Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-02-28

ed only by her means and was ever ex-
pended where most needed and with
out o~stentation. The funeral was
held from the First Baptist church
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, and
the interment was made in Willow
Dale Cemetery beside her first hus-
band, the late T. NJ. Rogers.
The death of old "Uncle Bob Lane
occurred Sunday in this city, and he
will be buried Monday afternoon in the
colored cemetery. Uncle o b had
claimed tor years that he was much
over one hundred years old but his
age, as recorded in the old family Bible
of the Lanes, to whom he belonged,
having been bought by the late Mr.. w.
X. Lane from the Jernigan family away
back in the sos, shows that he was born
in 1916, making him 81 years old
Prof. Melville Daniels, the distin-
guished Health Culture Expert, of
Richmond, who has come to spend a
professional term in Goldsboro, ar
rived last night, and has secured con-
su1tation rooms in the Episcopal Rec
tory, on Mulberry street, near st.
Stephens church, where, patients can
find him for consultation after this
evening. The ARGUS is glad to well
come MIR. Daniels to the city and hopes
his stay here may be permanent.
We are requested to say that on
Friday March Sth, at IL o'clock, the
County Cotton Growers Association
will meet in the public school at
Eureka. 1t is hoped that every one
who can will attend this meeting and
carry a basket to help provide a din
ner on the ground ard to get all the
help rom his meeting that they can.
This movement means much for the
farmers as we'll as the whole south, if
entered into heartily and earnestly.
AT a banquet given by the Amherst
Alumni Association of New York City
at the Waldorf Astoria on the evening
of Feb. 21st., Rev. j. Hiram Grant, OF
Meriden, Conn, was a guest and one OF
the speakers of the evening. Covers
were laid for four hundred guests. Mr..
Grant was graduated from Amherst in
the class of 1892, and is a native Colds
boro boy, who has many admiring
friends here who always follow him
with interest and abiding good wishes.
A marriage of more than usual in
terest, by reason of the exceeding popu-
larity of the bride-elect, who is held in
universal cordial esteem is that of Miss
Daisy Smith and Mr.. Eugene Hines.
which will be solemnized quietly at the
5 home of the bride, on Wm.s street, mex
Thursday evening, with only members
of the family and a few intimate friends
of the contracting parties present; to
be followed from 8 to 10 O'Clock by 8
reception, to which invitations have
: been issued to friends in the city.
Mr.. Albert f. Clark, OF the "Kor.
rect Clothing & Tailoring Company"o
: this city, has just returned from New
, York, where he has been spending
e some time familiarzing himself will
f the coming seasons styles in men anc
: women's tailor-made suits, in which
t lines the above company are prepared
e to do an up-to-date business, and thu
: gentlemen who compose the business
management are so favorably now
, to our people that it goes without say
generous patronage bestowed upol
them.
I'll A force of hands are hnSv fN6QV tear
u ing down the big wooden building be
e longing to Capt. J.. B. Edgerton, o.
Walnut street, preparatory for tn
erection of substantial and commodiou
brick store buildings. This is one o
the old landmarks of the town, the sit
of one of our first manufacturing indus
~tries-being the place where buggie
we're made by the late Messrs. r. E
Jones and w. II. Borden. It is one o
the few remaining links connecting tn
wooden age of the town with he
: present brick business and manufac
turing structures, and with it's goin,
Y we go forward.
Sheriff Stevens and Chief of Polio
Freeman returned this morning from
Savannah, Ca. bringing with then
e Furney Smith, the colored youth O
I this city who is suspected of the muir
K der of the old colored woman Saral
q Cooper, some weeks ago at her hom
in the Little Washington section of GU
town. Furney decamped ~immediateI
after the deed was done leaving a trai
i of cuSnioiouS nj ror1Yo cfonoae IoIs-<
him, and the officers have bee1
shadowing him eve since, with tn,
v result that they located him in Savan