Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-08-23
From Saturdays Daily.

sion from Fremont to Wilmington on
Tuesday, August 2sth.
Mrs. Richard Wooten left Thursday
night to join some friends in Asheviue-
She Will be away q month in the West
ern part of the State.
Col. Chas. +. Johnson, Of the Cover
nor's personal staff, was in the city to-
day, between trains, returning from
Norehead to Raleigh.
Miss Carrie Wooten returned last
night from WrightsvilIe, accompanied
by her friend Miss Katy Watkins, Of
Milton, who is visiting her.
Superior Court in this city
on Monday, and a large criminal
docket awaits it-most minor cases;
but with one capital case, for murder.
Russell Bros, the popular excursion
managers, viii run another one Of their
delightful excursions from Fremont TO
Wilmington, on Friday, September It'll.
Misses Mamie Epps and Pearl Fields
I1IIJ 1illS CIV 6llllS IO1 i<d1IaISt, NICIt
they viii visit for several days, and
will go to Seven Springs before return
ing to the city.
Mr.. /. +. Pridgen, who has been
spending some time at Chase City, Va,
has returned home, very much i'm
proved in health, his many friend VIII
he GLAD TO know.
Miss Mabel Borden and Mrs. Mary
NJ. Switzerland. who are touring
Europe with a party of sight-seers, are
now in Paris, as reported by fhe regis
ter of the n. Y. Herald bureau in that
city.
The rains Of the past few days-not-
ably the heavy ~downpour of yesterday
afternoon, have gulleyed the streets
and alleys of the city in many places
more than we have ever observed be-
fore.
The ARGUS was glad to have a visit
today from its good friend Mr.. A. Fl.
Caldwell, a Wayne county boy, who
is now engaged in the mecantile bust
ness in Charlotte. He is here on a
visit to his father Mr.. j. II. Caldwell,
at the Old homestead, Southern Oaks"
in Fork township, and is being greet
ed cordially by his many old friends
on every hand
The children from the odd Fellows
Home at Goldsboro, who returned home
this morning after a delightful outing
at Wilmington and her seaside resorts
as the guests of the local /. o. O. f
lodges, were guests Of honor at a de-
lightful entertainment given last even
ing in the Odd Fellows Hall, Third and
Princess street, by Letitia Lodge, Daugh-
ters of Rebekah. The children were
all smiles this morning and report a
delighted trip.
The death of Mrs. f. a. Stanly, reject
Of the late Mr.. Nathan B.. Stanly, oc-
CURED this morning at the home of her
sister-in-law Mrs. Fannie Richardson,
in Dover, n. c., where she went to
visit some weeks ago Deceased was
in her 9th year and was a most esti-
mable christian woman a member of
the Presbyterian church, Of this city,
from which the funeral will be held to-
morrow morning at IL o'clock, and the
interment will be made beside her late
husband in the family plot in Willow
Dale Cemetery.
Lightning came near getting the
residence of Mr.. R. L. Linden, the To-
luscious and eloquent lightning rod
dealer Of this city. 1t struck a china
berry tree right at his front porch, on
which his wife and daughter were sit
ting at the time, and for the moment
they were dazed by the stroke. Mr..
Linden's friends are congratulating
him today over the escape of his fami-
ly; and he himself feels quite happy
over it. He lives in a rented house that
has no rods on it; out he is going to
rig it up Monday at his own expense.
He says lightning is getting too close to
him to be agreeable.