Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-03
C. BRIEFS.
Items of Interest In and Around
the City.

was that of the Black Patti Company
last night.
New Year calling was quite ex-
tensively INDUCED in to-day. A
beautiful custom.
You have just 312 days, not count
ing Sundays, in which to do your
Christmas shopping.
Mrs. Norman Royal, of Washing
ton, N. c., is in the city, the guest of
her aunt, Mrs. Joe Royal.
The Executive Committee of the
Goldsboro Hospital will meet to-mor-
row afternoon at 4 o'clock, at the
Hospital.
The city is being deliberately billed
for Buster Brown. He's coming
back; and the date of his appearance
is January s.
Both Messrs. Jack Eason and John
Johnson, who are confined with pneu-
monia, are better to-day, their many
1I1GIlUS WILL OO S1du W lCd1As
The death of Mr.. Barna Perkins,
an old and respected citizen of Pike
vile township. occurred yesterday at
his home on his fine farm near that
village.
Hasn't this been a bright New
Years day? Let us hope that it is
suspicious as to what the new year
holds for Goldsboro-The Best Town
in the State.
For the new year let us still stick
to the assertion and believe the truth
of it with all our hearts, that we've
got the Best Town in the State, and
we will then %assuredly 60 forward.
We talked of calendars yesterday.
To-day we have to acknowledge the
receipt of beautiful calendars and an
artistic glass paper weight from the
plumbing firm Of Hobbs, Pike & Co.
Thanks.
Miss Belle Schwab, after a pleasant
%sojourn in this city, where she has a
host of admiring friends, left this
morning to visit friends in Norfolk
and Washington, before returning to
her home in Philadelphia.
That is a fine showing-and en-
couraging-that Mr.. Matthews makes
in another column, az to the condi-
ton Of our city's electric light plant.
Mr.. Matthews states facts, as a mem
Der of the Board of Public Works,
and we believe the people will give
heed to his views and admonitiOn.
The Goldsboro Schools will open
for the spring term tomorrow morn
ing. Superintendent Brooks says
that the fall term just closed is the
best since he has been in Goldsboro.
The work is nearly three months in
advance of what it was last year.
The attendance has been excellent.
Every month there were from six to
ten rooms that had an average at
tendance of over 95 per cent. of the
enrolment.
Mr.. F. B. Arrendell, of Raleigh,
who has been on a hunting trip to
Cartaret Lodge, passed through the
city last night on his way home, and
he was exhibiting a large dead buck
a very fine one-as a result of his
trip. Observe, we say s'trip"-not
hunt; because there is some contro-
versy, or question as to how "Falk''
came by that deer. We pass it up to
Rob Gray, of the News & Observer
to Investigate and report" in the
language of Elkdom.
Mr.. J. Lyman Babcock, the ok
position man. of the Norfolk & South
ern Railway, was in the city to-day,
and had a preliminary conference
with our Chamber of Commerce,
looking to Goldsboro's making an ex-
hibit at the Exposition. He is a
well-informed and enthusing man
when talking of the resources, posi-
bilities and future of eastern North
Carolina, and he has arranged for a
general meeting of our citizens and
neighboring farmers in common at
ar early date, which we hope will be
fully and representatively attended,
as he proposes at that meeting to dis
cuss the plans of the Norfolk & South
ern in its purposes Of development of
eastern North Car Ana, and incident