Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-03-12
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest In and Around
the CITY.
the CITY.

Spring time is certainly making an
effort to assert itself.
rivers h~ereabouts but the supply on
the market is still sufficiently meagre
to keep the price way up"
Mr.. Fl. B. Ring, an experienced
Pharmacist, has taken a position with
Higgins Drug Co., and will preside
over the Prescription department.
The new superintendent of the
Goidsboro Knitting Mill, Mr.. W. H.
Roe, of vineland, N T., has arrived.
and the mill will resume operation at
IN early day, rs soon as competent
eperativ yes can be secured. We 90 for
ward.
Col. w. B. Fort, of Pikeville, was in
the city today, completing his princely
gift to the Pikeville High School of a
tour acre site in the most desirable sec
fion of that town. He duly executed n
deed to the property today to the Coun-
" Board of Education.
Really, we had no idea so many peo-
pie were just visiting tor a suggestion
about the delay in regerd to the con-
structlon of the Goldsboro High School.
The whole community is wondering
why the Trustees do not have the con-
strtction work to begin.
Dr.. w. H. Cobb, Jr., returned this
afternoon from Richmond, and brings
the gratifying INFORMATION that Mrs.
w. IL. Goodwin was operated pom yes
terday, N St. Lnke's Hospital, and
with entire satisfaction, and a telegram
from MIR. Goodwin this afternoon says
she is doing nicely to-day.
Mr., W. &. Holstein, who operates a
linotype in the printing house of Nash
Bros. in this city, was married yester-
day TO Miss Lillian Keel, of the Wilson
Times business office, where Mr.. Hol
stein formerly worked. The ARGUS
tenders its cordial good wishes to the
happy couple, that they may eve be
SO and prosperous.
III ~ id1IdiCJ a given III
order tor the removal of the small
brick structure adjoining the Law
Blilding on Walnut street, and he will
erect or the property a modern three
story brick structure, corresponding
in length md height with his Law
Building, aud hich when completed
will add greatly TO hat street as a bus
mess cent:c. We go forward.
The Go !shoro Hospital is to be con-
graduated over the result of last nights
meeting OF the Hospital Trustees and
the Physicians of the city in conference
whereby the entire complement of city
physicians were elected by the Board
OF Trustees as the Medical Staff Of the
Hospital, with Drs. w. H. H. Cobb, M
+ Robinson and r .E. Lee as supervisors
Of the medical and surgical supplies Of
the institution, and DR.. W. H. H. Cohb
as Chief Of STAFF.
The cotton buyers of Go1dsboro, who
are all, we are glad to say, congen-
ial friends, though brisk competitors
FIR business when bales of cotton are
on the market, were in league with
Mrs. Frank Bizzell last nightin spring
ing a pleasant surprise on Mr.. Bizzell,
one of their number. He was fifty
years old yesterday, and wi@hout his
knowledge Mrs. Bizzell had prepared
nm elegant birthday Dime and, on the
quiet, had invited his associates Of the
cotton exchange to be their guests at
the banquet, and as the gentlemen ar
rived, at intervals, Mr.. Bizzell was
taken completely by surprises; but nc
one enjoyed the festive occasion more
than he.