The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-09
GOLDSBORO GOSSIP
for Meeting Of he CoUn-
ty sunday schooi Convention Dates
for Public Speaking In Wayne n
Writer'S Recollection of His First
Visit To Wilmington.
Correspondence Of h Messenger.)
G%oIdsboro. ~. c., October 3.

Goldsboro, n. c., October 3.
The county Sunday school onven
ton will be held in the Goldsboro to-
bacco warehouse on John street. This
is a most desirable place for the con-
vention in every way. Workmen are
busy oday arranging seats and other
necessaries. The floor space will az
commodate several thousand.
The convention ~convenes Friday eve
min at 7.3O o'clock with a musical con-
cert under the dictatorship of ]. E.
Dunbar. For several days a very large
choir has zee drilled by Professor
Dunbar and the choir service will be an
attractive feature of the convention.
Hon. Claude Kitchin, democratic
candidate for congress-, and Hon. T.
G. WOoten, Bryan elector for this on
gressional district, will speak in Wayne
ounty as follows:
Hood Swamp, Thursday, October 18th,
at 2 D.. m.
Goldsboro, Thursday, October 18th.
at s p. m.
White Hall, Friday, October 10Th, .
p. m
Mt. Olive, Friday, October 18th. 7.30
p. m
Grantham's Store, Saturday. October
9th, 3 D.. m.
The ladies will be welcome, and their
presence is especially invited.
Claude Kitchin is easily n of the
best speakers in the state.
Sam Lee, the Chinese farmer, has
moved TO Georgia. He grew here sue
cesSfully China cabbage, peas, okra,
balsam apples and a number of other
Chinese vegetable products. This yea
he cleared more than 81, 200 on a very
fny- ~. ~ L. -saa1,-
fitted up with a gasoline engine and
pipes for irrigating purposes, but cor
cluded Georgia had some climatic adj
vantaSes. He was also in the laundry
buinesS here, being succeeded in This
by n of his countrymen.
Mrs. E. A. Stevens, who resides in
Grantham township, this county,, has
a lot of home mad I've oap forty-four
| years old, having been made in 1856 by
the grandmother of her husband. The
soap is in a splendid state of preser-
walton; fathers beautifully nj as d dirt
remOver eXcelS many of the latter day
products.
The following heirs of Charity High
will find it to their interest to communi-
cate with MIR. L. F. Ormand, clerk of the
county court, this city: Miles B. High,
Claudia High, Walter High and Melton
High. Their whereabouts is not known
here, out il is thought some of the num-
Der reside in Wilson county. The clerk
has $3.50 to be divided equally between
them.
The burial Of Mr.. John Holman took
| place at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
at his late home near Dudley. Mr..
| Holman did a mercantile business at
| Dudley and conducted a farm nearby.
He died Monday evening. He was
about SO years Of age.
Needed improvements are being made
to the interior Of the court house..
A. c. Winslow, a former resident,
but for some years past engaged in the
stock business at Kansas City, Mo-, is
in the city On his usual annual visit.
Mr.. Winslow says the bulk of the
stock for the past year or more has
been old to the British government
with whom he had large contracts.
Quite a number of our people will
attend the Greensboro fair next week.
This reminds me OF my early visits
to our city by the seat was during
the Wilmington fair days and when
the mule had full sway in the street
Car business. The largest town l had
visited before this did not exceed go
in population and my mother told me
all about Wilmington; she had lived
there. She cautioned me when walk
ing that | should keep to the sidewalks
and out of the way Of vehicles. Pref
ty soon after arriving there and when
on the alert for a sidewalk l discover
ed the street car line of those day with
a car being drawn by a mule, moving
off. / concluded this was the walk
mother wished me to take and on behind
l went till the stopping ground near
the cemetery was reached. l saw a lot
of folks getting out of the car and [
followed them into the cemetery, which
impressed me at the time, l was quite
a youngSter. as being a most beauti-
full spot. Walking on 1 soon got in
conversation and being of an inquisi-
ton mind, 1 found out all bou the
street car and o bet 1 didn't walk
back in the city That was my first
ride on a street car. The thing that
impressed me most out at the fair
grounds was VIM. A. Faison's large
j. P. Smith, Of Pikeville, was in town
today.
Mrs. w. K. Parker and children are
visiting relatives in Warren county.
]. w. Lynch and H. c. Wooten, of
Kinston, Robt. Hill, of Faison. H. L.
Stevens, of Warsaw, Editor Whitley.
of Mt. Olive, George Wynn, of Lenoi
county, Sam Parker and S. G. Wells,
wilson, spent a few hours here today.
Tie Hebrew day of atonement was
YER! generally observed here today by
our Hebrew fellow citizens.
Continued rains prevent picking OF
cotton.
Correspondence Of The Messenger.)
Goldsboro, N. c., October T.