Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-08-11

knocking Is ueS1fdDI0 OH Inc pdlt
field only. A three-bagger there is
the big1c est thing on earth.
The straw hat is sere and yellow
1t is awaiting place on the retired
list early next month.
-Goldsboro's tobacco market is
duly open these days, but thus faf
the weather has not been favorable to
large .'breaks."
The news from Col. I. F. Dortch,
who is sick in Raleigh, is that he is
better today, his hosts of friends here
will be glad to learn.
Quite representative delegation
of Mount Olives Citizens were here
today on business with the Superior
Court Clerk, relative to the estate of
the late Mrs. Kate Williams, of that
town, which is quite extensive
A telegram to Mr.. Zeb B. Pyatt,
foreman of The Headlight, Friday
announced the sad news of the
death of his mother, Mrs. Eliza Pyatt,
aged sixty-one years, of paralysis, at
her home at Marion, Mcdowell coun-
ty.
Every patriotic citizen of Colds
boro should attend the ball games
here on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day of this week. We ought to have
the pennant We've got the best team
in the league. Let's encourage them
to win-Win for Goldsboro.
The colored graded school of this
city, that always opens earlier in the
fall and closes earlier in the spring
On account of the trucking interests
in which so many of the children find
profitable employment, will open for
the fall term on Monday, August 80
The annual picnic of Thos. Ruffin
Camp Confederate Veterans and Thos
Ruffin Chapter Daughters Of the Con-
federacy of this county will be held
at Hams Springs on Thursday of this
week, August IL, and all who attend
are expected to bring a well filled
basket.
A Connecticut man had spider
painted on his bald head to keep the
flies Off His little scheme works like
a charm, but it must be tiresome for
people who don't know about it to
keep running over to him and saying
Pardon me, but there is a spider on
your head"
"A new "Goldsboro Hospital
that modern building the plans for
which have a1ready-been adopted is
to be, or should be, one of the acqui-
sitions of the passing year, and we
hope to see it standing out in bold
and beautiful reality before we chron-
icle 1910.
The Charlotte Observer of yester-
day published a picture of our Giant
pitcher Otis, in his Goldsboro uni
form, but Harry was not in position
He should have had his picture taken
in the attitude of action-deliverine
that unstrikable ball. Try it again
Harry. We all want your picture
but we want 1t as we see you in the
"bor."
The death of Mrs. John Saunders
mother of Mrs. Norman Williams, oc-
Cured at the home of her husband il
this city Friday afternoon at 2:4(
o'clock, after a long illness, of can
Ger. She was in the forty-ninth yea1
of her age, and was greatly esteemed
by all who knew her. The Argus ten
ders its sympathy to the bereavet
husband and family.
THUS far into the summer Colds
boro has been remarkably free from
sickness among it's inhabitants, ant
the city is thus sustaining it's peerless
reputation as place Of health; blu
this does not obviate the obligation o
vigilance on the part Of our city off
cials as to hygienic conditions. Nov
is the excepted tim. A word to tn
wise should be sufficient in publi
print.
Complaint comes to this Offic
that foxes are being hunted in som
sections of the county. Such huntin
is prohibited by state statute befor
the first of September. Crop condi
tions at this season, and the age c
the foxes both should be considered
and, first of all, the law. 1t is alway
safe rule to obey the law, for la
is the will of the people emphaticall
and formally expressed, and the pee
pie are supreme. Obey the law.
Miss Maud Evans, a first homo
graduate of the Petersburg Woman
College, after year spent at the Bal
tist Female University, immediatel
after graduating from the Go1dsbor
High School, has been elected to
position in the faculty of the Pike
vile High School, Of which Mr..
Raine Freeman, "A. NJ, is principa
This excellent school is indeed to /
congratulated on securing Miss Eva1
and her addition makes the faculty
the Pikeville High School one of til
strongest in the State