Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-06-04
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest In and Around
the Civ.
Play ball!

Mrs. B.. F. Bumpass is visiting
friends in Raleigh.
Candidates for county offices are be-
ginning to get active, and the numher
seems to be not yet definitely deteIm
lived.
" will be a source of infinite sorrow
in this city, and all along the line al
the Atlantic Coast Line Railway. to
learn Of the death this morning in Will
%fnington of Capt. Will J. Morris, one OF
the first popular engineers otthat read
His death was incident toa IN operation
in the hospital tor appendicitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. w. Bizzell are Of
for baltimore to attend the med q
graduation OF their brightsonan and only
~'i'd DR.. j. Malcolm Rizzeil. who Nil
be g ven his professional sheep skin
as Medical Doctor, with first hcrors,
from the University of Maryland this
week. Our congratulations.
Manager Gurley, of the G~oldsboro
Steam Laundry, says that the prize
contest is waxing warm, and that the
number OF contestants is increasing
daily. Under the stipulations of the
ad vertisement, the winner of the first
prize will receive $40 in cash, and the
second and third priz es are S. and $3.50
in cash. All of which are worth COM
peting for.
Col. Frank P. Morton, manager OF
the Atlantic Hotel, at Morehead City,
which for I've asst two summers he
had managed SO admirably and made
SO popular, was in the city between
ssy the Atlantic, this summer, i 90
ing to he better than ever" 1t will
oa,-1 Tor the seasons run next Mon
d,N, and already his bookings are
tito large.
EIl- ARGUS is deeply panied to chror
ief.. that Mr. NJ. S. Wltheringtcn h*s
S lie. ed a stroke of paralysis, atfectin,
h nn!ire right side from his shoulder
ii vs., ruI not his speech. He VS.
+ scA~n during Tuesday night and IS
I'' l'E''~'f Ted. MS UIOlA0T-tl-IaA
DR.. Herr ",ot Wilson, was here to Sc
him last night, but ould give no ex-
preston of his opinion as to the out
come of the case.
It is reported to this office that our
townsman Mr.. Hugh Maxwell has tive
Brown Leghorn hens setting; and MIR.
Jas. f. Collins, q noJed authority or
as we'll as an artist printer.
and who has Travelled pretty well over
the face of the earth, intending. the
philippines and the civilized portions
OF New Jersey, says this is the first il
stance in his knowledge of Brown Leg
-horns setting, as the distinctive char
a t%~risiic of this breed OF chickens il
that they never set.
The many friends of Mr.. Jesse W.
Stanley in this city, his home, ar,
greatly distressed to learn of his ser
fous llness in a Washington, D. C..
hospital, having been taken suddenl,
i'll at his hotel, while on a business
trip there, and removed to a hospital,
where he Is receiving special treat
ment. His son Mr..Carl Stanley, re
turned from a visit to his father Thu
morning, and reports him somewha,
improved. but that just yet the ply
sieians cannot forecast the outcome.
We ali hope for his speedy
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Odum, of this
city, have the universal sympathy OF
Auc community in the death of their
. missing young son Livy l.. Odum.
% y-ars old, which occurred of lock-
Jaw, DIT III ir home in this city, last
might, incident 10 an ACCIDENTAL fobert
wound il the loot, self-int1icted in an
a--en1pt 10 shoot a chicken Tor his
mother some days ago. The funeral
viii be },~Id from the home this after
1>tTEf at 5 s,'clnch. LTvy had only re-
gently returned from a Richmond hos
pitaI wuUre he hid been treated for 3
mad dog bite. when tie above fata
accident b"teti him.