Goldsboro weekly argus., 1902-11-13
purely LOCAL.
ITEMS OF INTEREST in AND
AROUND THE CITY.
Picked Up BY the Ubiquitous
Reporter and Chronicled
For the Inform ton
of Argus Readers.

For the InfOrmations
of Argus Readers.
Superior court convenes in this
city for two weeks term on Mon
day, November "a.
The roof is being put on the new
city hall and the inside work is be-
ing pushed right along-and still the
Great Eastern stands.
Mr.. w. r. Hollowell, of the firm
of Edgerton & Hollowell, who has
been out west making purchases of
stock, has returned to the city.
Mr.. Jas. A. Bryan, President of the
A. & n. @. R. R., who has been on
an extended business trip North, was
in the city to-day, on his way home
to Newbern.
The dark, dreary days of chilly
November are here and yet Colds
boro has no passenger depot to pro-
tect the travelling public from the
weather.
Messrs. Nash Bros have pur-
chased the vacant lot adjoining the
stables of Mr.. Mordecai Withering-
ton and will erect a brick building
thereon which they will occupy
themselves.
While other cities and towns are
asking the railroads for better SER
vice cannot the Chamber of Com
merce get together and ask the At
1antic Coast Line to give Goldsboro
a freight every day from both the
north and south.
The ARGUS is indebted to Mrs. n.
J. Smith for two of the finest turnips
of the season. One of these turnips
weighed four and one half pounds,
and the other three and three quar-
ters. Mrs. Smith is an excellent
farmer and raises fine crops on her
farm near this city.
Messrs. Edgerton & Hollowell, the
well-known and reliable live stock
dealers of this city, are expecting a
large shipment of fine mules to ar
rive to-day, and will be on sale at
their stables next week. These mules
were specially selected by Mr.. Hol-
lowell in person for the special needs
of the farmers of this section.
According to Mr.. Theodore II.
Price, the cotton magnate of New
York. the "H-English" cotton fac
tors are trying to hold the price of
cotton down below its real value. Mr.
Price did great good to the Southern
cotton planters last year by urging
them to hold for higher prices, which
they eventually realized. He now
urges them to follow a like course.
E#In few days the old Kirby Man
sion will be torn down. The lament
ed DIR. Kirby, under whose super
vision this building was erected,
took great pride in the erection ofthe
same, and it was one of the best con-
structed buildings in the State. Mrs.
Kirby sold thelot to theUnited States
Government for the new public
building, which will soon be built.
The little poem we publish to-day
GA Requiem'-from the pen of
Miss Isabel Cohen, Of Charleston, S,
c., was written on the day Of the
breaking up and separation Of party
of congenial friends who had spent
several weeks together at Blowing
Rock. 1t is a gem Of delicate senti-
ment, so sweetly expressed thateven
a touch of comment would mar its
exquisite beauty.
Tuesdays election is proof of the
fact that the people of North Caro-
lima take little stock in the man who
has no settled convictions about any
thing but one, and that conviction is
that he wants the Office. The people
have no faith and little patience
with these Weather-cock fellows who
are ever turning about with every
little breeze which may put dollar
in their pocket.
Our county officers elect wear
smiling countenances these Novem-
ber days, and they have come to
look happy. Such an endorsement
at the hands of the great white man.
hood of the good old county OF
Wayne is enough to make them
smile. With such men in office the
county is in good hands, and the peo.
pie as well as the new officers are tc
be congratulated.