Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-03-28

company has orders booked ahead
and the prospects for business is
good.
A solid car load of furniture
was shipped from the G~oldsboro
Furniture Factory to-day clean
across the continent, to San Fran
cisco, Gal. And last week two
car loads were shipped to Sacra-
mento, Cal. Thus does the merit of
Goldsboro's factory products as
sert itself in distant markets. We
go forward.-Daily Argus, Mich %
His ExcelIency Gov. Aycock
passed through the city on Sunday
to visit his father-iu-lav-, elder
VIM. Woodland, who is still con-
fined by his recent accident at his
home near Wilson, but is inn
proving. The Governor was look
ing well and was greeted gladly by
those who CHANGED to see him be-
tween trains.
MI. G. B. Hatch, of MI. Olive,
who has recently returned from
taking a curse in Poughkeepsie
Business College, was in the city
Monday. He has disposed of his
mercantile business in Mt. Olive
and will devote his time this sum
mer to the excursion business, in
which line he is we'll and favorably
known 10 the general public.
The proprietors of the Hotel
Kennon property are having plans
made for an additional wing to
the building which will add about
80 more large rooms. The addi-
ton is a necessity and is brought
about by the increased patronage
of the Hotel. When completed
the addition will bring the Kennon
abreast of any hotel in the State.
The R.. E. Jones Buggy Co. is
working on full time with a full
force of help. It is the purpose of
the company to turn out one huns
dred buggies per month. They are
not doing much just at this time,
but they are making improve
ments all the while and will soon
have to look for new markets to
dispose of their output. Up to the
present local dealers have dis
posed of their output.
The annual meeting of the
Wayne County Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance Company was held
to-day in the Court house. The
reports of the officers showed the
company to be in good condition
with good prospects for business
during the present year. Capt. j.
E. Peterson was unanimously
elected secretary and treasurer. He
has made the company a splendid
officer and the supervisors showed
their appreciation by reelection.
On Sunday afternoon the 4-year
old son of Mr.. Ben Shading, who
lives near Faro, drank a consider
able quantity of wbiskey, which
he found in the house, ard di, d
Monday afternoon 10 great agony.
The boy watched his mother Sc
crete a quart bottle of whiskey,
she not thinking that he would
modest it, and after she was gone
he went and got the bottle and
drank near a pint. In the same
neighborhood some time ago a
larger boy was sent to Eureka for
whiskey and on the way back
home be drank enough to Kill him
in a few hours.
Under the new Aycock law in
reference to gambling those peo-
pie who are in the habit of giv~
ing force to their assertions bv
saying, "I'll bet you so and so,"
may be liable to the penalties
proposed and it might be we'll to
change such assertions for sI'll
warrant you," or 'sI'll venture
the assertion" Possibly the lat>
ter would be preferable, as it
might be the officer of the law
who would do the "warranting'
after all, in case there was a vio-
lation of the law. These SUCCESS
tions are just a reminder" be-
cause the provisions of the law
are TAR reaching and cover the
whole field of gambling in any
shape or form,