Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-01-30
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest In and Around
the CITY.

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tention of Superior Court here this
week.
Mr.. H. B. Parker, Jr., has moved
his law office to the second story of the
new Edgerton building, on Walnut
street.
Mr.. w. r. Hollowel1, HI has been
West purchasing mules and horses
for his extensive trade, arrived home
this afternoon.
Capt. J. Wash Bizzell, who has been
confined to his home for several days
with the grip, is out again today, we
are glad to note.
The many friends of Mrs. E. G. Vitou
will regret exceedingly to know that
she is quite i'll. and hope that she may
soon be restored to health.
Our excellent County Superintendent
of Schools, Mr.. E. T. Atkinson, is con-
fined to his home with the grip, and we
all hope that he may oon be at his
post of service again.
Miss Mamie Toler, of the faculty of
Fremont Graded Schools, returned to
her school duties this morning after
attending the funeral yesterday after
noon of her cousin Miss Minnie Stew
ems.
It is a great pleasure to all his friends
here to greet on the street again Mr..
Willie Humphrey. of H. We'll & Bros,
who is just back from st. Luke's Hos
pital, where some weeks ago he under
went an operation for appendicitis.
Mr.. Foy Perkins, formerly the popu-
lar toward of the Hotel Kennon, but
more recently engaged with other ho-
tells, has returned to Mr.. B. H. Griffn's
employ, and is now filling the position
OF steward at the CASTOR, in Newborn,
of which MIR. Griffin is likewise pro-
prietor.
That Goldsboro should have an cleo
trio railway to Seven Springs is admit
teo as a sound business proposition:
but how long Will our business men
stand apart and delay coming together
and taking action looking to the con-
summation of such a line? In the
meantime, other towns are looking in
the same direction.
There are some people who believe
their city or section possesses especial
natural advantages and are, therefore,,
disposed to believe that it is not nee
.essary to offer substantial inducements
TO attract capital to develop this sec
ton by building railways and estab-
2lishing manufacturing plants. There
( even are some who place a very high
valuation upon such property as they
may have which is suitable for manu-
featuring purposes, and when there
seems opportunity to sell, raise that
sprice and keep the land.
Reports begin to come in from other
sections-and it is evidentin these parts
too. that the members of the Farmers
union are beginning to sell cotton.
Those about Van Buren,, Ark, had
stored 5000 bales, land on Saturday
they began to sell. When cotton brings
- cents, it is certainly best to consider
the mill situation, the demand for cot
ton goods and the crop to be grown
this year. At Van Buren,. Ark, there
is a feeling that Is cents cannot be Sc
cured in this year of trade depression,
when other prices are declining.
The whole community is saddened
at the untimely death of Miss Minnie
Stevens, IA years of age, daughter of
Mrs. Sallie Stevens, which occurred
Sunday morning at 9 O'Clock, at he
home on South William street, after a
brief but severe illness She would
have graduated this year from the
Goldsboro High School and was one Of
the brightest members of her class and
a universal favorite, both at school and
in the eighborhood ofher home Every
body loved the child, SO gentle, so
thoughtful of others, SO cheerful to give
pleasure aud do little ~kindnesses, her
death is mourned as a personal sorrow
by all who knew her, and to the so
sorely bereaved mother the sympathy
measure, as also to the s~orrowing bro
Their and sister who survive her, MI.
Rufus Stevens and Miss Marion Stew
ems. The funeral was held from the
home Tuesday p. m. at 4 o'clock, con-
Quoted by Rev. e. n. Davis,o of st. Paul
M. e. church, of which she was a de-
voted member.