Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-06-06
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items Of Interest IN and Around
the CITY.

NeSADV ~ O ~-0 s8DSAS
the CITY.
The shipnnent of beans from here
abouts is Row ON ia full blast.
Our young friend and tcwnsman DIR.
Israel Mayeqberg- of whom we made
notice yesterday, arrived home this
afternoon, and Is being right cordially
congratulated by ali his friends here.
The desirable residential property on
East Centre ST.. adjoining the home OF
NV. and Mrs. VIC. M~unroe,to the south
OF taem, has been purchased by our
townsmsn Mr.. NJ. J.. Best. The con-
sideratisn named in the deed OF record
is $4,000.
The Bdsall- W~inthrope Pavilion Stock
Company are billing the city for .
weeks engagement here, under q big
tent, beginning next Monday. They
under the auspices Of the Colds
bore Military. and are said to be very
fine.
Dr. Louis III. Reid, of Macon, Ga, is
IN che city, having come In response to
a telegram of the serious illness Of his
sister Mrs. i. Newton Brown, who, we
are glad to know, is some better today.
Dr. Reid has many friends here who
are always glad to sec him.
Uncle Isaac" Hodges, the colored
Lord Chesterfield. OF this city. who is
noted for his ability M gardner as
well as for his poiiteness, boasts, Of the
finest bean patch in this section-and1
from the evidence we saw this morning
he il entitled to the chrome.
The government report on the condi-
ton Of the cotton crop, issued today
and published In our teleeraphic news
columns,puts the general average ofthe
country ct 20 1-2, while in this State 1t
10 given at 80 per cent. So that North
Carolina, as usual, is holding her own.
Miss Hattie n. Dillon, of Richmond,
who has been nursing Hon. b. a..
Bum. neal Rocky Mount, Is in the
city for q few days, Mt the home of Mr..
w. T. Dortch. She arrived this after
noon. and reports hat MT Bum is
very much better, which will be CRATE
fulness to his relatives and many
friends here.
Again it 10 the pleasure of the ARGUS
to note the success Of u Goldsboro boy.
This time it is our young friend DR..
Israel w Mayerberg, who has just
graduated with distinction from JEFF
ferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
and has been awarded assistant ply
sician's place in the hospitals at Will
mington, this State.
The papers are making much COM
ment over the attendance at the Con-
federate reunion in Richmond of q
father and son who were in the war to-
gether, and marveling that the two are
still living We nave here in Wayne
county Col j. T. Kennedy and his SON
DR.. J. B. Kennedy, who not only saw
service together-enduring the war but
are still living together; the venerable
father at the home of his son in Gran
than township.
Promptly at 2 o'clock Monday
all over this city there was a sudden
pause, and with holy hush and bowed
heads our community for i've minutes
paid tribute to the memory Of the
Southern Confederacy's immortal
President Jefferson Davis, AS his monu-
ment was being unveiled in Richmond.
Quite q number Of the Daughters Of the
~Confederacy were on the streets as
delegates to see that the request for
pause was observed.
There are lots Of folks from Mis-
souri," hereabouts. Well-the piano, q
veritable $500 instrument. that the
ARGUS is going to award in its circula-
ton contest-now nearing it's CLOSETS
on exhibition Mt the corner store Of
Messrs. Andrews IL Waddell. The six
gold watches are ON exhibition at the
jewelry store Of Mr.. L. D. Giddens.
The European and Jamestown trips
and scholarships, not being of . tangi-
BILE or material nature, we cannot show
them-but they are just as assured as
the piano and watches are visible. It
is simply up to the workers to win.