Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-03-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST," IN AND
AROUND THE CITY.
Picked Up BY the Ubiquitous
Reporter. and ChrOnicled
For Che Information
of Argus Readers.

The ladies of st. John church will
give, a European Tea Party at the
home of Mrs. John Raper next Fri
day night for the benefit of the
church.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. B. Parker, Jr.,
have arrived in the city, and are
making their home with Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Parker. The ARGUS ex-
tends them its cordial good wishes.
Sheriff Stevens left Monday for
Morganton to take to the Asylum
there a lady who had been confined
in Jail here for some weeks. The
Asylum in Raleigh is filed up.
Col. Thos. S. Kenan, Clerk of the
State Supreme Court, was in the city
Sunday, on his way to the bedside
of his sister in Kenansville, who is
critically i'll with pneumonia.
Quite a jolly party of personal
friends gathered at the hospitable
home of Capt. j. w. Lamb Saturday
evening in celebration of his 54th
birthday, and a most delightful
evening of music and festivily was
enjoyed.
Miss Annie Folsom, the efficient
and popular chief operator Of the
Bell telephone exchange, who has
been confined to her home for two
weeks by illness, is again at her post
Of duty to-day, we are glad to chron-
icle.
Just when the weather-belated
farmers car get to work is now the
a~il-absOrbing problem; for it means
much to the business interests of the
country at large. The farmer is the
bulwark of all prosperity.
The public are cordially invited to
attend the closing exercises of Miss
Phoebe Stanton's school at Brogden
School house, near Mr.. Geo. w.
Parker's, on Friday night March 4.
Exercises will begin promptly at Z
O'Clock.
The next annual meeting of the
State Council Junior Order United
American Mechanics will be held in
Goldsboro. This was determined by
a vote of the State Council, now in
session at Charlotte, last Thursday
and GoldsbOro is glad of the selection
and proud of the honor.
The marriage of MI. B. L. With
erington to Miss Bette Smith,
daughter of Mr.. Erastus Smith, oc.
CURED at the home of the brides
father, in Pikeville township, We'd
nesday afternoon Feb. 25th, Elder
J. w. Gardner, Of this city, per.
forming the ceremony.
The remains of Theodore Whit.
field Privett, son Of the late Jas. H
Privett, who had been an inmate O
the Central Hospital at Raleigh fol
years, where he died Sunday, were
brought to this city Monday and the
interment made in Willow Dale
cemetery.
Two negroes, Tom Jones and Joh1
Matthews, were arrested and giveI
a hearing in Pikeville before Esquir
P. B. Scott on the charge of larceny
They were employed around the sa
loon of Mr.. Sam Hinnant and wer
caught stealing whiskey and selling
it at reduced prices. They Wer
brought to Goldsboro Sunday an
placed IN Jal1s
The Grafton Winstead Insuranc
Company are to-day moving int
theiT new quarters at 119 Walnu
street, West, on the first floor. TIL
place has been nicely fitted up an
thew will have handsome as well a
comfortable quarters. With the az
QUESTION of its new members tn
prospects for the company are yer
gratifying to their many friends.
The ARGUS is glad to note that GU
Young friend, Mr.. Leslie c. Lane
son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. I. Lane, {
this city, who was promoted fror
the Western Union telegraph offic
here to a position in the service q
Hendersonville, has been again pre-
NOTED to a position in the office
Rocky Mount. He was here to-da
on his way to his new post of duty