Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-03-14
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest In and Around
the City.

furniSher, under the Hotel Is
on a purchasing trip north.
Mr.. Frank Watts brought in this
morning the first catch Of white shad
of the season in Neuse river at this
point.
Mrs. VIM. Douglas, who has been
visiting at the home of her sister Mrs.
w. H. Cobb, Jr., in this city, mas re-
turned 10 her home in Charleston.
The death OF Mrs. Z. G. Vanhoy,
whose husband holds a position In the
Borden Cotton Mills, occurred at their
home near the mills yesterday morn
ing.
The smokehouse of Mr.. J. g. Carter,
over in Brogden township, was robbed
last night, and the negro culpr1ts nave
already been ~apprehended with the
goods and are now in jail.
Mr.. H. B. Parker, ia, has purchased
from Mr.. Asher Edwards the desirable
residential property adjoining the lat
ter's home on James street, north, The
consideration paid being four thousand
dollars.
The question is being asked con-
stantly. "When will the Boar Of Pub
lie Works get the city's lighting and
water plants into their consolidated
ouarters?'' 1t is to be hoped that it
will be soon.
Piowing time = breaking-up-land
time-is on the farmers and they are
having too much rain for the work. 1t
this kind of weather keeps up it will
be planting time before the ground is
ready for the seed.
A school entertainment will be given
at Buck Swamp School House, Satur-
day night, March 10th, 1907. The pub
lie is cordially invited. No admission
charges. Good music will be a feature
of the entertainment.
Mr.. T. f. Hartett, the popular super
vising manager of the Bell Telephone
exchange in this city, was summoned
to Orangeburg, S. c., yesterday by the
death of his grandmother, n will be
absent for several days.
Mr.. l.. V. Morrill,, of the Snow Hill
Bar, was in the city to-day. He reports
that two railroads are now assured for
his town, one from Kinston, already
approaching snow Hill with its track,
and the through line of the Raleigh &
Pamlico.
Mr.. julius Liskoff, of Meridian,
Miss, a prosperous young merchant
of that city, who has been the guest for
several days of Mr.. and Mrs. Jos.
Edwards, returning from a business
trip to New York, left for homo this
afternoon.
Messrs. J.. NJ. Hollowel and J. M.
Edgerton Wayne County's representa-
tives in the lower house of the General
Assembly have arrived home, and in
this connection we are sorry to chronicle
that Mrs. Edgerton is quite sick with
pneumonia.
DIR. Robert L. Miller has purchased
from Mr.. Walter E. Borden the de-
sirable residence on George street,
where Mr.. Borden now resides, and
will occup the same rs soon as the
latter moves into his handsome new
home now nearing completion.
The death of Jake Boddie, one of the
old time negroes who enjoyed the con-
fdence and esteem of all who knew him,
occurred at his home nea Greenleat
Saturday night, and his funeral, largely
attended by black and white, was held
yesterday afternoon from the Green
leaf colored church.
The trade of Goldsboro would be in
finitely increased by an electric line to
Seven Springs. Then, too, would come,
with the establishment of a permanent
day current, many small but profitable
manufacturing industries to thec city hat
are now made impossible for lack of
ready motor power. Let's have the
road.
The desirable residential building lot
on Park Avenue, opposite the home OF
Judge Robinson, 70x162 feet, has been
purchased from the owner, Miss Anna
Lewis, by Mr.. II. H.Hobbs, of the firm
of Hobbs, Pike q Co., the consideration
being 1925, 90 cash. The sale was nego-
tiated through Mr.. E. L. Edmundson
the Real Estate Hustler.
Mr.. NJ. Sherman has purchased the
Stevens Mill, one of the most pic
turesque spots in the county and a
very desirable mill site, and in the
high boulders that lend SO much to it's
charming beauty gold is said to exist;