Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-03-04
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest in and Around the
City.

der the auspices OF Neuse Lodge NO.
6. l. O. o. F.
Mr.. Tom O'Berry, of the Enterprise |
Lumber Company, left today on bus
mess trip to Florida in the interest Of
his company's extensive trade.
The Argus is panied to chronicle
today the serious illness of the bright |
two-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Her.
man Smith, who has pneumonia.
Mrs. w. H. Goodwin, who has !
flock Of white Brahmas, sent to this
Office today a dozen eggs that weigh
pounds, and two of which weighed
ounces.
Mr.. Leslie We'll is on his regular
seasons business trip to the North
ern centers of trade, making pur-
chases for the dry goods department
xof H. Well & Bros.
Mr.. and Mrs Jas. Lane, of Newport
News, Va, who have been on a visit to
his sister, Mrs. Hugh Humphrey, and
other relatives in this city, left today
at noon for their home.
Have you been down about the new
Union Passenger Station recently!
The Ideal Cafe," up-to-date in every
feature, occupies the handsome struc-
ture on the corner down there, and it
really gives you an appetite just to
see it.
1t is a real pleasure to her hosts
of friends here to greet home again
Mrs. Geo. L. Kirby, who has been
spending several weeks at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. w. r. Craw-
ford, in Raleigh, and whose health has
been greatly improved by the change.
Mr.. Hugh Humphrey, justice of the
peace, today married a young white
couple from the country, who pre-
sented themselves at his Office in the
Court House at noon with the proper
credentials. The happy pair were Mr..
Needham Stroud and Miss Addie
Quinn.
Mr.. David c. Farrior, the popular
young gentleman who has so long and
acceptably held position with Mr.. R
A. Creech, the jeweler, and who has
been confined to his home for couple
of weeks with pneumonia, was able to
be out again yesterday, his many
friends will be glad to learn.
Mr.. George c. Rackley, SO well
known to the trade of Goldsboro ano
popular with all, has accepted posi-
ton as salesman with Mr.. M. N. Ep-
stein, the reliable clothier and gents
furnisher of this city, who is fitting
UP his commodious store at Odd Eel
lows corner, on an extensive scale
in anticipation of an unusually larg'
spring and summer trade.
BY curtailing the cotton habit tt
some extent and substituting tn'
planting of corn that is needed to taxi
care of the stock not only would al
immense amount Of money be kept a
home, but the change would be foun'
much more profitable in the tendene
it would have in increasing the prlc
of cotton. Wherever the plan of rails
ing corn and other food products ha
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State it has proven profitable.
J. B. Watson-the same who is S
periodically before the mayor for In
toxication and fighting, blind tiger
ISM" and peace warrants-is agai
in the hands of the law today for a
assault upon Bob Bowden, and at th1
writing he is still in custody, bein
unable to furnish bond for his al
pearance at court. This time it we
quite an al1-round mix-up in whic
his two sons, also, and Clarent
Langston became involved, togethe
with the old man and Bowden; and a
hands were bound over to court
several cases in the aggregate. A
of these have given bond except tt
incorrigible J. B.
Occasionally, when some "bliT
tiger votary gets in the hands of tt
law, some wiseacre rises up to r
mark that prohibition does not pr
hibit; that the law is failure. b
the great body of the people of Gold
boro are friends to the prohibitio
law, as they are friends and chan
pions of law in general. That's VIII
makes Goldsboro the Best Town in tt
State Public sentiment here is
favor of the law, and public sent
ment can enforce the law whenev
public sentiment is aroused to tn
end. If the law-abiding element
Goldsboro will realize what it meal