Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-08-20
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of IN crest in and Around
the CITY.

Mr.. Jno. G.. Slocumb, who has been
with the Atlantic Coast Line at Will
mington, has been transferred to Penn
broke.
Mrs. P. V. Bumgardner, of Elliott, is
in the city, on a visit to her daughter,
Mrs. H. M. Humphrey at 409 N. James
Street.
Mr.. Ben Camper, n of Goldsboro's
contingent of popular travelling men,
is spending a few days at his home in
this city.
There were fine tobacc o breaks to-
day in this city at all three ofour sales
warehouses. Goldsboro as a tobacco
marker is in the lead.
Superior Court convenes in this city
next Monday for both a criminal and
civil term, and with full dockets OF
both natures awaiting disposal.
Mr.. Geo. A. Norwood, Jr., president
of the Goldsboro National Bank, is
confined to his home by fever, which
his hosts of friends hope will be of brief
duration.
A Baraoa Glass has been organized
at ST. John NJ. e. church., with Mr..
Walter Wrenn as teacher, and the
membership to same is extended to
all young men desiring to join.
The spur track OF the Southern into
the new Union Station is looming
right along" and will be there by the
time the station is ready for the SER
vice Of the public. We go forward.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sol We'll and daughter
Miss Helen are now in New York, and
in a few days will sail for Europe to be
absent for several weeks. Their friends
here, who are all our people, wish them
a safe and enjoyable trip.
The store occupied by Mr.. George
Farfsur, and owned by Mr.. Frank
Bizzell, on East Centre Street, is re-
rsiving a handsome new Eplats-glass
front-an evidence of improvement in
business. W. 20 forward.
Friends in this city have received
Invitations to the marriage of DR.. Percy
l.. DArO0H u TIL OO1dbDOtO DOy y
Miss Sallie Geneva Britt. The happy
event to take place August twenty
fifth at the brides home in Newton
Grove.
Prof. Thomas Edgerton, OF Atlanta,
Ga, an cid Wayne county boy, and
holding a wide circle of friends among
our people, is on a visit to his "native
heath, and is in the city today, the
guest OF his nephew Mr.. Alex Edger-
ton.
Mr. Fred r. Mintz, editor of the Mt.
Olive Tribune, who is just taking on a
"side line as a partner in a new gents
furnishing store for his town, was in
the city to-day. Of course Fred will
prove a liberal advertiser in the Tri-
bune.
The death of DR.. Julia A. Smith, OF
Durham, is reported today, and it will
be learned of with sincere regret in
this city, where he had q hest of friends
in the days of yore, whom he was a
clerk in the drug store of the late Drs.
Miller q Kirby, some 80 years age.
Mr.. Geo. G.. Royal, of the furniture
firm of Royal & Borden, who has been
attending the meeting of furniture mon !
of this and adjoining States in Char
1ette this week, of which association
he was electeds chairman of the Exc
eutive Committee, returned home last
night.
The Bar of North Carolina-the judi
eiary-the State have alike suffered
an irrsparable loss in the death of
Judge Fred Moore, of Asheville, re-
ported elsewhere in this issue. He had
lots of admiring friends in this city
and section, as all over the State, who
will be deeply distressed at the sad in
~tslligsnes.
The ARGUS is not ~conversant with
roadbeds and rolling stock and the
general all. round accoutrement of rail-
roads, but it will stand by the report
and the contention of Mr.. Charles
Dewey as to the A. & N. G.. railroad,
reported elsewhere in this ISSUE. He
is the most capable man in the State,
and he will see to it that her interests
are duly regarded under the lease con-
tract.
The death of Mr.. VIM. r. Perkins,
Of the Pleasant Grove n~eighborhood,
near Pikeville, Sunday, removes an
old and respected landmark of that
section; a man Of Industrious, blame
less life and answering in adherence
to his convictions. He lived quietly on
his fine farm, serving Gcd and his
neighbors with exemplary cheerfulness