Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-09-17
PURELY LOCAL.
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN AND
AROUND THE CITY.
Picked Up BY the Ubiquitous
Reporter and ChrOnicled
EOr the Information
of Argus Readers.

Mr.. and Mrs. Asher Edwards, who
have been on an extended purchas-
+. ing trip North, have returned to the
city, and new goods are following
them in large quantities.
The death of Mrs. Jno. A. Parker
occurred at her home in East Colds
were taken to the old homestead
near Seven Springs for interment
Sunday.
Mrs. Levi Johnson died Sunday
at her home, 500 SIocumb street,
south. She leaves a husband, who is
"a we'll known house carpenter, and
three children. She was about 80
years old. The. interment was made
in Willow Dale Cemetery Monday
afternoon.
Friends in this city have received
the following invitation: mr.. En-
est B. Flowers requests the honor of
your presence at the MARRIAGE OF his
sister Annie to Mr.. Georg- Hop!
on Wednesday evening, september
%, 1903, at $50 O'Clock, Methodist
church, Mount Olive, N. c."
Judge PEBBLES is presiding over
~ our term of court, for the first time,
and our people are already greatly
Impressed with him as an equabIe
and learned judge. HIS charge to the
grand jury this morning was one of
the finest. Solicitor Jones is at his
post and business is being disposed
OF with despatch.
A negro named Henry Holloway
who committed burglary and at
tempted an assault upon Mrs. luton
a most estimable white lady in
Greene county, last month, was con-
victed at Snow Hill last week, after
a fair and impartial trial, and SEN
fenced to be hanged in that town on
October 10th. There was no appeal.
While playing with a pair of scis-
sors, Sunday, Robert, the 4 year
old SOL of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Hairston, stuck the sharp point of
the scissors in his eye and had to be
taken to Raleigh yesterday afternoon
for treatment by a specialist. The
many friends of the family are great
ly distressed over the accident, and
hope that it may not prove perma-
nent.
Mr.. James r. Young, Insurance
Commissioner, has been in the city
for the past two days attending Su-
perior Court, where he had a case
against a local insurance agent for is
suing an accident policy by a COM
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had not complied with the insurance
laws of the State. It was clearly
proven that the young man did not
intend to violate the law and the
court very justly let him of.
John II. Lane and Miss Beulah T.
Best Daughter of Richard and Lany
BesegR6de married at the residence
of tH8A&ride's parents, in Stoney
Creek Township Thursday afternoon
at $3.50 O'Clock, Justice Hugh Hum
phrey officiating. The bridal party
repaired to the home of the groom,
where a sumptuous supper awaited
them. The ARGUS and the many
friends of the contracting parties
wish for them a long and happy life.
The aroma from tsGrape Vine
Park" "Uncle Jimmie SCOTS lus-
cious resort, makes the air redolent
throughout all that neighbornood,
and visitors to the park find the
vines. teeming with the most de-
Iightful grapes. The grapes are now
full ripe and will not keep, conse-
quently those who wish to enjey this
healthful fruit-especially SO when
eaten from the vines-should not de-
lay a visit to the park. Admission
Is cents. two for Is cents.
aAunt Maria Thompson" as she
was Familiarity known by the people
of Goldsboro, died at her home on
John streets Sunday nightata bouthalf
past sevenp'clock. She was ar old
colored woman about eighty years of
age, and had lived in Goldsboro fifty
years. and at the little home, which
She owned and where she died, she