Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-11-05
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Tie death of little Cleveland, the
5-months-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
j. Pate, occurred in Stoney Creek
township Oct. 28th.
Miss Maude Pittman who has
been taking a special course in music
at the Southern Conservatory of
music has returned home.
Mayor Hood requests the ARGUS
TO notify all dog Wner that the
lakes must be paid to the chiet OF
police Immediately, or warran,s Will
be ISSUED for all delinquents.
s. W. Isler, Esq, who has a law
office in this city and in Kinston,
will not be at his office here t is
week, on account Of attendance at
Jones Superior Court at Trenton.
MI. M S. Witherington has tut
received another car load of fine
horses, that he personally selected ter
the especial demands of his large
NApN\i ca" ~ 1 CO11O Wei uDS
animals among them.
Tt is il deed a great pleasure to his
hosts Of friends here, his home, to
greet III the city, 1t. j. w. Gulick,
OF the e. s. Army. Jack has been
doing service IN Cuba and is home
on q VACATION.
"UncIe Isaac' Hodges, a former
porte, y. line Hotel KennOn. but
now .ianIlor OF the State Library in
Raleigh, is in the city, where he
came on the sad mission to attend
the funeral of his wife, who died
last Friday morning.
Duplin county court is in session
at Kenansville this week and George
Daniels who killed Will Maxwell
the 3rd Of last September will be
tried for his life. Daniels has been
in Jail here for safekeeping, but has
been taken to Kenansville for trial.
The condition of the streets that
were macadamized show the wisdom
of the Board of Aldermen in making
a contract with Mr.. C. Marley who
did the work. It is a great pity
that all the streets could not be ma
cadamized. It will require a bond
issue to do this, but it will have to
be done.
At the First Baptistchurch Sunday
night six children of the Odd Fell
lows Orphan Home, who recently
protested conversion under the
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St. Paul Methodist church, were
baptized and taken into the church.
There were two other orphan chill
dren, not connected with the Home,
baptized, also.
Mr.. J. 3. Lee, who keeps a groc-
cry store at the Southern terminus
Of George street, and who bad one
daughter to die from meningitis last
summer, has recently lost another
n from the same disease. Both
the girls were i'll at the same time
with the same disease and the last
one has fingered for three months.
Mr.. Thos. b. Lockner, of vii
Transport, Pa, a barber of thorough
experience, and an expert in his pro-
fession, has arrived in the city to ac-
cept a position IN the exclusively
white barber shop of Mr.. Z. F. Grit
fin, under the Hotel Kennon, which
is equipped with all the latest accou-
trements of a first class barber estaD-
lishment.
The ARGUS has been requested to
note the fact that the negro lOafers
and boot blacks monopoiIze conold.
cradle space around the railroad
waiting rooms and ticket office. It
seems to US that the remedy lies en-
tirely with the administration who
should, if laws do not already exist,
enact some that would cover the
case. A good way out of the diff
cnlty would be to designate boot
black Stands and compel the boys to
occupy those stands and not run
around and get in the way and
worry people with their Emporium
ings.s