Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-01-16
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest in and Around
the City.

OAAOA a SPOhASO
going right up. We go forward.
a week old have a good
start for the year. Just stick to them
and they will grow stronger as the days
pass by.
Truckers in his vicinity are busy
getting their ground ready for planting
peas, and already are getting into a
hopeful and speculative mood.
MI. Leonard Edwards has just re-
turned from a business trip to the
West and Mr.. Asher Edwards is now
in the West on a similar mission.
The condition of Mr.. Outlaw, the
stabbed man at this city's power plant,
is more hopeful today, which is graft
flying intelligence to the entire COM
munity.
The boys of the High School are at
work on a base ball team and hope to
join the State High School League in
the near future. They deserve the
credit Of everybody.
The stock-the live stock trade of
this city is now fully open and readers
of the weekly edition of the ARGUS can
find full information as to where to go
for mules and horses.
Mr.. Jos. Edwards and son, Mr.. Ma
than, and Mr.. Asher Edwards, who
have been west making purchases Of
stock for their respective sale stables
in this city, returned home this after
noon.
Every day now witnesses throngs OF
farmers IN our city making purchases
of supplies preparatory for beginning
farming operations. Go1dsboro well
comes them and is grateful for their
patronage.
Mr.. Jno. L. Borden, president of the
Goldsboro Furniture Company, and of
the firm of Royal & Borden, is on a
business trip to Chicago and other
great Western trade centres with which
they do business.
Goldsboro has a new business enter
prise, and it is something our city
needs-a marble yard. 1t is just get
ting in shape and will let ARGUS read
ment at an early date.
Mr.. Fred Ward, an old Goldsboro
boy, but for many years associated
with the furniture business in Nor
folk, has returned to he city, and tax
en- a position with his former employer
here, Mr.. Jos. Isaacs.
Sam Darden the old colored man you
have seen sitting around the ware
house so long, and an old family dar-
key Of Mr.. T. I. Sutton, passed away
very quietly today at noon. The old
darkey has lived with Mr.. Sutton for
many years.
Mr.. r. A. Creech, the popular West
Centre street jeweler, is sending out
some of the handsomest calendars of
the season-real works of art that are
an ornament as well as a convenience.
The ARGUS acknowledges the courtesy
of a remem brance from MI. Creech.
Mr.. D. II. Graves has returned to
GuS CITY at "
banquet spread at Selma Thursday
night by Mr.. n. G. Winston, president
of the Bank and of the Cotton Mill and
the Knitting Mill of that town, COM
plimentary to the Boards of directors
of the several industrial enterprises of
his town, with which Mr.. Graves is
associated. It is said to have been an
occasion of great enjoyment for all who
participated and very inspiring for the
future prog ress of the town.
The sudden death of Mrs. L. H.
Jones, beloved wife of Mr.. L.. H.
Jones, ot H. We'll & Bros, brickyard,
occurred at their home in this city his
morning about 1920 O'Clock, while she
was engaged 0 her household
duties. Heart disease is supposed to
be the cause. She is survived by her
devoted husband and two daughters,
Mrs. Jno. Whitley, of this city, and
Mrs. Oscar Shipp, of Mebane. She
was a most excellent woman and her
death will be deeply deplored.
Good public highways are theegreat
civilizers because they bring the high
est reward for the efforts of the people
who enjoy them. Good roads are al
ways the forerunner of better schools
and churches, better vehicles and stock,
better farm buildings, better farm
methods and higher farm values and
other evidence of rural ~af1uence. And
as a counter fact these things rarely
come to pass in rural sections where
poor roads prevail. It is up to Colds
bore to set our rural territory an ex-