Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-04-30

ShO A0ASOoC anu uu6SG SCrdWO0rrl0S w
nave ever e They were grow
by the well-known colored man an
prosperous farmer Calvin Brock. {
the Mt. Olive section, who not onI
cultlvates berries for market bu
supplies plants in season of specia
varieties of his own propagation.
Mr.. w. V. Williams, secretary
ana treasurer of the Cin-Cho Com
pony, has just returned from an ex
tended northern business trip OF
which he disposed of many hun
dreds of gallons of Cin-Cho, which i
justly becoming n OF the most DOB.
ular, as it is one of the most whole.
some and healthful, soda fountain
drinks of the day.
Young Walter Freeman, who nm
to a year ago was an inmate of the
Odd Fellows Orphanage of this city.
and then went to Raleigh, where he
studied stenography and typewrit-
ing, graduating last week, was in
the city to-day on his way to Will
mlngton to enter upon a position at
$40 per month in the Office of the
Atlantic Coast Line.
MI. w. l.. Hill, clerk of the civil
service department in the post-ofice
department. in this city, requests the
ARGUS to state that the date for re-
celV1ng applications for the examina-
ton to be held in this city on Nav
IND for a clerkship in the post-ofice
here, has been extended from Anril
la> to h 9th, and all who do not
make application for examination bv
that time will not be considered when
the examination, is held.
Miss Daisy M. Smith, of this citv
has been elected by Thos. Ruffn|
camp United Confederate Veterans.
this county, to be their sponsor at
the coming New Orleans reunion.
This issindeed a high compliment.
worthily bestowed, and certainlyI
could it not have been conferred upon
one who would appreciate il more or
could more gracefully sustain the
nonors at the coming great reunion
than Miss Smith.
Several reports were received here
saturday of a homicide which oc-
'urred at Mt. Olive on Friday. Dill
gent inquiry failed to reveal anvil
oundatlon for the reports and the
natter was passed over unnoticed.
Today it is learned that there was q
hootlng affray near Mt. Olive on
nat night. A negro named Austin
1ussy was shot at three times bv
mother negro named Charley Beat
y. Charley Butler, another negroi
Who was in the crowd, was arrested
ere and placed in jail in response
a telegram from Mt. Olive. Hus-
y was not shot. Beatty is still att
arge.
The report of Mr. II. T. Bouman.
agent of the East Carolina
.rult and Truck Growers Associa-
shows that the shipments oil
to northern markets IastI
eek up to and including Thursday.
mounted to 1872 refrigerator cars and
~ crates by express. Mondav;s :
1lpments amounted to 6 cars and
1913 crates; Tuesday II cars and -
~ crates; Wednesday So cars anal
$3.50 crates; Thursday A cars and
'769 crates. The highest quotations
thursday were from Providence r !
J, where berries sold from Is to 10
ents per quart.
Shakespeare said "the lunatic. theI
yer and the poet are of imaoina-
on all compact" He didn't sav
1ythlng about the fish liar and the c
liar in this connection. hnt 8
Their has a lurid imagination fuIIv .
p to the poets standard, and there's :
doubt they will both ne hoord :,
before long. The season is = T
tile late. A week or two hence Q
Ill begin to develop specimens oil S
re fish and snake yarns. The sea- a
rpent species will, of course. hava 7
nsplcuous position in the sJav- {
It," Nearly every season develops 9
bigger n than the year before i,
id the imagination of the fish warn, d
inner IS beginning to prepare for p
e acquisition of new laurels. c
More negroes who would have e
otherwise efficient workmen s
been ruined by Northern senti- I
entail twaddle about the so-called
problem in the South than the "
erage observer can realize. Hun- Il
eds of negroes have been chasing h
lnboWs for years largely by reason n
pitiably foolish and utterly i'm a
acticable advice given by their a
,sguided and false friends in the L
I'll: And it is really remarkable -
the negroes are as a rule n
And that this advice is lit fl
alble than what has GOMEZ b
known a a pipe Sc
auth alone can handle p
problem, if the a!
nd not constantly o
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