Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-03-21
OUR LOCAL OPTIC.

u emall pOX slGuaGlOn
is improving in Greene county and
the danger line is passed.
Mr.. II. E. Dillon,o of LAGRANGE,
has been appointed a director of
the Goldsboro Insane Asylum, to
fill out the unexplred term OF Mr..
Shade I. Wooten.
The city has recently put
Hermann Park in better condi-
tion than it has been for some
time. The drive and walk ways
are all right and oats have been
SoWn On the lawn.
The counties Of Wayne, Wake,
Johnston and Harnett now COM
prise the Fourth judicial district.
Under the new arrangement of
sixteen districts, this district re-
mains intact, but the name is
changed to the Sixth judicial dis
trict.
Yesterday after noon Mayor
Peterson was notified that a horse
was tied in the county stables in
the rear of the Farmers Ware
house end had been there since
Saturday without food or water.
The Mayor has caused the horse
to be taken to his stables, where
it is being car@d for.
NJ. John Walker, of the force
of sheet metal workers for the
Jno. Slaughter Co ia confined
to-day ut his home with the grip,
which it is feared is rapidly devel-
oping into pneumonia. His brother
Mr.. Dave Walker, of Mt. Olive,
arrived here Monday in reepcnse to
q summons.
At their meeting last week the
Finance Committee instructed
the City Tax Collector to pros
ceed aud collect all unpaid taxes
by distress. Now if you have
been put to sleep by the leniency
of the collector you had better
wake up and go to the Captains
desk in a hurry.
The Goldsboro people will be
glad to learn that Governor Ay-
cock has consented to come down
and make them a talk on public
education, in behalf of the pro-
posed issue OF bonds by the
Goldsboro Public Schools T'rus
tees. His Excellency will prob
ably come on Friday evening,
April 5.
The Supervisors Of the Wayne
County Farmes' Mutual Fire In
surance Company will meet in
the Court House in this city on
Friday at II o'clock. The annual
statement of this company issued
recently by the secretary and
treasurer Capt. j. E.. Peterson,
shows the company TO be in good
condition financially,
The approaching barquet and
german OF Goldsboro Fire Co.
Nc. I is attracting attention. The
young men who compose the
membership of the company
have a host of friends who take
an interest in any movement pro-
posed by the company aud inter-
est in the coming event is not
confined to the company alone.
The date fixed for the festivities
is the On OF AFcil:
The recent prosperity among
cur farmers has apparently swept
some of them off their feet, and
they ara running into debt again.
Coed times are very tickle, and
10 cent cotton may never come
again to this generation. The stu
ptndous extravaganza of the pres
ent Republican Administration is
hound 10 brig disastrous results.
Hard times will come agaio.
Ex-Sherif Jas. H. Grant, one
OF the best farmers in our county,
YVES in the city to-day. and In the
hest OF good humor remarked to
the ARGUS man: well, [ sue
ceeded in holding my cotton till
+ got s cents for it; whereas, if |
hs d sold when I first got it ready
for market | would have realized
1880 cents" And Sheriff Grant
Is 1ot The only man who hes had
tIis experience. The farmer made