Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-05-09
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest in and Around
the City.

receiving the cong~ratulation of his
friends
The County Board of Education held
a special session in this city today land,
among other things reelected Messrs.
r. J.. ~Southerland and f. NJ. Kicks on
the Board of Trustees of the Mt. Olive
graded schools for a term of six years.
Wayne county needs a good roads
movements, and it is up to Goldsboro to
take the initiative. If our readers will
review carefully "Our ExchangeT Table
column of his issue they Will see that
other places are outstripping us in this
regard.
DR.. WINS. Spicer, of this city, has
lust completed sale, for his mother,
Of a tract OF timber in Duplin county
with a party in Philadelphia, the con-
sideration paid being eve thousand
dollars cash, for which DR.. Spicer has
received a check.
The closing exercises OF Rosewood
Academy, in Fork Township; another
VI w a. hO NoN"e
schools, will be held on Thursday night
and Friday night of next week. Col.
JOS. Z. Robinson will deliver the liter
ary address on Thursday night.
The Board of County Commissioners
at their meeting Monday, transacted
only routine monthly business. The
only matter of general interest being
the election of DR.. Theo. l.. CHM as
County superintendent of Health for
the ensuing term.
The young engineer, Mr.. George
Dunn, of the Norfolk & Southern, who
was injured in this city wednesday, was
taken to his home in Newbern on the
belated train that afternoon, n
the latest report from him, we are glad
to record, is that his painful injuries
are not now considered fatal.
Pea picking is now in full blast in
these parts. The continued cold April
greatly retarted the early crop, and cut
it short, also; but the top crop of blooms
at present., under this balmy spring
weather, gives promise Of yet a full
yield-if only the price holds up on the
Northern market.
The Goldsboro Steam Laundry is
moving into its commodious new
quarters, on its own premises, near the
Messenger Opera House, and Mr.. B.
H. Griffin, the owner OF the plant,
ox,- +l,o+ i4- ov, a~yinn,nnt 10 cno0nA
to none, andlthat the plant is now pre-
pared to take care of every character OF
laundrying committed to it.
Among the graduates last week from
the name of our young townsman Mr..
Dan A. Powell, who is now a full
f1edged NJ. D. DR.. Powell is a brother
of DR.. w. E. and Misses Ella and Win
ME Powell, of this city. The ARGUS
wishes him the fullest measure of sue
cess in his chosen profession.
The friends in this city of Mrs. L.. B
Best, of Warsaw, will s~ympathize will
her in death other father, Mr.. Harrison
which occurred Monday at her home
The remains, accompanied by Mrs
Best and others of the family, passed
through here at Don Wedslay, on thei
way to the old homestead, nea.
Speight Bridge, Greene county, for in
terment.
What is known as the sand Hills,
lying on the south side of Neuse rive
- .,@.+l- b,o - ~ Dro~Ior +ox--
ship of this county, furnishes NOR
food stuff to Goldsboro, vegetables
eggs, pork, chickens. sausage, hams
etc., han perhaps all the rest of tn
county combined. So much for tn
productiveness of even the sand @
about it?
Mrs. Elizabeth Vivian, better know
in this city as Mrs. Chandler, died a
Central State Hospital in Raleigh earl
Tuesday morning of heart. failure
She was carried to the hospital Monda
afternoon. The remains were taken
her old home in HendersonIWednesda
for interment. Mrs. Vivian was abou
forty years OF age and is survived b
her husband.
Friends in this city, where he was fo
years a popular conductor on tn
Southern Railway, note with regre
from the Winston-Salem papers of re
cent date the death Of Capt. Prid
Jones, one of the best known and mos
highly respected citizens of the twi
city. He passed away at his residene
on East Fourth street after an illness
several days with pneumonia. The re
mains were carried to the former HON