Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-02-28
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest in and Around
the City.

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snd planting Irish potatoes.
Mrs. Frank B. Edmundson has been
summoned to Raleigh by the serious
illness Of her mother Mrs. W. R.. Craw-
ford.
The trade OF Goldsboro in farm sup
plies is of increasing volume every
wear, which proves that as a trade GEN.
tire we 60 forward.
MI. Thedie Hill, Of New York, is in
the city, owing to the serious illness of
his mother Mrs. DR.. Thos. Hill, at their
home on James street north.
Mr.. Jas. Poulson, representing The
Chatfeld & Woods Company, paper
manufacturers, of Cincinnati, was in
the city today interviewing the trade.
"When Knighthood Was in Flower"
one of h Sweetest stories ever. told"
is to be presented at the Messenger
Opera House on the evening OF March
18th.
Sheriff Biddle, of Craven county,
passed nCOuSH luO City lONdy oh lis
way to Raleigh with a young man SEN
fenced to a long term in the peniten-
tiary for wife murder.
Mr.. n. w. Outlaw, Jr., of this city,
who recently obtained license from the
Supreme Court as an attorney at law,
has decided to locate here for the prac-
tise of his profession. The ARGUS wishes
for him a full measure of success.
Messrs. A. T. Uzzell and J. NJ. Wood,
who have each represented this county
in the Legislature, have been spending
several days in Raleigh tor the pleas
ure of meeting and being with old
friends in the General Assembly. They
both returned home this afternoon.
When a good deed is done people
mention the fact casually, as they pass
on the street, or refer to it in an of
hand manner but let something very
bad be done and it will be discussed by
interested groups of individuals every
where. The devil is an artful adver-
tiser.
1t will be a real pleasure to all his
friends to learn that our young towns
man Mr.. Robey Hood, of the Colds
boro Drug Company, who was operat-
ed on by DIR. Stuart Mcguire, at st.
Luke's Hospital in Richmond on Sat
urday, has rounded the ordeal of dan
ger, and is now on the "a to re-
overy.
McKay's exclusive millinery estab.
lishment, under the Arlington Hotel
has just placed in position one of the
handsomest outfits of furniture O.
which the cabinet-making art is capa.
BILE. It is in oak, green painted, ye1
showing the natural granting of the
wood, and equipped with fine French.
plate mirrors.
A series of meetings will be held il
the Presbyterian hurch this week
conducted by Rev. A. D. Mcclure, D
D., of Wilmington. The meeting to
night at 1880 o'clock, and each night a
the same hour. The day meeting viii
be held at 1920 a. m. each day. Thu
public is cordially invited to attend
each and all of these meetings.
Nj. E. G. Brooks, the efficient anG
aggressive superintendent OF Colds
boro's Public Schools, caves to-nigh-
for Chicago to attend the convention O
the National Association of Public
School Superintendent. He can carry
a good report from Goldsboro ano
Wayne county, and we expect to heal
from him in the Windy City,"
Announcement has been made by
the Postoffice Department, that begin.
ming about March 1st., 1907, one.
cent stamps in book form will be is.
sued to postmasters. There will be
only enc size, containing twenty-fou1
one-cent stamps in fou sheets of SIX
stamps each, interleaved with parafiI
paper and bound like books of two.
cent stamps.
The good roads and better bridges
steel bridges-for Wayne county
movement is making progress, anG
herein lies h key to the progress anG
future prowess of our own and county
in the brisk march of development anG
competition that is characteristic of thu
towns and counties all around US. w,
must be alsrt, united and active if w,
would go forward.
The death of Mrs E. l.. Richardson
widow of the late E. L. Richardson
occurred uesdy night at $50 O'Clock, a
her home near the ice factory wher,