Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-04-18
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items Of Interest in and Around
the City.

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the City.
The convict road force of this county
has already received and initiated those
sentenced in the superior court last
week.
Local fishermen report that the catch
of shad now going on in the rivers here
abouts indicates that the cold SNAP is
broken and spring is at hand. So mote
it be.
With the opening of the baseball sea-
son the brilliant reporters Of the games
will begin to vie with each other in
contributing to the already wonderfully
picturesque vernacular of the "dia-
mond."
This may be OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ing ethereal mildness, land all that,
but the average ARGUS reader will not
believe that it is the real thing until
Jim Hollowell's spring poem appears
in these columns.
A suggestion has been made that an
experimental dIlOSIdA VIGIL NO UOAC0
for on the court house square. Good. 1t
is up to our progressive county chair
man, Mr.. w. r. Hollowell, to put the
suggestion into execution.
Mr.. Tom Stanton's home narrowly
escaped destruction by fire asst night.
The curtains and carpet in his sitting
room were burned, but by the prompt
ii of neighbors the flames were ex-
tinguished before greater damage was
done or the alarm turned in.
Mr.. J. r. Dali, living over in Webb
town, brought to this office the first
pea bloom of the season, and yesterday
he laid on our table a well filled pea
pod, and says with a few days of warm
weather he can pick several boxes from
his patch.
City politics ''are'' certainly very
mary. This is doubtless due to the gen
eral c~oncensus of public opinion that
Mr.. /. f.. Ormond is the best man for
Mayor, and, that the present excellent
Board of Public Work and City Alder
men are "good enough"
1Mr. Frank Morton, proprietor of the
Atlantic Hotel at Morehead City, who
made this resort SO popular last year,
was in the city today. He says that
the patronage the coming summer
promises to be more numerous than
last season, and he is getting ready to
give the guests all possible pleasure.
The Board of Education of Wayne
county are preparing a series Of coun-
try school photographs for exhibition
in the North Carolina Educationa1 de-
partment at Jamestown. Very few OF
our own citizens are familiar with the
fine rural school houses and education
al advantages Wayne county now en-
joys.
Mr.. Spias Ward, an old Confederate
Soldier and former citizen, who is now
a resident of Norfolk, is in the city, on
a visit to friends here, where we are all
glad to see him. God bless the old
Confederate Soldier. He is getting to
be bic and few indeed now, and the
world shall never look upon his like
again.
April is ~half-gone; but before May
day arrives the wedding bells will ring
in Goldsboro-that is to say, there are
two weddings on the tapis for April, in
which the brides and the grooms are
popular G~oldsboro people. Of course
wo ~ not ooIIin~ -o-oo- What. III
use? Everybody knows them.
Mr.. B. G.. Thompson and Miss Laura
Erwin were married at $3.50 o'clock this
afternoon in the Office of the Register
of Deeds in this city. Rev. E. H Davis,
pastor of st. Paul Me. church, oficiat-
ing. The bride and groom are both
from Onslow county. They leave in
the morning for a bird al trip north by
way of Norfolk.
Messrs. w. T. Yelverton, M. J.. Best
and Geo. A. Norwood, Jr., are prepar-
ing to lay a granolithic sidewalk in
front of their beautiful homes On South
Johns street. Material for the work is
now being placed, and when completed
it will be a great improvement as well
as public convenience. We hope the
good example will be followed by
~others.
There are a great many young men
in G~oldsboro who in all probability
will spend their lives here. Why not
these organize a young mems progress
<sive club for the promotion of Greater
sGoldsboro? It would mean greater OPP
portunities and greater successes in life