Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-12-19

S0Ws 0AO A0 Was ON4ACO ouAA0y
last, beside his boyhood and life
long friend Tom Faison, in the
old family burying ground of
Thos. I. Faison, neal Warsaw.
He was a man of high character
and cultured tastes and an earn
est christian. May he sleep well.
Santa Claus will have no trou-
BILE to find presents for the chil-
dren when he comes to Colds
boro. All the stores which carry
toys have the greatest variety
ever seen here before. The old
gentleman would do we'll to make
this his headquarters for the
State. We have more toys than
the children can use.
The East Goldsboro Land and
Investment Company through the
Humphrey Gibson Co. have tens
dered a site for the location of the
Orphan Home which the Junior
Order Of United American Me.
chanics will erect in the State
next year. There will be other
sites rendered, so it is said, which
shows that the people of Colds
boro wish the home located here
and that they will give literally
for that purpose. -
The photograph gallery over
the postofhce is a popular place
of retreat every afternoon for the
ladies and children who are an
xious TO get their ''beauty
struck" for a dime. From 2
o'clock in the afternoon until
sunset The sidewalk in front of
the stairway which leads to the
gallery above is crowded with
baby carriages, the occupants of
which are in the nurses arms
waiting for their turn before the
cameras kx.
The residence which Nj. W. K.
Parker is erecting On the lot adj
joining the Presbyterian church
will not only be handsome in ap-
pearance, but will be commodious,
as well. MI. Parker is having the
work done under his own super
vision and the arrangement of the
building will be made with a view
to comfort and convenience. He
will not have it completed before
the spring and will not occupy 1t
before the LIST of next May. xa...z,
"The railroads are guilty of
criminal negligence in continuing
to discharge passengers right out
on the open tracks in al kinds of
weather with the trains passing In
all dire ctions." said a travelling
man to an ARGUS reporter to-day.
"The chances are thAtif a passen-
ger does not get killed by a pass
ing train he will contract pneu-
monia by being dumped out In the
cold rain and having to wade
through mud and water to a
shelter.'
The distressing intelligence
has come to this Office of the
burning to death Of the two.1 ear
old child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Kirby
Smith, at their home in The coun-
try. The child was playing
around the fire side and attracted
the attention of it's mother by it's
screams. The frightened mother
picked the child up and ran to
the front door with it's clothing
in a blaze. A traveller passing
the house at the time possibly
saved the mother from a horrible
death also. The child died in a
short while.
The death of DR.. J. M. Hadley
occurred Friday morning At
his home in LAGRANGE, of pneu-
monia. BE was widely known,
had an extensive practic and was
a man of considerable means. He
was greatly beloved by all who
knew him and will be sadly miss
ed both as a physician and citizen.
he was twice married, his second
wife being Miss Josephine Wing
field, of Portsmouth, Va, who
with one child, and a grown son
by his first marriage survive him.
He was a brother Of Mr.. J. A.
Hadley, Of MT. Airy.
Early Thursday morning at the
First Baptist parsonage showers
began to fall in the way of oc-
casional baskets and bundles. A.
ter several had arrived the inmates
began to wonder why SO many