Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-09-04
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ITEMS OF E r. IN AND
AROUND THE CITY.
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of Argus Readers.
MIR. Ben Abram has accepted a i
position as salesman in the drygoods
store of Mr.. Asher Edwards.
Mr.. Jno. B. Hooks, one of the !
leading candidates for register of
deeds, was in the city Monday.
Both the county board of educa-
ton and the county board of COM
missioners were in session IN this city
Monday.
Pipkin's Richmond excursion on
the 18th is the next event for pleasure
seekers after the circus, which comes
here on Friday.
Chief of Police Freeman says there
is going to be some dead dogs in the
city before a great while if the
owners of a few measly ours do not
come forward and pay the dog tax.
At the lowest calculation there
was 226, 900 pounds of tobacco sold
on this market Friday. The farmers
are bringing in their tobacco just as
last as they can get it ready for
market. The price is holding up
well.
The death of Mrs. Matthew Fair
cloth occurred Wednesday, at her
home out at Bellevue, a new suburb
of Goldsboro. She leaves a large
family of children, all of whom are
married. She was fast growing in
years and succumbered to an attack
of fever.
Capt. J. w. Lamb has opened up
his harness business in the same
store with Mr.. R. E. Pipkin. His
many friends and former customers
will be glad to learn ofCapt. Lambs
decision to remain here in Colds
boro, and also to know that he will
resume his harness business.
The store house and lot at the
corner of E. Centre and Boundary
streets was sold under the hommer
hecourthouse for division
and was knocked off to Mr.. Everett
Joyner for 81, $4,000. This is the store
in which MI. Geo. w. Brown has
been doing business for a number Of
years and is a desirable piece of pro-
perty.
Mrs. Mary E. Sauls, IS years of
age, widow of the late AbsalOm
Sauls, of Nahunta township, and
mother of Mrs. w. T. Yelverton, of
this city, enjoyed a family reunion
at her home on Sunday of all her
children and grandchildren. Mr..
and Mrs. W. T. Yelverton with their
several boys and one daughter, were
of the party. It goes without saying
that it was a festive and enjoyable
occasion.
Mr.. C. c.. Aycock, Of Fremont,
was in the city Tuesday with tobacco
on this market, and he expressed
himself as highly gratifed at the
prices he received. In fact, he said
in conversation with the reporter,
that Goldsboro was paying the high
est prices of any market in the State.
MI. Aycock has been raising tobacco
for years and has sold his product on
other nearby markets, hence the
above statement is considered signi-
ficant.
The County Board of Education
held a meeting in this city Mon
day and fixed the salaries of the diff
ferent schools Of the county. The
Board ordered the committeeman OF
each district to begin the public
schools of the county on the 3rd OF
November and continue them for
four months. If any district has
more monev than is needed for four
manths the committee is ordered to
have the school continued until the
money is exhausted.
At the high prices which the weed
is selling on this market at present
there is prosperity ahead for the to-
bacco planters. Mr.. n. B. Berger, OF
the Pikeville section of the county,
has a tenant on his plantation who has
ten acres in tobacco for which he
was offered $1,000 in cash one day
last week and refused it. This beats
raising cotton by big odds. 1t is safe
to say that there is not an acre of
land in North Carolina planted in