Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-03-01
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest In and Around

Mr.. B. H. Griffin left }asi night
for Spring Hope, on business.
- If everybody played and nobody
worked solne people would be crazy
to work.
Mr.. L. +. Dortch, Of the Goldsboro
Bar, is on a sQjouTn; for his health,
at "The MeckienburZ," Chase City.
Mr.. w Il. Dortch, of the Colds
boro Bar, went down to Kenans-
vile this afternoon on professional
business.
Mr.. L. IL. Castcx left last night
for the northern markets 10 make
purchases of spring goods for his
firm.
MIR. w. II. Hollowell left la
night for the western stock markets,
to make further punches toT bis saleo
stables here, which have had q iine
trade this season.
MIR. BAIL Manly, Who is attend
ing school at Red Bank, il liz the
city to spend Sunday at his houIe
here and see his brother, Ensign Maj
Manly, who leaves soon for MAYA.
service In Cubtn waters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jno. r. Smith and
sister, Miss LOuvinia Smith, "'o
have been on d pleasure trip TO Flor
ida, are at home again.
Her many friends will be glad to
know that Miss Mary Emma Gid
lo,- uhn hos hAan a nEr rod 40 her
home by illness for several days, lis
convalescent.
Mr.. w. E. Jenkins, the every.
where popular commercial L
ist''-and amature fdrIner,a a "oide
line'-is spending a few days at his
home in this city, and getting his
farm ready for spring painting.
1t is officially ascertaiaed, being a
matter of court house record, TIL 1t
the Well-known Old coloreI man
about town, "Uucle Bob" LINE, is
112 years of age. He Vas bought by
MI. w. K. Lane from a Mr.. Jernl-
gan in 1S4S, ana recorded al that
time as "a years old.
1t is generally predicted that this
will be a poor fcult year, on account
of the warm spells we nave mad. In
some places early peach trees are
budding out and Will Don be in
bloom if the weather continue as favor
able, and then about the latter part
of March we Will have a big freez=
that will kill all the early peaches,
Mrs. A. B. Freeman's music
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tive rehearsal last night, in her spac
ious parlor, before a most interested
audience OF parents and friends O
the pupils, and at the close of tn,
pleasurable contest the j~udgesaward
ed the honors Of the occasion to Mis-
Vivian WOoten, OF the senior class
and to Miss Lucy Dortch, CT tn
Junior class.
There was a very enthusiast
meeting Of the Merchants AssOcia
ton last night and much werkIn;
spirit engendered for the advance
ment of Goldsboro, and in the in
terest of the coming big Trade Week
April 2 to : inclusive, and for thi
latter occasion an executive CON
mittee was elected, composed {
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Royal, J. M. Allen and w. I
meet again in special session Frida,
night, when it is hoped every mem
Der will be in early attendance.
Miss Alice Carson, who conduct
an up-to-date millinery store o.
West Centre street, left today on
purchasing trip to Baitimore, New
York and other fashion centers
where she will also thoroughly &C
quaint herself with the latest an,
most popular styles and fashions
During her absence her business viii
be presided over by Miss r. Davi'
Taylor, a talented and experienced
young milliner from the Well-knoWl
house Of Armstrong, Catar d Co., o
Baltimore, Md, who will take grea
pleasure in showing to the trade
their handsome new line of Spring
millinery, which has just arrived
Poets are now straiDing their eye:
looking for harbingers of spring
They scan the heavens daily, they
stand upon the hills and search tn
valleys, they heave and pant aI0
suspire, but the cold caiendarica!
facts are not to be subverted. It Is
not yet spring. What tho the fount,
of poesy well in poets breasts; what
tho they long to sing and to fling
themselves down through lifting stan
zas, there lie nothing doing. Spring is.
not yet here. Practical folks do not
Iong to wrest the seasons ere its
time, but eoets-the poets, egad, are
the limit!
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Gurley, Of this
city, have the deepest sympathy q
their wide circle of friends here and
throughout the county, in the death
of their interesting little son Nestus
Hornaday, Is months old, named
for his two grandfathers, which oc-
Cured at their home last night, OF
pneumonia, consequent upon an at
tack of measles. The remains will
be taken to the old Gurley home
stead, in Fork township, this after
noon, for interment in the family
burying ground. suffer little chill
dren to come unto me, aud forbid
them nOt.'
MI. and Mrs. Lonnie Sasser, OF
Wilmington, came up to the city to-
day and went out to visit his parents
Capt. and Mrs. A. l.. Sasser, in Fork