Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-10-19
Raleigh Fair week.

Raleigh Fair week.
Miss May Smith, of NJ Olive,
is in the city, visiting Miss Sal
lie Stevens.
The renowned Gentry's Dog
and Pony Show is heading this
way, and will hold forth here on
October "a.
Rev. S. T. Moyle has returned
from Nash county, where he has
been assisting in a protracted
revival meeting.
The city tax collector is on the
war path, and those who are de-
linquent in this regard should
govern themselves accordingly.
There is TO be a "Coon Cons
cert" in the Messenger Opera
House at an early date for the
benefit of the organ fund of the
Presbyterian church.
Mr.. Maurice Epstein, of the
popular firm Of Epstein Bros !,
has just returned from a ex-
tended trip North where he
made purchase of a complete
stock Of fail goods in their lines.
The following marriage licenses
have been issued during the past
week: White-Louis Williams to
Marv e. Holloman. Colored-
The auction house OF III. II.
D. Holt has closed its doors and
gone out of business. Heis aDxis
Gus for those who have goods on
consignment to call for them at
once. The business has been
closed up in order to rent the
building to other tenants.
Mr.. Zeb Vance Barrow, from
Jason, Greene county, brought a
quantity of tobacco to Goldsboro
yesterday which he sold on this
market this morning at prices
entirely satisfactory and went
home praising the Goldsboro
market.
The city ordinance which for
bids the riding of bicycles on the
sidewalks will go into effect OF
Friday, the 2Otb, Bicycle riders
had better try the streets occa-
sionally in order to get accus
toned to the change. The ordin-
ance provides a fine for riding
on the sidewalks beginning with
the date mentioned.
Mr.. W. o. Harrington, the pc
lite press agent for Prof. Ger
try's Dog and Pony Show, was
in the city to-day. The show will
hold forth in Goldsboro next
Tuesday. The best trained ami
mails in the world are said to be
with this show. This is not the
first appearance of the show in
Goldsboro. The programme is
not only interesting to children,
Oub SAOWh PCCPlO % we'll
Dr.. Williams Spicer won the
prize for holding the largest
number of tickets at the soda
fountain of M. E Robinson &
Bros. this season, which closed
Monday. The tickets we're
counted Monday and DR.. Spicer
was awarded a fine Jersey COW,
which was the prize this year.
Last year and the year before
they gave away a handsome
pony.
No the least among the subs
stantiaI growths of G%oldsboro IS
the GoLDsBoRo WEEKLY ARGUS,
which covers within Its circulation
the entire trading territory of
Goldsboro, and carries weekly to
an aver increasing number Of sub
scribers the advantages of our city
as a market town. If you are a
business man in Geldsboro and are
not an advertiser in the ARGUS
you do not evidence business sa-
gacity-that's all.
Fine breaks Of tobacco were
had on the floors of our city
warehouses to-day. Thus do the
farmers realize from day to day
that we've got the best tobacco
market in the State. Experiment.
ing with other markets in cotton
and tobacco when Goldsboro is
the natural market of the farm
ers of this county and section
has cost some of our country
friends considerable. 1t is time
that all such we're learning that
G~oldsboro is the market for
Them t.
Mr. Haywood Lynch was in
the city Tuesday telling about a
wonderful huat that he and Rev.
N. M Jurney and Will Granger
had down near Newport, at the
Lodge, last week. They killed
several deer ,one of which weigh
ing 200 pounds. Haywood-.says
he never had so much real fun
in his life, before, and that one of
the chief funny features was hat
brother Jurney, who is a crack