Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-08-08
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items Of Interest in and Around
the City.

the City.
"Drive inl!"
This is the month of fodder pulling
and chinquepins.
The cotton crop all through this Sec
ton has made marvellous gains dur-
ing the past three weeks of hot wealth
6r.
Through an inadvertence yesterday
b ARGUS stated that DIR. Elliott Lee
had taken offices in the new Edgerton
building, whereas his offices are in the
Borden building, formerly occupied as
dental rooms by DR.. Frank Boyette.
Mr.. F, L. Perkins, a very popular,
young gentleman of this city, who has
for some time filled with marked sue
cess the position of steward at the
Hotel Kennon, left this morning for
High Point, where he goes to accept a
similar position with the Elwood Inn.
The Goldsboro tobacco market is
now fully organized and daily "breaks"
at our warehouses will henceforth be
in order. So much importance is at
taehed to the Goldsboro market this
year that the American Tobacco Com
pany LAY two buyers regularly on
.sales every day
Some sixty or more convicts to work
on the right Of way and track-laying
to the new union:passenger station,
have arrived and are already at work.
1t is hoped that the station will be COM
pleted and ready for service by the
first of the new year. It is a big I'M
dertaking and requires time.
Mr.. E. G. Talton. OF the Pikeville
section, an Industrious farmer, who
keeps his smoke house and corn crib
at his own home, is finding ready and
profitable sale on this market for a new
product vegetable peach. which
grows on vines like cucumbers, and
makes most excellent sweet pickles
and preserves.
Mr.. Geo. Humphrey, one Of the best
farmers in the State, and always bub-
bling over with the old time Southern
hospitality, gave q barbecue dinner
to quite a number of friends, at his
delightful home near this city, yester-
ly enjoyed and will long hold in pleas
ing r~emem brance.
A marriage that smacked of ga run
away" but which the contracting
norfiaS 6onia6 fnnl< nIoao In THE oi<-
this morning, with Mr.. A. B. Hollo-
we'll, J.. P, officiating. The groom
gave his name as Jesse Pilkinton, and
his age as 81, and the bride gave her
name as Edith Wilson and age IA; both
of Johnston county.
DIR. and Mrs. Elliott Lee, of Clinton,
whose coming to make o1dsboro their
home we noted some weeks ago, ar
rived today, and the ARGUS bids them
q cordial welcome to the Best Town in
the State. DR.. and Mrs. Lee have rent
ed the residence on George street near
Walnut, and DR.. Lee has taken ofice
in the new Edgerton Building.
It will soon be time for the co1ored
graded school Of this city to open. as it
closes several weeks earlier than the
white school in the spring, in order to
permit the colored children to pick
Strawberries, peas and beans; and in
consequence. the school opens several
weeks ahead of the white school in the
fall, in order to give the same length
OF terms.
We understand the Board of Comfy
Commissioners are celebrating on fit
ting up a toilet and comfort room in
b court house exclusively for ladies
of the county visiting the city. The
Board should not be long in their de.
liberation nor divided in their conclu.
sion upon the matter. It is something
the ARGUS has long advocated. and W.
are gratifed to learn that the Board are
giving it attention. Let this room be
. fitted up at once, and strictly reserved
tor this one purpose.