Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-11-27
PURELY LOCAL..
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN AND
AROUND THE CITY.
Picked Up By the Ubiquitous
Reporter and ChrOnicled
For the Information
of Argus Readers.

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Mr.. B. Finkelstein, the Walnut
stpeet merchant, has just returned
fr@m a purchasing trip to the North
err markets.
The Goldsboro Buggy Company,
one of the most fiourishing and prof.
gressive manufacturing institutions
of Goldshoro is now rushed with Or
ders, so much so, that the entire
force of employees have to put in ex-I
ira hours at night.
Mr.. Ross I. Giddens, an expert
jeHeler and engraver of this city, has
Just received a medal which was
awarded him at the Greensboro Fair
for the best piece of engraving. He
has taken other prizes for engraving
which altogether proclaim him to be
an artist in his profession.
The amount Of leaf tobacco sold on
the Goldsboro market during the
month of October was 1926, 1876
pounds. This brings Goldsboro's
average up for the season abreast of
the leading tobacco markets of the
oEaGtS dlJo N f4iCBo1LCO C1iC 1oCb LI1ClC
more cOmmodiOus accommodation
must be furnished for next years
business.
A systematic advertiser in another
STATE, who freely admitted that he
cdnld trace at least one half the for
tune he had made to. newspaper adj
vSttising, once remarked in u
hearing: Everybody in this city
kaoUs that I run a big department
stcSe, but I am determined that they
shall not forget it," He knew his
business, ard he succeeded.
Mr.. r. H. Edwards returned to
to,Ehe city Thursday from Whining
TOT, where he went to attend the
mArrlage of his brother Mr.. J. D.
Edwards to Miss Norma Foster. MI.
Edwards is the popular and coufte-
Gus ticket agent of the Atlantic Coast
Lne, while his bride is one of the
NEST amiable and accomplished
daughters of the Getty by the Sea-
There may arise from time to time
soRae annoyance and trouble over the
nekro, but it is usually local and
temporary. Those anti-Southern
politicians who are constantly seek
ing ~notoriety through C~rumpacker-
isrh and other malignant measures
of the kind, will never gain anything
fem the south by there methods,
as. the force bill formerly demon
strtked.
CARPENTERS are now building the
donae on the new city hall in which
will be placed a new town clock and
hre bell. All the rough work on
the building has been completed and
tbs inside fni hing VIII be pushed
forward rapidly. The market house
in khe rear Of the city hall has been
cornpleted. The opening of the alley
waxs from Ashe, John and Null
berry streets is all that is required
for %e occupation of the market.
Mr.. John E. Woodard, member
elect of the General Assembly from
Wilson, popular "third termer,"
and a brilliant lawyer, who will as
sist in the prosecution of w OF the
capital cases that come up for trial
in our Superior court next week,
that of Pritchard, the white man, for
killing his wife near Eureka some
weeks ago. and that of Frank Winn,
q negro, for the killing of his nephew
at MT. Olive, was in the city Friday
looking into the evidence in these
casSs-
Yet another Goldsboro boy has
been heard from in the realms of
success abroad. This time it is our
Young friend and former townsman
Mr.. Paul r. Wigs, whom the Jack
sonville, (F1a.) Times-Union of rec
emit date, speaks of in very compli-
meptary terms, in announcing his
election as vice-president and secre-
tarv of a new company that has just
been organized in that city to en-
oaas i the wholesale cigar and to-
bac1e business.
Capt. A. Hornrine, the yard mas
TER s. the Southern Railway in this