Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-03-28
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest In and Around
the CITY.

Judge W. s. OBJ. Robinson and Mr.
w. T. Dortch are in attendance on Pen
der Superior court at Burgaw.
The ARGUS is glad to note that bott
Mrs. Sam Bridgers and Mrs. J. M
Edgerton, sick with pneumonia, are
better to-day.
Sunday it was hot enough for July.
This morning we had considerable il
not a fruit killing frost. There just
aint any counting on the weather.
The death of Rev. Jno. r. Brooks,
aged ~ years, a member of the North
Carolina M. e. Conference will be
learned of with widespread regret. He
was well known in this city.
Friends in the city have received
from Mr.. and Mrs. I. S. D. Sauls, form
erly residents here, invitations to the
coming marriage oftheir daughter Miss
Anna King to Mr.. Henry A. Bartholo-
NEW, which will be solemnized at their
home, 22S West Butte street Norfolk, on
the afternoon of Wednesday April 10,
at $50 o'clock.
The cooking demonstration at Messrs.
FL. We'll & Bros, that will be in vogue
every day this week, is proving about
as attractive as the millinery openings
to the ladies and infinitely more attrac-
tive and satisfying to the menfolks.
The demonstration is indeed most in
teresting and instructive, and cannot
but result in great benefit to the house
keepers of our city.
One OF the most ingenious and attrac-
tive inventions, and one that is destined
to supplant the old fashioned time
keepers in the homes of the country, is
the Electric clock, on exhibition in the
show window Of Mr.. r. A. Creach the
jeweler. It requires no winding
Windshield by its own electric battery
and is as near perpetual motion as
possible.
In reporting the ball game between
Goldsboro and Fremont, in SATURDAYS
issue, we erred in stating that the
little Giants, under the management
OF Sydnor Borden and Brownrigg
Dewey, was the team which went to
Fremont. It was the "Tar Heels'' and
William Aycock is
The death of George Phillips, young
est son Of the late Capt. S. D. Phillips,
is momentarily expected as we go to
of laudanum, taken with suicidal eff
feet. He is Unmarried and has been
given to protracted sprees, although
when sober he was an efficient work
man, as a brick layer and plasterer. {
Our theatre patrons have in store a 9
rare treat on Wednesday of next week, t
April 3rd, in the return engagement of +
'Our New Minister and the c
will be greeted by a crowded audiences: a
for a more delightful, wholesome and "
elevating play and more thoroughly G
competent and pleasing corps '
If actors have never had the boards of
he Messenger Opera House. ).
The Woman's Club consider them n
elves very fortunate in being able to Il
'hta1n the services of DR.. E. w. Sykes, b
If Wake Forest, who will speak in the re
room to members and friends at al
n early date. These lectures given in
lnder the auspices of the Woman's w
Tub are great treats, and doctor Sykes h1
leeds no Introduction to the people of b,
The date of the lecture will b,
e announced later. 10,
Mr.. j. j. Broadhurst and sister Miss
lila are now on their way to far away 70
liver City, New Mexico, where their mr.
Mr.. Walter Broadhurst and his =
life are sojourning for the benefit of 90
alters health, which the family's in
osts of friends in this city and section 90,
Ill be gratifed to learn is being great -,
benefited by thatc limate. Mr.. Jack ~;
roadhurst and his sister have q de.
yhtfu1 scenic trip ahead Of them, and on,
III be absent several weeks-orl longer. 90.
will be seen elsewhere In this vii
rue the plans for the Union passenger pla
Ition for this city have been accepted VIII
the Corporation Commission: sol
1T there is nothing now in the way
an early beginning Of tho construc-
n work. And in the meantime.
Tile the work is going ON. why mott
IS get together and get busy for an
ctric railway. It 10 one of the es-
to substantial growth towards
eater Goldsboro and why not get to
on 1t. It has got to come. and
sooner tho better.
he death OF Mr.. Jno. w. Perkins,
ident Of this city and a most estim-
Q young man, occurred last night. At