Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-05-07
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Mr.. and MIS-. F. A. Daniels, with
their young son George, arrived
home from Richmond Monday
evening.
The meeting of the North Carolina
Farmers Protective Association is
postponed and will meet at Woods
Grove church on the 10th Of May.
Mr.. J.-Toler, of Princeton, was
married April goth to Miss Matte
Latham, daughther of the late
Thomas Latham, at the home of a
relative of the bride Mr.. l.. K. Stall
ling. The ceremony vas performed
by Elder J. W. Gardner. They left
next afternoon for their future home
i'll Princeton.
Memorial services will be observed
in GOldsborO next Sunday afternoon.
Col. I. H. Balm is chief marshal and
Hon. G.. R. Thomas is orator. The
parades of the fremen and military
will take place as usual, headed by
the X. of P. Band. Col. Balm will
soon have his program ready for
publication.
Mr.. L. t. Kelley, a prominent
farmer of Duplin county, and Miss
Carrie Thompson, of near Salem
church, were married April 80 at 1
o'clock at the home of the brides sis
ter, Mrs. L. H. Shackerford, in FIRE.
mont. The Rev. Henry Trip, pas
tor of GOldsboro circuit, performed
the ceremony. Several relatives and
friends of the bride and groom from
a distance were in attendance.
At the regular meeting Of the
county commissioners Monday DR..
Williams Spicer wa reelected county
superintendent of health. There were
several applicants for the position.
The County Commissioners appoint
ed a committee to interview the COM
missioners of Wilson on the subject
of re-surveying the county line be-
tween Wayne and Wilson counties.
The Goldsboro and Wilson base
ball teams played a good game in
this city on last Wednesday, which
was witnessed by a medium sized
audience. The GOldsborO team was
victorious by a score of 9 to s.. The
battery for G~OldsbOro was Higgins
and Robinson and for Wilson An
derson and Farmer did the work.
Few women are suited to the
study of deep and abstract theories.
And how many young women these
days who finish their collegiate edu-
cations have any ideas Of the prac-
teal things of life? Whether or not
a woman ever has to do the house
keeping, the time usually comes in
this practical and cOmmon-sense age
when she wishes she at least knew
something about it.
The closing exercises of the Colds
boro COIored Graded School in the
Messenger Opera House May 1st,
were indeed very creditable and en-
tertaining, and the occasion was
generously patronized by many of
our leading white people, as we'll as
a large attendance of the colored pop
ulation. Quite a neat sum was real
lied for the industrial department of
the school.
Mr.. E. t. Atkinson, county ST.
perintendent of public schools, Mrs.
w. R. Hollowell, president Of the
Wayne County Association for the
betterment Of public schools, and
Miss Laura Kirby, of the faculty of
The kinstOn Graded School, and
president Of the State Association for
the bettorment of Public Schools, left
on Monday for Greensboro to at
tend a conference of leading educa-
ton spirits of the State in the intel
est of public school work.
MI. B. II. Griffin, proprietor Of the
Kennon Hotel is not only running 9
model h0steIry but he is also run
ming a model farm-the Kennon
Farm, on the Southern suburb. His
overseer, MI. E. Carr, is now furn'
ishing the hotel with new crop Irish
potatoes and white onions, and has
Young cucumbers and beans well
formed, which will soon be ready
for eating. And there are other
things out there in fact, most any
thing to be found growing on 9
model farm.