Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-06-29
LOCAL BRIEFS.
items of Interest In and Around
the City, :!
Have you listed your taxes?

IS at hand, and the average 'CuIlud"
individuals getting ready to "ride." {
Hon. G. B. Aycock, who has been
absent from the city for several
weeks, attending various courts, is
atrhone again.
The former residence of Mr.. Jos.
Edwards is being moved to the OPP
pOsite corner and soon his proposed
handsome new residence will be IN
course of construction. We go fof-
ward.
Mr. w. j. Hicks, a recent graduate
in Pharmacy from Wake Forest Col
lege, has taken a position with the
Palace Drug Store in this city, and
will be glad to have his friends call
to see him.
These hot nights are fine on cot
ton, and the King is beginning to
hold his head up, and before many !
weeks, the fields, instead of being
white with blooms, will be white
with heecy locks.
Why should the faemer place SO
much importance on cotton when
voting chickens sell at % to 80 cents
a piece and eggs average from Is to
20 cents a dozen all the year round
and lambs are hardly to be had at
ali?
The spacious corner establishment
of Messrs. Andrews d Waddell, the
furniture dealers, formerly the post
office, that recently received a hand
some new front, is now being further
beautiied by the painter artist Mr..
Jno. Z. Epps.
Mrs. Charity Atkinson, the vener-
able mother of cur good friend Mr..
E. 4. Atkinson, County Superinten-
dent of Education, was painfully in
jared by a fail last week, we are
sorry to chronicle, and is now quite
feeble, at their home in this city.
Mr.. T. A. Daniels left to-day for
Evansville, n. ", where he will
spend, some time at jackson Sanitar-
ium, to recuperate. His hosts of
friends everywhere will hope that
his sCi9urn at that superb health re-
sort may prove entirely beneficial.
The ARGUS predicted a low price
for Irish potatoes. FoTty-tWo mil
lions Of bushels of Old crop carried
over made the new crop of little
value. 1t does not pay the truckers
to dig potatoes at the present price.
It is ever thus, the old, old story OF
supply and demand.
The old Veterans who attended
the great Confederate gathering al
Louisville, are loud in their praise o
the beautiful scenery along the Ches
eapeake & Ohio Railway ron Rich
mond to Louisville, and the splen
did cars, equipment and polite at
tention of the officials.
At the green grocers, in Goldsboro
you Will fnd peaches, apples, Tlums
hackleberrie5, black berries, nearl,
every kind of vegetables, fresh from
oar orchards and fields. Great
Eastern Carolina, and Goldsboro
more prosperous today than ever b:
fore, is the best town in the State.
Mr.. Jas. ". Baker, who was S
seriously broken up by d tree fallin
on him while guarding %convicts i
DupIin county II months age
and who has since been in the no;
pltaI at Wilmington, has sufficient
recuperated to be brought home Sa
urday, we are glad to chronicle.
The funeral of Little Henriett
May, the 4 months old daughter
Mr.. j.. NJ. Britt, was held from tn
home Thursday morning and tn
iuterment Was made IN the Edgel
ton burying ground, in Fork town
ship beside It's mother, who pre-
ceded it to the grave about tire
months ago.
MI. and Mrs. Sam P. Lane an
daughter, Miss Laura, Of Montreal
Canada, are in the city, visiting re
atiyes, and Mr.. lanes many oil
friends here, his boyhood home, wi
be sorry to know that his health j
very much impaired, and we a
wish him a speedy restoration, nov
that he breatnes again the s%alubriou
atmosphere of his ''native heath"
Let's have a Hospital for Colds
boro in keeping with the importano
of our city and the abilities and ski
Of our physicians, who, as Mr.. Fal
ries truly says, ''are the peers
any.'' Gold5boro has long enoug
dIscredited herself by inactivity an
li5tllessness in this regard. LIZ
the reproach be removed. Let U
have an ~up-to-date Hospital
Miss Mary Best Jones, of the IA
uIty ofthe GoldSooro Graded Schoo
has resigned her position, and wi
be succeeded by Miss Clara Spicer,
recent graduate from the Stale No
NAL, who was elected yesterda.
Miss Jones has made a most exec
lent teacher and her resignation is
positive loss to the school. Mi
Spicer brings to the work all tt
essentials for the making of an ide
teacher and we are sure she wi
prove a worthy successor to Mi
Jones.
Politics are quiet these days
good old summe time, but til
lime next year even WIllin' Mist
Barkis will be mighty DuSy in /
deep anxiety to serve the folks. Th
has it ever been. But, after all,
there more vanity in anything tn
in politics? Some time ago we hea
one the most prominent political
in the State say thai he regrets til
political ambition ever got hold
him. But when this politicalambiti
does get its grip on the heartstrin
OF a man, that man is in the grip
a merciIess master, who whips a
goads and spurs the victim w
Worships at the altar of 1nordins
political ambition, an altar built {
of the ashes of blasted hopes.