Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-03-22

ana OGh6rWISes run OOWh anu nun 1n
by OmnIpresent Ubiquitous. Local
Grand Rounds"
Rev. A. W. Patterson will
preach in 1.-THE Primitive Baptist
church in this city on Wednesday
evening March %.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Bizzell and
Mrs. Blanche Frederick. their
milliner, have left for the North
to purchase their spring stock of
millinery and fancy goods.
MI. K. J. Davis left Saturday
nightfo for the manufacturing cities
of the North to purchase the
cotton mill machinery for the
Borden Manufacturing Company.
Our young friend Mr.. Tyson
Dortcb, a Goldsboro boy, has
successfully passed the West
Point United States Military
Academy examination, and is now
a full-fedged student of that
noted institution.
The following marriage Ii
censes were issued in Wayne
county for the past week ending
to-day: White--H. @. Futrell to
Harriet 9. Combs. James Hicks
to Ada Sullivant, James r. Pear
son to Mary G. Massey.
Recently while Mr.. W. H.
Sugg was making repairs to the
door steps at the Office Of the En-
terprise Lumber Company he
found a vaIise hidden under the
steps which contained quite a va
riety of small articles, mostly
cheap jewelry and secondhand
s~ilverware. It is supposed that
some thief imagined the officers
were on his track and hid the va
lise until some convenient time.
A new sect of religious be-
lievers, both white and colored,
hailing from the eastern part Of
the STATE, have made their APP
pearance IN this county and are
preaching at PatetoWn and Sauls-
TOP. The white people alternated
with the colored people, one
preaching at S~aulstop in the day
and the other preaching at Pate>
town in the day, and at night
they exchange places.
The firm of Switzerland, Brink
ley and Co., which occupies the
desirable corner store in the Bor-
den building, is in the forefront
with our most progressive mercan-
tile institutions. Through the eff
forts Of the manager, Mr.. L. G.
Switzerland, who is a popular
young man with much business
training, the customers of the firm
are growing in number with each
succeeding season,
Mr.. Jne. E. Smith, of Mt.
Olive, the proprietor and manu-
facturer of Smiths AntieKink, a
preparation which makes kinky
and curly hair straight and easy
to comb, was in the city Tuesday
selling his product to u drug
gists. There is a big demand for
the article among colored people,
whose kinky hair has been the
ource of much trouble and an
noyance.
The death of an old colored wo-
map, Amanda Jones, occurred on
Sunday within thirty yards of the
spot upon which stood the cabin
she occupied when a slave. She
was the faithful and trusted SER
want of the McKinne family, be-
'ong'ng to Mr. d. g. McKinne
during his lifetime and afterwards
remaining with the family until
her death. She lived on the farm
of Mr.. ". R, Hollowell and was
6ver 70 years of age.
A negro named Hardy Odum
was sent to Jail late Monday
afternoon. He vas given a pre-
liminary hearing before Mayor
Peterson on the charge of stealing
clothes from Mr.. Ed. Sasser on
Boundary street. The stealing
took place before Christmas, but
recently MI. Sasser recognized
some of his clothing which the
negro was wearing. While the
trial was IN progress Hardy jump
ed out of the window Of the
Mayors Office. but was ~recaptured
and sent to Jail.
Goldsboro's prospects were
never better than now. The