Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-02-07
local BRIEFS.
Items of Interest In and Around
the CITY.

the City.
There was no occasion for the pro-
verbal "January thaw'' this year;
but a February thaw is in order.
Mr.. Will Rosenthal, of Newbern,
who has a host Of cordial friends
here, was a visitor to our city to-day.
Mr.. ]. M. Hollowell, is at home
from the legislature, 'under the
weather." We all hope he will soon
be able to resume his seat in the low
er house.
The stockholders of the noted Seven
Springs Hotel Company held their
annual meeting in this city last night
and reelected all the old officers of
the company.
AT the meeting Of the Merchants
Association last night a resolution
was unanimously adopted requesting
the Board of Aldermen to take steps
for a more rigid enforcement Of the
vagrancy law.
One of the electric light poles out
by the Orphan Home went down last
night under the weight of sleet and
the wire broke. Subsequently a coun-
tryman's horse going home late came
in contact with the live wire and
was instantly killed.
The Royal Grocery Company's es-
tablishment, on West Walnut street.
Fonvielle's old stand, has undergone
a complete remodeling and is now in
the hands of the painters, and when
the work is finished it will be one of
the handsomest as well as most COM
modious grocery stores in the State.
The Board of City Aldermen acted
with commendable discretion Monday
night, in view of the inclement
weather preventing the attendance OF
citizens, in postponing action on the
proposed amendments to the city
charter until next Monday night,
when the Board will hold an adj
journed meeting for this purpose.
Messrs. J. w. Lamb, I. Wayne
Fonvielle and J. s. Bizzell, the last
named from Clinton, have purchased
the stock of goods and good will of
the late firm of J. G. Eason & Son,
and will continue the business at the
same old stand. All of these gentle
men have a wide circle of friends and
the firm will do a goodly business.
The Board of County Commissioners
were in session Monday, with all the
members in attendance. Much bust
YVES transacted, and it was the
expressed, unanimous of the
Board that our representatives in the
Legislature be requested to have a bill
passed by the General Assembly pro-
vidins for the county to build steel
bridges for it's river roads aud for bet
ter roads, We go forward.
MI. G. w. Curry, contracting en-
gineer for the favorably known Aus
tin Brothers bridge builders, of At
lanta, was in the city Monday, andhad
a hearing before the Board of County
Commissioners in the matter of steel
bridges for the public roads leading
across Neuse and Little rivers. The
county has got to come to these
bridges as a matter of economy as
well as permanency and convenience
and the sooner the better.
With another sleet and freeze such
as visited our city yesterday and last
night the problem of the elm trees
would be solved, for this weather has
BEEN about as rapacious among them
as Lhe street hands, and many are un-
linbed all over the city, where they
had thus far escaped the x of the
street force. The elm tree is not de-
sirable as a permanency. It readily
suctumbs to age, and as to being a
positive bar to sewerage, it is 1T.
The culprit who broke the big show
widow of Messrs. Bizzell Brothers
she store has been ferreted out and
calght with the shoes secreted on her
peron. She is a colored woman-a
new conner to Goldsboro, we are glad
to sy, who gives her name as Annie
Jone, and halls from Raleigh. It
will 10 q IOnr finoo bofOro Raloirb Of