Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-01-30
BRIEFS.
Items of Interest In and Around
the City.

able to be out again.
Mr.. Jno. L. Borden, of the furniture
firm of Royal q Borden, left last night
on a business trip to P~ittsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Louis B. Pool left yesterday
afternoon for Charlotte, where Mr..
Pool, OF he Southern Cotton Oil Com
pany, will be located for some weeks.
It was a real pleasure to his many
friends to see on the street today Judge
w. r. Allen, who has been confined to
his home for some days with the grip.
The city is full of farmers today
making purchases, and completing ar
rangements for supplies for their farm
ing operations for the year just open
ing.
Court is still holding and the civil
docket. which is always more or less
dry and tedious, is engaging the time
of the lawyers, the juries and the
judge.
Mrs. E. G. Porter has returned from
Richmond, where she has been spend
ing some time with Mr.. Porter, at st.
Luke's Hospital, and it will be a source
of general qualification in this COM
munity to learn that he is now stead
lily improving.
Mr.. Geo. C. Royal left last night on
an extended business trip to the great
furniture supply centres of the north
west, in the interest of his firms i'm
mense furniture and Royal Felt mat
tress trade, that now extends from
Maine to California.
Messrs. John M. Grantham, at his
sale stables on job street, and W. R.
HolIowell, at his stable ON Walnut
street, opposite the court house, are
kept busy these days receiving cash
for mules and horses from the prosper
Gus armer who favor Goldsboro with
their trade
The passion Play" that is being
presented this week at the "Acme," is
in every way commendable and it is
not only Instructive, but appeals with
thrilling reality to all that is religious
in humanity. Every one should see
this this great play. This week is your
opportunity.
The weather thus far has peculiarly
favored Wells White Sale, and the
event has been as enjoyable socially
as it has been from a ''shopping'' ex-
perience, and in both respects it has
been the most successful event in the
trade history OF the city. It is still on
and visitors are coming in on every
train for miles distant.
The Goldsboro Chamber of Com
merce, which now numbers some 40
odd members of the progressive spirits
of the community, have decided TO
have a membership banquet on Valen-
inc eve, restricted exclusively to
members, and at which every membe
of the Chamber is expected to be pre-
sent. It Will be entirely a festive oc-
~casion, informal and purely social. The
purpose of the banquet is simply to
bring all the members of the Chamber
together for conference and informal
talks as to the needs of the city and the
outlook.
II is with the greatest of satisfaction
the ARGUS chronicles that Mr.. Chas.
Dewey has incorporated his commod-
ious ma chinery works, SO long one of
Goldsboro's most prosperous and help
full labor employing industries, and
sons, Messrs. George, Tom and Ernest,
&c
lege graduating classes, and an honor to
Goldsboro, as well. That they have
determined to cast their fortunes with
their home town means greater things
for Goldsboro-means Greater Colds
boro. Success to the new enterprise.
We go forward.
Mr.. Curtis Howell, the elder, who
lives at Stony Hill, just beyond Scots
vile, had a curiosity IN exhibition in
his city today that has got every body
who saw it "stumped' as to what it is
or rather as to the kind of varmint it
is a part of. It is a flat upper part of
the head of some unknown living OBJ
ject, about the size of a frogs mouth,
and completely covered with teeth,
FURNISHED to shining, and looking like
pebbles. or pearls, varying in size from
q pins head to a nail head. It is a
curiosity, all right, and was picked up
by Mr.. Howell on the edge of a blind
ditch on his Stony Hill farm.
The splendidly equipped jewelry
store Of Mr.. r. A. Creech is really one
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business circles, and the public spirit
displayed by this progressive young
business man emiently deserves the