Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-09-03
LGlAL BRIEFS.
Items Of n crest in and AROUND
the CITY.

as solid this year as evsr-only a little
more so.
Mr.. Charley Stevens left this morn
ing to resume his studies at Wake
Forest College.
Snow in August! That's what
they've had over in Maryland, and
that's what has made this cool spell
here.
Then, too, if airships are eve adopt
ed for passenger traffic the question Is
will they be marked up late regularly
just like trains are these days?
The excursion over the Norfolk q
Southern from this city to Washing
ton, N. c., at $1.oO tor the round trip,
en- September 9, should be well patro-
nized- will be.
The handsome colonial residence OF
DIR. w. j. Jones, on West Centre street,
South, has been rendered very much
more beautiful than over by a beeom-
ing new dress of paint.
There will be an examination for
white teachers only at the Court House
in GoldSboro on September 10 and IL
for certificates to teach in the Public
Schools of Wayne County.
Mr.. w. B. Motley, the paintman,
formerly of Wilson, has become a citi-
gen OF The Best Town in the State, and
l. o.Ja-c f0r oil 1zi,,l0 ~f
paint work. The ARGUS welcomes
him to Goldsboro.
The Cotton Association OF
Wayne County will meet in the Court
House in this city on Friday of next
week, September II, and it is hoped
and urged hat all members be in
prompt attendance at II o'clock noon.
The snew reported in Maryland on
Thursday seems to have extended as
bIightsd Marion Butler in the Repub-
lican State convention, where he was
completely 'snewed under" Thursday.
The heaviest tobacco brakes" of
the season were pulled off in this city
today, the floors Of all three ware
houses being filed to their limits, and
prices were entirely satisfactory. We've
gots the best tobacco market in the
State.
OF course there have got to be lots Of
talk, but the lattice bridge is all there
and will stay there. 1t was built fer
that purpose and is as substantial. 1t
is not going to be carried away by the
frsshst, nor burned down to obviate
such a catastrophe.
Mr.. Geo. G. Royal, who has been On
an extended business trip through
Western North Carolina, Virginia and
West Virginia, in the interest OF the
furniture and mattress manufactures
of Messrs. Royal & Borden, arrived
home Saturday night.
The straw hattie coming of which
is the harbinger of Spring, and the
going the f~ors-runner Of Fall, has
struck the "sere and yellow leaf" stage,
and will soon be conspicuous for its
altogether bsens Thus do the sea-
sons chase one another around the
cycle OF time.
The theatrical season at the Messen-
ger Opera House opens on September
10 with 1.-The Girl From Missouri
which is said to be superbly staged liz
Rocky Mountain scenery and electric
equipment and is devoid of b 'shoot-
ing'' feature so characteristics of the
average western play.
MIR. and Mrs.. Walter Broadhurtt t,
who have been spending a number Of
months in Silver City, New Mexico,
for the benefit of Mr.. Broadhurst's
health, which, his many friends here
will be gratifed to know, has been
greatly benefited, arrived in the city
this morning and are the guests of his
parents, Capt. and Mrs. D. j. Broad
hurst, on William street, south.
Mr.. J. F. Dobson, postmaster of this
city, who wen UP to Charlotte simply
as an interested loeker-on at the Re-
publican State convention, got back
heme on the early train this morning,
He is much elated at the work of the
convention in putting a full State
ticket in the field and reports, also,
that the whole country . zen here
and Charlotte is In the throes of this
devastating rainfall and food.
Our sister town Of Kinston is now in
the throes of the flood, that has been
recsding from G~oldsboro for the past
az hours. Traffic over the Coast Line
that was so badly hung up ut Mouse
river-theugh capable Of transfer-has
been entirely restored; but at Kinston