Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-02-01
OUR LOCAL OPTIC.

OUK LOOAL VI IN
The State Agricultural Departs
ment will inaugurate a Farmers
Institute at Snow Hill on the
18th of February. Among the
speakers areProfs Massey, Kilgo,
Holmes, johnson and Curtice.
Queen Vic can't bluff your
cousin Kruger by the announce
ment of all those grandchildren
of hers that are booked to appear
this season. Dom has q battalion
or so of grandchildren himself.
1Mr. W. 6. Britt has received
the sad news Of the death of his
wife's mother, Mrs. Louise
Schenkel in Baltimore, where
Mrs. Britt was summoned by tel
egram one day last week. The
many friends of the family in this
city will tender their sympathy
in such great affection.
The new firm of Bizzell Bros.
are opening up their stock of
shoes aud hats at the old stand
of Sutherland, Brinkley & Go.
The individuals who compose
the firm are not new men to the
trading public of Goldsboro, but
they have q bran new stock
which will command the admir-
alton of the retail buyers.
A strange light appeared in the
East about 7:3O o'clock Saturday
evening. A great many people
saw the light and there has been
right much speculation as to it's
cause, but so far it still remains
a mystery. The theory of a big
fire has not been confirmed by
any news of the kind.
The cold wave that is now
sweeping down upon US may not
be measured as to it's severity or
duration. What is Il come we
may not know till it gets here:
the coolest weather this town
has experienced within the mem
DRY of the oldest Inhabitants
and some of these go back before
the town was established-came
upon us last February.
The news of the death Of Mr..
Chas O.. Terry, which occurred at
his home in Wilmington Mon
day, will be received with sincere
and widespread regret in this
city and section, where he was
so we'll known and highly esteem
ed. He was at one time engaged
with the Southern Express com :
pany here, but of late years was
one of the travelling passenger
agents of the Atlantic Coast
Line.
The Regi-ter of Deeds of Wayne
county issued the following mar
rage licenses for the week end
ing to-day: White-Murray Ay~
cock to Bertha Edgerton, David
Dunbar to Louise Jennett, j. w.
johnson to Mary Eliza Rodgers,
J. M. Mitchell to Cora G. Dali,
David Mccall to Bette Barnes,
Frank Peel to Daily Smith. Col
ored-Deora Atkinson to Laura
Edmundson, Ernest Foy to Susan
Barnes, Sam Miller to Beatrice
Williams, Benjamin Freddy to
Mary Exum, Gabriel Sherard to
Elizabeth Lewis.
Few people, even thinkers,
ever realize the enormous ex-
pense attached to the operate
Organization and the large
amount of money expended in
educating and training grand
opera artists, in addition to the
years of hard study and work and
strain upon the nervous system.
There are several hundred OF
capable concert singers in the
country, but few of them will
ever reach the ladder of Grand
Opera fame. Nc wonder there is
SO much surprise manifested in
the coming to city Of the In
ternational Grand Operate Com
pany of London, England and
New York; as the artists that
compose this supurb organization
are all educated in foreign
schools, thousands OF dollars
having been spent in their edu-
cation, and in the case of some
OF the members, years OF expe-
rience has been added, All are