Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-05-07
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest In and Around
the City.

This means that the whole county will
be here to zeal him.
DR.. w. II. Smith is at home from his
professional duties in Philadelphia, on
account of the serious illness of his lit
tie son, as already noted in the ARGUS.
The Goldsboro Bar held a meeting in
the Clerks offic e this morning and set
the civil docket for the special two
weeks term Of Superior Court ordered
f,r Wayne county opening June l..
The many friends of Rev. and Mrs.
W. P. Constable will be pleased tolearn
that Mrs. Constable, who is an opera
tive patient in the Kinston hospital,
has safely passed through the ordeal
and is doing nicely.
A last Wayne county has fnaugur-
ated the steel bridge movement. The
Board of County Commissioner today
awarded a contract for two Of minor
impOrtance-tO he followed, let us
hope,by river bridges of like nature.
The fnest-the largest chicken eggs
we have ever seen were exhibited in
this office yesterday by Mr.. w. H.
Goodwin, from chickens raised by Mrs.
Goodwin, at their spacious premises on
East Centre street, south. There were
q dozen of them, and weighed 81 ozs.
DR.. w. K. Lane has moved his office
into a handsome suit recently fitted
up for him adjoining the Lane Drug
Company's spacious and we'll equip
ped new drug store near the p~ostoffice.
on John street. The ARGUS extends
.,esI wishes to the new enterprise.
uas a real pleasure to all of us to
s+.e Mr. JAS. w. Thompson, our efficient
AMI universally popular county treas
urer. AT his Office again, tor the first
time since his recent extreme illness
Of pneumonia. He is on the upgrade
now, and will soon be his old self
again.
The Democratic Executive Commit
tee of the county met in this city Mon
day, in Chairman Dickenson's office,
and called the township primaries for
May 10, and the county convention for
Play %. This is for the election ofdel
egates to the State and congressional
entions only.
That G~oldsboro's popular and health
giving beverage, peerless Punch-I-
Neilo, is pushing its votaries in other
towns uD INTO the realms of poetry and
the rari1ed atmosphere of the spiritual
is conclusively evidenced by the poem
published elsewhere in this issue, from
the pen of q rising young lawyer of
Mt. Olive.
Mrs. Sol We'll. representing the Lii
brary Extension. Mrs. Gertrude We'll,
general secretary of the Federation,
and Miss Ida Tomlinson and Mrs. G..
B. Miller, delegates from the Goldsboro
woman's Club, left this afternoon tor
Greensboro to attend the State conven-
ton OF Woman's Clubs. It will thus
be seer that Goldsboro will be admir-
ably represented in this annual gath
ering of the progressive womanhood OF
the State.
The death of Miss Cherry Edwards,
only sister of Mr.. Jno. w. Edwards,
and a most estimable Christian Wo-
man, occurred Sunday pm. at 10 O'Clock,
after a painful illness of several weeks.
patiently borne. Miss Edwards was
Al years of age, and devoted her life tc
the care and companionship OF her ven.
cradle mother, who preceded her to the
grave several years ago. The tunera
was he Id Monday afternoon at 4 O'Clock
from St. John M. E. Church, of which
she was a member.
The death of Rev. John T. Brogden,
"a years old, at one time a preacher in
the Methodist conference, and a mar
of the highest integrity, occurred at hi
home on West Spruce street, in this
city, Thursday night, and the funera
was held from st. Paul church, Frida.
afternoon at 8 O'Clock, conducted by
Rev. J. M. Carraway, Of the Goldsbort
circuit, and the interment was made il
Willow Dale cemetery. Deceased HAD
been in feeble health for many months
and the found him with hi
lamp trimmed and burning.
The street hands are now at worl
along William street in the vicinity o
the court house laying the stone curb
ing that has so long been needed Their
to reclaim the sidewalk from the con
slant washings that come down upo1
it from the court square with ever.
heavy rain. It is to be hoped that tn
Civic Improvement League, that hav
~A4reased designs upon the reclaim