Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-06-11
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items Of Interest in and Around
the City.

Sooo" AOH
Tax listing time is here. Why delay
the duty of giving in your property?
Bean shipping is now at its dood in
Goldsboro, bnt, as usual, the prices
have gone all to pieces on h eNorthern
markets. ''Just our luck"
Potatoes, too. are off in price, and
the crop just coming on the market
hereabouts. It would seem that truck
farming is most as uncertain as cotton
futures.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. E.. Bizzell and son
Mr.. Eustice are in Baltimore, where
Eustiee is to have an operation per-
formed on his nose, which was injur-
ed sometime ago by the kick of a
horse.
Miss Inez Daughtry, of Jackson,Ga.,
is in the city for a months engagement
at the Goldsboro Library, classifying
and scheduling the books in their pei
manent home on the third floor of the
City Hall.
A movement is on foot in Goldsboro
to organize a new prohibition" party.
It's aim will be to prohibit all baseball
teams in the Eastern Carolina League
from winning the pennant from the
Goldsboro team.
Mrs. B. Fl. Griffin has gone to Phila-
-delphia, to undergo an ear operation In
the hospital with which her brother,
DIR. VIM. Smith, is associated. Her
hosts Of friends will wish for her a sue
cessfu1 ordeal and a speedy recovery.
Walnut street, at East Center, is an
eyesors and disgrace to the city. The
foul smell from the hack stand should
be attended to at once. The drivers
and proprietors of such vehicles hould
be compelled to disinfect the place at
once.
BY mutual compact Goldsboro's two
iewelry stores, Messrs. l.. D. Giddens
and R.. A.. Creech, will close every
evening at 7 O'Clock during the sum-
mer, except on Saturday evenings.
The trading public will govern them
selves accordingly.
Have you observed the city street
sprinkler in it's new dress? It il quite
artistic, and while giving physical re-
freshmsnt to the streets it gives you
information as to w~hsrewithal to best
refresh the inner man. How? Why,
by drinking Punoh-I-NeIls, OF course.
The indications are that Goldsboro's
merchants and public spirited citizens
generally, including manufacturers
and the railroad officers, will all close
up next Monday afternoon and give
their employees an opportunity, and
themselves take occasion, to go out
and witness the first real professional
baseball game Goldsboro has ever had
Miss Elizabeth May Mellick, an ex-
pert trainer of young people, will arrive
in Goldsboro this week for the purpose
of presenting at an early date, in the
Messenger Opera House, by home tai
Snt, a delightful light comedy, known
as the New Union Depot, which will
be quite appropriate to Goldsboro, and
will be especially enjoyed by our peo-
pie.
Mr.. John Waters, an employee OF
the John Slaughter Company, and Miss
6allie Hughes. q former pupil nurse at
b G~oldsboro Hospital while Mr..
Waters was q patient there, were hap
home Of the BRIDES parents, in Greene
county, and are making their home
here. The ARGUS wishes them abun-
dant happiness and prosperity.
It is with exceeding personal regret,
which will be az sincerely shared
by all the patrons Of the Coast Line
here, and by our citizens in general,
that we chronicle the retirement OF Mr..
Geo. w. Price from the railroad service,
who tor a number Of years has SO eff
GENTLY and accsptably filled the posi-
ton of freight agent of the Atlantic
Coast Line at this place. Mr.. Price and
his no less popular wife will leave to-
morrow for Whitaker's, where they
will make their home for the future,
and where Mr.. Price will engage in the
nSfeauI1le pus1HSSs WILL ulS proInor-
in-law, wha has long beer established
there, and they take with them the
best wishes of ali our people. Mr.. Price
is succeeded by Mr.. H. L.. Graham, re-
Gently in the service at Wilmington,
and the ARGUS assures him of a cordial
welcome to the Best Town in the State.
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