Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1909-02-04
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Int, est In and Around
the City.

8GC4xS Va
the CITY.
Truck tarmers hereabouts are some-
what behind in their planting opera
tions. Peas should be in the round
Have you paid your city taxes7 II
not there is trouble ahead OF you-ln
the windy days of March and the
blooming peach trees.
Rah! TIE weather: {! fifty
six degrees, clear skies,
flowers and the formation of baseball
leagues, to twenty degrees, high wind,
frozen water pipes-all in "a hours,
Tt was a reverse case Of from Green
lands icy mountains to midas cora!
strand"
There has been candy and there has
been candy in Go1dsboro-some fine
and some finer, but the finest is
"Guths,' and it is for the first time
inviting the Goldsboro public to come
and try it at the Imperial Drug Store.
where a big supply just from the bis
Baltimore factory is now being dis
played.
Now, what do you think of that
4sPat', King, the hest Chief of Fire De-
partment the city has ever had, and
Building Inspector, wants to blow"
the latter and of his job-the Building
Inspector part of it. He is the best
man for either place, andideal in both,
and the Board of City Aldermen GER
tainly know a good thing when they
test it. They have tested Mr.. King,
and they don't propose to lose him.
The many friends in this city and
section OF Mr.. Willie Humphrey, of 81.
We'll & Bros. clerical force, who has
been in precarious health for many
months, and who last Friday under
went a critical operation, under DR..
Stuart Mcclure, at st. Luke's Hos
pital, in Richmond, will be gratifed to
learn that the news from his bedside
today is more encouraging than were
earlier reports, and with no incident
complications his recovery will be
steady and sure.
The classes of the high school de-
partment of the Goldsboro Colored
Graded School nave been ~rehearsing
for weeks a musical comedy in three
acts, entitled "a Merry Company"
and on Friday night of this week they
will present it to the public in the
Messenger Opera House, at an admis-
sion of Is and Is cents, for the pur-
pose Of purchasing a piano for the
High School which will be public
school property. The white people
are cordially invited to lend their aid
and the encouragement of their pres
ence to this performance, and are
assured of some very fine singing, for
the best colored musical talent of the
city, and in large chorus support, are
to be heard in this entertainment
Tickets can be had at the Imperial
Drug Store.
An attempt was recently made to
%supplant the army mule with a trac-
ton engine. The subject was thorough
ly threshed out, and experts were
SummOn0u OH pOLA S1uoSs Willis II
was conceded that the traction engine
would be superior kon good roads in
a smooth country, vet it was proven
that on difficult and mountainous roads
the traction engine would produce a
blockade and possibly q disaster. The
male train would get there first. And
90 it was voted by the staff and the
military experts that the army mule
should be retained. Now, that the
mule has secured the army blue rib
bon, he may be expected to retain it
against all the inroads and intrigues
against him Of science The experts
have spoken and their testimony
should appeal to the pride of the mule
even if he has none to expend on his
ancestry. The army expert knows
what the army mule car accomplish,
and the two are standing by zach 9TH
or. Goldsboro has lots Of good mules
for sale this season.