Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-03-10

At a meeting of the Junior Order
of United American Mechanics held
last week in their hall 1T was decided
to raise five hundred dollars for the
entertainment Of the State Council of
the order, which meets in this city
next February. Committees of Ways
and Means were appointed last night
and it is quite certain that the full
amount will be IN hand long before
the council convenes.
Goldsboro> will soon have another
suburb in the neighborhood of the
Odd Fellows Orphan Home. The
Park Heights land company have re-
Gently had a number of lots surveyed
on their property fronting the orphan
home, and soon purchasers of these
lots will begin the erection of homes.
The location is very desirable and the
opportunitysto purchase, now that the
lots have been laid off, will not long
be~delayed.
At the meeting of the Board of
Aldermen last week it was decided
to issue $1,000 in city bonds for the
enlargement and Improvement of the
electric light plant, which is now in
adequate to furnish lights for the
city. The city attorney was instruct
ed to take the necessary steps toward
floating the bonds and it is quite
probable that the necessary changes
will be made in the plant.
The county and city both got a
whack at two ltinerant photographers
who were taking fashlight pictures
in Goldsboro last week. Deputy
Sheriff Warrick and Officer Fulghum
ran across the photographers and de-
manded a yearly privilege tax,
which is ten dollars for the county
and five dollars for the city. When
takento the halls o. justice the money
was promptly paid and the offenders
were released without cost.
It is reported from the strawberry
belt between here and Wilmington
that the freezes have not injured the
crop in the least and that the crop
will be as large this year as usual.
The vines appear to be in a healthy
condition and are as vigorous as usual
at this time of the year. The blooms
will not appear for some weeks yet
and the only freezes that interfere
with the crop are those that come after
the blooms have come out.
Usually at this season of the year
local fishermen are catching a num-
Der of white shad out of Neuse river.
Only a very few have been offered
for sale up to the present time. The
high water has prevented the fisher
men from plying their %avocation to
advantage. Last week the river was
out Of its banks and fishermen could
not get to the channel. The present
heavy rain will cause a continued
treshet for SEINE days to come.
The recent decision of the Supreme
Court which prevents the shipping
Of whiskey into prohibition territory
is causing the people who drink the
stuff to have to go after it, and ON
Saturday afternoon there were A
people who went from this city to
Pikeville after whiskey aud they all
came back nthe train which reached
here in the afternoon. There were
that many that came in on the train
not to speak of those who walked and
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conveyances.
At a meeting of the Board of
| County Commissioners of Sampson
| county Monday, in Clinton, it was
| advertised for bids for the erection
of a $50 900 court house. People who
have visited Clinton will learn with
| pleasure of the movement which the
Board is making. For years Samp-
son county has only had q wooden
structure for a court house which
stands in the most prominent posi-
ton in the town. In fact, the town
ia built around the court house and q
building such as it is proposed to
erect will not only be a greater con.
venience, but will add so much &C
the appearance of the capitol OF
Sampson.
The high price of cotton this yeal
is very apt to encourage the farmers
to on erdo the thing. And when there
is u vast over-productiOn the law O
demand and supply is sure to lid
practical appli, alton. While eacf
larmer thinks he will steal a march
on the others and raise a big cop
! most of he others are reasoning .,
the same tlasis. The result IS very
ant to be that unless some attention
be paid to corn, hogs and food pro
ducts the farmers will be in an I'm
comfortable position, especially j
the price of cotton should take a de
4 cided downward cOur e, which i