Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-10-02
LOCAL BR1BFs.
Items Of Interest in and Afo6hd the


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These are the days OF college
notifies and of frat. ''rushes."
MAYBE Whitney will have to pro- ,
dnce his proofs that he met DR.. Cook. !,
Yes. the circus is coming, boys
and the billing car is daily expected
to arrive.
Public sentiment is now begin
ming to feel that Peary is blubberlng
too much.
A court has held that the bicycle
is not vehicle. What would you call
it then-a biped?
What shall become OF the homely
poetry of the corn dodger, with peil-
agra in our midest.
Already the first fall month is
nearly gone, and Christmas is less
than three months OFF.
-Pellagra must be dangerous dis
ease. Already the doctors are disa-
greeing about its pronunciation.
The Goldsboro Brick Works OF
Mr.. Louis N. Grant are being very
much enlarged and equipped with the
latest improved machinery.
The promoters Of the Goldsboro
gas plant are prospecting for a suit
able location. This means that the
construction work will soon begin.
This weather is too cool for beer,
too warm for whiskey straight But
what's the use? There isn't any more
Whiskey straight. It's all crooked.
In the great audience who heard
DR.. Cooks first lecture in New York
this week were Mr.. and Mrs. Sol
We'll, Mr.. Lionel We'll and Miss Helen
Well, of this city.
The clay and sand roads that the
county conyicts are building over In
the "sandhills' are meeting with en-
thusiastic endorsement from all quar-
ters. Let's have more of them.
The sidewalk paving, SO far as
laid, is very satisfactory, and when
the work Is finished throughout the
proposed territory to be paved, and
the evening up process is completed
Goldsboro will look quite city-like.
Mr.. J. F. Dobson, our courteous
and efficient postmaster, went up te
Raleigh this morning to attend gen
eral meeting of all the postmasters OF
the State, whether for political pur
poses or self-protection we are no
informed.
AS a cattle market, as well as TO
cotton, tobacco and all farm products
Goldsboro is as fine as the State al
fords. No farmer who has a cow O.
a drove of cattle to sell ever fails o
the highest market price when h
brings them to this city.
MIR. Walter H. Franklin, of thi
city, while at work near Princeton
and while driving load Of cotton, tn
mules ran away with him, THROWN
him against a house and painful
bruising him, and he is now at hi
home here, unable to work for awhile
Mr.. H. L. Hollowell, Of the Cas-
Novelty and Book Store, has rente
the desirable residence on jaime
street south, belonging to Mr.. M. .
Best, and he and Mrs. Hollowell ar
now engaged in housekeeping, whic
The Argus hopes they may alway
find pleasant.
The remains of the infant daugE
ter, twelve months old, of Mr.. an
Mrs. w; I. Millard, of this city, who's
death occurred at their home on Wa
nut street yesterday afternoon, wer
taken to Mount Olive this afternoo
for interment in the family plot. Th
bereaved parents have the SINGER
sympathy of their friends in thei
sorrowfu1 visitation.
-Messrs. J. w. Bizzel1 6 Co., th
well-known dry goods and milliner
firm of this city, is to be succeede
by Bizzell & Co., Mr.. and Mrs. J. '
Bizzell retiring altogether from tt
business, which will be taken owe
by Bizzell & Co. as soon as the ne
front now being put in the store
completed, which will be the first
October-or the first of next week.
The progressive citizens of Dove
on the Norfolk & Southern, are to
commended for their splendid spir
Of progress along educational line
which is the mudsill Of intelligent e
terprise and permanent progres
They have recently voted speci
school tax in their town and built
handsome and commodious scho
building, which will be formally de
icated, with elaborate exercises {
Tuesday evening Of next week, Oct
Der 8.
An old observer Of the wealth
remarked yesterday that in his OPT
ion we would have one of the mo
severe winters that we have expel
enced in several years. The bas