Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-01-22
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was in the city to-day.
Miss Nellie Edgerton left last night
to visit relatives in Florida.
Ex-aiayor Abram S. Hewitt, of
New York, died Monday.
hIr. S. A. Woodland, of the Wilson
Bar, is in the city attending court.
Mr. w. A. Wooten has returned
from Alabama, where he went on
business.
Mr.. Asher Edwards and son Mr..
Leonard Edwards, who have been
in the West purchasing stock, have
returned home.
Hiss Maude Pittman returned from !
Siaithfield Saturday after having
spent two weeks visiting Miss Rosa
Peacock.
Just when work will begin on the
new post office building is a question
that only the Treasury Department
can answer.
Messrs. Steward and Clifford, of
the Harnett county Bar, residing at
Dunn, are in the city in attendance
on ~t.r term of Court.
lie weather man has slipped up
St >us.y twice in his forecasts this
" aiTaady. lie had better get
g. -. good almanac and compare
q @afoTe issuing another bulletin.
. me numerous interrogatious
" 144 is the Charity Ball to be" Will
s. s."t February 10Th is the date.
+ x 5, dental note of it and tell
} t5lends.
aa. Dr. Harvey Monk and chi
DIN. of Trenton, who have been
winning relatives at Newton Grove
ana III this city, left on Monday,
returning home.
Rev. G. n. Cowan, of Kinston,
flied the pulpit of the First Baptist
church in this city Sunday morn
ing, ard preached an excellent ser
ra0a 10 a large congregation.
When court adjourned at noon
Monday it did so until next morn
ing, III honor of Gen. Lees birthday
-aIlO II 81 1CSCAOSo Oi OAAN
Gocket. A graceful thing to do.
Rev. G. A. Jenkens lectured al
K;nston Sunday on "The Saloon
Mast Co." The opera hoase was
crowded and nearly two hundred
rssan signed petition for the London
Bal.
Hha many old friends here are glad
togfeet in the city Mr.. J. e. Latham,
now Of NOrfolk,a GoldsbOro boy who
has achieved success in the cotton
business and now holds a seat on
the aNew York exchange.
DR.. +. n. johnson, the dentist who
recently came to Goldsboro in search
of fame and fortune by the practice
of his profession; has an elegantly
appointed Office over the store of Mr..
l.. D: Giddens.
The town of Warsaw is to have 2
bank. Mr.. II. L.. Stevens, a prom.
inent lawyer of that town, was in the
city last week and says he will make
application to the General Assembly
for a charter for a bank to be locates
al Warsaw.
Mr.. w. B. Allen, district agent o
the Prudential Life Insurance Com
pany, with headquarters at New
bern, will soon establish his office il
Goldsboro, because of the central 10
caCIoh and splendid railroad anC
mail facilities which we enjoy.
III. los. Edwards, who retSr net
recently from the Western Mstocl
markets, has now in his SALE able
il this city a fine lot Of Enu@ jus
suited for the farm work OF this sec
ton. See his advertisement else
where in this paper.
His Excellency Governor Aycocl
has commissioned Mr.. Jonathan T
Hooks, of Fremont, as the successo
of Mr.. N. O'Berry on the Board o
Directors of the penitentiary. a bet
ter selection could not have beel
made. and it is to be hoped, for tn
good of theState as well as for t..
continued success of Governor Az
eek administration, that Mr.
Hooks viii accept the appointrp tent
1r. E. B. Borden will erect Il tu,
s ~ Office building on the 1acal
IL adjoining the Office of Borden
SraW&b. The new building will b
81 handsome design with stone front
z e contract has been awarded t
4s=srs. Porter & Goodwin, the( vel
k4oNn and reliable builders Oh thi
ciy, and the work will be ton1.
naacsd at an early day. Web for
wsrd.
The Union meeting M
L. Church Sunday nauS5baus
p7c6s Of the Anti-Sal0on LeAguk W.
a great gathering. It was IcaIleo t
discuss the London Bill, which va
read by Mr.. l.. B. Thurston and i
provisions fully explained by hin
section by section, after which Re,
DR.. f. d. Swindell and Rev. f. Y
FAIRIES made earnest and eloquer
talks in advocacy Of the bill an
against the liquor traffic. The con
mon sentiment OF the large audi4nc,
expressed by a standing yote,lan
afterwards by signatures to endlrs
n.ents, was thai the London EBi
Should become a law; and the indie
tions now are that such will be II
result.