Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-01-07
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items Of Interest In and Around
the CITY.

A back mum ber-lSOS-
All aboard! let the water wagon
drive on.
If we could only leave all the awful
disasters out of the new year.
Leap year is gone and the girls will
now just have to do the best they can.
already getting ready for planting
peas.
This is moving time, and many-es-
pecia1ly ''croppers'-are changing
homes for the new year.
Hon. w. 5. OBJ. Robinson has re-
turned to the city from his prohibition
dry last week.
Judging from the brisk manner in
which the live stock trade of Colds
boro is opening-up the farmers of this
section are hopeful of their prospects
for tn year ahead.
Mr.. D. L. Edgerton has purchased
AL 1uCOT6SG III Iu0 11V0 SbOCh OuSAAOSo
OF Mr.. w. r. Hollowell, and they are
receiving today their first shipment of
stock for the opening trade.
Mr.. J. D. Howell, so we'll known to
and popular with the trade Of this city,
has returned to the employ of Messrs.
Best & Thompson, after a years alb
sence, having been in the employ Of
this firm previously for five years.
The Goldsboro Chamber of Com
'merce has a good year ahead of it-a
year of much promise for Goldsboro.
All that is needed is Intelligent coop
-erative community pull, and we will
surely achieve Greater Goldsboro.
On our editorial page today we give
expression to the wish for q happy new
year to all our readers; but lest you
4aiI to read it there we here give sx-
pression to it again-a happy, prosper
Gus, joyous new year, and in the
words of Tiny Tim 'God bless you,
every one".
A beautiful and symmstrically pro-
portiened monument has been erected
ON the family plot in Willewdale ceme-
terry, to the memory of the late Geo.
w. Richardson and daughter, Psttie
Armstrong. They were formerly resi-
dents of this city, highly esteemed and
still remembered by their friends ana
aoquaintances here.
Messrs. Edgerton & Edgeftoh,
George and Milford, the popular live
stock dealers of this city. whose ex-
tensive stables are on West Chestnut
street, are receiving today q large
shipment Of extra fine Kentucky and
Tennessee mules and horses, which
were especially selected to meet the
requirements OF the farmers of this
section.
Mrs. Arthur Wooten, nee Miss Lillian
DILLON, of LAGRANGE, has rented the
commodious corner residence Of Mr..
81. L. Finlayson. in this city, opposite
st. Paul M. E. church, and will open a
table boarders, and is now getting the
house in order. The ARGUS is glad to
welcome Mr.. and Mrs. Wooten to
Goldsboro as permanent residents with
the new year.
The effects of the 1907 panic are pass
ing away, and all merchants and all
manufacturers begin to feel that i'm
proved conditions are near at hand
are, in fact, coming right along steadi-
ly. The movement may be slow, but
it is we'll maintained and is thoroughly
sound. The indications point to stead y
recuperation throughout the coming
year, to be accelerated perhaps in the
last half of it by good crops.
It is popular legend that as the
days begin to lengthen the cold begins
to strengthen. That, however, de-
pends upon Medicine Hat Eand the
weather clerk, and neither is inclined
to say what kind of weather January
has in store for US. AS a general
proposition it is January's duty to
furnish this latitude with just about
all the real winter weather that is
coming to it, and January is at hand.