Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-09-11
LOCAL Blitkfh
items OF Interest in and around tie
City.

items OF Interest in and Around tns
We are glad to see on tie streets
today Mr.. Leon B. Humphrey after his
recent spell of fever.
A gas plant for Go1dsboro is next
in order; and all the indications are
that its early consummation is a GER
tainty.
The oyster crop, according to sta
tist...s, is profile ore. A:se 1t has
the advantage of not being troubled
with the boil Weevil.
Cotton is beginning to come in
daily now, and it is safe to say that
the fall trade is open. Let us have
your advertisements.
1t is a busy scene around the
Goldsboro Graded School these days,
getting everything in readiness for
next Mondays opening of the school.
The Argus is glad to chrenicle
continued Improvement today in the
condition of Capt. w. L. Morris, al
though he is still in critical condi-
ton.
Miss EuIa Ormond, seriously i'll
with compound pleurisy, is not so
well today as she was yesterday, all
Argus readers will be grieved to
know.
1t will be gratifying to his hosts
of friends hereabouts to learn that
Col. I. F. Dortch is again on the up
grade, and certainly are we all hope
full for his early and complete recov-
cry.
1t is a pleasure to his many old
friends here to see in the city Mr..
Frank Grantham, though they regret
greatly to see him permanently on
crutches, as the result of the accident
to his leg, before noted in The Argus,
from which he was so long confined in
a Charlotte hospital. He is on visit
to his brother, Mr.. John M. Grantham.
There were fine breaks" of to-
bacco on this market today. and the
quality of much of the leaf being bet
ter than heretofore thus far this sea-
son, the prices, accordingly, were
better and altogether satisfactory
There is on question that Goldsboro
is the best tobacco market in Eastern
North Carolina, and the best cotton
market in the State.
We observe that most newly &C
quired citizens to Goldsboro come
round early and subscribe to The
Daily Argus, while there are scores OF
native citizens who have for quarter
of a century failed to have theil
names enrolled on it's subscription
although they have managed
to borrow" it consistently. Don't be
a borrower nor lender of The Argus
The many friends OF Mrs. Margar
ret Etheridge throughout this county
and section will be gratif1ed to learI
that she has successfully undergone
a serious operation in Richmond fol
abdominal tumor, and is now on the
high road to complete recovery. Hel
son, our young friend and toWnsman
Mr.. T. C. Etheridge, of the brokerage
firm of Dixon G. Etheridge, who wa:
constantly with her for two weeks
during the crucial ordeal, returned tC
the city this morning, bringing tht
above happy report.
Friends in this city-in fact, thu
whole community, will learn with un
feigned regret of the death of Rev
C. L. Hoffman, at one time rector o
st. Stephens Church in this city, ant
a preacher of eloquence and force
OF late years Mr.. Hoffman had been il
with tuberculosis and had been livin,
at Carlsbad, New Mexico, where hi
demise occurred Friday morning
aged forty-seven years. He was ma
tive of Lincoln county, and leaves
wife, one son and two daughters. TIL
remains were inferred in Carlsbad
the deceased having requested that b