Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-07-06
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OOA\ AoOlAA III AAOs
Misses Estelle Tomlinson, Minnie
Best, and Mary Emma Gidden
are at home again from spending
a week with relatives and friend
In Mt. Olive.
Miss Emms Edwards is a
home for vacation from Knox
vile, Tenn, where she is employed
as head trimmer in one of the
most fashionable millinery estab-
lishments of that city.
Mr.. j. Schwab is just back frcn
am extended trip through the en-
tire South. He says the cottor
crop is about as large this year al
last and, that the condition Is bet.
ter than it was this time last year.
Several country carts loaded
with ripe water melons occupied
Walnut street this morning. 1t ls
rather early for the luscious COM
modify, but our people are ready
for them-especially the "cullud'
population.
Tobacco barnes out through the
country contiguous to Goldsboro
are already beginning to smoke,
with the first curings of this years
crop of the golden leaf of COM
merce, and a l our tobacco ware
hoses are making ready for their
opening on the first day of August.
It is reported that believer in
Sanctifcation, and a good man.
too, recently plowed up his field
of tobacco, near this city, because
he thought he had. a vision in
which he was told that he was
committing a sin to raise tobacco,
one of the curses of the present
day.
Have you been out to the
Park yet? You would hardly
know the place! And the work
cf beautifying it has just begun.
Both Messrs. Henry and Sol
We'll have most liberal works
designed for the place, which
when completed and executed will
make it already second to no
Park in the State. We go for.
ward.
Already the people are talking
of Pipkin's big excursion to Nor7
folk, Washington and Baltimore,
and many are thus early making
preparations to s'take it in." Mr..
Pipkin tells US that he will lave a
special boat-one of those fine
Norfolk & Washington passenger
steamers, chartered exclusively for
his excursionists TO Washington.
The Atlantic Coast Line have
decided to establish a flag station,
for freight and passengers, on Mr..
Lotte W. humphreys farm, in
Fork township, on the Midland
road, to be known as :Grass~
imere," the name of the farm. This
will be a great convenience to the
farmers OF that fertile neighbor-
hood both for shipping of tobacco
and Gotten to this market and for
travel. Tee station will be equip
ped with covered platform.
DR.. Paul G. Hutton arrived in
the city last Thursday on a
passing brief visit to his home
and friends here, on his way to
San Francisco, whence he will
sail on July IL for Manila, being
ordered to report for service in
the army of the Philippines. DR..
Hutton is just from Porto Rico,
:2nd left his mother and sister
who vera with him there. in
Washington, at the home Of his
brother, Mr.. Dan Hutton.
And 80, the post Office is to bs
.moved into the Law Building un.
sder lease with the Government
for ten years. Wellj Ihe people
,who have made tiae Office what il
iis-the people who hare made
.Goldsboro the city that it is and
through whose enterprise and
business energy this post office il
now rated in the second class, are
95 per cent of them, at least, op-
u,osed to this arbitrary and par
tisan aetion of the Mckinley ad.
ministration. In the whole his.
tory of the town the post Office
has always been somewhere con-
Veniently located on East and
West Centre street, except the
short while, under q former Re
pubIican administration, ii was To-
Gated in the Law Building. This