Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-05-08

The brick building of MI. C. G..
Holt at the corner of Ash and West
Centre streets is going up rapidly.
The walls are low well under way.
It is thought hat this location will
be a trading centre in the near fu-
ture and it is said that MI. J. w.
Bizzell will soon erect a brick build
ing on the opposite corner on
Ash street.
Capt. A. j. Galloway returned
home Friday night from a visit to one
of his boyhood haunts on the ocean
below Southport-the former estate
of an uncle who diedNmany years
ago, and which he had not visited in
exactly fifty years. The many friends
of the congenial Captain will be glad
to know that his health is better than
it has been in years.
Rev. Seth C. Rees, the Quaker
evangelist, has been engaged to hold
a weeks meetings at the Holiness
Tabernacle in this city; the first SER
vice began Monday night. Mr.. Rees
is one of the best known and most
successful Holiness evangelists in the
United States. Services in the morn
ing, afternoon and night. Every one
is cordially invited to attend.
The special strawberry express
train passed through the city Monday
loaded down with fruit. The train
reached here about 2 o'clock, where
a large shipment Of green peas was
taken on. After leaving Goldsboro
this train goes through without stop
! ping at the smaller stations. There
is very little truck shipping from the
country North of Goldsboro.
The death of Mrs. A. E. Banks,
SO years of age, mother of Mrs. S. G..
J Fry and of Mr.. John S. and Miss
Lillian H. Banks, occurred at the
home of her son-in-law, Capt. S. G..
Fry, in this city, Tuesday a. m. short
ly after 4 O'Clock. She was a quiet,
gentle, Christian mother, greatly es-
teemed by all who knew her, and
her death will be deeply mourned
by her bereaved children.
The speech of Col. W. T. Dortch
Thursday afternoon at the meeting
of the Royal Arcanum lodge, when
he presented Mr.. John H. Hill with
a past regents badge, is highly spok-
| en- of by those who we're SO fortunate
as to be present. On this occasiont the
, Colonel more than excelled his usual
; graceful manner and eloquent die
ton. It was a treat for the members
of the lodge who alone were permit
ted to hear it.
The Goldsboro Oil Mill, after n
| of the most successful runs in it's his
tory, has milled all its stock of seed
and closed down for the summer. It
will start up again next fall. In the
! meantime Superintendent King will
overhaul all the machinery, make a
number of decided changes and add
to its already large capacity. For the
; season just closed eleven thousand
tons of cotton seed were milled into
oil, fertilizers and feed.
The JUNIOR order of United Amer
lean Mechanics of Goldsboro have
received an invitation from the Will
son lodge of the order to attend the
unwilling ofthe Confederate Mounu-
ment in that town next Monday,
when the Wilson Juniors will march
in a body in the parade and give a
banquet at night. The Goldsboro
Juniors, a number at least, will
probably accept the invitation and
be present on the occasion.
Mr.. George Tucker, who has been
the clever manager of the Tucker
Marble Yard in this city for some
time, where has made many friends,
started on a journey Sunday after
noon which will end up in Devon
shire, England, his native home,
where he will spend the summer and
attend the coronation Of King Ed
ward. He will first gokto Whining
ton to visit his brother and from
there he will go to Massachusetts to
visit an uncle and will sail from
New York on May 21st.