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GoldsbBi The Nationa' Bank of Goldsborr mtj national But ta tte Comity GEO. A. NORWOOD, Presldeat GEO. C. KORJTEGAY, Caskier. Waats jut Bishif) kb4 11 be glad t talk r rnrmimr' with row GEO. A. NORWOOD. I'khIci. X. J. RES I VI,.,.. 'r.vi,. "jThis Arfoi n'er the peopla'a rifMti r a. 1 : : i i No soothing itrains of Maia'a aon. Can lull its huutrecl eyea 1j leep I'wn- vieruai Tift' Keep; GOLDSBOEO, ST. C, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19. 1914 VOL. LX 11 tat Katisaal Bisk if Colisboia Weekly Argus ' . . 2 G0LDSB0R0 AND . - ITS POSSIBILITIES At the annual banquet of the (olds boro Chamber of Commerce held last . week Mr. Matt H. Allen, of the city bar. reDlied to the toast "Goldsboro and Its Possibilities" as follows: Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentle men: I have been assigned a subject upon which might well be written a book of a thousand pages, and jet, I am expected to so digest it as to cover the theme in ten minutes. And bo when I found that I was compelled tc Break I decided to arrange as best I could a short summary, showing the capital and resources of this city, the achievements of its progressiva cit izenship and what this community and these people propose to do this year and in the years to come. ) I might, dwell at length upon the history of this county and its capital but I would only be telling you iwhat most of you already know. J The Goldsboro of yesterday was the most modest town in all the South The Goldsboro of today is bold in its achievements. It is the capital of the County of Wayne, and if you traverse North Carolina from Cherokee to Cur rituck, you will find that no county in all the State was touched by nature with a more lavish hand. The citizen? of this community are of the highest type in the whole nation. This town has sent forth statesmen who j have wrested expressions of admiration not only from the nation, but from strange tongues. It has reared and trained educators of national fame, ii haf developed business men who are a: well known in New York, Boston anc" Philadelphia, as they are in North Carolina. It has given to the .State Judges, whose opinions h"ve been read and cited by the Chancellor ofi Eng lend, and yet, from motives past find ing out, we have heretofore spoken of bur own with scrupulous, care, whiU on the other hand we have given our admiration, wilh generous candor, tc the achievements of our neighbors There is no explanation o? this unlesr it be some deep and reverential fear of the noble sentiment to which patriot- ism and pious thought have demned us: Esse quam videri. But the Goldsboro of today con- is r greater Goldsboro. Her progressive citizenship has forced her to the notice of the commercial world. We, hav taken on a new life, unti' today Golds boro and Wayne county stand as the very synonyms of progress in the vo cabulary of all North Carolinians. We are living in a great age jwhicb has been properly denominated an age of experiment and advancement. The human mind seems to have burst it? ancient lim't in search of the ineans of progress. Our nation, whose; motto was, simpliciter et vere, is seeing a wave of money power driven by an impetus of commercialism, sweep across it with a suddenness and im mensity which takes the breath away fror all the lookers on in other coun tries. With the springing up of thip new era Goldsboro har changed t meet the new conditions, and she ha? been keeping pace in the forward movement, and its citizens have de termined to be masters of the situa tion. The Goldsboro of today sur passes any city in North Carolina ir proportion to its population. It has nineteen industrial plants with Bixteen hundred and fifty-nine employees, exclusive of office force who draw monthly forty-seven' thous and five hundred and seventy dollars. There is invested in these industrial enterprises one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, -and the output from these plants amounts an nually to three million three hundrec1 and "fifty-eight thousand, nine hundred and forty-eight dollars. Goldsboro has four banks with re sources of two million, five hundred and fifteen, thousand, nine hundref twenty-two and 37-100 dollars. Goldsboro handles annually thirty thousand "lales of cotton and from three to five million pounds of to bacco. ! There is being erected in Goldsboro a court house costing one hundred thousand dollars; one six story office building costing seventy-five thonsand dollars; one five story office building costing sixty thousand dollars. Golds boro has subscribed stock for i twenty thousand dollar tobacco warehouse. Goldsboro has thirteen miles of graded streets; twelve miles of paved streets and twenty seven miles of granulithic side walks. Goldsboro township has voted one hundred thousand recently of good roads bonds for twenty six miles of road; and forty thousand dollars for a new high school building, j ; In almost every block in the City of Goldsboro, there is being erected new buildings either for business enter prises or residences. The assessed tax valuation of j the nronerty in Goldsboro is four million seven hundred forty three thousand, Goldsboro has thirty passenger trains each day and has direct service from three trunk lines. Gcldsboro will have within a .few months, an up-to-date street railway system as any town in North Carolina I am authorized to say that when four loops are completed, we th have seven : nd a quarter miles of street railway over which will be a minimum of four cars; and it is rur ex- pected that the cars will be running by the 24th of this month. Goldsboro has two of the most cjom. plete and t.p-to-date Hospitals in Xortl Carolina and one of them is owned and managed by the city and county. Goldsboro is a city .ree from ieor- rupt government. rro-j present City Clerk, who has held office for fifteen years, authorized tne statement inai during his term of fifteen years as City Clerk he had never heard a Sug gestion of graft or corruption. seven nundred and eigr.teen uouars The actual value of property in Golds boro is fifteen million dollars. of The bonded debt of the CitJ Goldsboro is three hundred and eight ; Question : What is a Betterment As thousand dollars; and the value of the j sociation? and gave the answer: Any City's holdings is three hundred eighty association that helps or benefits a one thousand six hundred and 26-100 community is a Betterment Associa dollars. I I tion. j She made the following sugges- The City of Goldsboro recently pur chased thirty thousand dollars oij its school bonds and eighteen thousand dollars of its funding bonds and itjhas money left in bank. It is so prosper ous that i. even loans money td its citizens. It has recently loaned tc citizens of Goldsboro fifty-two thous and five hundred seventeen and 10i-100 dollars, secured by real estate, land has left in bank thirty seven thousand six hundred ninety-seven and 70-100 Dollars for those who need it and I can secure the loan. I We are looking upon City adminis tration as p science. Ve have put oui shoulders t the wheel today and we are pressing forward to accomplish the undertaking of making Goldsboro the biggest, best and richest City in Eastern North Carolina. Today is the master of the situation; tomorrow if an imposter. We have determined to follow the command of Oliver Crom well, who said: "Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking." I We have realized that true mastery is a compact of patriotism, enthusiasm intelligence and unconquerable will and that we cannot become masters of the situation by accident or in dolence. We have learned that in building a City we are faced with p problem as important as the tariff or the railway question, and that its so lution does not lie in merely putting good men in office, but that it consist? in making the City a humanized entitj with purposes and plans, with fore sight and dreams, with humanity and generosity; in abolishing poverty1 and the costs of poverty, in training the people properly, in raising their stand ards of living, of happiness and of morals. This city is surrounded by a rich agricultural country and the people are indust'ous, thrifty and honest and it is the location and environment that furnishes the foundation for the great est city in Eastern North Carolina, ROOMS Suite of unfurnished rooms with bath, lights and gas suitable for light house keeping convenient ly located and in desirable neigh borhood. Apply at corner of I Mul berry and Virginia streets or phone 417-J. WAYNE COUNTY TEACHERS 3I0MHLY MEETLXG I THIS CITY LAST SATURDAY WAS IMFE WITH ABSORBING IX. TEREST. The monthly meeting of the Wayne County Teachers' Association was held in the center building of the Goldsboro Graded school, Saturday, Feb. 7 1914. The meeting was called to order by the County Superintendent and opened with the Lord's prayer. The program for this meeting was as follows: 1. Language in the 5th grade by Miss Clara Spicer of the Goldsboro Graded School. Miss Spicer jgviewed the work done by her ga( since school opened last fall. Every teacher present was benefited by Miss Spicer' talk. It was full of practical, nelpful suggestions and was made all the more interesting by the display of some of the work done by the pupils of her grade. Supt. Atkinson thanked Miss Spicer for her splendid instructions and also for showing the work of her pupils. The next on the program wast teach ing arithmetic in the 5th and 6th grades, conducted by Miss Stover, of the Fremont High school. Miss Stover says the teachers must know the work as a unit. She insisted ' on thoroughness showing how the work of the high school is hampered by poor work in the lower grades She gave some helpful instruction or j teaching the multiplication table, di- vision and the analysis of problems Miss Stover put much stress on usin? problems relating to things that the pupils are familiar with. Miss Brooks and several of the oth er teachers told how they used prac tical I examples. A supplement to Milne's Progressive Arithmetic prc-pared by E. C. Brook? and I. O. Schwab was given to each of the teachers present. The meeting adjourned for ten min utes." The meeting reassembled at 12:55: all the three organizations now meet ing together. Superintendent Atkinson stated that the organization of nine Betterment Associations was reported at the first Teachers Meeting this year, eight at the second and two at the third, mak ing in: all, nineteen active Betterment Associations in the county. j Miss Susk Fulghum now talked on the Betterment work. She asked the tions for Betterment work: Helping children to go to school, helping them to find their life work, and making the bool a ! social center. HfjShe gave the following programs tc be used by the teachers at Bettermeni meetings: Local History Evening Suggestions: 1. j Both parents and pupils should have places on this program. The work of ; the children may take the form of a paper and may be counted as composition work in their regular classes. 2. See that no specially important events of local history are omitted from the program. The Program : 1. ! Song led by school choir. 2. Devotional exercises. 3. j The first settler and his time. 4. j The oldest church in the com munity. 5. 6. ally. 7. 8. Our first school house. How we have grown education- Song led by school choir. Farming today and farming forty years ago. 9. Introduction of improved farm ing machinery. 10. Introduction of improved live stock in the community. 11. Successful men who were rear ed in this community. 12. Song led by school choir. Good Roads Evening Suggestions: 1. 1 Try to make the program as practical as possible. 2. ; Emphasize the losses to the com munity that poor roads make neces sary. 3. J Make special effort to get a large attendance. 4.1 Get some expression, as by vote of what ought to be done now, and how to proceed. I The Program: l 1 1. Song led by school choir. 2. Devotional exercises. 3i A map showing the public roads of the neighborhood (this may be drawn on the blackboard by one of the pupils before the meeting begins. 4. Inconvenience of the roads as they are (by citizen.) 5. Are our roads properly located' (by citizen). 6. How much does the community lose yearly by not having better roads? (by pupil). 7. Song led by choir. 8. What would it cost to make our roads what they should be? Would it pay? (by citizen). 9. The best means of improving our roads (by citizen). 10. When should we begin? (by citizen). 11. Song led by choir. f Health Sight Suggestions: 1. This program should be princi pally instructive. 2. If possible have a physician ad dress this meeting. 3. Have the pupils to draw upon what they have learned in their classe" in j health and sanitation. I The Program : 1. Song led by school choir. 2. Devotional exercises. 3. The house fly as a spreader of disease (by pupil). 4. Ventilation of bed room (by pu pil). 5. Why we have colds (by a pupil or citizen). 6. Song by school choir. 7. The greatest source of disease in this community (by pupil). 8. Song by school choir. Story Life of Great Men Suggestions : 1. This program should be made up of both citizens and pupils. 2. Make the program mainly of stories about great men not mere biographies. 3. See that the pupils who take part know something worth while to tell about the characters selected. The Program: 1. Song led by school choir. 2. Devotional exercises. 3. An incident in thi life of George Washington. 4. Lincoln as a story teller (by a citizen). 5. Personal recollections of a great man (by a citizen). 6. Song led by school choir. 7. The human side of General Le? (by a citizen). 8. A story about my favorite hero in history (by pupil). 9. Debate: Resolved, that Washing ton was a greater general than Napo leon. Affirmative, a citizen and pupil Negative, a citizen and pupil. 10. Decision of Judges. 11. Song led by school choir. Miss Fulghum said that much hel) in the Betterment work could be ob tained from the following books: "School and Home Gardens" published j by Ginn & Co., New York. "School Sanitation and Decoration of the School" published 1 D. C. Heath & Co., New York. Supt. Atkinson thanked Miss Fulg hum in behalf of the teachers for her splendid talk. He insisted on every teacher organizing a Betterment. Asso ciation. He said that the school that fails to get the people of the com munity interested in not doing what is expected of a school. Plans for the County Commenc'e ment was next on the program. Mr. J. H. Allen, chairman of the committee to make plans for the com mencement made the following report: The plans for the commencement are very much as they have been here tofore. A prize of $10 for the first and $5 for the second best exhibit will be given to each the high school, the grammar grades and tne primary grades. The Grammar schools wil1 contest in Declamation and Recitation Mr. Allen stated that the Superintend ent had prepared a circular letter that would explain all other plans. Each teacher was given a copy of the fol lowing letter: Grammar School Contest in Declama tion and Recitation. Under the auspices and at the time of the County Commencement to be held in Goldsboro in April for the pub lic schools of Wayne county, the Gram mar School Contest in Declamation and Recitation will be held. Two gold medals will be given for declamation and two for recitation The best boy declaimer will receive the first declaimer's medal and second best boy declaimer the second de claimer's medal. The best girl reciter will receive the first reciter's medal and the second best girl will receive the second reciter's medal. District Contest. Let each teacher select a nice speech for each boy and girl in the school. On the first Friday afternoon in March have a district contest for appointment to township contest, which will be held the second Friday in March as outlined in this letter. We want each school to send one boy and one girl to the township contest. Do not neg lect this. Send the best declaimer and the best reciter. Township Contest. On March the 13th, the second Fri day afternoon, at 2 o'clock,' the town ship contest for appointment to rep resent the township at the county com mencement will be held at the central school of each township as follows: Brogden Dudley Miss Sue Allen Dudley. . Fork Rosewood Mr. H. W. Doub Goldsboro, R. No. 1. Grantham Falling Creek Mr. G. W. Rhodes, Goldsboro, R. No. 4. Great Swamp Memorial Mrs. Alice Easom, Kenly, R. No. 4. Indian Springs Seven Springs Mr E. C. Harris, Seven Springs. Nahunta Eureka Mr. A. H. Flow ers, Eureka. New Hope Casey Chapel Miss Daisy Grant, Goldsboro, R. No. 2. Buck Swamp Edgewood Miss Let tie Hooks, Pikeville, R. No. 2. Pikeville Pikeville Mr. J. H. Allen Pikeville. Saulston Hood Swamp Miss Viola Bowden, Saulston, R. No. 1. Stoney Creek Novel Hill Miss Ruth Malone, Goldsoro, R. No. 5. The teachers named above will be the general managers of their respec tive township contests. This central teacher will get in touch with all the principals and schools in the township and arrange for a great township meeting. Let the different schools contribute to the meeting in the way of music, songs, speeches or otherwise. Let some of the teachers make talkF on school problems. Let one teacher sreak on county commencement, ex plaining all about it and urging all the teachers and children and patrons to attend. As stated above each school is ex pected to send one boy declaimer and one girl reciter to' the township con- test. The best Loy declaimer and thr best girl reciter at the township con will represent h township a ! - finy Commencement to contest iov tLe soM medals. The teachers cmer '1.- eaktis ior the township contcs ' "I ag; ce on ji.uge-6 a .id hae th ,; .dges to u::end the c-uii est. This plan will give e eiy boy an.! s i i in u.e coi nty a. chance :o contes ior the med-is and will reduce the ..lumber of speakers at the Count' Comment eiuent to twenty-four.. , School Exhibits, j Yv'e want to urge each teacher in j the county to make an exhibit o: f school work at the County Commence 1 ment m drawing, map drawing, writ ten work, construction work, handi-. work, sewing, bread-making, woo-' work, etc. We are anxious "that' Our ' exhibit this year shall be the best eve' oflered heretofore. Suitable cash prizes will bo given for first and sec i ond best exhibits. We know that the teacehrs -will d all they can to make our commence ment this year a great success. In vite every patron and committeemat : of your school. Talk commencement from now on. Try to get every pupi" in your school to go to commencement ! We want at least 5,000 children in the j parade. Every family will be expecter' ; to bring a well filled basket so that we ' may have a picnic dinner. Each town ship is asked to manage its own din i ner. Twelve tables will be prepared one for each township. Speeches should be limited to six or eight min utes. There are a few speech books here in the office, should you need as sistance. Very truly, E. T. ATKINSON, County Supt. A motion was carried to have the Commencement on the 3rd of April. On motion cf Mr. Proctor all com position and written work must be on paper 8x11 inches, and exhibits must be mounted on card board 24x36 inches. The card board may be any color. The teachers were given a list of the prizes offered to the boys of the Corn Club and were asked by the Sup erintendent to try to get the school boys to Join the Club. He suggested that a corn exhibit' be given at the school houses on North Carolina Day. The meeting adjourned to meet again the first Saturday in March. MISS BERTHA CASEY. Secretary. The High School and Primary or ganizations handed in the following reports: The meeting of the High School de partment was opened with the Lord's prayer, followed by roll call, reading and adoption of minutes of last meet ing. The discussion of the subject for the morning "Teaching of English Composition" was opened by Mr. Rhodes of Falling Creek. Other mem bers followed with helpful suggestions to teachers as to the most successful parts of their own experience. Mr. Allen of Pikeville, was chosen to lead in the discussion of mathemat ics at the next meeting. Mr. Marc'ey, Secretary of the Cham ber of Commerce is to be invited to read a paper on "Vocational Guid ance." The meeting adjourned after the following new members were enrolled: Miss Rachel Maxwell and Mr. E. C. Harris, of Seven Springs, and Mr. Proctor, of Mt. Olive. Respectfully submitted, PENINE STOVER, Secretary. The Primary Teachers met in their regular meeting on Jan. 10th, 1914, at 10 : 30 a. m. The meeting was called to order by the President. The fol lowing program was given: 1. Seat Work Miss Laura E. Moore. Is a name long associated with good merchandise of every description. To buy anything at WEIL'S means a satisfactory outcome of the transaction. We use the same business methods in handling Fertilizers and Fertilizer Materials. We select the product which we have carefully examined and found to be all right. When it comes to ready-mixed Guanos, there is a big '-difference in their sources of ammonia brands only high-grades of ammoniate are used. We have been, and are yet, the exclusive distributers for Prolific Cotton Others will tell you they can give you the same analysis goods, but the the same "Prolific" he has always bought. We sell specia mixtures for all kinds of crops. See us before you buy. '.;.' ru" iru We . .. - 1 - ' Ks VX" S T .n,.,.-,.;," MR. 1'OlttIST ZiSMMER. A3 .ROBERT PA 1 1) FOR" AT MESSM.VG ER OPE RA Have you -over tlKjuiiit of tho "many ad vantages you Jiavc in tloiiiLT vour Banking with us. TI-8 1 IN KTHiSOVER Interest Paid on Savings Accounts Careful Attention given Checking counts : -No Exchange Charged us for ).)( it '!-: a ie open ox ! a. in. to ;o :.-$() p. m. Kveninu- CAPITAL $150,000.00 "." 2. Writing and Drawing Miss Zulia Ketchie. 3. Teaching Games Miss Josephine Baldwin. The discusisons which followed the program were interesting and very helpful. The speakers of the first three num bers being absent the meeting was STRAFFORD BOUGHT AND HOUSE, WEDNESDAY, FEB. IS. Ae- oh Checks given r" oiiH s. 7 to !.': h. 3 ." ",-.""-. - - - . , - open to a general discussion. Each number was taken separately and much interest was shown in the discussions. Many helpful ideas were given on Drawing and Paper Cutting. The meeting adjourned on motion to meet the first Saturday in March. ' MAMIE N. EDWARDS, . Secretary. 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