Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-07-30
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest in and Around
the City.

equality before quantity doesn't a
apply to votes. :
A dog house usually suggests a rough :
house to a tramp. =
Keep your eyes on the dog star.
When it rises to view dog days are
with US again. I
.sWhy such a tuss?" asks the Spo-
kane SDokesman-Review. Why, TINS
i +bev wear when we elect a President.
.sWho has the predatory wealthy
asks the Philadelphia Ledger. You
are welcome to look through our
clothes.
The Towec Of Babel was the h1St
skyscaper in history, but~the records
lack definite figures. 1t may be already
o~yertopped in New York.
Nj. A. l.. Joseph, the popular and
progressive haberdasher, is just back
from a purchasing trip to the Northern
centers OF fashion and is now receiving
and displaying-as usual-what1s pro-
ner and seasonable in gentlemen's
wear.
Mrs. Joe w. Gardner, one OF the
most beloved young women OF Sauls-
ton township, a neice by marriage of
Mr.. Walter M. Gardner, is critically
ILL at the home OF her young ~husband,
and the whole community are greatly
distressed at her alarming condition.
Mr.. I. J. Kelly, the father of Mr.. j..
e. Kell, of our county legislative ticket,
died at his home in Mt. olive yester-
day, after a long Illness" Ike Kelly
was a man widely known and universal
Iy popular and his death will be sim
cerely regretted. The funeral was
held at Mt. Olive this morning.
Miss Mabel Hughes, the very eff
fcient superintendent nurse Of the
Goldsboro Hospital, left this morning
to iein a party Of friends for a pleasure
trip through Canada and the Great
Lakes country. Size deserves tho Well
earned vacation and all her friends
wish she may enjoy it to the fullest.
1t is now claimed by these latter day
germ experts that death bacilli lurk II
cracked china. If this theory can be
established under the ~statute,' ano
the constitutionaIity OF said statute bt
sustained by the Supreme Court, why
could not the careless servant wh'
fractures a China tea cup be indicted
for attempted homicide?
Mr.. j. L. Peterson, chairman Of tn
road s~upervisions OF Go1dsborO town
ship, requests every magistrate in Thu
township to attend a meeting III tn
grand jury room in the court hous
next Saturday at IL o'clock. The l
overseers are required to be presen
with their reports made out in detail
as to the condition of their roads. Th
law requires this.
Something that GoIdsboro has lon
needed in the way Of healthful read
exercise and pleasant pastime is nov
at hand in the up-to-date Bowlin
Alley just opened under the Messenge
Opera House, where on Wednesda
and Thursday afternoons and evening
from ) to 6 o'clock and from 1880
$50 ladies will nave he exclusiy
privilege OF the alley.
The reports from all sections of til
county and district are most eheerir
as to the crops. We nave bumper
crops, in fact, all over the countr.
Whether due to the nomination of Ia
or to the certainty of Bryan's electic
in November we cannot say. But tt
fact remains, that the reduction in tt
- .o:-l@ @-.- ~oao ~
rily on, and by November there W
not be one in the country.
The High School Magazine has bee
turned out by the ARGUS press. TIL
number is the most attractive issue
during the year, and as it contains g
papers read at the closing exercises,
makes a most pleasing souvenir
commencement. The business ma
ager, Mr.. George Freeman, informs
that he has on hand a few extra copi
which, if any friends of he school d
sire, may be had by communicate
with him.
Mr.. W. Frank English, OF Mou:
Olive, vas in the city Monday attendil
the meeting of the County Board
Education, of which he is a valu
member, and he reported to the ARG
man that his section has the fin
crops ever known in that always fl
farming territory: that the avera
yield of corn anticipated for this fall
from 6 to Is barrels to the acre; al
tina Mr.. Ben Switzerland has a
acre field in cotton that will.yield fro