Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-07-20
AS TO GoLDsBoRo
Shall We Go Forward or Retro
grade-There Can Be No
Standst4u?
Standstlu?

Standst1lI?
This is going TO bc d little "heait
to beart'' talk with Goldshoro peo-
ple-people who make the town
what it is-people upon whom the
future OF our city de ends-people
that do things. You understand. Are
you one of these? Then listen.
some years ago the State Grand
Ledge of Odd Fellows established
the Orphanage of their. noble order
i'll this city, and, in consequence, the
Grand Lodge of the Order met here
in annual session for the laying Of
the corner stone. Had their decision
as to the location of their orphanage
been subsequent instead of prior to
their meeting here Goldsb no would
not have been selected and we would
new be minus the beautiful home
that is, the splendid buildings that
are 30 be, and the valuable develop
'Heat Of that section OF our city. That
was a Woeful experience for our city
as q convention town, and we have
nos failed to realize the baneful eff
fees thereof in many ways.
We have not had a session of the
State Grand Lodge of Old Fellows
here since. At their recent annual
session, however, they selected
Goldsboro as their place Of meeting
next year.
1t believers Goldsboro TO rejoice at
the opportunity of redeeming her
self anu 10 go 20 work to that end.
Every timea large am representa-
meets in a town, it is not the i'm
mediate money the delegates spend
IN the community that counts SO
much as the favorable Impressions
they receive and the good words
they speak abroad for the town after
they leave it, thereby advertising it
InteIiigently and reliably TO tine
world at large, whereby prospec5ors
are attracted and desirable citizens
secured. People who visit Colds
paIo find it interesting, lively, hos
pifable and altogether pleasant,
vi, h d cultured paople and a SPLEEN
did climate. Few cities in the soutt
eniny such railroad facilities; bat we
nave not improved these as We
| should; If we had, Goldsboro Woulo
| today be a city Oh tWenty-thlrly-
/ forty thousand innabitauts-WhG
3 can say what u population woulC
: lhave been? Who can limit Jul pop
!: uIation OF achievements of the futurt
, if we would only wake up and real
e ize our possibilities ana c0-operat
e cordially for the furtherance O
E Greater G0lJSboro? Shall we worl
together for the widening Of pos
aibilities and the. enlargement Of OF
e portunities or shall we, as sparrow
on he housetops, call to n al
other across the way We've &C
o the Best Town In the State" anu b
S content at that?
AS a weIl-known advertiser ono
C said: Everybody in this tow
knows 1 run a large departmen
e store, but [ advertise every day t
n kesp them forgetting it," That
good
:, Municipal advertising when judi
t ciaiIy done is valuable to any city
Il Not q few fourishing towns az,
.. cities have been built on it. Not
what one of the very largest an
+ most enterprising newspapers in tn
s country says about this method c
S binding up a town:
"AIOst Of theprogressivetoWns ant
cities Of the country have at varkou
/ period Of their history exploited ad
$ vantages, real and imaginary, eact
, of them patriotically insisting, anC
offering to prove it, that it was JUS
the finest place in the wide, wide
: world for business or for ideal pri
vate life. Most of them have offered
inducements Of substantial nature
for railroads aud manufactures. AL
have benefited by effort, all have
been in some way rewarded munif
Gently tor every activity put forth
in the interest of ex banding and en-
forcing a largerknowiedge of their at
fractions for man and capital.''
The Farmers Warehouse is the
place. Drive in.
REEVE q BERNARD.