Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-08-14
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The LAGRANGE baseball team de-
feated the Mt. Olive team in two
games at Mt. Olive Thursday.
The wind blew down the smoke
stack and did some other slight dam
age to the plant of the Wayne Brick
Works Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. w. II. Newell, an old Wayne
county boy, nowresiding at Scotland
Neck, is on a visit to his father, Mr..
Thos. Newell, ove on the "Sand
Hills"
Messrs. Ben King and Tom Far
rior left to-day for Baltimore, MI. |
King going on to meet his customers
when they come on, and Mr.. Far
rion going to accept a position with
a wholesale house of that city.
MI. Matt Moore has returned from
the hospital at Richmond, much i'm
proved and on the sure road to per-
manent recovery, his many friends
will be glad to learn, and is now
spending some day at his home in
Duplin.
The many friends of Mr.. George
Tucker, the popular manager of
Tucker Brothers marble yard in
this city, are glad to greet him safe
back again from a three months
visit to his mother and boyhood
home in England.
The farmers of this section do not
want any better tobacco market than
Goldsboro is proving to be. They
are so thoroughly satisfied with the
prices they are getting for their to-
bacco that they do not even ask or
care to know what other markets are
paying.
Mr.. j. D. Howell, of this city, can
probably pick a bale of cotton from
week. He has a fine crop and it is
opening very rapidly. A stalk
brought in by Sheriff Scott Saturday
morning, in passing MI. Howell's
farm, and left at this Office, has four
fully open bolls on it, and is we'll
fruited.
Steve Parks, a tenant living on
Mr.. B. g.. Thompson's farm, is au-
thority for the statement that he
killed Friday a snake of the moe
casin variety which measured six
feet in length and five inches in di-
ameter, and contained sixty-four
young snakes eighteen inches long.
This will take precedent as the
champion snake story of the season.
Mr.. R. E. Pipkin, the veteran ex-
cursion manager, is talking of run
ming one of his always popular ex-
cursions to Washington, over the de-
lightful Norfolk and Washington
steamboat route, early in September.
The steamboat trip from Norfolk tC
Washington owe the above line,
whose steamers are veritable floating
palaces, is always delightful, but
never more so than in September.
Young Daily Edgerton, of War
renton, stopped over in the city Thurs
day with his grandfather Rev
J. T. Daily, of Fremont, to visit Mr.
/. F. Ormond and family. During
the afternoon the boy, while at play
with some children in the yard go
his right thumb caught in the spree
ket of a bicycle and had that member
cut completely off and it fell to The
ground. The accident caused mucl
pain but is not serious.
An ear of corn IA inches long, O
this years growth, was brought into
our office yesterday by Mr.. Chester
Prince, which he took from a fielC
of Just such corn of MI. w. H. Kor
negay near Mt. Olive, on Monday,
The ear was fully developed and the
grain was large. In view of the fine
and large corn crop of this section
this year there is every reason to ex'
pect that our farmers will next yeal
have their corn cribs and smoke
houses at home.
The Board of Aldermen met in
extra session Monday highland voted
down the ordinance making it a $50
fine to erect a sale or livery stable
within so feet of any residence, but
a new ordinance was passed prohib.
iting any sale or livery stable from