Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-02-11

The breaks of tobacco on this mar
ket Tuesday we're the heaviest in sew
eral weeks, which is the result of the
recent slight advance in the price Of
the golden weed. At some of the
warehouses the floor space was not
sufficient to accommodate all the to-
baccO at one sale and an afternoon
sale had to be held for the accom-
mediation of the farmers who wished
to dispose of their product and re-
turn home that night.
Mr.. L. d. Giddens, Jr., a watch
maker and engraver of considerable
experience who has been holding a
desirable position in Norfolk for some
years, has returned to his old home
in this city, where the many friends
Ofhim and his estimable wife will ex-
tend them a cordial welcome. Mr..
lGiddens has opened up business in
the same store with Hummel Bros,
on Walnut street, where the public
can avail themselves of his proficient
services in trade work.
Mayor Geo. E. Hood, of this city,
will preside as State Councillor over
the State Convention of the Junior
Order of United American Mechanics
which cOnvenes in the city of Char
lotte on the Goth. The last meeting
of the State Council was held in
High Point and the members of the
State organization from the Eastern
part of the State will go to Charlotte
with the determination to bring the
next State convention to this section.
.Goldsboro would be glad to have it.
A travelling man who frequently
Hmakes' GOldSbOrO, remarked to
the reporter that s'Goldsboro had the
finest railroad connections and the
most accommodating schedules of
any town in the State and that it
was a great pity that the railroad
service could not be made complete
by the erection of a handsome Union
Passenger Depot, which would not
only be an ornament to the town,
but would be such a great conven-
fence to the travelling public" This
is the way outsiders view the situa-
ton in Goldsboro.
People who are still holding cot
ton, and there are only a few Of this
class in the country, are very much
worried eve the recent drop in the
price of the feecy staple. One farmer
who markets his products in Colds
boro, informed this reporter to-day
that the fall in the price OF cotton
had cost him over $500. He said
that he had 35 bales foe which he
could have gotten ISL cents and to-
day he could not get over 10 cents.
It is only another illustration of the
old adage that people are never sat-
! isfed.
Friends and relatives in this city
have received invitations as follows:
"Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Edward
Vann request the honor of your
presence at the marriage of their
daughter Helen Adair to Mr.. Her
sey Bayies Parker, Jr., on Tuesday,
the sixteenth of February, nineteen
hundred and four, Buckhorn Bap-
fist church, Como, North Carolina"
Mr.. Parker is a prominent member
of the the Goldsboro Bar. He rep
resented Wayne county in the last
Legislature and is we'll known
throughout the State.
Something that GoIdsboro has long
NEEDED is a fully equipped livery
stables, where the public can be sup
piled with any kind of team, Wheth-
er for stylish driving in single OF
double harness, carriages, or teams
for light or heavy hauling. Messrs.
J. A. and B. L.. Stevens, under the
i firm name of B. l.. Stevens & Bro,
have just opened up such an estab-
lishment in our city, on West Chest
,lnut street, and their enterprise and
public spirit, as we'll as the very sly
lish and satisfactory service they are
) rendering deserve the most llberal
patronage Of the public.
1t is a fact worthy of note thai
stock dealers are not selling ear the
number OF horses and mules this sea
; son that ih~> have teen selling fol
!. several yaar, . st. This cannot be
) a%ttrlbuted tothe tact that the farmers
! are not as prosperous, and it must be
!, that they made fairy geo crop
: last year and al plenty Of feed tol
. their stock during the winter. Every
= wear there are carloads after carlo tds
: of horses and mules brought to thi;
lsection from the West where they
2 Iare raised and their disappearance
: lean be accounted for in 10 other way
-Lexcept that they are periShed out anC