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GOLDSBORO HI NEWS
March 24, 1939
Lost and Found
The following articles are in
the Lost and Found depart
ment:
2 plaid scarfs
7 locker keys
1 ring of keys
4 note-books
6 caps and hats
13 odd gloves
1 lipstick
3 belts
1 pocketbook
Fashions
Spring is here! On the whole the
world is waking up after the win
ter, and in my opinion it’s about
time for us girls to wake up and
get out of the rut we’ve been in all
winter.
What we need is more color.
These heavenly spring shades!
They just make your mouth water
—tyria, cyclamen, japonica, char
treuse, spring wine, and that gor
geous, delectable dusty rose. The
costume jewelry is different from
any seen lately. Best of all, you can
get hats, shoes, pocketbooks, gloves,
and costume jewelry.
0 Our store is running
over with New Spring
Shoes for the entire
school crowd.
Come take a look
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Activities Progress
As 3d Quarter Ends
During activity period many stu
dents work at their chosen projects.
“ As You Like It ” is being studied
by Miss Newell’s Shakespeare Club.
The play was presented recently to
Miss Gordner’s double period class
for criticism.
End tables, door stops, pictures
cut from wood and jars dipped in
paint to make colorful vases are
being made by the Girls’ Industrial
Arts Club. They are instructed by
manual training students and ad
vised by Mr. Askins.
Three one-act plays will be given
by Miss Spencer’s Senior Dramatics
Club in the late spring. Two of
the plays will be tragedies, ‘‘Auf
Wiedersehen” and “The Man on the
Kerb.” The latter is about a starv
ing English couple living in a cellar.
The third is a hilarious comedy,
“Coming ’Round the Mountain.”
As many new students have come
into the Photography Club, they are
learning to develop and print pic
tures. They are instructed by old
members who remained to teach.
“The Unprepared Test” is being
practiced by the Masque and Wig
Club, to be presented in the spring.
The club is now sponsored by Mrs.
Muldrow as Miss Bell is directing
the Junior Play.
Directed by Mrs. Dean, county
Health Department Nurse, the
Home Nursing Club has been study
ing proper care of children.
Previous to this the club studied
diseases and how to care for certain
ones.
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Goldsboro Boys From UNC
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(Continued from page one)
es one to analyze problems, which is
very necessary in law.
Joe Crawford, who has finished
the University and is now in his
second year at medical school, ad
vised all who would be doctors to
take all the science possible while in
high school. Joe said he entered col
lege with a definite purpose, majored
in chemistry and minored in zoology.
Latin, he added, is valuable to work
in medicine because Latin is the uni
versal language for medicine.
Wiley Smith, talking about the
publications at Carolina, said the
Publications Union Board is made
up of one senior, one junior, a stu
dent at large, and four faculty mem
bers. The Carolina Magazine, a lit
erary publication; The Daily Tar
Heel, a daily paper; the Yackety
Yack, annual; and the Buccaneer, a
humor magazine are available for
student workers.
Ridley Whitaker spoke on the
problems of a freshman, saying that
the most important thing is that you
are a Carolina man and that rela
tionship between the students and
faculty is superior. A freshman at
Chapel Hill goes through three
stages; first, he is scared to death,
second, he becomes confident; and
third, he becomes overconfident.
Then soon he finds out that there
are other people there who know
more than he does.
Hardy Lee Thompson read the
Scripture.
Those present were: Class of ’33:
Joe Crawford, Pete Heyward; Class
of ’34: Keith Eustler, John Gra
ham; Class of ’35 : James Davis, Wi
ley Smith, Maurice Edwards, Wil
liam Vinson; Class of ’36; John
Gay Britt, Humphrey Brown; Class
of ’37: William Dees, Sam Teague,
Ernest Spence; Class of ’38 ; Hardy
Lee Thompson, Ridley Whitaker,
Dick Daughtry, Tommy Snypes,
Harry Hollingsworth, James Crone;
Jim Joyner, graduate of Roanoke
Rapids High Ray Mc-
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Two Juniors Get History Lesson
From Oldest Native of Goldsboro
Did you know that Sherman never
brought his troops through Golds
boro'^ Mildred and I didn’t until
we interviewed Mr. Erank Castex,
Goldsboro’s oldest native citizen.
Mr. Castex, a very distinguished
looking man with a keen memory
of the interesting events in his life,
carries his 86 years well. Arriving
at the home of Mr. Castex’s daugh
ter, Mrs. Floyd Uzzell, we were
ushered in by Mr. Castex himself
and secured a most interesting in
terview on old Goldsboro.
Sherman never came through
Goldsboro, explained Mr. Castex, be
cause General Scofield had come up
from New Bern and was occupying
all available camping space in
Goldsboro. Sherman, after camping
his troops on the Neuse River near
Borden farm, came in town for a
conference with Scofield at the old
Arnold Borden house. Mr. Castex,
boylike, went down to see how Sher
man looked. He was successful in
seeing Sherman get off his horse
and go to the house where he was
met on the porch by General Sco
field, who had entered the town
through Webbtown.
Eollowing in Sherman’s wake
were bands of cut throats, beggars,
plunderers and thieves, who camped
at the old fairgrounds. It was
these who gave Sherman’s army its
bad reputation because he allowed
them to take what they could. It
has been said that “A crow fiying
in the path made by the plunderers
starved to death.”
The only battle fought near Golds-
bor was the one between General
Foster and the Confederates when
Foster burned the bridge over Neuse
River in 1863. However, he was
unable to reach the county bridge.
By burning the railroad, the Con
federate supplies were cut off for a
while.
After the battle Mr. Castex and
some other boys went out to the
building used as a hospital by the
Yankees. There they got some idea
of how badly crippled in battle the
army was by the number of amputa
ted limbs found laying around.
Later in the Civil War, General
Grant entered our town through a
covered bridge on the road between
Goldsboro and Mount Olive.
About the very early history of
Goldsboro, Mr. Castex gave us
many interesting facts. Waynes
boro was the county seat of Wayne
County until 1847 when the people
voted to move the count^^ seat and
jail to Goldsboro. At this time,
Goldsboro was merely a railroad sta
tion named for Mr. Goldsborough,
the civil engineer who layed the rail-
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road through here in 1841. With
the exception of the old Churchwell
family’s graveyard, there is no evi
dence of old Waynesboro.
Many homes in Waynesboro were
torn down and rebuilt in Goldsboro.
Mr. Castex was born at the corner
of Elm and James streets but this
house was later torn down. One of
the oldest houses in Goldsboro is
the Elks’ Club. Among the first
families to move to Goldsboro were
the Whitfields, Colliers, SteA "ens,
Smiths, Arnold, Bordens, and
Everetts. At the end of the Civil
War there were only three houses
on George Street.
Knowing that students would be
interested in the education of Mr.
Castex’s days, we asked him to tell
us about it. The schools, he said,
were just “plain schools” with one
teacher. There were a few private
schools run by individuals but these
were later combined into a public
school. At first there was much op
position to public schools mainly be
cause the people were not used to the
thought of free education. Mr.
Castex went to school during the
Civil War in an old carriage fac
tory then standing at the corner of
William and Spruce where Mrs.
M. E. Robinson lives now.
Religious buildings were another
point ol interest to us. The first
church building to appear was the
Methodist Church and it was fol
lowed by the Presbyterian Church.
The Episcopal building was next and
after it the Baptist.
Transportation was very unde
veloped in Mr. Castex’s day. The
Neuse River was navigable and
boats came from New Bern to
Waynesboro. There was no such
thing as steamboats then and all
boats had stern or side wheels.
Mr. Castex remembers the time
when the telegraph system, automo
biles, electric lights, telephones and
running water were practically un
heard of.
Running through Goldsboro on
its way to Raleigh was a stage line.
As the horses had to be changed
every 15 miles, changing stations
were placed along the Avay. A
trumpeter blew the tune, “Little
Boy Blue,” to let the people know
the stage was coming.
The first trains had to be fed
by wood, so there were wood piles at
intervals by the track. When the
train stopped for wood, the pas
sengers got out and helped throw
wood on the train.
When a fire occurred, “Mary
Alice,” Goldsboro’s first fire engine
named for Mr. Charles Dewey’s
wife, was backed up to a cistern
and citizens of the town helped
pump water to fight the fire. These
cisterns were in the middle of the
main streets.
We left Mr. Frank Castex, after
thanking him for a most enjoyable
visit, with the feeling that we had
been on a trip to old Goldsboro.
Mary Louise Parks, ’40.
A most delightful luncheon was
enjoyed by Mary Parks, Rena Gra
ham,. Toni Lupton, Mildred Lee,
Bill Nufer, Sonny Boney, Herhian
Perkins, and Miss Gordner at GHS,
Friday, March 17. The Junior
Staff’ especially expresses their ap
preciation of Miss Gordner’s
pickles.
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