Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-05-28
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ITEMS OF INTEREST IN AND
AROUND THE CITY.
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Mr.. John A. Grantham is at home
for vacation from Oak Ridge.
Mr.. Charlie Broadhurst is at home
for vacation from Guilford College.
The A. c. L. passenger train going
South now arrives here at 3:15 in
stead Of 1855.
The bean crop in this section will
be very much cut short by reason of
the dry spell.
Miss Bette Thompson, who has
been on a visit to her brother in
Smitht1eld, is at home again.
The death of Mr.. T. T. Oliver,
well known in this city, occurred
last Thursday eve at his home in
Pine Level.
Mr.. E. B. Sutton, of Calypso, n.
c., advertising an excursion from
G%oldsboro to Carolina Beach on
Thursday, June 18th, was in the city
Saturday.
Mrs. w. T. Yelverton is at the
bedside of her venerable mother,
Mrs. AbSolOm Sauls, near Eureka,
who is critically i'll, we r sorry to
chronicle.
The first ripe peaches of the season
were on the market to-day. They
were from the orchard of Mrs. Sallie
N. Davis. who is an excellent gard
ner and farmer.
The closing exercises of Miss Lucy
Waters school at Pikeville, will
take place on next Friday morning
at IL o'clock. Col. A. C. Davis will
make the principle address.
The death of MI. T. T. Oliver, of
Pine Level, last week, and who was
buried ON Friday, was followed by
the death of his son John T. on Sat-
urday, who would have been p
years old last Sunday.
Quite a lot of the estate of the late
Judge w. T. Faircloth will be dis
posed of in this city at the court
house door by public auction on Fri
day June 18th. The building in
which the postoffice is now located
will be included in the lot.
On account of a sudden and serious
illness Mr.. Polk Miller he had toleave
New Orleans and 90 direct home to
Richmond. His engagement in the
Messenger Opera House in this city
has been cancelled as we'll as all other
Southernengagement for the present.
Messrs. Frank Clark and Will Cox,
of this city, among the passen-
gers on the wrecked train of the
Southern Tuesday afternoon. They
both received their share of shaking
up and bruises, but have arrived
home in fairly good condition, we are
glad to note.
MI. Edwin Holt, of the U. S. Ma
rine Hospital Corps, with headquar.
ters now in Louisville, KY, and
who has been visiting his parents
near Smithfield, is in the city for 8
day or two, to the pleasure of his
many young friends here. He re
turns to his post of duty on June 9TH
Mr.. Don G.. Humphrey, who ha;
Just acquitted himself with high dis
tinction at Bingham School com.
mencement, Mebane, bringing home
a diploma in the Scientific course
and also in s~tenography, arrived Fri
day, and it is a real pleasure to hi
many young friends here to hav'
him with them again.
The length of time required to ma
cadamize the streets is such rs t
great inconvenience to tn
merchants and the public generally
Judging from the long time whic,
it has taken to fix n block SO far
is feared that the work on job
street will seriously interfere wit
the hauling of tobacco and cotton o
that street, which is used by countr
carts and wagons more than all tn
others. It would be a good idea t
begin the work at once and try t
get through before the season for t.
bacco opens.