Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-09-24
PURELY LOCAL..
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN AND
AROUND THE CITY.
Picked Up BY the Ubiquitous
Reporter and ChrOnicled
For the Information
of Argus Readers.

For the Information
of Argus Readers.
IF this cool weather continues oy-
sters Will be in order.
The civil docket is engaging the
attention of Superior Court this
week.
the price of tobacco continues to
improve as better grades of the COL
de weed come on the market.
The new piano house of Chas. M.
StIeh In this city, with Mr.. A. w.
chandler in charge, opened up in
1uH for business to-day under the
Messenger Opera House.
The people throughout this entire
section read the ARGUS, either it's
Daily or Weekly edition, and the
merchants who fail to advertise are
-Well-they're not Gin it," that's
ALL
Mi. and Mrs. L. H. Castex, who
have been on an extended business
Trip north, making purchases of sea-
sonable goods for their long esvab-
Hshed and popular store in this city,
nave returned home.
MI. Geo. A. Norwood, Jr., presi-
dent of the National Bank of this
city, went down to Snow Hill Monday
TO open up the Bank of Snow Hill,
5hat has been recently organized
Success to the enterprise.
DIR. J. M. Parker, the dentist, and
Mrs. Parker, who have been spend
1ng the sunnme among the noun
dams, nave returned to the city, and
the doctor is again at his office, much
improved by the invigorating mount
tain air.
The Fremont Oil Mills have in-
stalled this season a bran new ~cottoni
ginning outfit with the latest appa-
ratus for handling the lint and the
seed by machinery. The mill had
very prosperous season last year and
IS starting out under more favorable
auspices this year. T.
The death Of DR.. John B. Person. {
who at n time represented this !
county in the State Senate, under fu- {
sion, occurred athis home in Fremont {
Friday morning, after a p~rotracted ILL {
ness.s His wife and several grown s
children survive him. He was the !
uncle OF DIR. J. E. Person. c
The death Of Mr.. w. H. Vanhook. I
a former citizen of Goldsboro, occur q
e at his home in Rocky Mount on S
Saturday, and he was buried in that t
town Sunday. He was about 55 g
yeers old and leaves a wife and three I
children. He belonged to the NAL
Lodge in this city. b
Mr.. r. A. Creech, the Jeweler,
haAi d clock in his show window
which attracts considerable attention.. T
The. clock is of Swiss make and is
imported. TT will run for one year.
with one winding. The clock is en- c
closed in a glass dome and is a hand b
some ornament as well as an excel :,
lent time keeper. u
MI. Mayer traussreeeivedthe sad i
intelligence yesterday of the death :
of his mother, which occurred at her y
home at Gslnhausen, Germany, on q
September 7th, aged 80 years. His il
friends in this city deep-fe
~. yHlDdC1tA W1CE HAL Ill lH1S UQGt -
Df the greatest sorrows that eme tel
man.
Mr.. j. w. Bryan, superintendent 4
BIZ the farm of the State Hosgifalaear 6
city, brougt to our Office Epldav /
q vine. of peanuts and one Of SOFA +
beans that for prolific growth are L
marvellous. The possibilities S
Of the soil Of this section when Intel n
ligently. cultivated are beyond spec-s I
:
The knights of Pythias Of this,
are going to work In earnest to
erect a building of their own. They
have a desirable lot next to the Mesa
aenper Opera House ON which tOl
erect the buildings and mt their meet Il
ina last week they decided TO 20 to d
work to raise the money to pus up Q
the building. The first move theYy
will make. 10 to hold q fair and ba-ty
zaar during the arst week in Nevem-s
Ter. The different committees haxss .