Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-02-02
! LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items O Interest In and Around
tho CiAU


the City.
Mr.. J. K. Williams, of Whining
on, is in the city.
Mr.. Fred Macdonald, OF Rocky
Mount, spent yesterday here.
Mrs. Henry Lee has returned from
Clinton, where she visited relatives.
There were a few lonesome-Iooking
bales of cotton on our streets to-day.
Tucker Bros. have moved their
branch marble yard from this city to
headquarters in Wilmington.
The condition of Mrs. G. J. Girls
void is unchanged to-day. She is
still almost hopelessly ill.
The Dramatic Club will hold a
social meeting next Monday V
ming in the Woman's Club Rooms.
Capt. J. w. Lamb, who had the
small bone of n of his leg broken
a.few days ago, is doing as we'll as
could be expected.
Miss Mary Poole, assisted by Miss
Daisy Smith as pianist, will open a
dancing school next Saturday after
noon, February 4th.
Our police officers are all wearing
new uniforms and new helmets, and
taken altogether they are a fine look
ing set of oficers-"Humpy" not
excepted.
Tho Hnur1oo1 Tn rrox,anoan{ Coro
pany are having a nice, large room
built in the rear of their handsome
new Offices, to be used as a storage
room.
1t is a hard matter to tell which
of the two looks the l~onesoner-
our cotton buyers OIL Our police of
ficers-neither have very much to oc-
cupy their time these days.
The owner of the Messenger Opera
House building are having an addi-
ton built to the rear end of the build
ing, of brick, to be used as a dressing
room, to take the place of the old
wooden one
News has been received in this
city to the effect that Mr. Mack Nc
Cullen of this city, had his pocket
book. containing about $780, 90 stolen
from him in Elizebth City a few
days ago.
"Horse'' Mackey, the negro who
burglarized Mr.. w. B. Pate's bed
room and stole his watch and money
some weeks ago, was convicted in
court today and sent to the county
road for 5 years.
DIR. E. 6. Vitou, a graduate den
fist, and a young gentleman of
pleasing address and cultured con-
Versation,T is one of our city's latest
acquisitions. He is occupying the
office of DR.. j. H. Stockard, during
the abser &c of the latter to recuper-
ate his health.
Mary Lord, a young colcred wo-
man cooking for Mr.. Jos. Isaacs,
died suddenly on his premises this
afternoon, in the yard, at the pump,
where she had gone fora bucket Of
water, and was seized with a hem
Orrhage of the lungs. DIR. Thos.
Hill, the Coroner, viewed the body
and decided hat an inquest vas not
necessary.
The funeral Of the late Mr.. w. F.
Atkinson, whose all too untinely
death we chronicled in Fridays
ARGUS, was largely attended Sup
day at the old homestead, in Fork
township, a large number from this
city being present. The services
were conducted by Rev. H. E.-Tripp,
and the interment was made beside
his late father in the family hurying
ground on the kirkpatrick planta-
ton.
In view of the unusually large
amount of cotton which is held on
farms and at gin houses this season,
it is more than ordinarily necessary
that the cotton should be properly
housed and protected from the
weather in order to avoid great dam
age, especially where owners con-
template holding for a lengthy
period. It is often the case that cot
ton exposed for any length of time
will be damaged to the extent of so
IL 200 lbs. per bale. This question
j. always n OF great Importance,
but l. unusually so this year under
the conditions prevailing.