Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-10-01
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The many friends of MI. John HI
Hill! will regret to learn that he is in
feeble health.
Mrs. Cobb Lane, of Sanford, is in
the city, on a visit to the family OF
Mr.. W. P. Lane.
The many friends here of Senator
b. T. Aycock, of Whiteville, were
glad to greet him in the city to-day.
Mr.. s w. Isler, of Kinston, is
IN attendance at his law Office in this
city to-day. He will be at Jones
COur next week.
MI. w. l.. Holmes has disposed
of all his personal property and will
take his family to Florida, where
they will make their home.
A few water-nelons linger on the
market, but they look rather lone
some, and no longer appeal to the
appetite as they did in the hot sultry
days of July.
Relatives in this section ld go lust
been informed of the death of MIR.
West Holland, at his home in Okla
homa. He was a former resident of
this county and was at one time Reg
lister Of Deeds.
The death of Mrs. r. NJ. Cox oc-
curred last Friday at her home in
Grantham's township. Her death
was sudden. She leaves an aged
husband and several grown children
and a host of relatives and friends to
mourn her loss.
The city authorities deserve to be
congratulated for sprinkling the
streets last Saturday for the first time
in many moons. The people would
be glad Of another opportunity to ex-
tend their congratulations during the
present dry weather, while the dust
is rising like unto a sand storm in a
desert,
Cotton was selling on this market
Tuesday for 9-314, but in the face of
the Government report issued to-day
in Washington and published in an
other column of this paper, the price |
cannot long remain where it is and
farmers may look for 10 cent cotton
again before Christmas, unless all
signs fail.
Capt. and Mrs. w. G. Pollock and
family are soon to make Goldsboro
their home again, which will be
pleasant news to their wide circle of
friends. They have rented one oil
the new residences now being conf
structed, and nearing competition,
on John street, and will move here
about the middle Of October.
There is an old we'll on the vacant
lot adjoining the city hall, which is
not only a menac to health, but is
dangerous as we'll. 1t seems that the
public will have to submit to the old
great eastern and let it stand, but
surely there should be some way in
which to get rid of the old unused
well.
The ladies of ST. Stephens Guild
wish to thank the young ladies who
look part, and the public for their
kind patronage of the Broom Drill
and Festival, on Friday evening
last, and to announce that they will
hold "a Colonial Fair" early in De-
ceniber-offering for sale at reason
able prices, all kinds of, fancy and
useful articles suitable for Christmas
presents.
The spacious oil mill of the South
ern Cotton Oil Company, in this
city, that during the summer season
has been thoroughly overhduled, re-
modelled, enlarged and equipped
with new machinery throughout all
its departments, the work being
done under the direction of its efic-
lent and aggressive young superin-
tendent Mr.. Horace E. King, start
ed up on Tuesday for Il e SCI son s
run, without a hitch, anu the big
plant will from now till shutting
down time, in the late spring, be a
map of busy life, by day and night,
in its various manufactures of oil,
meal, fertilizers, baling hulls and
ginning cotton. 1t is indeed a big
concern 8