Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-09
LOCAL BRIEFS.
items of Interest in and Around
the CITY.

IL Is Sa1O CnaC Gne lIOSt 1oSG i11oOC
evening seriously affected the straw !
berry crop in the Noun Olive section.
The Goldsboro Fire department will
give an elaborate "Firemans Ball.
Easter week, to raise funds for the
needs of the department..
Miss Hazel Bass, accompanied by
her uncle, Mr.. w. O. Summerlin, lett
this afternoon tor an extended trip
through Georgia, Alabama and MIS-
sissippi.
The contractors Of the Union Passen-
ger Station request us to warn parents
against letting their children tresrass
on the grounds. and to warn ali others
from doing likewise.
The baseball team of the Goldshoro
Graded school went down to New Bern
Saturday and engaged the school team
Of that town in a confess on the dia-
mond. Score IL to 5 in favor of New
Bern.
Through an inadvertence the follow
ing names were left off the Graded
Schoolhonorrollin yesterdays ARGUS:
Julia Mae Switzerland, Fisher Taylor,
George Daughtry and Floyd Hollo-
man.
Mr.. A. NJ. Shrago, the Walnut street
wholesale merchant, who has been on
an extended business trip North, Is at
home again, and reports that the South
is in better shape than the North under
the stress of the panic.
The Wilmington Messenger, formerly
of this city has sus pended publication.
It was run by Messrs. Jackson 81 Bell
as somewhat of a "side line." but the
arm will continue to do a general job
printing business as formerly.
In the Superior Court today the
white man, w. A. Hughey, who made
such a murderous assault with a knife
on Engineer Outlaw at the Water
Works pumping station some weeks
ago, was sentenced to Is months on the
county roads.
The ARGUS is panied to chronicle
that Mrs. Marian, first matron of the
Odd Fellows Orphan Home here, was
called to her home in Fayetteville Sat
urday night by the sudden death Of her
venerable other All her friends
here deeply sympathize with her in
her sorrow.
Some Of the beans in this vicinity
that were ''up' were killed by last
Fridays frost, while others seem to
have escaped. Many of our truckers
and gardeners have plowed up and are
planting again, while some of the more
prudent bean growers had not yet
planted, but are now doing so. They
will be the profit makers when the
crop is marketed.
The Civic Improvement League are
mapping out some very wholesome
work for the immediate physical Int
hygienic Improvement of the city
among which the court house grounds
will come in for much needed and ex'
tensive betterment. There is nothing
more calculated to have general in
duence for the betterment of the ma
terial beauty Of the city than a publ
WPAE1ICO S1FAO Improvement 6O0& 0Os
There is one thing now, with all 1t
recent and encouraging requirements
that Goldsboro especially needs, AM
that she is especially qualified to fur
nish and sustain of herself-and tina
Is a boy cornet band. We have tn
boys and they have the talent and tn
spirit to succeed. All that is neede'
is organization and encouragement
Who will take the initiative? Let
have a G~oldsboro Boy Band.
The sudden death of Mr.. E. W. Kerr
Of Clinton, Tuesday, of heart failure
while purchasing a ticket for Burgaw
where he was booked for a prohibition
speech, was heard of with real sorroy
in this city, where he was we'll know.
and highly esteemed. He was
brother Of Mrs. L. D. Gulley, of thi
city. He was aged "a and was a lead
ing citizen of Sampson county, whic
he had represented in the State Senat
for several terms. He was a prominen
lawyer and excellent citizen. He wa
educated at Davidson College and rea
law under the late Senator Vance. A
the breaking out of the war he volun
teered his services to his country an
was a gallant soldier throughout TIA
struggle. He leaves q widow, thre
sons, and one daughter.
The ARGUS man was introduced thi
morning, in the substantial wholesal
house of Mr.. A. M. Shrago, to Mr.. :
T. Bartlett, representing Messrs. Wis
Rros. of New York. Wholesale i0hl,er