Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-09-24
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest in and Around
the City.

the City.
IAN advertisementin the ARGUS al.
~waysihrings results. Try it.
The price of cotton is tending up
ward, as the quality of the staple i'm
proves.
The big Cole Brothers circus is now
definitely advertised to be in Colds
boro on Thursday, Ostsbers. Hardly
a month off. Get ready-everybody-
for the show.
It will be a real pleasure to theatre
goers of his city to learn that their
prime favorite-the brilliant young
aeter Mr.. James Young, whom they
have not had the opportunity OF seeing
in several years, is dated to appear
here on October Sd in Brown OF Har-
ward"
The tobacco sales on the G%oldsboro
market thus far this easen have al
ready reached what our most sanguine
promoters of the market had hoped for
in the aggregate for the entire season.
Thus it is that Goldsboro has asserted
its supremacy as the best tobacco mar
kst in the State.
The electrical fixtures which the
government appropriated for the ad-
m of the exterior Of the post
office, were, as noted in these columns
at the time, received some weeks ago
and are now being placed in position.
With the entrances brightly illuminat-
ed, not only will the attractiveness OF
the building be enhanced, but espsc-
tally will the convenience of the pub
lie be subserved.
A colored man by the name of Moys,
q brak sman on the Norfolk Southern
Railroad, broke into q box car en- the
yard of the above Rad in this city
Thursday night and stole thirteen
pairs of shoes. He packed b shoes
in his grip and took them with him on
the freight train Friday morning,
where they were found by some of the
train crew. Meye vas arrested and
turned over to the authorities in New
Bern and placed in Jail.
Another Goldsboro genius has come
to the front. This time it is MIR. John
w. Isler, who has invented, patented,
and is now having manufactured right
here il Geldsboro, q cheese cutter that
all merchants who have seen it say is
the most simple yet the most perfect
on the market. In fast, it il SO &C.
curats and SO easy OF operation as to
leave nothing to be improved on, and
no retail grocer will be without enc in
all this land when h0 is given the op-
portunity of purchasing one.
The sale of the East G~oldsbore prop
erty last week, through Mr.. w. J. Glib
son, to Mr.. E. T. oliver, of the Colds
boro Traction Company, who nave the
franchise for the street railway, has
brought other property in that vicinity
int demand. and yesterday MI. n. e.
Bradford sold to Mr.. Marion A. Pea
cock the w. H. Ovsrman tract, ad-
joining East G~oldsboro, containing 2e
acres, the purchase price being $3,075,
IL i . " AOGo LII Gh0
OF East Goldsbore, from Mr.. A. M.
Pate, for q handsome consideration.
We GO forward.
Mr.. Will Bell, a young white man
about % years of age fagman and sx-
ira conductor on the Norfolk & South
~orn railroad, met with q serious acct
dent at Core Greek Friday morning.
He was riding IN b front of the On
egine i'll order that he might jump of
quick and attend to his duties. When
he arrived at the above station he
jumped off and his foot got caught in
some manner and his angle was badly
crushed and part OF his foot cut off.
He was TAX en- to New Bern and placed
in the hospital. Young Bell has many
admiring friends in this city, where he
is we'll known. who will indeed be
sorry to learn of his mishap.
MARTIN OUTLAW