Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-09-14
STATE NEWS.
Items of Interest Clipped From
our State Exchanges.

Items of Interest Clipped From
our State Exchanges.
GreensviIle Ise fl 'ctor-Gre ensviile
is to. have a carnival in October.
Then you will know for yourself
what it is.
Elizabeth City Economist-Mis
Bertha @. Holland and Mr.Jesse H.
,Copeiand, of Holland, Va, are the
NAMES of the romantic young couple
w o came to this city and were
married yesterday by Magistrate j.
lC. spence at his home. They left
ON the early train this morning for
their future home in Virginia. 1t
Was an elopement, pure and sim
pie.
Turham Sun-G"od road building
ibis county has grown so much in
ifavCr, and taken such a hold upon
the people that when the road force
is 10 be moved there is a var fight
lover which road will be worked next.
This was demonstrated at the last
mee,i z of the Board OF County Com
miseI nefS..
Greensboro Record-Dr. Battle is
to preach a sermon on the evils vi
!c'garette smoking soon, perhaps
iSunuay night XIV. He may be able
to do 1t without being criticized, but
we know some Wno are afraid to do
1T. However, DR.. Battle does not
belong to that crowd, yet if he dio
wou d not keep him from it.
Whiteville News-''In a recent
trial of a Whiskey case before q. s.
commissioner l. b. Tucker a rather
amuslng fact was revealed. In ques-
tionIng d witness it was discovered
that the defendant from whom The
witness had bought Whlskey was a
scaoOl committeeman at the tine he
naue the sale; phe Whites Was tow :
ship constable, ald Il t1!Iu arty,
who was present Wilen the purchase
Was made, Was i Justice u Ii peace.
A pretty LtIo, ln,teel, 10 be holding
these important otices.'
Wilmington 5tar-,ays the Dur
nam Herald: 'Mr. DutIe.' former
IpoplIiSt frieIdS are no doubt Won
uerIng how Ii /, hat he can now
tlne up With d party that
stands for everything that he
did not Want at tnat ttme.o Well,
it has u t taken time to show that it
wasn't SO much what the Republican
party stan15 for as 1t is what Butler
.tauds for-Wlih both hands held out
for the stuph.
NeWbern Observation-Disclosures Ward,
d coIored woman, was found wand
ring in the woods ne ar CrOatan the
first OF this Week anu was captured
md brought to this city to be exam
lnded for ner sanity. Sic was held
ior commitment to the asylum but is
not held to be very crazy. Her only
freak being to wander away and live
in the woods. She is called the.'Wild
Woman OF Croatan."
Greensboro Telegram---Miss Flossie
Settle will not appear here in The
Clansman. An acquaintance of hers
mere received from her IN yesterday
a letter in which she stated that she
mad cancelled her engagement with
the company producing The
IClansman.
TarbOro Southerner---The heirs OF
the late Judge Howard, six in mum.
Der, selected three persons to appor-
ktion the estate valued at aboutaquar-
4ter of a million dollars. The persons
} selected accepted the charge and sci
Iabout to make the division. They
went owe the many parcels of zeal
+ est tie, placing them together in six
iequal allotmentes as far as possible
, and then asked the heirs to draw fol
them. This was done, and it is sale
THAT each n OF the heirs was pei
fectly satisfied with the allotment re
Iceived.
Ahseville Citizen---A boy who un
dertook the perilous task of crossing
the footway of Smiths bridge fel
into one of the nu merous food holes
which advertise the inactivity of GU
Board of County Commissioners ,ant
Sustained mi aries which, it is said
may afford substantial grounds for
. damage suit against the county.