Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-08-22
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest in and Around
the City.

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these August nights and in the crisp
air of the early mornings. The years
roll on.
Our good friend Elder Jacob F. Hill,
of Saulston, LAID on our table today a
twin squash of unusua growth in size
and on the Siamese twins order. It is
quite a curiosity.
Mrs. J.. H. Hollowen, of Denver,
Colo. who hasIbeen visiting relatives
in Guilford county, arrived in Colds
boro Wednesday evening and will
spend a few days visiting relatives
here.
Miss May Cords, of Canada, who is
engaged with the Agricultural Depart
ment at Raleigh, and has been assist
ing in the Farmers Institutes in this
section with Mrs. w. r. Hollowell, re-
turned to Raleigh yesterday, after
spending everal days here, the guest
of Miss Ida Tomlinson.
Goldsboro's superb military conting-
ent, than which there are no finer COM
panies in the National State Guard, got
home at an early hour his morning
from the North Carolina celebration
this weeks at jamestown, where they
reflected credit not only on the Old
North State, but also on the Best Town
in the State.
The State Farmers Alliance, at their
annual meeting in Hillsboro, this week
\, W oloafpI Cant + r Patar-
son, OF this city, as their president fl
the ensuing year. They could not have
selected one who is more competent to
conduct the executive duties of the of
fee nor one more conversant with the
needs of thesa farmers and their own
shortcomings, for he is, himself, one
OF h best farmers in the State.
The location for the County High
Schoo that is to be assigned to the
northern end of the county is now a
vital and all-absorbing topic in all that
section, and assthe matter will, in all
probability, be decided at next Mon
days special meeting of the Board Of
Education, it is more than likely that
this meeting will5 be largely attended
by representative citizens from Eure-
ka, Fremont and Pikeville, which are
the especial districts that are the livIi-
est contestants for the school,.
Mrs. w. r. HolIowell, who has been
doing such splendid work in the
woman's department of the recent
series of Farmers Institutes through
out the State, is at home again, having
only one more appointment to fill, the
Institute at Smithfield on the oath of
this month. The press Of the State
nave been most generous in their COM
mendation of Mrs. Hollowell's work
wherever she has been, but not more
SO than is she herself in giving her
time to this going about going good.
The fact that Goldsboro now enjoys
hree great railway competing lines
north should be an additional factor in
the accomplishment of "Greater Colds
boro''. Besides the Atlantic Coast
Line and the Southern, a new through
daily schedule has been established
over the Norfolk & Southern to Norfolk
and on to further points north, and
this tact coupled with the active and
extensive development recently in.
augurated by this road throughout al
eastern North Carolina to the sea,
should not fail to rebound to the widen
ing and increasing of the wholesale
trade and factory outputs of the Best
Town in the State.
A burly negro, looking more like
some wild animal than human, was
brought to this city last night, by two
special constables from the Pinkney
section and lodged in Jail on the ser.
ious charge of burglary in two cases
one the home of Mr.. Claude Hiunant
and the other that OF Mr.. Henry Tai
ton. He was given hot pursuit ano
finally, after a neighborhood chase al
day, he was captured in the woods late
yesterday evening and hurried off tC
Jail here to obviate a brewing lynch
ing, for in one of the homes he had at
tempted another crime. He gives his
name as Jonas Fillmore. He will bt
tried at the term of court which begins
here next Monday, and his neck viii
surely go in the moose.
The manager of the Western Unior
in this city reques us to say that unit
the strike situation is relieved all dis
patching business at his Office will bs
received only upon condition of "in
definite delay as the wires are no
only without operators at most points
but are SO tempered with when wofk
ing by strikers that business cannot b
= handled with any sort of guarantee o