Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-10-24

items of Interest i'm and Around
the City.

lLOTOn ~. DdSSS III Olh 6t4OOO 4 .
being somewhat remodeled and an
iarged.
-Geei how they are making things
down at the new Union Passen-
ger Station! Have you been down
thai way to see? We go forward.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES what we need
that's what we must have to ever &C
big things for Goldsboro.
The young man. writing in today's
ARGUS is plumbing the line ofprogress
with master hand.
That is indeed a fine record Messrs.
Royan and Borden have maintained
over all competitors at the State Fair
for ten years, as ~recounted in to-day'S
Raleigh News & Observer, and pub
[lished elsewhere in this issue.
Keep the ball rolling! A few more
such timely and forcetul communica-
tons on the need of organization and
concerted action as those of Thursday
and today and somethingsurely will be
doing. Keep up the lickl Who'll be
the next to write something along this
line? Let's organize.
The death of DR.. w. S. Walker,
well known in this city, and a capable
physician, occurred at his home in
Saulston township, this county, Tues
day night. His wife preceded him to
b grave some three years ago. Two
children, a boy and a girl, both of them
OF minor years, survive him.
ioThe popular drug store of Mr.. D. Nc
N. MacKay, on Walnut street, is in the
hands of workmen, and will be thor
~oughly renovated of it's recent fire rav-
ages upstairs and will be given a mod
~ern French-plate glass front. Mr. j.
F. Ange has the cantract, which means
that the work will be done speedily
and we'll.
The Hotel Kennon, of this city, has
inaugurated a new move in the way
of dining help. It has installed
young lady walters in it's dining room,
with a lady as head waitress. The
colored help had become SO Indifferent
and unreliable, that Mr.. Griffin found
1T necessary to change to all white
help. The young ladies he has en-
ployed are all experienced, coming as
they do FROM other hotels throughout
the country, and he feels assured that
the change will prove highly satisfac-
tory.
1t is with keen personal sorrow that
we chronicle the death Of MI. Ben B.
Raiford, and this sorrow will be shar-
ed by hosts of our readers who knew
him. He was an unpretentious but
noble soul-a Confederate Veteran,
who wore the Southern Cross of ono
and who never ~dishonored it in thought
or act. He fell dead On the roadside
Friday afternoon, near Mt. Olive
while walking from his son Johns
home to his own, about a mile apart
He was 81 years old, and is survived
by his wife and several children,
wide circle of relatives aud a legion O.
friends Other pen, we feel, will write
of him as he deserves.
The Industrial issue of the Mt. Olive
Tribune, by Mr.. Fred r. Mintz, it
capable and progressive editor, is be
fore us and is a marvel of efficiency AM
most admirably has he done his work
1t is a county edition c~opiously illus
trated with pictures of many leadini
citizens in all avocations, industria
enterprises and residential abodes an
business houses. Ye editor would sa.
this, even if his own picture did not ap
pear in the copious gathering, and w
doff our hats for the nice things he sal
of us, which are truly appreciated. Nj
Mintz has done a great work for tn
whole county, the value of which,.
many ays-cannot be estimated. III
deserves a vote Of hanks from ever
industrial and business organization i
the county and the substantial patron
.age of all our public spirited citizens.
Have you driven around-through-
the city recently? If you have you can
not but have been impressed with tn
number of new residences of commod
ious size and modern architecture tina
are in course of constructions; and mos
of them owned by working men,, VIII
are having them erected flor their ow.
occupancy. And there has been NOR
of this development in the past fou
years-during the period of p~rohibitio
than ever before. New stores an
new business firms have been estat
blished: property has advanced-gon
up like a boom was in vogue, and labor
ers of.a1l kinds and avocations find cor
slant employment and at higher wage
than they ever knew before. Does a
this meanithat prohibition is "rui1
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