Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-17

ditiOn and the OplnlOn-nay-the con-
viction is growing among our people
that a bond issue in sufficient amount
10 meet the necessities, is the best So
luton of the problem. 1t is to be
hoped that bill authorizing county
to vote a bond issue for good roads and
bridges will be enacted by the present
Legislature.
The Greensboro Record say of "A
Message From Mars" that was played
there Thursday night, and to be here
on Friday night of next week: "The
acting company presented this strong
morality production in a thoroughly
capable and artistic manner. The
story is a beautiful one and teaches a
lesson b is sure to have a wholesome
effect upon those who see this play. In
terest does not lag from the rise to the
fall of the curtain
One by one the old soldiers that wore
the Gray are passing over the river to
rest under the shade of'the trees and
their ranks on this side are indeed
growing thin. Saturday morning at his
Adams, of the 61st n. c.. regiment,
tell on Sleep" aged a years. He is
survived by his devoted, but invalid
wife, and his son, our good friend, Mr..
NJ. L. Adams, and one daughter. The
funeral was held and the interment
made at the home Sunday afternoon
at 2 O'Clock.
1t will be a source of general regret
in this city, where he has SO efficiently
and so courteous1y served the public
since coming among US, to learn that
Mr.. J.. F. Bronson, manager of the
Southern Express Company here, has
been promoted to chief clerk in the
Wilmington office, and he left this
afternoon for his new post of duty. He
is succeeded here by a young man al
ready favorably known and quite
popular with our people, Mr.. b. l..
Croker, to whom the ARGUS extends
a cordial welcome.
In his very excellent and compre-
hensive message to the General Assem-
bly,, read before that body Thursday,
the Governor advocated, among other
wholesome things, a more stringent
vagrant law. But what G~oldsbOro
needs is a more stringent enforcement
of the vagrant law we now have upon
the statute books. There are too many
Migrants in Goldsboro, and the nse
quence is, store robberies at night,
blind tigers-and today we have a jury
empanelled Investigating b murder OF
a colored woman who was supposed to
have as much as $40 about her. Let's
have a wholesale cleaning up of the
Migrants of the city.
Thurday night about 8 p. m. a colored
woman, Sarah Cooper, was discovered
dead in her house in Little Washing
ton, on the extreme southern square OF
George street, and b circumstances
point to foul play-to murder-and
Coroner Stanley is today holding an
inquest, with a jury, which, at the hour
OF going to press, are still hearing evil
| dence. The dead woman draws a
quarterly pension from the U. S. gov
eminent of $50, and a few days ago one
OF her quarterly pensions fell due, and
it is surmised that she was murdered
for the purpose of robbery. This is
further sustained by the fact that hsl
room had beer thoroughly ~ransacked,
We refrain from further publication
until the jury reports.
The news became prevalent through
out the city this morning that Mr.. III
T. Jones, a prosperous and highly es.
teemed farmer of Fork township and
well known in this city, was dead, his
death being published in the Raleigh
News & Observer this morning; bu'
we are happy to to state that such il
not the case. Mr. Jones has bee quite
feeble for some months, and his con
dition has been considered precarious
but he has been improving steadily o
late, and friends in this city, who visit
cd him on Sunday, n others on Mon
day found him quite CHEEKY and very
much his old self again, consequently
when the news was started this morn
ing through the above publication tina
tom Jones'" was dead, it was a grea
surprise to those who has so recently
visited him, and the phone to hi
country residence was kept busy for
while. We hope to see Mr.. Jones il
the city as soon as the weather per
mits.
Notice Confederate Veterans.