Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-05-04
STATE E
Items OF Interest Clipped From
our State Exchanges.

-
Items Of Interest Clipped From
our State Exchanges.
AT Washington N. c., on Thurs
day, the election for an additional
SIS, 900 bonds for an electric plane
resulted in the bond issue beinl
carried by "A majority.
Charlotte Observer:-TW o days
shipments of strawberries from erst
ern Carolinaamounted to nearly 5000
900. This seemsalmostincre1itable
but it is a fact nevertheless.
Carthage Blade:-Judge Ward i
holding the regular spring term 0
Criminal court, and is making
manystrong friends among our PEG
pie. He is firm, yet fair in all hi
rulings.
Smithfield Herdld:-Messrs. r
H, Allen and J, r. Wedd caught
carp in Neuse river with a net las
Friday that weighed SO pounds
This is the biggest carp we have We
heard of.
Charlotte Chronicle: What's in
name anyway? Devotion Whitley
a Stanly county man, has beenindicl
ed for breach of promise to MARI.
a girl to whom he had pretened t.
to have been all devo ion.
In the Supreme Court at Raleigh
on Thursday Ju ige Moor, after hear
ing t. M. Ago, couuselfor theplain'
tiff, made an order setting the noted
Gattis VS.. Kilgo damage suit for its
third trial Wednesday of nextweek
Tarboro Southerner:- A week
Dr two ago the Methodist church al
Hebron, not far from Whitakers in
this county, Was destroyed. by fire.
Ehe fire originated 10 the forest and
spread to the church. The church
1t Hebron Is one of the oldest Meth
Jdisb churches III the country.
Anoted criminal was ask the other
day what started him on the way to
;rIme, and his answer was that the
ir,t hing crooked he ever did was
> beat a country editor outofay years
Inscription, after that tue devil han
aim at his command.-Exchange.
Salisbury Post = If Governor
tlenn attempts a replyto all the I'M
avoraoie criIIclsm of his official acts
re is less familiar with the penalty
i offi 10 holding than We had sap
Josed. WHAT is an officehold9r for
,nynow if he is not a legitim tie tar
get for abuse?
Wilmington Star:-Foarth Vice
K.nfy Of thu A. q. L.,
aas written d Litter to NJ igor Rhe.t
)f Charleston, stating Oheu tile chief
engineer Is at work uI the plans fOI
.lo neW union oCatltu dG Charleston,
-. l., 1T is said wlil he modelled
ooeu some time ago.
Kinston Free Press:-The Rich
-ands Tai acc Warehouse Company,
If Richlands, Onslow county, has
,een granted d charter by tbs score
airy Of state to do a genetai leaf to-
)acco buying and selling. business
rne authorized capital stock $25, 600
a paid in capital Of s. 1926 by 0.
B. Cox, q. IL. Rhodes and others.
The record in the office ofthe State
Insurance Commissioner at Raleigh
shoWs that there are 5,315 North
Carolina policy holders interested in
The adjustment of the affairs Of the
Lie Assurance Society,
which is now creating such a sensa-
in financial circles. The totalof
policies in this State is SIC, LIS 499.
Morehead Coaster: Master Elijah
J. Willis, ofthiS city, whileup Broad
creek, grabbing, started cut for a
aunt Saturday morningand in thoW-
ing the gun on his shoulder il tell 10
The fl 'or and was discharged, the
DAD passing throu ID the lower part
If one leg. Though he could not
get medical attention until Sunday,
when DR.. w. d. Headen was called
upon here, he is getting along very
SelE. He was brought home yester-
lay.
Simpson Democrat:-The old
''stand by" huckleberries, stood the
cold weather better last week than
anything else, though this crop will
De considerably cutshot, too. Where
he growth is thin and on the high
land, they are pretty wen killed out,
out in thick ponds, particularly
where water was standing, there will
be a frirly good crop, upon the whole,
about an average crop in the local
ity around Clinton. They are re-
ported nearly all killed in the west
ern part ofthecOunty. Mostseetions
will ship some berries.
Asheville, April 90. "A bold high
way robbery was committed in the
center of town this afternoon shortly
after 5 O'Clock, when negro, believed
5y the police to be Arthur Mcdowell
enticed a small white boy, Fred