Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-17
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest in and Around
the City.

Items Ol 1nGCICSU 4A 0AO &AA OeAAAS>
the City.
There is not much of interest go
ing on in court this week, although
the civil docket is being tried.
Telephone service is being install |
ed in the new union passenger station
today, also in the hotel and cafe ad-
joining.
If the peach crop is really safe,
we cannot see what the South has to
fear from the Payne tariff. Adjourn
Congress and come home.
IT. H. Stanton & Co. are preparing
to move into the store formerly occu-
pied by this firm, and which was dam
aged by fire some time ago.
The heavy rains of the past tWo]
days are impeding the work OF paw
ing West Walnut street, although the
contractors are showing willing
spirit.
The truck prospects-that is to-
say, peas and beans-hereabouts are
more promising. than they were ten
days ago. But the real quest1on-the
one that counts-is, what is the price
going to be?
Andrews & Waddell were award
ed the contract for the new carpet OF
Mount Olive Lodge of Pythians. This
firm fitted the lodge hall with a mag
nifcent brussels carpet, the work be-
ing completed Wednesday.
Mr.. w V. Williams, proprietor OF
the City Pharmacy, is suffering from
a severe cut on his head, as result
of a pulley attachment to the elevator
in the rear of the drug store, weigh
ing twenty-five pounds, falling and
striking his head a glancing blow.
Mr.. j. f. Ange has sold his home
on Park Heights and he and Mrs
Ange are now occupying the residence
on Ash street recently vacated by MIR
and Mrs. Eugene Waddell, who have
moved into the residence recently va
Gated by Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. Taylor
on Chestnut street east.
Calvin Brock, the noted negro
farmer of the Mt. Olive section, whom
Argus readers know as the "coloret
PHILOSOPHER Of Wayne" and who is the
most successful berry grower in th'
State, was in the city today and re
ports that there will be bumpe:
CROP of strawberries this year.
Yesterday The Argus made not
that in the Superior Court here yes
terday a divorce was granted Mrs
Maggie Tudor Scott, wife of Henry a
Scott, restoring to her her maldel
name. This morning at St. John M
E. parsonage the pastor, Rev. Fr1z
zelle, ofIiciated at the marriage of Mis-
Maggie Tudor to Mr.. Reuben Murdock
of Southern Pine, Moore county, N.
Said gentleman who travel
much to The Argus man today: Il tel
YOU, Goldsboro is going right aheao
Every time l come here l am i'm
pressed with the signs of solid sroWtr
Wonderful improvements are beln
made here in both the business dis
is a fine city and its great future can
not be we'll overestimated-"
One cannot always tell how fash
ion in real estate is going to jump, bu
it is safer to buy piece of ground
a speculative Investment than to tax
a flyer on stocks or futures. I Ii
real estate will always be worth some
thing and very often it can be sold
a fancy profit. A real estate boo1
catches a good many reckless specu
lators but take it year in and year ou
the man who trades in city propert
seldom fails to make money.
Yielding to the march of stree
Improvement in the vicinity of Willia1
and Walnut street, the sturdy GA
that has stood for generations in tn
centre of the sidewalk in front of Re
S. H. Isler's residence, has been take
down, and when it fell there was gel
uine sorrow in the family and in th
neighborhood. But the busy feet {
the now populous and ever CROWN
city demanded that the sidewalk
open and the street improved and tE
voice of the people is sovereign.
The City of Lynchburg, Va, hs
raised $500 to be expended, undt
the direction Of its Chamber of Con
merce, in advertising it's business
advertising itself. Here is a point
for Goldsboro-and especially right
this time. Lynchburg is not investi1
this fifty thousand in permanent III
proyements-thatg generations to con
will assist in paying for; but it
planking down the cool cash out of tt
pockets of it's business men this ye
-now-to be spent in simply adve
Using itself Think about it. Think
over.