Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-02-08
THE ARGUS
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Mrs, w. r. Crawford, Jr., of Ra-
leigh, is in the city to spend a few
days with her mother, Mrs. Geo. l..
KIRBY.
Mr.. III. l.. Moore, an old Wayne
county boy, but now located at
Lebanon, Ind, is in the city on a
visit to relatives and friends.
Mrs. Geo. l. Kirby and Mrs. L..
w. Humphrey, who have been con-
fined to their homes by illness for
several days, are improving, we are
glad to announce.
FOR SALE-12 cords seas )ned oak,
ash and pine Wood mixed, $500 per
cord, delivered. Apply TO G.. B.
Miller, or l.. M. Mlchaux, Lxecu-
tors.
LOST-Somewhere on the streets
The finder will be literally rewa d.
ed by returning same to j. d. Pop
LIN, at Singer Sewing Machine Of
fee.
Judge Shepherd, of Raleigh, who
has been visiting his sister Mrs.
Geo. Crabtree, returned home Satur-
day. Mrs. Shepherd Will remain
this week.
DR.. E. B. Goelet, an old Colds
boro citizen, but now located at
Saluda, N. o., for the practice of his
profession, is in the city on a visit
TO his old old friend Mr.. Johu Ii.
Hill.
Grown people are much like child
rem, after all. Theatregoers here are
careless about reaching the near
promptly. 1t Is a common occur
renee for late arrivals to interrupt
the first act and keep the audience
in confusion sometimes for twenty
minutes after the curtain las gone
up.
= His many friends here are glad to
greet home again MIR. Dulin Brown,
who has come to take a position Ill
the Well-knoWn and popular drug
store of Me5srs. J. III. Hill & Son.
MI. Brown is . graduate pharmacist
and is widely and favorably known
to the trade of this city anu section.
He is the son Of Capt. and Mrs. A.
J. Brown.
Our attention has been called tC
the fact thai a number OF people in
different parts of the city, have cu1
down the elm trees in front of thell
homes and left the unsightly stumps
to remain. Those who cut down
trees are allawed to have the wood
and they should be required to re
move the stumps also.
Mrs. J. w. Isler is at home agair
from Hillsboro, where she vas sun
moned on Jan. 20 by the sudder
death of her venerable mother, Mrs
J. P. Kirkpatrick, and where sh'
has been spending the interim witt
her bereaved father. Her many
friends in this city and section sym
pathize with her deeply in her sor
roWful visitation.
MI. w. R. Hollowell has returned
from hisstock-purchasing trip, bring
ing with him a fine lot of mules AMI
horses, which are now on displa.
and for sale at his large stables il
this city, opposite the court house
Denning & Summerlin have open
ed up with a bran new stock o
groceries in the store on Walnu
street, formerly occupied by tn
Ideal Hardware Co. The store
which is the property Of Mrs. Jos
E. Robinson, has recently beer
thoroughly overhauledo on the inside
and in consequence the new stock o
goods present an attractive appear
ance.
The handsomest pair of mules seel
here in many a day were purchased
by Mr. David Sasser on Saturda,
from Mr.. w. r. Hollowell, and at
tracted considerable admiration Will
they were being hiiched up for serv
ice. The price paid by Mr.. Sasse
for the span was $500. Mr.. Hollo
well is handling some very fine stool
at his large sale stables, opposite tn
court house, and he has been careful
in their selection 10 meet the need
of the farmers of this section.
The death of Mrs. E L. Rush
aged "a years, occurred this MORN
ing, alter a ~protracted lin es5, at the
home of her daughter Mrs. J.. B,
Taylor, in this city, or John street
She Was a most estlmable woman
of Portuguese descent, of wide travel
of brilliant mind aud most interest
ing in conversation. The funera
will be held tomorrow morning a
1890 o'clock from st. Mary's Catho
lie church, of which she was a de
yOut member.
If every farmer would first be sur,
OF enough acreage of foodstuf tt
meet all his needs at home AMI ther
piantall the cotton he could grow, h,
would be sure of a rich harvest, bl
if we depend on cotton to buy $40,
mules and corn to feed them and t
buy meat, we are sur to hear agai
the obsolete phaze ''hafd times.
The secret of agricultural success
lies in the tanner raising as far a
possible at home all the food pr,
ducts which he and his live stoc
consume in a year.
The ARGUS man was eboWn toda
plans that have been submitted an
are now under consideration ff
adoption for the new knights {
Pythias building which Ruff
Ledge of this city propose soon t
erect on their ore property O