Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-12-10
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DR. w. ], Jones suffered a mild
stroke of paralysis Friday from
which he has recovered and is IL
good health to-day, his hosts OF
friends viii be glad 10 learn.
Owing 10 engagements at snow
HI <0urt Mr. 5. W. Jsier will not
be able to attend at his law office in
t is city this week nor the week
f)lioWing. His clients here will take
notice accordingly.
Capt. w. L. Morris, of Barlow,
Fla, brother of the late Mr.. Jno. r.
Morris, arrived in the city Sunday.
hurrying to Baltimore, but only
reaching here, where the sad news
of the end awaited him.
Mr.. r. A. Watts, Jr., has return
ed from South Carolina on account
of illness and is again occupying a
window in the John Slaughter build
ing, where he is prepared to do al
kinds of jewelry repairing.
Miss Mary Emma Giddens has
succeeded Miss Bessie Clayton as
stenographer in the law office of Mr..
w. L. Dortch and Miss Maggie
Bryan has succeeded Miss Giddens
as stenOgrapher for Mr.. j. J. Street.
Mr.. John Thompson, agent for
the A. G. l.. Railroad at Society
hlAb.S :. O., a former resident of the
Salemsection, has been in the city,
visiting his brother Mr.. "Bud"
Thompson, andleft Monday for Dup
lin county to visit his sister Mrs. Joe
Kelly, nee Miss Carrie Thompson.
Miss Bessie Clayton, who has been
stenographer in the law office of
MI. W. T. Dortch, in this city, has
accepted a similar position with the
McClamroch Mantel Co., of Green's
boro, at an increased salary. Her
many friends here wish her ucces
The contract for the erection OF the
new government building for Colds
hoFo was awarded some days ago to
a frm in Charlottesville, Va. The
firm are now expected here at any
time to begin work. The work OF
constructing the building will prob
ably consume twelve months. The
building will cost about $40, 600 and
will be an ornament to GOIdSbOrO.
Sheriff Stevens returned Tuesday
from Raleigh, where he wentto carry
a negro woman named Lilly Hicks
together with her pal Sam Penn
were convicted of robbing a negro
farmer from Greene county of $45
The negro farmer came to town anC
sold a bale of cotton and with his
money got in bad company. The
woman was SEN up for four year,
and her partner in crime was sen
fenced to six years on the county
road.
The death Of Mr.. Henry E. Per
kins occurred at his home in thi
city, at FOG East Centre street, south
last Saturday at 1880 o'clock. HI
had been confined to his bed for some
time with a complication of diseases
and his death, while not unexpected
is none the less sad. He had lived il
Goldsboro for a number of years ane
was we'll known to all of its oldel
citizens. He was 48 years old anC
leaves a wife and three children
His wife conducts the Perkins Hotel
from where the funeral was helC
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Mr.. J. Wylie Guildtouch, the cour
teous and cultured gentleman wht
ure for the Mabel Paige Company
Io-o Io14 u,oo1z f~n n khroo vS1.I4o ~
gagement, is one of the most re
markable men in the world in tina
he is living, and in perfect healtl
and physical action, after having hat
his neck broken. The medical Worlt
and all newspaper readers are &C
quainted with his phenomenal case
He fell down a hotel elevator in Biz
mingham, four years ago and brok
his neck completely, but when pick
ed up was living. He was taken t
the Hillman Hospital, where for
year he lay paralized, but conscious
with his neck sprinted. DR.. B. 6
Copeland performed on him tn
greatest surgical operation known q
that time, removing the second an
third spiral process, and eventual
Mr.. GuiIdtouch entirely recovered
as is evident on looking at him.
The little sparrow which perche
itself in top of the church Monda
and sang a requiem while the cho
was singing during the funeral Sc
Mces yer the remains of the la
Jno. r. Morris attracted right muc
attention from the audience. Whe