Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-04-09
PURELY LOCAL.
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN AND
AROUND THE CITY.
Picked Up By the Ubiquitous
Reporter and Chronicled
For the Information
of Argus Readers.

Wilson gave the Dispensary IS
majority.
From present indications the acre
age in tobacco will be about the same
as last year.
DR.. WINS. Spicer has returned to
the city from taking a special curse
of lectures in New York.
Mrs. Jane Thompson left to-day
for Richmond to enter st. Luke's
Hospital for special treatment.
Wayne Superior Court will begin
April 18th. It will last one week.
Judge Henry r. Bryan will pre-
side.
DC Mr.. and Mrs. Asher Edwards have
returned from the North, where they
went to buy spring and summer
goods.
King Cotton, after all, lacks a whole
lot of being a king without a throne.
There is good money in cotton at
present prices.
The county has purchased a road
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depot. What they need now is a
traction steam roller.
Governor Aycock has designated
Saturday, May is, as the date for
the execution of the colored youth
Frank Wick in this city. The exc
+cution will be private.
Mr.. Barna F~inklestein, the Wal
nut street merchant, who has been
North making purchases for his store
here and his branch store at Wallace,
has returned to the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Edwards,
who have been on an extended visit
to the North, where they purchased
a large stock of spring and summer
goods, have returned home.
Prof. Logan D. Howell, of the
New York City Schools, taking adj
vantage of Holy Week holiday in
the Empire City, is on a visit to his
home here, where his many friends
are glad to see him.
The great farmers meeting in this
city on April IS gives promise of be-
ing a numerous gathering of the yeo-
many of this section. Col. Jno. S.
Cunningham and other leading farm
ers will address the meeting.
The guessing contest at Royal &
Borden's is going on and there is
much interest manifested. Have you
made your guess? It may NEAR a
felt mattress for you, and it does
mean a felt mattress for somebody.
The young lady Miss Matte Viii.
hanson, who was burned SO severely
one week ago Monday, died last Fri.
day and the remains were taken tC
Wallace for interment on Saturday
She was an employe of the Wayne
Cotton Mill.
Mr.. G. G. Wallace, of the popular
firm of Jones & Wallace, State agent;
for the Fidelity Mutual Life Insur
ance Company, who have recently
opened their general Office over thu
National Bank in this city, has jus
returned from a visit to his home il
Virginia.
The death of MI. Julius Cole oc
Cured at his home in Granthan
township early Sunday morning
from an overdose of laudanum takel
the night before, in the midst of
protracted spree, and it is not known
whether he took it with suicidal in
tent or simply as a nervine. III
leaves a wife and three children.
The colored hack driver Je.
Bright, who drives for Mr.. San
49, r,o1 4Irouo from hio x1ohio1
and injured right badly bya runawa
horse on Monday. His horse te
came frightened at the cor2er {
Walnut and William streets an
turned the vehicle over at once
throwing the driver out. Then tn
horse proceeded TO free itself from tn
vehicle, which he scattered for som
distance along the street. When fir
ally captured the horse had nothin
but the shafts hitched to him.