Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-05-12
PURELY LOCAL.
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN AND
AROUND THE CITY.
Picked Up BY the Ubiquitous
Reporter and Chr0nicled
Fer the Information
OF Argus Readers.
Carnival tonight.

Carnival tonight.
Mayor Jas. R. Hatch, Of Mt. Olive,
was here Tuesday.
Mr.. ard Mrs. L. j. Best, of Dunn,
who have been visiting his brother,
Mr.. NJ. j. Best, left to-day for their
home.
DR.. j. F. Miller has returned
from Seven Springs, and has been
greatly benefited by the sojourn
there, his many friends will be glad
to know.
On the 22nd of May the Atlantic
Coast Line will sell round trip tick
cts to the Worlds Fair from Colds
boro for $4,000 via Richmond and
$20.9O via Atlanta.
There is not going to be a very
large crop of tobacco cultivated in
this county this year: but some farm
ers are planting some few acres, and
the season for setting out plant is at
hand.
Sealed proposals are wanted for
covering the Lattice bridge across
Neuse river with corrugated, gall
yanized iron roofing, particulars of
which will be found in another col
umn in this issue.
DIR. Herbert Taylor, from Sarah
Leigh Hospital, Norfolk, Va, who
has been visiting his parents MI.
and Mrs. ]. B. Taylor, in this city,
left for his post of duty at the above
institution yesterday.
The Norfolk Red Stockings will
play the colored base ball team in
this city Thursday, Friday, and Sat
urday afternoons. A commodious
grand stand for the accommodation
of white people will be ready for the
occasion.
Now bring out all your Spring
paraphernalia-including your fish
ing tackle, etc., for we publish to-
day Jim Hollowell's wonted Spring
poem-the sign ARGUS readers al
ways wait for before being sure that
Spring has come to abide.
The elder Williams the father
whose shooting, together with his
son, by Mr.. G. W.. Smith, in this
county, last week, was reported in
the ARGUS, died Thursday in Will
son, where he had been taken to the
Sanitarium for an operation.
Strawberries are selling to-day for
81 to $3.50 between here and Viii
mington. At these prices the grow
ers are making money and are in
good spirits. There is a good buckle
berry crop,and Sampson and Duplin
counties will reap a harvest.
The alarm of fire from box 10
Monday ~as caused by a fire
around a stove fue in the residence
of DR.. j. NJ. Parker, on James
street. The fire department respond
ed promptly and subdued the flames
before a great deal of damage had
been incurred.
A negro named VIII Wooten has
been arrested near Kinston, charged
with throwing a missile at the Shoe
fly on the A. & N. G. Railroad on
Sunday night. The negroes in the
neighborhood informed on Wooten
and said that they did not want such
ii ClldI dCCC1 ~ t4C COAA4INLllLJs
Mr.. Paul E. Montgomery, who
was here last week advertising the
Carnival which is now here, left on
Saturday night for Beaumont, Texas,
where he goes to accept a position as
book-keeper for a large oil firm. He
is a genial gentleman Of pleasing adj
dress, and while here made many
friends who will remember him
pleasantly.
The few people in Wayne county
who still avecotton left on hand are
regretting very much that they did
not dispose of it when the price of
the fleecy ftaple was IS cents per
pound. There are not many OF this
class, but there are a few. The best
that has been offered for some time
is II IL cent?. A loss of 3 IL cents
per pound means quite a neat little
sum to the farmer who has 20 or so
bales left on hand.