Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-08-09
From Wednesdays Daily.

MI LOlllSHl.
MI. Chas. Dewey went down to
Morehead this morning.
There is a scarcity of chickens and
eggs in the city just at this time.
Mrs. w. c. West, of Kinston, arrived
in the city today on a visit to her sister
Mrs. Albert Hummel.
Mr.. George Hummel, of Charlotte, is
in the city on a visit to his brother Mr..
Albert Hu1nmel.
st. John Sunday school is making
arrangements to hold their annual
picnic sometime in the neal future.
Mr.. M. Mansour, the Walnut street
merchant, has a special sale on and is
offering some real bargains.
Don't forget Russell Bros. excursion
to Wilmington on the 18th. Get ready
and take a day off. 1t will do you
good.
We notice that a numbe of our
citizens have adopted the suggestion of
thhN 'c"hN " C%1iN - 't'At7
4ime freely on their premises.
we continue to have good breaks of
tobacco every day, and our farmers
seem to be satisfied with the prices rea-
lized>
Mr.. w. f. Jenkins returned today
from Morehead, where Mrs. Jenkins
aud NJrc and Mice TTNbIac mo Cno1Iioy
ten days at the always pleasant Allan
tic Hotel.
Some one stole a bicycle from in front
of the Palace Drug Store, last night just
before closing time and rode it off. The
wheel was comparatively new and be-
longed to Mr.. George Waters.
Misses GIennie Yelverton, Lydia
Winslow, Mamie Best and Emma
F~inlayson, who have been visiting the
family of Rev. M. Bradshaw, in VIII
mington, are at home again.
Messrs. Geo. c.. Royal and John L.
Borden, the noted furniture men of
this City and State, went down to More
head city this morning to attend a
meeting of the furniture men Of the
. State.
Mr.. II. D.. ~Finlayson, a travelling
salesman of Cheraw, S. c., an old
Goldsboro boy, is in the city on a short
visit to his friend Mr.. B. r. King.
They Will both leave tomorrow morn
ing for headquarters in Baltimore.
Lieut.. Hugh H. ~Broadhurst, U. S. c.,
with headquarters at Gretna, Camp
Roosevelt, arrived in the city last night
on account of the critical illness of his
sister Mrs. R. H. Edwards, whose IN
dition today is practically unchanged,
and very serious.
The G~oldsboro Building d Loan AS
ISOLATION are publishing today a very
readable and complete circular on the
workings of the Building Il Loan,
which we invite every one in whose
hands it may come to give a careful
perusal, as it is Of interest to all.
Two arrests have already been made
at Salisbury, of parties participating in
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the murderer the Lyerly family, and
other arrests are expected to follow.
Solicitor Hammer and Judge Long will
leave nothing undone, as they declare
to bring the guilty parties to justice.
We made a notice some days age
about mosquitoes being conspicuous
for their absence in this city-but we
are ready now to retract every word OF
it. Since the recent wet spell these
little pesty tormentors are worse than
we have ever known them, and these,
together with the excessive heat, makes
sleep almost impossible these nights.
The annual meeting and picnic OF
Thos. Ruftin Camp Confederate Neter-
ans, jointly with the Daughters Of the
Confederacy WILDE held at Perkins
Springs near Pikeville, tomorrow All
Confederate Veterans and their friends
are invited to go and carry baskets.
The committee of rangemen for
the picnic at Perkins Springs on the
occasion of the annual meeting of Thos.
Ruffin Camp will have conveyances a
Pikeville on the arrival of the trains
both morning and noon to take the
guests from the depot to the Springs
free of charge.
The work of making improvements
to the interior of the court house has
about been completed. and 1ook very
nice, but the improvements should MOI
stop here. The entire building-if the
commissioners are not uninp to hnil6