Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-06
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest in and Around
the CITY.

K~leptOmaniac,' Will be presented next
Monday night at the Woman's Club.
Those interested in dramatic art should
not fail to attend. Buy our tickets at
once.
Let us all get together and get busy
for better streets for Goldsboro: We
certainly need better streets, and we
can certainly have better streets-then
why permit the present condition to
continue to work detriment to our
city's progress and discomfort to our
citizens?
Mr.. Walter E. Bayliss, of the w. q.
Telegraph Co., at Charlotte, arrived
home Sunday morning, baving been
called to the beside of his mother, Mrs.
U. G.. Rayliss, who, her many friends
will regret to know, is critically i'll and
her life despaired of, at her home in
this city.
The Acme Theatre is closed this week
and is in the hands of competent artists
who are busy remodeling and equip
ing it with up-to-date fixtures that will
make it second to no amusement place
of its kind in the slater 1t will reopen
next week under the new name of he
Dixie Theatre.
Goldsboro is to have an'olde Tyne"
Fiddlers' convention, and we are de-
lighted, for it is an event calculated to
give the most exquisite and hilarious
L .4@-I iii
be held in the Messenger Opera House
on Tuesday evening of next week,
February IL.
We'll, the ground hog theory decided
Sunday in favor of 'M edicine Hat"
instead of FOR the varmint itself, which
must have most broken it's neck get
ting away from it's shadow in the sun
shine of the cloudless and intensely
cold morning. According to this
t'groundhog" prophesy we are to have
six weeks yet Of winter-and the worst
is to come.
The alarm of fire Sunday morning
was occasioned by the burning Ct a
small tenement house at the north end
of William street, nea the cotton mill.
The fire department., Notwithstanding
the vigorous weather and the early
hour were promptly on the scene, and,
as usual, did most efficient work, in
restraining he spread of the flames to
other nearby property.
The Board of County Commissioners
$1,000 =, .o,-1o. eoccio, in thic oitu To
day, and among other things ordered a
special school tax election in Fork
township to include the splendid new
school at Rosewood. The residents OF
the prescribed district are quite en-
thuisastic in the movement and it is
voted by a large majority. The cleo
ton is ordered March 10.
Here is one brief sentence from the
Presidents special message which is
worthy of reflection the country over
at this time: 9TH business which is
hurt by the movement for honesty is
the kind of business which in the long
run it pays the country to have hurt
Ill OthO1 "oAOoS "AASh oAAo
stand the test of commercial integrity
has no just claim for pecuniary sue
cess among a people Of character.
The Board of City Aldermen in
adopting the recommendation of AL
derman Geo. G. Kornegay, OF the FL
nance Committee, last night, and re-
firing the SIS 900 of funding bonds, as
recorded in the proceedings of the
Board elsewhere in this issue, deserves
and will receive the thanks OF every
tax payer in the city. It was inc bus
mess policy, besides evidencing the
prosperous conditions of the city's af-
fairs. We go forward.
Mr.. Asher Edwards returned from
Richmond last night where he went to
consult DR.. Stuart MCGUIRE in regard
to an ailment of one of his hands. DIR.
Mcclure performed an operation on
the hand some days ago and Mr.. Ed
wards is now out and going again and
happy owe his trip. He returns home
a great admirer of DIR. Mcclure, as do
all who have occasion to come under
his surgical care or within the radius
of his charming personality socially.
Our good friend and countyman Mr..
Atlas T.. Uzzell had heaEmisfortune to
have a fine span of mules.killed and a
wage demolished by the train on the
Norfolk & Southern a few miles from
this city Saturday night. The mules
were being driven home by a colored
teamster whens they stook fright and
ran away, and he sjumped from the
wagon in the darkness and let them go.
They turned up the railroad track and