Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-11-21
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items Of Interest inland Around
the City.

Eyrs. AZ E .sE-rEN 2GEk II
of her many young friends, is already
home again from the Wilson SAM
taruim, and is doing nicely. .a1>ss.4
Mr.. n. O'Berry is OF a combined
business and pleasure trip to Philadel-
pnia, Baltimore and New York. and
other centers of the wholesale lumber
trade. Dos ~t 6+aoI
Mr.. H..B.. Park r, Jr., President of
the Wayne. County sunday School AS
sociation, went up to Wilson yesterday
where he delivered an address in the
afternoon before the Sunday school
convention ofthat town....5see esq
The Argus is extremely sorry to
hear of the painful illness of MI. Fred
r.. Mintz, editor of the Mount Olive
Tribune, who has been confined to his
bed for several days with fever. We
wish him a speedy recovery 94
Mr.. and Mrs. r.. w. Thompson and
family have moved from South VIII
liam street to the residence on George
street, formerly occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Jno. Smith. Their old neighbor-
hood will miss them and not cease to
regret their moving. -.tEHE394gG
Mrs. Moscow Wilson, the ARGUS is
glad to note and her many friends will
be gratifed~to learn, has returned from
st. Luke's Hospitalin Richmond, where
she recently underwent a serious oper-
alton, and is contalescent and Will be
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to her wonted good
health as soon as her strength is re-
stored.
Thanksgixingday will re conserved
in GoldsboTo, according to the s,estab-
lished custom of our city, with closed
business houses, a general suspension
of all business, and general church at
tendance. Let our country friends
govern themselves accordingly, and
make. their purchases in advance OF
Thanksgiving. ;.,r -qr..ta
Master Raymond Pettway, the in
ventive young genius who built the
miniature locomotive described in
these columns some weeks ago, and
which he sent to the State Fair at Ra-
leigh, is quite happy ove receiving
from the Secretary today the blue rib
bon and a check for $500 as a prize
winner. eE e-e~l
If it is good for Swift & Co.. to make
Goldsboro a distributing point for their
wholesale trade, it is a good point for
any kind of wholesale trade-that is
why the Wholesale trade of Goldsboro
is SO successful. What is good for one
in this particular is good for alI-and
the more we have the better for the
town. Let's all pull for a Greater
Go1dsboro. Get in working harmony
by the first of the new lyear and then
make 1908 a record-breaker for Colds
boro-just Goldsboro, the Best Town
in the State.
Mr.. +. c.. Helms, representing .Swif1
&C.,, whose trade in meat products
encompasses the world, is in the city
today making final arrangements fol
opening a branch house in Goldsboro
for supplying the wholesale trade O.
eastern North Carolina, our city being
most admirably situated and superbly
equipped Sfor ready shipment and
speedy delivery to any point in any
directionefo for a hundred miles Thar
Swift & Co. recognize this fact is graft
flying to our city pride and publicspiri
and the ARGUS extends the enterpris.
q cordial welcome to the Best Town il
the State.
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The pur1oined lantern-and it taaeI
while Ilighted-of Mr.. A. A. Joseph ii
still withheld from him by the pur
loiner; but all the possum hunters o
b community, With the exception o
two, have interVieWedfMr. Joseph ane
avowed their innocence, and the two
exceptions are the more nota BILE in tina
they are Messers. HDick" Freeman ane
Jno. Dortch of the electric light plant
which, by the way, was rather out o
commission the nights the lantern dis
appeared, aIEcircumstance hat tn
lawyers would term cumulative evi
dence" bringing them under NOR
strenuous suspicion. Then, too, only
last night, these two young gentlemen
gave a possum supper to a number 0
their friends & Altogether, the chain o
circumstantial evidence is pretty wei
Observation-Disclosures lantern is rele
gated just now, and who tool Joseph'
lantern is the question.
We are requested by ssthe owner t.
say: eli he person who took the Ian
tern off the tree in front of A. A
Joseph's residence will kindly return
same he may keep b oil and no charg'
will be made for use of lantern" Th'