Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-17
LOCAL BRIEFs.
Items of Interest in and Around the
City.

Items of Interest in and Around the
Col. w. B. Fort, of Pikeville, al
ways welcome here, was visitor in
our city Saturday.
Mrs. John L. Wells, of Elizabeth
City, is in the city on visit to Mr..
and Mrs. J. w. Wells.
-Messrs. w. r. Hollowell and D. l.
Edgerton have returned from their
trip to the western live stock markets.
The Christmas bazaar of the Epis-
copal ladies of St. Stephens Church
has been postponed from December
1 and 2 to December 8 and 9.
The Argus is delighted-with all
the Roosevelt emphasis on the word
that Polly of the Circus" has restored
it's date for an appearance in this city.
1t is the greatest of all funny and mer-
itorious plays, and Goldsboro should
pack the Messenger Opera House to
see it.
Ills hosts of friends in this city
and throughout the State will be sor-
nv to learn that Mr.. Horace E. King,
Superintendent of the Southern Cot
ton Oil Mill and fertilizer plant here,
is confined to his bed with carbuncle
on his neck We all wish him a safe
and speedy recovery.
The barber-shop of Messrs. Isaac
Crow & Son, now located on East Cen
tre street, under the Hotel Kenno1,
formerly the railroad baggage room
is one Of the most attractive tonsorl@l
parlors in the State, and is supplied
with a number of expert BARRIERS and
up-to-ddte equipment.
ALI his friends here are glad to
see in the city, on visit to his nome
here, Mr.. Dave Holland, now one OF
the travelling representatives of the
well-known and widely popular UNI
brella house Of AIDES Brothers, of Bal
timore. Dave is looking well, and il
making good,'' as he deserves, for
he is "all to the good
The Argus is sorry, indeed, to
chronicle the death of Hill White, fol
years a faithful colored teamster al
the cotton oil mills of this city, and
one of the old time negroes, whose
fidelity in service and integrity in con
duct were held above personal gain
He died of pneumonia Thursday night
and his funeral. largely attended, was
held Saturday afternoon.
Our good friend, Mr.. r. E. FIELDS
of Buck Swamp township, who had
display Of corn at the seed-judging ex
hibitiou here in the early spring. AM
planted us crop from sead then sc
lected, brought us Saturday a sampl
of his new crop of corn, and it wa
fine. His crop averages several ear
to the stalk; and he displayed tW
ears growing from one stem that wer
as perfect as could be and as alike
possible.
ALI Goldsboro should be interest
ed in the coming lecture in this cit
of DR.. Stiles, of hookWorm renown-
not that any of our esteemed, health
full and long-lived fellow citizens al
harboring any of these recently dis
covered parasites; but that we ma
be up-to-date in scientific information
DR.. Stiles will speak publicly in tt
Messenger Opera House next Frida
night, and will be accompanied b
State Superintendent ]. Y. Joyner, {
Mr.. Rockefeller's hookworm commij
sion.
There is no room in Goldsboro Il
highway robbers, and the streets
this city should be-and must be-
safe to walk at midnight as at nool
day. Last night a respectable, indus
trious colored man, w. B. Parks, III
ing beyond the rice mill, returnir
from church about eleven o'clock, VIZ
held @up near the tobacco stemmel
on North John street, by three co
ored fellows, whom he could not re-
X ognize in the darkness, and at tt
point of a pistol robbed of some So
The police should leave no stone III
turned to ferret out the cu1prits.
Some white and colored votari'
at the shrine of Bacchus made a nov
raid last night, in the Little Washin
ton quarter of this city, and capture
quite quantity of blind tiger I'll
ker." The white fellows impersonat'
United States revenue men and tt
colored fellows played the role of 81
formers" and their victim was a &C
ored blind ''tigress,'' whom they kne
to be such, and who Immediately 8
ter the search and "hauT" left t
neighborhood, post haste, fearing a
rest, while the imposters who had tn
worked their little game on her re
eled in their i11-gotten grog. 1t W
funny, to be sure, but at the saI
time it was fraud.
TO INITIATE LARGE CLASS.