Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-03-24

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All aboard for Seven Springs!
Mrs. Ed. L. EdmundsOn continues
to improve, we are glad to chronicle.
If you have not paid your taxes
before the first of May you cannot
vote.
A series of revival meetings will
be inaugurated in the First Baptist
church next month.
There is general satisfaction in this
section at the selection of Greensboro
as the State convention city.
Mr.. Stephen w. Isler will not be
at his Office here this week, on ac-
count of having to attend court at
Kinston.
Mr.. Leslie We'll, of the firm of H.
We'll & Bros, who has been on an
extended purchasing trip north, has
returned to the city.
Those gentlemen who happen to
get on the wrong side of the market
are apt to conclude that cotton isn't
such a soft thing after all.
With good weather from this on
the truckers between here and Will
mington will soon be shipping straw
berries to Northern markets.
: Shad fishing in the rivers here
ahOuts has begun in earnest and the
much desired white shad is for sale
every morning On the streets.
One of the attractions on John
st. Saturday was a four-legged chick
en- which was exhibited in a tent
next to the headquarters of the fire
department.
Miss Marie Antoinette Hughes, of
New York, and expert an exper-
fenced milliner, has arrived in the
city, to fill the position of head mil
liner at Mr.. [. Meyers this season.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of The John Slaughter Com
pany was held on Monday evening,
March IA. Mr.. D. H. Dixon was
elected secretary and treasurer to
succeed Mr.. Thos. B. Jacocks, who
resigned.
The sale of the Wayne Cotton Mill
took place at public auction Monday
at noon. The property was bid off
to MI. Frank K. Borden at $18, 600,
subject to its bonded Indebtedness OF
$40, 900, which would bring the ac-
tual selling price of the property up
to $68, O00.
Much has been said and written
about the practice of parting ones
hair in the middle as a sign of intel
1ectual weakness. This is foolish
prattle. Some of the ablest men in
the country part their hair in the
middle, some do not part it at all,
while others haven't any hair to part,
The brick work on the foundations
of Goldsboro's new post Office is
making progress, and soon, with
favorable weather, the work will be
gin to assume definite outlines thai
will give an idea of the O
building the Government is going tt
construct.
The death Of Louisa Peel, colored
wife of Willis Peel, and who fo
twenty years has been a servant il
the household of Mr.. and Mrs. M
L. Lee, the nurse of their children
and faithful 10 all trusts, occurret
Saturday last and is deeply deploret
hF the family, who hold her in sin
cere regard.
The profits from tFb1ind tigers ar
continually tempting some colore
individual to violate the law in re
erence to the sale of liquor in Colds
boro and as q consequence there al
several now under bond for their al
pearance at court for this ofens'
On Tuesday Charley Manuel ws
before Mayor Hood for selling viii
kew and he has been locked up b.
cause he could not give bond in til
sum of 800. This case was brougf
to the attention of the police by
coIored woman who had fallen OF
with Manuel and who had she claim
bought Whiskey from him. The p
lice say that most of the cases of tn
kind have been reported to them b
other negroes.