Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-08-13
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items Of Interest in and Around
the CITY.

Telephone patrons are requested to
add to their lists No. 186, Acme Fuel
Company. {
The cotton crop is declining rapidly
ON all light lands. It is thought that
new cotton will be picked in August
this year which is sooner than known
for many years.
Fodder pulling season is at hand,
but the recent rains and heavy winds
have played sad havoc with this species
of farm forage as we'll, and armers say
that much of it is not worth the pulling.
Yes. Goldsboro is a eity-in all but
street ears. We now have automobiles
galore. Two new and very handsome
cars were added to the quota yester-
day. These are owned by Messrs. F.
K. and f. B. Borden, Jr.
The suppression of dogs that have
no other visible occupation than howl
ing at the moon nightly would be a
step in the direction of the City Beau
tiful from the standpsipt of the hum
drsds of human sufferers.
Tobacco ''breaks' are growing In
volum at our three warehouses daily,
and will continue to grow as the season
advances. Goldsboroisn now thoroughly
established in the convictions of the
armer as the best tobacco market in
the East.
Dr.. n. L. Bryan, the dentist, with
- ~ GA Eollor-eyRujJd
ing, has just installed one of the latest
and handsome est electrioaloperative OUT
fits, tina now complete the up-te-date
furnishing OF his airy and convenient
apartments.
Tbs flowers planted by the ladies Of
the Village improvement Society on
the Court House square are certainly .
great improvement. Now If the square
In nicely moved and the trees prunsd
We will have a beautiful square Whsn
August court is held.
Another honor has come to Colds
boro, won on the merit of her superb
military contingent. Capt. j. Wash.
Bizzell, commandant of Company E,
has been appointed to go to Camp
Perry as soaohin the coming national
target contest. That's the G~eldsboro
way.
A Southern city Of 10, 900 inhabitants
July is Incredible.
That is Goldsboro's record for the
month just closed. Can any city in
corresponding latitude-or at all-beat
it? We think not. We've got the
Best Town in the State.
Weeds in cities are not only a land
scaps bIemish, bat they are harbors for
mosquitoes, and mosquitoes are apt to
create malarial diseases. No weed
should be lett standing within the city's
bounds. This is the way to secure
public beauty. There are tons of weeds
standing today on vacant lots, and
even along The sidewalks in the streets.
Mrs. Isaac Cox, q most estimab1s
country oman, who brings country
produce to town to sell, and who il
widely known and esteemed, had the
misfortune to lose two fine mileh COWS
and calves this week by hydrophobia.
They we're bitten by a worthless rab1d
dog and had to be killed. They were
worth all the dogs in the State com-
binsd.
DIR. Roger A. Smith has returned to
the city from one of his hunt
ing trips to Cartaret county. On this
trip he and his party succeeded in
downing a large buck and a fine doe;
and he brought back, too, the antlsrs
of the large buck he killed on his last
trip at the closing of the season last
fall, an account of which appeared in
the ARGUS at the time.
The steam roller, that is at work on
the eastern nights of Walnut street and
on Slocumb street, proved toe heavy
fer the superisially hidden water pipe
leading from the main to one Of the
residences in that vicinity yesterday
afternoon and the pipe burst, causing
csnsiderab bic eommotion Whereabouts.
The mains had to be shut off for sew
oral hours while the damage was being
repaired.
AS quite q goodly number Of citizens
pedestrians en- route from and to
their homes or other business-make
short outs through the courthouse
square, they have occasion to witness
it's unsightly and u~nsanitary condi-
ton. AS this square is under the
supervision ofthe county and the county
has a bevy of convicts doing time, why
not let this aggregation put the ''court
Yard''i in ordar-and then keen it in