Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-05-15
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ITEMS OF INTEREST IN AND
AROUND THE CITY.
Picked Up BY the Ubiquitous
Reporter and ChrOnicled
For the Information
of Argus Readers.

Messrs. w. B. Fort and w. B..
Person, of Pikeville, were in the city
Monday.
E1r. D. Robert Kornegay, who has
been on an extended business trip
South, is in the city.
Mrs. Judge w. S. OBJ. Robinson
reta1ned last night from Charleston, !
where she had been visiting Miss
SRythe. zAs afssks 80
DIR. Emmett Kornegay, of the Bal
timore College Hospital, is on a visit
to his home in this city where his
many friends are glad. to see him.
We publish to-day the statement
of the Bank Of Wayne, which speaks
for itself. 1t is in every way admir-
able and cannot but emphasize the
fact that we go forward.
AT a meeting of the Confederate
Veterans o. Thos. Ruffin Camp Mon
day IL Il . Court House it was decid-
ed &c hold tie annual dinner and
election a. Pine Forest on tine second
Thursday in August.
The State Lodge of Odd Fellows
meet this week in Greensboro, and
Goldsboro viii be represented by
Me5srs. j. w. Lamb as Grand Rep
re.entatiye, Junius Slocumb, past
Grand Master, c. Dewey and w. A.
J. Peacock, Trustees, and j. Brin-
son, Superintendent of the Orphan
Home.
We publish elsewhere in this issue
the statement of the National Bank
of GoIdsborC, which shows steady
progress and will be read with pride
by every citizen who takes interest
in GoiGsboro and keeps up with her
pfbgress. 1t is such evidence as this
that proves we've got the best town
in she State.
The train from Raleigh Tuesday
brAlsht in two corpses. One was the
reuaairs OF Col. II. S. DowG, who
dieE in Raleigh and who was being
taten to Tarboro for inkerment. The
other was s child of Mrs. Seth Tay-
lor who died in Greensboro and
which was beng taken to Aulander
for fnterInent.
TIE strawberries and peas and other
TRUCK that pass through this city
daily by freight and special express
trans for the northern markets are
trU@@v aE0~Ll0tjs, ard with What goes
in from other sections it is not to be
Wo6aoeTed ~ mat the prices should
be j0W. The markets surely cannot
be otaar than giutted.
AT the Cen raj Conference of the
n atI---.A GtA,,4g>n4 TAaIJA, Fso-roI
the ARGUs is glad to note that DIR.
F. d. s0ind II, presiding elder of
this district, mas been made chair
man If the Committee on Missions,
which is ? most important appoint-
Inef -ari certainly has tho General
Confareuc4 selected wisely in nam
irg 7Dr. Swindeil.
A force Of ten county convicts, in
stripes, Nereputto work Thursdayon
the roads, under, the supervision OF
Mr.. Z. L. Lucas, Of Wilson, where
he has been employed in a like ca
pacity for two years and comes high
" recommended. The ARGUS halls
this new departure on the part OF
our country with 10y. It is thing
that has long been sorely needed in
Wayne.
The pr0prietOrs Of the different to-
bacco warehouses in this city have
under consideration the building Oft
large prize house and stemmery fol
Messrs. Brichard & Winstead, Whose
factory was burned last winter.
These gentlemen are popular buyers
on this market and it is not intended
by the warehouse people that they
will have to leave Goldsboro for lack
of a building in which to do business
Mr.. George J. Rowland, a licensed
pharmacist Of Durham, has accepted
a position with the drug store of M
e. Robinson & Bro, of this city, ant
entered upon the duties of his new
position this morning. He has hao
ample experience and will fill the
posiNon in a manner alike acceptable
to the firm and their numerous pa