Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-26
purely LOCAL.
HEMS OF INTEREST IN AND
AROUND THE CITY.
Picked Up BY the Ubiquitous
Reporter and Chronicled
For the Information
of Argus Readers.

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The county convicts are now at
work on the Stony Creek road.
Messrs. Jas. Westbrook and Ernest
Flowers, of Mt. Olive, were in the
city Friday, on legal business.
The rain on Saturday was pretty
general throughout this section and
crops of all kinds we're greatly bene-
flied.
If you have a suitable location for
the public building you should COM
municate with the authorities at
Washington.
Rural free mail delivery for the vi
cinity of Goldsboro is claiming the
active attention of a number of our
country friends.
Hatch Bros. will run their excur-I
sion to Wilmington and Wrights-
vile next Friday The fare for the
round trip is only $1.25.
The rye-straw crop is being put on
the market now and finds ready sale
at % cents per hundred, while the
grain commands $1.25 Fer bushel.
The excursion season is opening
hereabouts with its usual vivacity,
and by the time water melons are in
vogue there will be excursions
galore.
The travel towards Morehead these
days is heavier and the sojourners at
the Atlantic Hotel more numerous
than ever before this early in the
season.
The base ball fever is on the up
ward trend in GoldsbOrO. 1t will
possibly assum the virulent type
about the time the dog star is in the
ascendency.
Mr.. J. J. Meador, of the Colds
boro tobacco market, who has been
spending some weeks at his home in
Madison, has returned to the city to
get things in readiness for the COM
ing season.
A gentleman who has travelled ex-
tensiVely in farming districts recent
ly informs us that Mr. David Over
man, of this county, has the finest
piece of upland corn he ever saw
growing at this season.
The cutting of oats is now in
vogue with the farmers of these
parts-and the cropis poor in growth
and short in yield by reason of the
long continued dry weather Of the
spring and early summer
Mr.. J. T. Fowlkes, of Raleigh, has
accepted a position with the Colds
boro Drug Company. Goldsboro vel
comes him right gladly and wishes
that his stay in our progressive city
may be both pleasant and profitable.
Mr.. J. c.. Broadhurst, from the
Seven Springs neighborhOod, sent to
this office Monday morning a peculiar
freak in the way of a rose bud, which
had formed around the stem, with
preen leaves in the centre and pro-
truding from the bud.
DIR. c.. W. Granger, the dentist,
and Mr.. Walter Flowers, the popu.
lar book-keeper CT Messrs. Smith &
Yelverton, who have been absent
from their posts of duty for some
days by fever, are improving, WE
are glad to announce.
HolloweIl and Peterson, who in
1872 inaugurated cheap rate excur
sions, have arranged for a train or
july 18th to Morehead City, return
ing on the 18th, giving all who at
tend over twenty-four hours for fish
ing, sailing and surf bathing.
The tax listers for both the town
ship and city are located in the courr
house. They say that not quite hal
of the people have listed, notwithl
standing the fact that two-thirds o
the time has already passed by. This
matter must be attended to.
A special train will be run on the
Sm;Ghfield branch from this city to
Smithfeld, on July 8, for the &C
commodation of delegates to the
Judicial convention. The train will
leave here about IL O'Clock on the
morning of the 3rd and return about
lo,clock in the afternoon. The fare
for the round trip viii be 41.OO.