Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-08-06
PURELY LOCAL.
ITEMS OF INTER EST IN AND
AROUND THE CITY.
Picked Up BY the Ubiquitous
Reporter and ChrOnicled
For the Information
of Argus Readers.

Messrs. Ben Weeks and Allen
Gilbert, of Blake, Sampson county,
were in the city Friday, on a visit
to their cousin Mrs. ChaS. A. Brown.
The first ripe scuppernong grapes
of The season were brought in this
morning by "Uncle'' Jimmie Scott.
He says his park will be open to Wis
itors within fifteen days.
DR.. w. H. Wakefield, of Char
1otte, will be in Goldsboro, al Hotel
~Kennon, on Tuesday, Sept. list, for
one day only. His practice is linn
.Ited to eye, ear, nose and throat.
The very finest peaches, large,
soft and luscious, we have epen in
years, were, brought in by mir. "A.
II. UZzell, OF New, Hope. who is one
of the best all-round farmers III the
State.
The County Sunday School on
vention that YVES called to he held at
Woods Grove On August 80 81 has
been indefinitely postponed, ana the
convention will be held with Salem
church on the above dates.
DIR. NJ. E. Robinson has been con-
fined to his bed for a week. His hosts
= of friends are distressed that his all
~ment, which they at first thought
e1would be OF brief duration is so stub
born in resisting treatment. We all
hope that he may soon be out again.
The Electoral College of the West
ern North Carolina Conference will
convene in st. John a. M. E.
church, colored, August ) and 6, at
$3.50 p. m. Prof. John r. Hawk
ms, A. NJ, will deliver the opening
address. He is a worldwide edu-
5~cator.
Miss Annie Cox, stenographer
gand typewriter in the law office of
rCol. A. G.. Davis, left last Monday
for her home at Newton Grove, on
her summer vacation. She was ac-
companied on a visit by her cousin
Miss Gertrude Frazier, of Scots
vile.
The ARGUS is glad to chronicle the
return to the city of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
E. Purcell, who will make their per-
manent home here. Mr.. Purcell is
assistant agent at the Southern
freight depot, and when here former
1y made many friends with the bust
ness public of Goldsboro who will
welcome him back cordially.
A company of U. S. regulars Will
be encamped with the North Caro-
Lima military at Greensboro and
AsheviIle. It was intended to have
a company of regulars at Morehead,
also, but arrangements could not be
made in time. This company will
set the pace for the States soldier
boys in drill and in camp discipline.
Cards have beenreceived by friends
anu relatives in this city announcing
the engagement of an old G%oldsboro
boy, DR.. Sam Edwards, now of
Memphis, Tenn, to Miss Lille Ur-
bausky, of st. Mary's, Kansas, who
4 is pleasantly remembered and greatly
admired here, where she has visited
the family of her uncle Mr.. Asher
Edwards. The ARGUS extends it's
hearty congratulations.
e1nthe recent competitive examina-
ton for a position on the faculty OF
the. Goldsboro Graded School, Miss
Mary Scott Munroe, a graduate OF
the school, and Of the State Normal
at Greensboro, having stood highest,
was duly elected by the Board OF
Trustees. 1t will be a great pleasure
to her many friends here to have hel
with them this year, as she had 9
hattering offer to teach elsewhere.
The News and Observer of Raleigh
publishes the fact that G. f. Carpen,
ter, a travelling man, forged a check
for $500 on Mr.. j. II. Ellis of Kin
ston. Carpenter got the money or
the check at the First National Banl
in this city with the endorsements
Mf. J. NJ. Grantham, who is thu
only loser in the transaction. Car
penter left here on Tuesday mornins
without paying his hotel bill TO
three Or four days.