Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-09-21
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest In and Aroune

g. the City.
Some repairs are being made to
the inside of the fire house.
Miss Mamie (Joe) Edwards has
gone to Spartansburg, S.. {. as a stud
emit of Converse College.
Miss Bessie Gold, Of Wilson, is
the guest of her sister, Mrz. Viii
liams Spicer.
The many friends of Capt. D. J..
Broadhurst will be glad 10 know
that he is very much better.
Mr.. R. P. Foster is spending a
few days in Asheville with his tamil
ly.
Mrs. r. B. Miller returned today
from Dunbar, where she visited her
brother, Mr. Ed Battle.
Aliss Sudie Gulley has gone to
Greensboro to resume her studies al
Greensboro Female College.
A number of important changes
on the A. & N. G. yard and repairs
MADE to the old freight warehouse
will take place in the near future.
Ex-Governor G. B. Aycock re-
turned yesterday from a business
trip TO Washington and New York
City.
DR.. w. w. Wilmington, of Bull
Head, Greene County. was in the
city today and reports considerable
diptheria in his section.
Mrs. Miller Hughes and little
daughter, who have been visiting
Capt. and Mrs r. z. How ell, re-
turned to her home in Fayetteville
today.
MI. l4iovel We'll, who had pain
full fall at yesterdays Are, is resting
comfortably today, and hopes soon
to be out again, his many friends
will be glad to know.
Miss Bessie Edwards, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jno. w. Edwards,
who is a student Of Notre Dame,
near Baltimore, left today to resume
her studies at that noted institution
of learning.
The marriage of MI. R. w. Smith
to Miss Mary 2. Jones, occurred at
the home of the brides mother, Miss
Mary A. Jones, in Johnson County,
yesterday afternoon at 3 O'Clock,
Rev. j. w. Gardner, of this city, CT
floating.
Mrs. L. H. Castex and her mil
liner, Miss Pearl Creech, who have
been spending several weeks at the
Northern fashion centres, selecting
their new line of Fall Millinery and
acquainting themselves with the
latest and most up-to-date styles anu
fashions, have returned home.
One OF the most effective i~f1uennc-
es in building up d city is for all OF
its citizens to speak well of it when
they 60 out of town. Public spirit
is worth a great deal to any city. II
makes a favorable impression on
outsiders and attracts capitalists and
desirable homeseekers.
MI. Oscar L. Thompson, of tbs
Whiteville Lumber Co., whose wife
and little daughter have been spend
ing some weeks with his parent
MI. and Mrs. E. Edwards, is in tbs
city to accompany them home thif
afternoon. Oscar is looking well
and his many friends here are al
ways glad to see him.
GoldsbOro is to have al ~up-tO-date
fruit, cOnfection and tobacco estab-
lishment, soda water and cigars. 1t
will be known as the West Centre
Fruit Company, with Mr.. Geo.
Gardner, as manager. Their place
of business will be next door to r.
A. Watts, the jeWeler, on West Cen
TIRE street, and they will open up to-
morrow.
q gentleman remarked to us to-
day that he had never seen the farm
stock of Wayne County in as nice
condition as they are now, And
this is unquest1onably true. 1t is a
rare thing to see a poor horse or
mule come to town now. They all
have the appearance of being Wei
fed and we'll cared for. This is a
splendid sign of a prosperous people.
A long line of handsome new box
cars, painted deep green, with the
company's new scroll and name in
cream color on the sides, passed
through the city today On their way
to Newbern to be put into service on
the A. & N. G. Railroad. The "Old
Mullet" is certainly coming to the
front in physical Improvement and
handsome new rolling stock.
Mr.. Sherwood L. Linden, who was
the victim of a vicious and unpro-
voked assault by a Desperate named
Aiken, now at large and being
sought for, was brought home yester-
day evening by his parents, and is
not so seriously shot as at first re-
ported; although he had 8 narrow
escape and is painfully wounded,
having received a load of bird shot
in his back. When apprehended his
assallant will be prosecuted to the
limit as he is an~otoriou5ly desperate
character.
Their hosts of friends here were in
deed sorroWful today to bid goodbye
to Rev. DIR. and Mrs. Geo. W. But
Ter, who with their younger chill
dren left at noon for DR.. Buffers
missionary field in far away Brazil.
where they have resided for more
than twenty years, coming home oc-
casionally on a visit Their oldest
daughter, Miss Grace Butler, and
son. Master Humphrev will