Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-11-14

positions and would bs q desirable
acquisition for Goldsboro.
Mr.. f. e. Tudor has a tame
ferret which for d~ispatching rats
double discounts the most astute
mouser or active rat terrier.
The large crowd near Robinson
Bros. drug store Monday morning
was Witnessing an exhibition of
the ferret's work on a trap full of
rats.
The ARGUS makes it's best
bow to it's good friend Arthur
Whiteley, the aggressive and YER
satile editor of the Mt. Olive Ad-
vertiser, for his generous words
Of endorsement and good wishes
for the ARGUS in his Issue of
last week-all of which we res
,ciprocate.
People are beginning to want to
know where the city hall and
market will be erected. This
question will be decided by the
board of Aldermen, and we doubt
not that they will consult the pub
lie interests and act wisely in the
matter.
Perhaps cotton will touch bot
tom when the South stops try
ing to sell it all in one day, and
quit sitting at the exchange table
playing sharper at their own
game and having the cards dealt
so adroitly as to bewilder the
man who is at the other end Of
the line.
Mr.. W. Fl. Barnes, proprietor
of the Goldsboro Bakery, has re-
Gently greatly enlarged its capacity
and added the latest improved
baking equipment, which brings
this long established and reliable
enterprise right up to the front,
both in capacity and merit
Mr.. e. E. Britton, formerly Of
| Wilson. but for some time now
| one Of the versatile pencil pushers
on the staff of the Raleigh News
& Observer, was in the city be-
tween trains Tuesday, on his way
to Wilson as a witness at court
| there this week in the case OF
Edwards VS.. the W. & W. Rail-
road.
At toe meeting of Choral
Society last Tuesday night it was
decided to make the Emergency
Hospital a neat little purse out OF
the $68 now in the hands of the
treasure and keep only a small
amount to buy music. The Society
will still hold together and meet
twice a month to sing for their
own pleasure.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church will give a musicale in the
parlors of the Olpmpia Club on
Friday evening Of this week,
opening at 1880 o'clock, to which
an admission Of 25 cents will be
charged. An elaborate and inter-
esting vocal and instrumental
| programme has been arranged
and an evening of rare enjoyment
is promised all who attend. The
public are cordially invited.
The Georgia Legislature, now
in session, is endeavoring to ind
a remedy for the cocaine habit,
which is very prevalent among
the negroes of Georgia, and is
not unknown among the whites OF
the State. This subtle and destruc-
tive form of drunkenness is soid
to be spreading rapidly in all the
States, although it creates phys
icaI wrecks much more rapidly
and surely than alcohol does or
any other habit of a like nature.
We can never be too thankful
for a climate like that of Colds
boro, which bias, with two excep-
tions, been sunshiny, bracing AID
delightful for the past month.
There is a little snow and rain, to
be sure, in February, but taking
cur winter climate through and
through we do not believe that it
is surpassed by that of any Lealth
resort, and, after all, among the
causes that go to make up happi-
ness. surely good health and clear