Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-03-31
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ITEMS OF INTEREST IN AND
AROUND TEE CITY.
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OF Argus Readers.
Cotton, as well as tobacco, has
about all been marketed in Wayne
county.
Rev. Jno. T. Edmundson is bav-
ing his property near the graded
school repainted and a new cottage
erected, fronting on Oak street.
Mr.. Jos. Edwards is now at the
Western stock markets, for the Sec
ond time this season, making purch-
asses Of mules and horses for his trade
here.
The Higgins Drug Company have
about completed painting and other
wise fixing up their place of business
and it is now, without question, one
Of the h~andsomest drug stores in the
State.
Mr.. Howard Burch has taken a
position with the Palace Drug Store,
and will have charge Of their hand
some soda fountain, in which line the
firm has. already built up a large and
growing patronage.
The white mar George Daniels
who has been confined in Jail here
under sentence of death for the muir
der of Will Maxwell in DupIin county
last year, has been given a new trial
by the Supreme Court.
It is now feared in these parts that
the extreme cold Monday night and
heavy frost of next morning has de-
CfpOEo6 tho noa0h ORION no~toi Il, h,a
great damage been done it and other
early deems
Bean planting with hopes fol-. large
returns is now the order of the az
With truckers. Sometimes a trucker
who gets enough TO pay for the seed
beans is considered lucky. But of
course it will not be so this year.
The last Legislature changed the
time of the meeting for the Board of
Road Supervisors from the first Sat
urdays in August and February to
the first Saturdays in April and No
vember. All interested should make
a note of this fact.
The press dispatches Mich 26 from
w dSIl1uSlOI COHldlu LIlS du1OunCOo
ment that the last instalIment-$16,-
25O-of the $50, 900 appropriation for
the new post office building now in
course of construction in this city, has
been made available.
While coupling cars on the siding
which runs into the yards of DeWey's
machine shops on Saturday evening
Mr. HnnrU GtQTr q UOJInp UhJfn m n
had his hand terribly mashed. It is
feared that the accident will render
his hand useless hereafter.
LastSunday was Palm Sunday, the
anniversary of the SaviOur's trump
hal entry into Jerusalem riding upon
the colt Of an ass, thus fulfilling the
prophecy of Old. The week that
Palm Sunday ushers in is known in
the church calendar as Holy Week,
in which comes Good Friday, and
the Sunday following is the glorious
feast of Easter.
Some Of the leading colored peo-
pie of this city have secured a char
ter from the Secretary of State for a
new secret order to be known as the
Reformed Junior Knights of Gideon
Mutual Aid Society. They have
had their rituals printed and will
send out solicitors to work up sub
ordinate lodges all over the State.
At this time thirty years ago
Goldsboro was a seething scene OF
Federal soldiers; Schofield's army
having arrived here on the 21st OF
March, 1865, followed by Burnside
and then by Sherman, all within 9
few days. Older citizens among us
remember how it all was at thai
time. How swiftly roll the years
away!
The services of MI. A. j. Cooke
of this city, the well-known and uni
versally popular hotelist, have beer
secured by the management of the
Atlantic Hotel at Morehead City fol
the coming season. This will indeed
be gratifying news not only to Mr.
Cookies many friends but also to the
public generally who patronize thu
Atlantic, for it is a satisfactory guar
antee that this favOrite and peerles!
seaside resort will be run upon high
plane of excellence and enjoyment