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

Inv NA4Y6
Quite a number of GoIdsboro's peo-
pie left for jamestown this morning.
Miss Rachael M. Borden went to
Greenville this morning to visit Mrs.
J.. w. Aycock.
Mrs. J. W. Shealy, of Wilson, who
has been visiting her cousin, Mrs. G. F.
Taylor, left for her home at noon to-
day.
Misses Janet, Ellen and Elizabeth
Dortch, who have been spending the
summer in Raleigh, returned home to-
day
Miss Sallie Colwell, of Wilson, after
q visit to her cousin, Mrs. G.. f. Tay-
lor, left this afternoon for Warsaw on
a visit to relatives at that place.
Miss Gertrude We'll and brother Mr..
Herman We'll, who have been spend
ing some time in h beautiful and
bracing Sapphire Country returned
home this afternoon.
Miss Annie Denmark, who has been
spending her vacation at her home
here, left yesterday afternoon to re-
sumo her studies at the Baptist Female
University, in Raleigh.
MI and Mrs. John Raper and Mrs.
J. J. Langston, mother OF Mrs. Raper,
are off to the Exposition at Jamestown,
after which Mrs. Langston will visit
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The young girls band of the First
Baptist church will give a social in the
Sunday school-room Thursday evening
of this week. Refreshments will be
served. The public is cordially invit-
ed.
Mr.. Leslie We'll, of H. Well & Bros,
is at home again from the northern
dry goods centres, and new goods are
coming in by every freight in conse-
quence of his extensive purchases in
that department of his firms triple
store.
The ARGUS is glad to note that Mr..
John Joseph, the Walnut street mer-
chant, whose store has been closed for
some weeks, pending financial en-
b~arrassments, has settled in full with
his creditors and is again open for bus
!iness at his old stand.
Mr.. A. E. Woltz, Goldsboro's new
superintendent of Public Schools, ar
rived in the city today to assume ac-
tive charge and abide permanently
with US. He will move his family
here at an early day. The ARGUS as
,sures him Of a cordial welcome to the
Best Town in the State.
The ARGUS is glad to note among
the names of those who successfully
passed examination berore the Su-
preme court last week for license to
practice Law that of our good friend
and esteemed townsman Mr.. E. A.
Simpkins. We extend our cordial con-
CALCULATIONS and best wishes for sue
cess in the profession.
The marriage of Mr.. Jas. r. Darden
to Mrs. lydia Fulton was an event to-
day in this city which will be of es-
pecial interest to the printers through
out the State, to whom "Shorty" is
well known and with whom he is uni
versally popular. The happy event
was solemnized by Justice Hugh Hum
phrey, and the ARGUS extends its cor
dial good wishes.
Messrs. E. D. Ham and N. B. Berger,
of Pikeville, two of the leading educa-
.fIonoI nromotarS Of their town wara in
the city today with the petition of the
progressive citizens of Pikeville ask
ing tire Board of County Commission
ers for a special school tax election fol
their town and school district, II the
Board granted the same, ordering the
election for Tuesday October 8, fol
which a new registration was ordered
For more than a quarter of a cen.
tury-for twenty-seven years-the firm
OF Best & Thompson have been doins
business in Goldsboro, and through al
those years their business has beer
growing from year to year., until today
it encompasses a wide territory ane
embraces a veritable army of custom
ers, who have implicit confidence il
the integrity of their every transac
ton, and hold them in high persona
esteem.
Messrs. Berry A. Parks, James M
Wood, VIM. Holmes, Walter NJ, j
w. and T. c., Gardner and Frank B
Latham are off today for the James
town Exposition. AS they are al
countrymen except Frank Latham, o
the Goldsboro police force, and freud
OF the ARGUS, we have spent full tim
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