Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-07-31
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest in and Around

Items or Interest In ana ATounu
the City
Are you looking for a good time!
You will find it at the Lawn Carnival
Tuesday night on the Court House
Green.
Tobacco continues to roll in upon
country carts, to be graded for next
weeks opening of our sales ware
houses.
1t is strange how often near-beer
is mentioned in connection with whis-
KEY, cocktails, gin-lzzes and other
bad company.
Next Monday will be first Mon
day." on which the board of county
commissioners will meet, and in the
evening the board of city alderman.
The wrecked bridge of the A. G.
L. at Neuse river has been sufficiently
repaired to permit of trains crossing
again, beginning tomorrow morning.
A man can stand up in a pulpit
and preach all day about the best way
to reach heaven, but the man who
goes out into the streets and helps his
fellow man has already found it.
The State Sunday School conven-
ton of our colored Baptist brethren
will hold forth in Goldsboro next
week, opening Monday evening. They
will be accorded cordial welcome
to our city.
The Argus. in common with their
hosts of friends here, welcome cor
daily and with all good wishes Mr..
and Mrs. E. w. Moye home from their
honeymoon. They are boarding with
Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Bizzell.
Next week, beginning Monday
and continuing until Saturday, will
be Teachers Institute week in Colds
boro, when all the public school
teachers of the county will be in ses-
sion at the Court House every day
under competent instructors.
Judge w. r. Allen is in the city
for his summer vacation, and will be
the presiding judge at the coming
term of August Superior Court. This
will be the second time Judge Allen
has presided in his home town at
court since he was last elected to the
bench.
Those Goldsboreans who are con-
sidering taking a summer vacation
and "roughing it," should get them
selves in condition by taking trip
over the streets of Goldsboro before
that one hundred and fifty thousand
dollar bond issue for street improve
ments goes into physical effect.
Mr.. Wright Lynch, who recently
moved with his family to this city, is
preparing to erect a considerable
sawmill plant on Neuse river near the
site of old Waynesboro, and, besides
holding already considerable standing
timber contiguous to the river in its
meanderings, is on the market for
standing timber Of all kinds.
Next week the drive in" with
which the approaching tobacco carts
of the farmers are hailed by compet-
ing warehouse employees will make
the welkin ring, for our warehouses
will then be i'll full blast and the gol-
den leaf of commerce will be on the
market. Goldsboro expects to lead
eastern North Carolina as a tobacco
market this year.
We were shown today by Master
nf
boro Messenger of November 20, 1884,
printed in small form on a job press,
giving an account of the great No
vember fire of that date, which de-
stroyed the Messenger plant in its
devastations. 1t was familiar sheet
to us, for we Were>on its staff at that
time, and had our law Office and fine
library in it's building, and lost all
with no insurance.
Trains of the A. C. L. are again
running regularly between this city
and Wilmington, the first train hav-
ing crossed the repaired bridge at
Neuse river last night. The repair
of this bridge, which was one Of the
worst wrecks in the history of this
division of the A. c. L., so speedily.
and the care in the meantime which
the company gave to the transfer OF
passengers at the wreck, deserves the
highest commendation, and The Argus
is most cordial in giving expression
thereto.
is there an economic subject OF
popular national interest in the dis
cussion of which all the publishers
and editors of the country may agree
We think there is-good roads. But
now we have the New York Herald
and Atlanta Journal conducting ar
automobile contest run between the
two cities in the interests Of theil
readers, who are directly interested
in the country roads between New