Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-02-15
II ARGUS
LOGAN BRIEFS.

OQOllSDOu Us SCp.I CS -W0-tdD SCA1U ll
type. In the meantime those who
pay up tomorrow Will be marked
off the lists
Little Willie Parker, son of Mr..
and Mrs. w. X. Barker, while skat-
ing on the sidewalk Saturday after
noon, lost his ba ance and fe.] on the
curbing, breaking his ann at the
wrist. Medical aid was summoned
and the little fellows arm set, and at
this writing he Is doing % we'll as
could be expected.
If you made your money out Of
Goldsboro it is only fair that you pa
trOnize home industries, thereby help
ing those who help you Oae good
turn deserves another. If you feel
that the ARGUS has baen OF help in j
building up the town, thereby
widening your opportunities for do
ing business, you should help 10 in
crease it's usefulness by advertising
in its columns.
Henry Johnson, co.ored, a b2teh-i
er by trade, was wdylaid ON rel
public road in the Extern is&r: Of
the city Saturday night, : is 'ApuEatE
for the purpose of robbery.T parry
who held him up strack Jranssn a
fearful blow on the head '.iti Il
piece of scaDtling i~fi:ctlug au lily |
wound. They then became ffign en-
ed and ran away, making good t.,elr
escape.
The little two and a half cd
son of Mr.. JUNE Gri T., no Tvs
about 5 miles from this 0 Mr..
f. B. Edmundson's - while
playing in the fire ye t. T morn
ing, was painfully bur but the
face, hands and head Ne iica! aid
was quickly summou d ed at This
writing the little o..e IS resting
we'll.
The immigration queation is a
very live issue throughout the South.
Various measures are being taken to
induce coming of white laborers for
all classes of work TO this section, and
unless the negro shows Improvement
he is going to be displaced in many
cities and communities in no few
lines of endeavOr. This warning
that he should ''quicken his pace and
become more p~ainstaking" is time
ly.
Mr.. Hector MCLEAN, the portFy
and congenial gentleman who was
superintendent of construction in the
building of the "Midland'' railway
from here to Smithield, under the
late w. j. Best, and who had many
friends in this city, was here on Sat
urday, on his way to Morehead City,
where he is experimenting the o
struction of the railroad bridgeacross
the sound. 1t has been nearly 25
years since he was here with Mr..
Best.
With the Lyman Twins company,
which appears here Friday night in
"The Rustlers, and a rafting good
play it is there is a lady, Mrs.
Kathryn Evans, who was a mem
Der of the memorable j. Wilkes
Booth company, and was on the
stage the night that Booth assassinat-
ed President Lincoln. She talks
most interesting, of those stirring
times and of that fateful evening.
She is 81 years old, but does not
mind telling her age, and is as jolly
and spry as a woman Of 80.
Goldshoro is to have another new
and promising industry, and one
that is original ami promioes well.
It is to be q plant for the manufac-
tuce of a guano distributor by the
inventors and p+tentees themselves,
Messrs. Thompson, Whitley & Co.,
who have already rented the two
story brick building north of the
ty hall and begun operations. They
do also all sorts Of repairing in their
line and horse shoeing.
The mithfeld train, mixed freight
and passenger-with engineer Jenk.
ms at the throttle and Capt. Jack
Collier, conductor, in charge, due tc
leave here at $50 a.. NJ, ran into ar
open switch just this side of Little
river this morning, and the engine
and all the cars jumped thetrack anG
were grounded, and of course were
unable to proceed further. EDgin
Ger Jenkins, as soon as he disc1v'
cred what had happened applied the
emergency brakes and the train Was
brought to a stand-still. Fortunately
no n was injured, but considerable
trouble will be experienced in agaiE
placing the engine and cars On :he
rails. A Wrecking train was imme
diately telegraphed tor at Wilu1ing
tor, which arrived this afternoon anl
the crew went at once to work t. re
lieve the situation. The reourte,
WAS informed hat the switch loci
was broken sometime last night by
some unknown person and the witch
left open, which caused the rnn eff
The matter is being invest ated.
In an alteration between Mr.
Harry Baughtery, his hatf brother
MIR. Lloyd Hinson, and a negro by
the name of Tom Rayner, over in
Webbtown late Saturday evening
Mr.. Daughtery came near losing hi
life. 1t seems tnat the negro trieC
purposely to run over little Emmett
Daughtery while passing by Mr.
Alex Pate's store in his buggy, anG
a free fight ensued n walsh the
negro came out second best. After
the fight Raynor got back into his
buggy and pulling his pistol from
his inside coat pochet opened fire or
Mr.. Daughtery, who, seeing the
movements of the negro, and realiz
ing what he was about to do, ran in.
to MI. Pate's store just in time tt
escape the ball, which struck the
door-facing a second later. The
negro then drove off and made hi,
escape. RaynOr is said to be a negrl