Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-04-21
I'll ARGUS.
LOCAL BRIEFS
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.pauy, too, has become patriotic
and will allow it's employees to &c
to the war, retaining their posi-
tions for them if they come back
alive.
AFTER preaching to large
crowds both night and day for
the past three weeks Rev. A. B.
Crumpler has folded his tent and
gone to fill engagements else
where.
Mr.. r. E. Crawford. Of Ra-
leigh, is in the city visiting his
sister, Mrs. B F. Edmonson.
MI. Crawford is to manage the
Seashore Hotel at Wrig htsville
during the coming season.
NEXT Monday night the Dem
ocratlc voters in the two wards
of the city will meet at the court
house, aud the opera house, to
nominate a board of aldermen to
handle the business Of the city
for the ensuing year.
The truckers along the Allan
tic Coast Line have made ar
rangements for two trains daily.
Shipments of Strawberries are
going on at a lively rate. The
crop is very large. Last year;
1855, 900 crates were shipped. 1t
will be 100000 more this year
unless the crop is cut off in some
unforeseen manner.
ONE of Sherman's men who
served in the Union army has
been stopping at Lindsey's and
imparting to the guests some of
the sub rosa doings in Goldsboro
when the Union troops reached
here His description Of the
doings Of some of the officers in
an old house here is more anus
ing than punishable.
The following marriage licenses
have been issued in Wayne coun~
ty for the week ending April 10:
White: James Kyle Barbara May
Isler, j. H. Wheeler to Matte V.
Martin. Colored; Henry Roberts
Barbara Sutton, Aaron Station to
Anna Rose.
AN examination will be held at
the old Y. M. G. A. Hall in the
Arlington Hotel on Friday norm
ing to fill q vacancy in the U. S,
Naval Academy at Annapolis
from this, the 2nd Congressional
District. Applicants must be
between the ages Of Is and 20
years and must be actual resi-
dents of the district.
THE real estate of the late DR..
Jno. Holt was sold at public auc-
ton in this city Monday. The "a
cant property surrounding the
Presbyterian church brought
near $500, the small vacant COR
ner on West centre street sold
for near $500, the home place
sold for$1. $50. and 40 acres hear
the Standpipe brought $3.50.
and yet there are some people
who sit around and grunt and
grumble and say Goldsboro real
estate is on the decline. 1t will
be seen by the above figures
that the contrary is the case.
Property is advancing in value,
and the whole town is going for
ward with it.
THERE have been four burglar
les reported to police headquarters
within the past week. All of these
robberies we're committed where
the occupants of residences had
gone from home III the day time
and left their doors open. There
is a large number of the floating
population of Goldsboro who are
waiting just such opportunities.
When people have to leave home
either in the night or day they
should close and lock their doors.
WAR news has had an effect on
even the book trade, to say moth
ing of the immense increase In the
sale of newspapers. Libraries
are busy places these days, and
everybody wants to read some
thing about Spain, Cuba or the
navy. And in the book stores
the demand for these books is
something wonderful. No matter
much what it is so that there is in
it some description of Spain and
her people or of Cuba. The re-
suit is that many Spanish histories
and books of travel that haye been
lying on the shelves for a long time
are now selling rapidly.