Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-03-05
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items Of Interest In and Around
the CITY.

be out today, to the great pleasure OF
his many friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Granger Kornegay
and children, of Roanoke, Va. are the
guests OF Mrs. Kornegay's parents. Mr..
and Mrs. D. E. Smith.
Mrs. F. L. Castex left last night for
Baltimore to join Mr.. Castex and take
treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital,
as she has been quite unwell tor several
weeks.
It was quite a pleasure to all of us in
Goldsboro to see Mr.. j. M. Wood in
attendance on the Board of County
Commissioners today. after his pro-
tracted illness.
Mr.. Lea Barnes, who has been pleas
uring in Florida for several weeks, is
at home again. He liked the LAND of
Flowers all right, but did not buy it
this trip. He may do so later.
Hon. c. B. Aycock will speak at
Rosewood Academy, in Fork township,
Friday evening at 1880 O'Clock, in the
1nL0r0SC OF the Special SCAOO1 Id0 SOOA
to be voted on in that district.
DIR. Geo. j. Robinson, Of Smithfeld,
who has been spending a couple of
weeks at the Goldsboro Hospital, IS a
patient, lett for home yesterday, on the
sure road to permanent convalescence.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. Goodwin lett this
= 81 T-1~-s1 TI~-~Sho1 in
Richmond, where Mrs. Goodwin goes
for treatment, under the direction of
DR.. w. H. Cobb, Jr., who accompanied
them.
1t is now in order for some local
poet-Jim H~ollowell, for instance-to
write a poem on the passing of the
s'Centennial Pump" 1t was ordered
filled up by the Board of Aldermen
last night.
Mr.. J. B. Clements, SO popular as he
Southern freight agent here, and sub
s~equently went to Raleigh to represent
the Norfolk & Southern, has returned
to G~oldsboro to succeed Mr.. j.. j.
Broadhurst, and is cordially greeted
on all sides.
Mrs. l.. H. Castex left last night for
Baltimore, where she will be Joined by
their last seasons popular mllliner,
Miss McComas, who will be with them
again this year, and together they will
90 on to New York to make purchases
Of Easter and spring millinery.
The. Union Prohibition meeting in ST.
Paul church last night, addressed in
splendid spirit and encouraging elo-
quence by State Secretary Davis, was
the biggest gathering of our people
since the local option campaign, and it
was all one way-all for State Prohi-
bition. In fact, it looks as if the cleo
ton will be unanimous here on May
26.
The Village Improvement Depart
ment Of the Woman's Club, as las been
noted in these columns, are calling for
a mass meeting of our citizens to dis
cuss civic improvements-the taking
of concerted action along uniform lines
for lettering the physical appear
ancaand hyigenic conditions of the city
before warm weather sets in. This is
a matter in which every citizen is per-
sonally interested and consequently
every body should attend the mass
meeting, which will be held in the City
Hall on Friday night of this week.
It has been months since the beauti-
f,1 ci+o - on fha ooe+oro IoioI,+ ,r..
secured for the Goldsboro High School,.
1T has been week since the legislature
by special enactment, empowered the
Board OF Trustees of the school to issue
construction bonds. It will soon be
time to begin to do something, if the
school is to m~aterialize in time for
next tails opening-and certainly it is
sorely needed; but-But. Well. per-
haps we are bordering on criticism
prematurely. However, we would like
to hear that the Board of Trustees are
making progress. Are they?
On Saturday afternoon OF his week
Miss Edna Bryner, of Washington, D.
c., the brilliant young lady who is SO
hCCOPbdOly h1A1AS GAO pOoAGAOD VI 4I4A-
cipal of Falling Greek Academy and
High School, in Grantham township,
will tell the story of Siegfried to the
children in the Goldsboro Public Libra
~. This is the first of a series of stories
for the children that the Library trus-
tees hope to inaugurate, and Miss
Bryner brings the trustees and the en-
tire community under grateful ob1iga-
tons to her for so generously consent
ing to be the first to start the series.