallace, and will
conduct a general merchandise
store at that place. Both gentle
men have just returned from
the North, where they purchased
large stock of goods, and Mr..
Wallace passed through this city
afternoon with his FAM
lily, who are leaving Washington,
c., their former home, to
make Wallace their future place
of abode.
Sam johnson, a respectable col
ored man living on the lands of
w. H. Smith in the Pike
vile section, was found dead in
the woods on Tuesday, near his
hog pen. He left his home Sum-
day morning to feed his hogs and
his wife was not anxious about his
return for he usually went to visit
his neighbours without saying any
thing about it. His prolonged
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