Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-05-28
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest in and Around
the Civ.
the CITY.

ton IN GOldSDOrO on June Il.
The plans for the Goldsboro and
County High School are now in the
hands of competing builders for con-
Struction estimates. We go forward.
Miss Annie Lamb, who has been a
patient in the Goldsboro hospital for
some weeks. returned to her home in
Wilmington this afternoon, GONZALES
cent.
A fve-thousand-doIlar touring car
with a ~one-horse engine will make
better time than a hundred thousand
dollar business with a ~ne-horse adj
vertising policy.
Misses Grace Southerland and Wv
ian Wooten have opened a dancing
school in the Edgerton Building, 3Id
floor, which is cool and airy and where
pupils have all the privacy desired.
Miss Mary SIocumb, who has a
position as stenographer with Mr..
John D.. Langston, at Mt. Olive, came
up this morning to spend Sunday
with her parents Capt. and Mrs. I. W.
Slocumb.
Miss Kate w. Lewis,a popular mem
Der of the faculty of the Goldsboro
Graded School, left this morning on
the Southern for her home in Danville,
Va, much to the regret of her many
friends here.
Miss Theresa Cox, stenographer and
typewriter of the Rice Mill Company,
is on a visit to her school friend Miss
raham in Lexington, S. c.. While
away her place here is being supplied
by her sister Miss Annie Cox, of New
son Grove.
AS warm weather is coming on, and
things sanitary should be we'll looked
after, so disease may be kept IN its
proper place, we would suggest that
the proper authorities keep an eye on
the corners where hacks are allowed to
stand. The corner of Walnut and
East Centre streets is getting rather
obnoxious to passers by.
Have you seen them-the baseball
suits to be worn by the winning team
AL Jill S0dSOh . EdotC1h iOoS u0 O"Ai
paign? They are on exhibition in MIR.
A. A. Joseph's window, under the
Hotel Kennon, and bear across their
front in bold blue letters ''Goldsboro.'
That's the stuff Go by the name and
bet your money accordingly-GOLDS-
BORO! Play ball!
At a regular meeting of Co. E. of
Goldsboro's military last night, Mr.. E.
G.. Prince was elected 1st Lieut.. to
succeed Mr.. J. T. Dortch, who has re-
Gently been commissioned Adjutant of
the battalion, and Mr.. j. Leon Will
Iiams was elected End Lieut.. The
boys are taking great interest in their
coming trip and manoeuvres at Fort
Caswell in the coast defense drill.
Byla change in the schedule of the
Sunday trains on the Norfolk & South
ern, the morning train for Morehead
leaves here tomorrow morning at Z
O'Clock, instead OF 8 o'clock as former
ly, and the afternoon train leaves at
s:35 instead of 4 o'clock. Passengers
for Morehead should govern them
selves accordingly. DOM get left.
Train leaves at z o'clock tomorrow
morning!
Go1dsboro will be well represented
in the graduating class OF the State
Normal at Greensboro, whose COM
meneement exercises open at hat in
stitution with tomorrow's sermon and
conclude Tuesday. The young lady
graduates from Goldsboro his year are:
Miss Hattie Griffin, daughter of Mr..
w. II. Griffin; Miss Nettie Brogden,
daughter Of Mr.. NJ. e. Brogden; Miss
Dora Snipes, daughter of Mr.. Ton
Snipes; Miss Eliza Stevens, daughter
of Sheriff E. A. Stevens. Since the
college was founded, sixteen years ago,
Wayne county has furnished ninety
two graduates to this splendid institu-
ton and this year Wayne county has
a larger number of students in the col
1ege than any other county in the State
except Guilford, which is slightly in
the lead of Wayne.
As noted in the ARGUS some days
ago., the Grand Lodge I. o. O. F. in
session last week adopted the recon-
mendation of the committee to erect
an assembly hall N dorm1tory at the
orders State Home here to be known
as the jacob Memorial Building, in
honor of the hallowed memory of that
splendid Odd Fellow and father of the
Home, the late Nathaniel jacob, of
Wilmington. His W. fine sons gave
each $500 to the fund, and 1t was de-
terminsd to ask of every Odd Fellow
in the State-sixteen thousand in all