Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-12
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Items of Interest in and Around
the City.

the City.
"A strong financial company for
the sale of automobiles has been or
ganized in Go1dsboro by local capital.
This is another evidence that we do
go forward.
The Civic Improvement League
requests The Argus to express their
thanks to all those who by their pres
ence and aid contributed to the sue
cess of Park Day. 1t was indeed a
great success.
Register of Deeds Mr.. w. G. Britt
today issued marriage license to
Mr.. Lloyd D. Grady, nineteen years
old. to wed Miss Minnie Sasser, twen-
ty years of age, both Of this county.
The Argus hopes they may "live long
and prosper
-Neuse river in the vicinity OF Sew
en- Springs has left its banks under
the stress of water coming down from
last weeks heavy rains, and the low
lands are overfowed, rendering the
roads and bridges to Kinston and La
Grange impossible.
-Messrs. c. F. Taylor and Horace
E. King, of the Southern Cotton Oil
Company, left Sunday for Little
Rock, Ark, to attend meeting OF the
companys district managers and mill
superintendents, Mr.. Taylor being
manager of the several mills of this
district, and Mr.. King superintendent
of the mill in this city.
MIR. S. r. Ellis, who has large ex-
perience in the transfer business, has
come to Goldsboro, and taken posi-
ton with the Goldsboro Transfer
Company, as manager. This company
is now fully equipped for all kinds OF
passenger and baggage transfer and it
is an enterprise that Goldsboro has
long been very much in need OF. Sue
cess to the enterprise.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Taylor and two
little daughters, Misses Eunice and
Fisher, have returned from Washing
ton, N. c., where they went to attend
the graduation of their neice, Miss
Mary Lillian Ellsworth, and also tt
be present at a family reunion at the
home of Capt and Mrs. w. H. Ellis
worth in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Tay
lor's fifteenth wedding anniversary.
The popular demand is growing
and the sentiment of the Goldsbor'
public is deepening for the "cuttin'
of+ ho froi oh trains mass
ing through the heart of the city-es
Iecial1y during the business hours o
the day 1t was for this purpose tha
the tracks were DETECTED around tn
city, and the railroads should regar
the compact, or else be made to do 81
The commencement exercises c
Falling Creek Academy Frida.
were as creditable as they were eI
joydbie. The annual address wa
made by Prof. M. c. S. Noble, of tn
faculty of the University, and all VIII
heard him say it was one of the fine:
speeches they ever listened to. Fal
ing Creek Academy is a credit to tt
State. There is no better school NJ
any better people anywhere.
Large congregations, without r.
gard to church affiliations, attende
the First Baptist Church Sunds
morning and evening to hear Rev.
Hiram Grant, now of Ohio, Gold
boro boy whose friends here are lin
tied only by the population of the cit
for he is universally esteemed. A
who heard him-and that was the C
pacity of the commodious church
speak of his sermons in highest term
on their merit, and not through favo
itism.
Quite large number of reputab
farmers living in the vicinity of Lift
river were gathered in this city Satu
day to answer the charge of fish ira
ping that stream in a manner CO
trary to law. 1t is to be regrett'
that these gentlemen were thus su
jected to the modification of appea
ing upon such a charge, as they b;
no purpose whatever of violating tt
law, or infringing upon the rights
others. They we're simply endeavo
ing to have an individual mess
fish" occasionally, without having
spend whole day from their GRO
said, was due to a disgruntled int
vidual, and we hope the whole thi
will be forgotten.
Commencement Exercises of Greer