Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-02-14
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Let us all be glad that February has
but % days, for it is making itself very
d~isagreeable. s5s g
The February thaw'' is with us
that is, one of them; for it is yet so
early in the month there may be others
ahead.
Mr.. E. Grit Porter, Jr., has AIKEN q
position in the civil engineering de-
partment OF the Norfolk q Southern
Railway.
It is with real regret that the ARGUS
learns-and in this all our people will
share-that Mr.. and Mrs. r. P. Foster
contemplate moving to Newbern at an
early date.
Mr.. Fred Mintz, editor of the Mount
Olive Tribune, who is getting out a big
industrial issue of his paper, is in the
city, getting up statistics. The issue
in question gives promise of being a
credit to the county-but every issue
of the Tribune is that.
Going back to to the ground hog, land
looking out on this weather-it that
yarmint is satisfied, the most skepti-
cal among US, we are sure, should be
willing to call it off, and give him, or
it,-as is or may be proper-credit for
being a real weather prophet.
Dogs that bite should not be permit
ted to run the streets. There are sew
eral such dogs reported to this office;
but this is the wrong place. They
should be reported to the Mayor, and
the law should be promptly enforced
for there is a law against such CANNES.
The value OF Goldsboro real estate
continues to look up. This enhance
raent has been steady for several years,
and the end is notyet. With the build
ing of a commodious and modern hotel
at Seven Springs and the opening up
of an electric car line to that point,
Goldsboro real estate aud business
generally would simply go bounding
and a Greater Goldsboro would soon be
a proud reality.
We are up-to-date-that is Golds-t
L
boro is up-to-date-or more specif-
cally speaking, the Royal Grocery
Company are adding big city features
to Goldsboro. They sold ripe luscious
strawberries yesterday:-and the de-
mand was SO vigorous that their ex-
perimental crate was exhausted in a jify
Just think Of It'll peach blooms here in
January and ripe strawberries-by the
crate-in February. Wego forward.
The well known establishment OF
Grow, Prichard & Co., of this city,
gents furnishers, is to be merged into
the "Korrect Clothing and Tailoring
Company for which a charter has
been issued by the Secretary of State.
The stockholders of the new company,
which will continue business at the old
stand of the above firm, are Messrs. r.
4. Crow, c. G. Smith, Jr., B. F. Clark,
N. II. Merritt, Graves J. Smith, A. e.
Clark and J. w. Switzerland. The
ARGUS wishes the new enterprise the
fullest measure of success.
Among the list of new lawyers turn
ed out by the Supreme Court this week
we note the names of Messrs. e. W.
Hill and Needham w. Outlaw of
Wayne county. Mr.. Hill is the eff
cient money order clerk at the post
Office and Mr., Outlaw is the son of Mr..
Needham Outlaw of this city. The
extends these gentlemen its
$500 la+i0r1G onA GOOD
wishes. We observe, also, in the list
the name of Mr.. Fred Bonitz, of Will
mington, youngest son of our good
friend and former townsman Mr.. VIM.
Bonitz.
The burglar alarm with which the
National Bank of this city is equipped
proved one feature of its efficiency very
efectually last night-that OF giving
alarm at bedtime if the big safe is not
securely locked. It seems that the
bookkeeper was doing some posting
last night, and stepped out of the bank,
intending to return before 10 O'Clock,
but was delayed, and promptly at that
hour, the safe being open, the alarm
startled the neighborhood, and in a
jify police and citizens were scurrying
to catch the burglar, but only to find
that the alarm was for the purpose
above stated.
It is up to the people now to have
pure food or poisonous substitutes.
The law is all right. It requires the
bottle or can to be labeled just what it
contains. Consequently if the pure
food law, now so much talked about, is
to have any force and effect it must be
through the action of the people them