Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-06-07

Truckers are shipping Irish
potatoes.
After doing without bar-rooms
for fifteen years, La Grange has
decided to have a i'wet town."
and two bar-rooms have just
thrown wide open their doors.
Rey. A. B. Crumpler has been
called to the passionate of the Pen
secostal Holiness church Of this
city and has accepted the charge.
He will preach his first sermon
next Sunday as pastor.
It has been decided by the
County Democratic Executive
committee to hold township pri-
mares TO elect delegates to the
County Convention, and the
County Convention will nominate
candidates just as heretofore.
LIT. W. P. Wooten, son of Mr..
Shade I. Wooten, of LAGRANGE,
who has been doing service in
the Philippines for the past Is
months, has arrived in San Fran
cisco on his return home. This
will be gratifying news to his
many friends in this section.
Hon. Claude Kitchen, Demo-
cratic nominee for Congress, will
speak at Boston Tuesday, June
18th, at II o'clock. He is
one of the brightest young men
in the campaign and makes 3
capital speech. Everybody is in
vited, and accommodation will be
prepared for the ladies. Mr..
Kitchen will also speak in Pike
vile Wednesday, June 18th, at
3 o'clock.
At the recent commencement
at Wake Forest College Mr.. Geo.
A. Norwood, Jr., was elected a
member of the board of trustees
of that institution. Mr.. Norwood
was himself educated at Wake
Forest and will be sur to make a
valuable representative of the
college in this part of the State.
Let every Democrat read the
Constitutional Amendment so that
he "a be prepared to state on his
own individual responsibility just
what the Amendment contains.
Then he will be in a position to
denounce as false the many false
hoods unprincipled men are as
sorting that the Amendment con-
tainss
The first co1ored excursion,
which is just . little too early for
watermelons, will run from Clin-
ton to Norfolk on the 18th. The
excursion will take on passen-
gers from Goldsboro and the fare
for the round trip is only $500.
Separate cars will be provided
for white people. The excursion
will leave Norfolk on the return
trip at 6 O'Clock on the afternoon
Of the 10th.
The tax listers for the city OF
Goldsboro and for the county oi
Wayne have their Office in the
city headquarters and are wait
ing for the people TO list taxes
Instead of having to list city ano
county taxes in separate places,
the whole business is done at one
place and at one time, which is q
great convenience for the public
There are only thirty days il
which to list taxes, Sunday ex
cepted, beginning with the frs
day of June.
Mr. N. D. Andrews, the popu'
lar manager OF the retail de,
partment of the furniture hous'
of Royal & Borden, left Monday
in a new capacity for his house
He goes out as a travelling sales
man for the firm. A vacanc,
among their travelling mel
brought about this change. TIL
firm hesitated to take him from
the store, where bis services wer,
invaluable, but the vacancy hat
to be filed at once and he wa!
the only man available. His ser
vices in his new capacity will b
equally as beneficial to the firm
At noon Tuesday the Angel @
Death entered the home of MI
and Mrs Geo. A. Norwood, Jr.
of this city, and bore away to tn
blessed SaYiour's arms the spot
less spirit of their infant daugt
ter Ruth, Is months old, after
severe illness OF several days, tina