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Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07
FOR GOOD ROADS.
Four Hundred Dollars in Prizes to Be
Given in the South.

The Manufacturers Record offers,
for the encouragement of the move
ment for improved highways in the
South, three money prizes, aggregat-
ing four hundred dollars, in a compe-
tition for the best three articles sug-
costing the most effective plan for
giving the South a system of public
highways suited to it's needs.
The prizes are:
Two hundred and fifty dollars for
the best article.
One hundred dollars for the second
best article.
Fifty dollars for the third best arti-
Gle.
Competition is free to everyone who
reads this announcement, upon the
following conditions:
No article must contain less than
5000 words or more than 5000 words.
No article must bear the name of
it's author, but each article sent must
be signed nom dep1ume and enclosed
bearing the nome de plume on it's out
side and enclosing the real name and
address of it's author. The small en-
velopes will not be opened until the
winning articles have been selected.
All articles must be addressed, Ed
itor Good-Roads Competition, Manu-
facturers' Record, Baltimore, Nd, y
and must be received not later than
September 20, 1909. No article re-
ceived after that date can be consid-
cred.
Articles not receiving any of the
prizes will be returned to their au-
thors, the Manufacturers Record re-
serving the right, however, to publish
at it's regular space rates to be paid
the author of any such articles availa
BILE for it's purpose.
Judgment in the competition will be
that of the Manufacturers Record
and it will turn upon:
Clearness of expression in the arti-
c1es.
Practical value of suggestions
made.
Importance of the facts brought out
showing the influence of roads upon
material prosperity and social condi-
tions of the South.
This competition is for the purpose
of showing what has been done in the
several fourteen states of the South
under the auspices of state, county or
minor local government, through co
operation of citizens or by individual
effort as indicative of what must be
done in road building to advance the
social and material interests of the
South, and with view to awakening g
Il fuller realization of the need of good
roads and of bringing forth sugges-
tions as to how to secure them.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07
THEY INJURE CHILDREN.
Ordinary Cathartics and Pills and
Harsh Physic Cause Distress
ing Complaints.

You cannot be over-careful in the
selection of medicine for children
Only the very gentlest bowel medi-
cine should ever be given. Ordinary
pills, cathartics and purgatives are
too apt to do more harm than good
They cause gripping, nausea, and 9TH
er distressing after-effects that are
life-lasting annoyance.
We personally recommend and
guarantee Rexall Orderlies as the
safest and most dependable remedy
for constipation and associate bowel
disorders. We have such absolute
faith in the supreme virtues of this
remedy that we sell it on our guar
antee of money back in every in
stance where it fails to give entire
satisfaction, and we urge all in need
of such medicine to try it at our risk
Rexall Orderlies contain an entirely
tasteless and colorless. 1t embraces
all the best qualities of the soothing,
laxative, strengthening and healing
remedial active principles of the best
known intestinal regulator tonics.
Rexall Orderlies are extremely
pleasant to take, are particularly
prompt and agreeable in action, may
be taken at any time, day or night;
do not cause diarrhoea, nausea, grip
ing, excessive looseness, or other un.
desirable effects. They have very
natural action upon the glands and
organs with which they have contact,
upon the relax dry muscular coat of
the bowels, remove irritation, dryness
and soreness, overcome weakness and
tone and strengthen the nerves and
muscles, and restore the bowels and
associate organs to more vigorous and
healthy activity.
Rexa1l Orderlies not only cure con.
stipation, but they remove the cause
of this ailment. They also overcome
the necessity of constantly taking lax
atives to keep the bowels in normal
condition.
There is really no similar medicine
so good as Rexa1l Orderlies, especially
for children, aged and delicate per
sons They are prepared in tablet
form in two sizes of packages; IL
tablets. 10c, and SO tablets, 25c. J. H.
Hill & Son, Cor. East Centre and Wal
nut Streets.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07
OUR TRADE WITH CHINA.

w. w. Rockhill, for many years
minister to China, has recently been
in the United States spending some
time before gong on to his new post
as ambassador to the court of st. Pc
tersburg.
Mr.. kockhil speaks very encour-
agingly OF tE-s situation in China and
feles confident that the regent of the
empire and tie government in general
vii: a1here rigidly to the reforms
promul2a under the authority oil
the recent emperor and the empress
cowager. @HtwsN1fs
There is every reason to believe
that the financial reforms which have
been set on foot will be carried out
and that tie efforts to reduce the
opium curse Will continue until it has
been gradually reduced practically to
the point of extinction.
His most important assurance
however, is IN regard to the cordial
feeling now entertained in China to-
wards foreigners and particularly
Americans. There has been but one
outbreak in China against American
missionaries in a long time, and tho
government promptly gave satisfac-
ton for that,
This cultivation of friendly rela
tons with Ci.na on the part of Amer
Jean CONNER, al interests is a matter
c. supreme Importance. Our trade
IL cotton gods with China is one OF
the most III !.ortant features of our
commerce, aiid while many things
have risen from time to time to
threaten ous Command of that profita-
men as Mr tockhill that we still
stand high i'll favor.
The value OF our trade and COM
merce with China will be materially
increased as soon as the Panama ca
nal is comp!s ted. What it has been
it will be as soon
in the past will prove to have been
but small matter compared to what
it will be as soon as this great water
way brings the Southern states in
more direct touch with the markets of
the Orient.
Leading manufacturers in the South
are concentrating their efforts to cul
tivate these friendly relations with
China, and it is hoped that they will
nave generous support until we have
built up th~ trade to which we are
entitled.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07
BUSINESS CONDITION.
The Tradesman's Review Of Southern
Industries for Past Week.

Chattanooga, Tenn, July 30.-The
Tradesman this week says:
The Southern pig iron market con-
tinues to take on strength the quota
tions increasing and the demand i'm
proving right along. The make is
being steadily improved and some of
the manufacturers are holding off
from business that could be secured
at prevailing prices for delivery dur
ing the last quarter of the year. No.
2 foundry will seek a $13 level before
the expiration of the month. Several
manufacturers are also holding Off
from business for the third quarter of
this year, having already supplied
themselves well. Regular customers
are being protected. The buying for
the last quarter of the year will start
in shortly and the indications are
that every ton of iron that can be
produced will be needed. There is
still strong reduction of stocks on
hand, the bulk of what iron is to be
seen on furnace yards in the Southern
territory belonging to brokers and
spectators. There is no apprehen-
sion that when the latter iron is
placed on the market it will hamper
the general trade any in the least.
The make is to be improved by the
blowing in of furnaces just as soon as
they are finished. Three furnaces at
least will be making iron within the
next fortnight, which are now about
ready for the torch. Repairs are be-
ing made on six furnaces in the
Southern states and before the fall is
we'll on all will be. in operation. The
Tennessee Coal, Iron e Railroad
Company, the largest iron producing
company in the South, is making
preparations to blow in every posi-
BILE furnace it has as soon as the same
can be gotten into shape. Despite the
fact that this company has large
quantities of ore and coke on hand
preparations have been started look
ing to a full resumption of operations
at practically all of the mines of the
company.
The Southern Iron & Steel Compa-
n.y. successor to the Southern Steel
Company, bankrupt, has put the prep
arations for a resumption of opera
tions into full force and it is expected
that by October Is the plants in Ten
nessee, Alabama and Georgia belong
ing to this company will be either in
operation or ready for the torch. The
intentions of consolidating some of
the industries at Gadsden, Ala, the
removal of the steel rod, wire and
nail mills from Ensley being an
nounced, will prove of interest and of
profit to the company. 1t is under
stood that the site at Ensley will be
secured by the Tennessee Company
for an enlargement of the steel plant.
Cast iron pipe concerns throughout
the Southern territory continue to re-
ceive orders for their product, not
withstanding the announcement OF a
dollar per ton increase in price. Ma
chine shops and foundries in this sec
ton are doing better and the business
that is in sight warrants the belief
that there will be great activity
through the balance of the year.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07

Items of Interest in and Around
the City.

j. F. Terrell, of Charlotte, has ac
cepted a position with Crum & Jen
nett.
MIR. Needham Stevens, son Of
Sheriff Stevens, who has been suffer
ing with an attack of appendicitis for
several days, is better today, Inc
Argus is glad to chronicle.
MIR. Hugh Humphrey, of this city,
the well-known and popular justice OF
the peace, has been appointed United
States commissioner for this district
by Judge Connor, an office that he
formerly held and filled with efti-
cheney.
A solid car of watermelons aver
aging forty pounds each, and some OF
them running up as high as rs pounds
shipped by Mr.. w. F. English, 81
Mount Olive-the finest melons ever
Seen hereabouts-passed through this
city yesterday evening routed to New
York.
Rev. ]. H. Frizelle, pastor of st
John M. E. Church, of this city, is a;
home again, from an extended tour OF
the Far West, including a visit to
the Alaska-Yukon Exposition He re-
ports a pleasant, instructive and re-
Operative trip; but found no place
he says, like North Carolina, in all
his travels.
"A painful, but it is hoped not Sc
rious, accident happened to Mr.. b. w
Nash, Jr., a linotype operator to1
Nash Bros, Thursday. While put
ting a belt on a lower pulley, the
belt became entangled with and broke
loose the ceiling pulley, which fell or
his head, cutting several gashes ant
bruising his shoulders. Medical at
tention was given by DR.. W. II. Cobb
who took several stitches in the
wounds.
The colored teachers of the coun
ty, of their own public spirited voll
ton, are holding a teachers institute
here this week, and it is one of th'
largest III dCLonuduc0, anu OAS VI III
best in point of instruction ever hel'
in the county. Which goes to prov
what The Argus has claimed 70
years, that Wayne county has, includ
ing Goldsboro, the best colored peopl
in the world. Sixty teachers are Il
daily attendance at this institute.
1t may not be generally known
but there has been -four famine i
Goldsboro, and in this crisis mar
ried lady living here, whose father
a model farmer of the county, raisin
most everything on the farm that
farmer should raise, including Whea
appealed to him in the dilemma {
her household and he promptly SCI
her a supply of home-ground -four
unadulterated-and now the Who'll
family don't want any other kin
ever. Here's a pointer for Wayn
county farmers who don't gro
wheat.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07
TOTAL TAX LEVY
TO BE SO CENTS
80 Cents For General Fund
and 49 Cents For
Special.
TO TEST VALIDITY OF BONDS
Friendly Suit Will Be Brought by City
AttOrney-MayOr Recommends Ad.
ditiOnal Policeman - Donations
Made to Fire Companies.

The board of aldermen met in reg
or Higgins in the chair. The most
important action taken was the levy
ing of the regular tax of SO cents for
general purposes and special tax Of
49 cents for the improvement bonds,
which makes a total tax of 80 cents.
same as two years ago. The board
also adopted motion to have the city
attorney to bring a friendly suit to
test the validity of the bonds, thus
avoiding any question that may arise
in the future.
The board adopted a motion grant
ing the street committee the privilege
of visiting other towns 60 secure all
necessary information concerning
street paving, at the expense of the
city, and then to advertise for bids
The board donated $50 each to Fire
Company No. 1 and Eclipse Fire Com
pany, and $25 to the Electric Reel.
The chief of police was ordered to
notify the trustees of the Orphan
Home to repair sewer at big ditch at
once.
The revision of the ordinances was
referred to the ordinance committee.
The chairmen of the various COM
mittees were ordered to prepare a
budget of all expenditures and report
to finance committee, said budget te
be passed upon at the next regular
| meeting.
Mayor Higgins recommended an ad
ditional policeman. This was referred
| to the police committee.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07
CHAT ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS.

CHAT ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS.
Miss Louise Miller is in Raleigh,
visiting her aunt. Mrs. ]. M. Mooney
Miss Minnie Slocumb is on visit
to, Mrs. John A Campbell, in Ashe
ville
Miss Evelyn Wrenn, of Petersburg,
Va, is in the city, visiting Miss Claire
Nash.
Mr.. Graves ]. Smith is at hom
again from a sojourn at Hot Springs
N. c.
Miss Annie Powell hase gone to
Black Mountain to join the Goldsboro
colony.
Miss Annie Johnson has gone TO
Dillon and Sumter, S. c., to visit rel
atives.
Miss Mamie Draughn, of Rock:T
Mount, is visiting her cousin, Miss
Dot Griffin.
Miss Elsie Dortch has returnec
from a visit to Miss Delphine Brown
at Winston-Salem.
Mr. Alvin Schwab, of Savannah, is
in the city, and his many friends here
are glad to see him.
Miss Sarah Condor, of Wilson, is
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. G. q.
Smith, on William street south, in this
city.
Mrs. L. NJ Michaux and children,
who have been visiting relatives iii
Greensboro and Danville, are at home
again.
Misses Alice Holland and Mary
O'Brien, OF Durham, have returned
from a weeks visit to Wrightsville
Beach.
Miss Theresa Cox, of the Rice Mill
office, is on her vacation, and Miss
Sadie Darden is filling her position in
her absence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo. Middleton, OF
Magnolia, are in the city, the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. D. c. Middleton, on
John street south.
Misses Hazel Doles, of Elm City
and Edna Draughn, of Rocky Moun-
are in the city, the guests of Misse:
Hattie and Mamie Griffin.
Misses Meril Hadley, Lucille Dixo1
| and Ruth Barwick, of Kinston, ant
Lucy Wood, of La Grange, are in th'
| city, visiting iss Verna Griffin, OF
| Elm street east.
| Mr.. E. A. Woltz is in the city, pre-
| pairing to move his household effect
| to his nWe home in Chapel Hill. Hi
| army of friends here will miss hin
and regret deeply to lose his congo
NAL companionship.
Mrs. J. M. Mooney, of Raleigh,
sister of Mr.. Henry Miller, of thi
city, who has been visiting him here
returning from attending the funera
of their late sister, Mrs. Margare
Hanff, at New Bern, last week, ha
returned home.
Miss Maude Pittman is at hom
again from attending a house part
given by Mrs. Mardin Applewhite a
Stantonsburg, and has as her CUES
Miss Florence Fitzgerald, Of Durham
who is returning from house part
at Ocean View.
| Misses Eleanor Morgan and Marth
and Eleanor Taylor have returne
from Mr. and Mrs. Jack Grants, nea
Snow Hill, where they have been at
tending house party" and report
most enjoyable time. Of course!
could not be otherwise, for none en-
JOY the company of young peop]
more than Mr.. and Mrs. Grant.
Our popular young friend an
townsman, Mr.. Dave Holland, left las
night for Baltimore to accept posi-
ton with the widely and favorab
known firm of Adese Brothers-th
same with which his brothers, Messr.
Add and Walter, are associated. Dav
will make those other two brother
| ~, I1,1ctIo For
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07

Caleb Powers may run for Con-
gress.'' How times change! A year
or SO ago lie would have gone into
the ordinal.; vaudeville.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07

Chicago courts hold that an UNI
pire has no right to draw his gun
not even when fans attack him for
a decision against the home team on
home grounds. The fan seems to
have sort of nnwritten law.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07

Enemies + Diaz will probably at
tribute the earthquake in Mexico to
him. as in /. IS country they blame
President ci governor for a panic
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07

1t is just as we'll, while there is
yet time, to save few horses skele
tons for future reference.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07
COT TON WEIGHERS
ELECTED MONDAY
Juvenile Criminals to be Sen
fenced to the County
Hemc.
BOARD APPROVED NtW ROAD
County Board Fixed Rate of weighing
Cotton at Five Cents for Mount
Olive and Fremont and Seven Cents
for GOIdSbOrO and ReSfOn

for GOldsbOrO and Boston.
The board of county commission
ers met in regular session Monday,
August 2.
The board adopted the provision of
chapter 1011, section 8, laws of 1907,
whereby in the event of no house of
correction in the conuty, criminals
may be sent to the county home. This
is intended for juvenile criminals of
Wayne county, with authority to the
chairman to notify the judge of the
Superior Court of this resolution and
to request the application of the pro-
visions of said section to Wayne
county criminals.
The Great Swamp-Buck Swamp
road from the Fremont and Pinkney
road to the Fremont and Princeton
road near the residence of Milford Ay-
cock was approved and the sheriff iE-
structed to summon jury.
Election Of Cotton Weighers.
Cotton weighers were elected as
follows:
Goldsboro- Elijah Edwards, W. J.
Whitley, T. H. Hall and E. J. Tew.
Mount OLIVE. H. Loftin
Fremont. G. Hooks.
Beston-Quincy Fields.
The price per bale for weighing was
fixed at 5 cents for Fremont and
boro and Boston.
The board accepted the recently
built bridge at Cox's old mill, Gran
than township, built by julius Ivey.
Accounts Audited and Paid.
The following accounts were audit
ed and paid:
| Goldsboro Hospital, donation. $4,000
]. w. Thompson, cash to pau
perS 259.0u
| J. l.. Pearson e Son, lumber. 39.4l
A. Peele, repairing bridge. -. 14.4C
W. P. Price, Jr., lumber. ....... 2.1C
| w. r. Hines, bridge repair 900
| David Adams, timber. ........ 1866
w. F. Moore, convict acct...... 35.11
Pension board ............... 12.0(
J. r. Roberts, fence acct. -, 3.0t
r. E. Smith, for convicts. $50. S0.3s
| G. Strickland, bridge repair. go
| N. S. Perkins e Son, lumber, 1.8t
]. L. Pearson e Son, lumber. 14.6:
d. F. Clark, smallpox acct. 9 3.
T. Malcolm Bizzell ...... 3333:
A. M. Shrago, for convicts. -. 10 2i
| J. L. Pearson e Son, bridge
acct. .................. 17.5t
B. Langston, bridge acct. 8.5(
Water and light for July. 10. ).
Bennett Live Stock Co., 6 81
Jerre Harris, county work. $20.4:
Edwards & Broughton, printing 31.9!
D. B. Wade & Son ........ 2.0t
G. D. Taylor e Co, for convicts 1926
Bell Lumber Co., lumber. AL
S. Cohn & Son, county home. 3.5l
]. d. Hines, Jr., fence acct. 7.6t
Ed. Williams, county home. 1913:
| Goldsboro Drug Co........ IA
w. G. Britt, registers acct. 41.6t
Hosea Bros, county home. -. 9.4s
Robert Lee, for election. ...... 2.0i
E. A. Stevens, sheriff's acct. 22S.5(
L. Williams, bridge acct. 49,. 1875
Parker & Falkner, for JAIL. 2.5(
Paschal Gin Co, lumber. $50;
]. r. Hatch, C. S. c. acct. 49,. 10.4t
City of Goldsboro .. 1913:
Best & Thompson, for convicts 20.1:
Best & Thompson, for home. :. 1856
Collier Bros. & Co., lumber. 1872!
N. D. Minshew. .............. 1875;
Thad. Howell, bridge acct. "A!
| hri, .
L. L. Newsome, lumber. ..... 16.0t
Jack Lewis, bridge repair -. Z;
w. B. & j. w. Floars, lumber. 34.7t
Pauper acct. ..... 2.o'
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07

A bitter clash has arisen in the
state of Washington between Cover
nor Hay and his political opponents
over the question Of calling special
election to choose a successor to the
late Congressman Cushman.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07

Governor John A. Johnson, of Min
nesota, has sold his residence in the
town of st. Peter and will hereafter
make his home in st. Paul.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07

Henry f. Avery, Democrat, has been
elected the first mayor of Colorado
Springs under the new charter form
of government.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07

Most people wish a newly married
couple happiness as if they meant it.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07

A great gap may be filled with
small stones
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07


Representative William Hughes.
who is serving his third term in Con-
gress, is being doomed for the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor of New
Jersey. Mr.. Hughes is a resident of
Paterson and lawyer by profession
William o. Heron, brother-in-law
of President Taft, is candidate for
the Democratic nomination for vice
mayor of Cincinnati. He is a promi-
figured in politics to any great ex-
tent.
An organization called the "Sane
and Sound League" is being formed in
Alabama for the avowed purpose Of
prohibition and the extension of the
prohibition laws in that state.
Former Governor Joseph w. Folk
of Missouri, who is filling engage
ments this summer as a chautauqua
main in politics adm says he expects
to contest for Senator Warmers seat
in the United States Senate next year.
The Democratic party of Pennsyl-
vania will hold it's state convention in
Harrisburg on Wednesday, August f.
Candidates will be named for state
treasurer, auditor-general and justice
of the State Supreme Court.
Ohio is to have it's first trial of the
direct primary next month. The pro-
visions of the law in general are sim
liar to those in force in other states
where the primary system of nomi-
mating candidates for public Office
has been adopted.
Governor Deneeen is preparing to
make platform campaign throughout
Illinois in September and October to
awaken public sentiment for the en-
actment of direct primary law at
the special session of the legislature
to be called late in the fall.
Plans have been made to launch in
New York this fall a campaign for
woman suffrage which it's promoters
say will attract international atten-
ton. Leaders of the movement esti-
mate that they will spend 100000 or
more in the metropolis during the
campaign.
The senatorial deadlock which de-
moralized the Illinois legislature dur :
ing its last session has arous6d the
people of the state to the necessity of
adopting some other plan for the Sc
lection of United States senator's.
When the legislature meets in special
session this fall to draft a new pri-
mary election law, strong fight will
be made to obtain the adoption. In
Illinois of the so-called Oregon plan
for the election of United States SEN
ators.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

The city of Fargo, N. D., has voted
sion plan of government.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07

Representative William Hughes.
who is serving his third term in Con-
gress, is being doomed for the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor of New
Jersey. Mr.. Hughes is a resident of
Paterson and a lawyer by profession.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07

William o. Heron, brother-in-law
of President Taft, is a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for vice
mayor of Cincinnati. He is promi-
nent lawyer and heretofore has not
figured in politics to any great ex
tent.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07

An organization called the "Sane
and Sound League" is being formed in
Alabama for the avowed purpose Of
combating the further progress of
prohibition and the extension Of the
prohibition laws in that state.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-07

Ohio is to have it's first trial of the
direct primary next month. The pro-
liar to those in force in other states
where the primary system of nomi-
mating candidates for public office
has been adopted.