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bi Nitisaal Bask tf Coldsboie mlj national Baak 1 the Conty GEO. A. NORWOOD, Presideat. GEO. C KOENEGAY, CasMer. Weekly Argus Tbe NatiW Bank ef Boldsborr Waatt jwt hastneng and be glad t talk or rorr with yow GEO. A. NORWOOD. Pi pffti 31. J. RES f , Vip.prM. 'This Arra o'er tke peopla'i rizkti Dptfc wternal rifi' keep ; No Boottiing traina of Maia'a on, Can lull it hundred eyes ij leeT VOL. LX GODDSBORO, ST. C, THUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19. 1914 lis; G0LDSB0B0 AND IIS POSSIBILITIES At the annual banquet of the Golds boro Chamber of Commerce held last week Mr. Matt H. Allen, of the city bar, replied 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 yet, I am expected to so digest it as to cover the theme in ten minutes. And so when I found that I was compelled tc Bi'eak I decided to arrange as best I could a short summary, showing the capital and resources of this city, the achievements of its progressive 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 what most of you already know. The Goldsboro of yesterday was the most modest town ia all the South The Goldsboro o 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 al' the State was touched by nature with a more lavish hand. The citizens of this community are of the highest type in the whole nation. This town has sent forth statesmen who have wrested expressions of admiration not only from the nation, but from strange tongues. It has reared and trained educators of national fame. It har developed business men who are ar 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 of Eng land, and yet, from motives past find ing out, we have heretofore spoken of our own with scrupulous, care, whilr on the other hand we have given our admiration, with generous candor, tc the achievements of our neighbors There is no explanation of! this unlesr it be some deep and reverential fear of the noble sentiment to which patriot ism and pious thought have con demned us: Esse quam videri. But the Goldsboro of today 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 which has been properly denominated an age of experiment and advancement. The human mind seems to have burst it? ancient linr"t in search of the means of progress. Our nation, whose motto was, simpliciter et vere, is seeing a wave of money power driven by art impetus of commercialism, sweer across it with a suddenness and im mensity which takes the breath away froi all the lookers on in other coun tries. With the springing up of thie new era Goldsboro ha? 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 sixteen 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 hundred 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 hundred twenty-two and 37-100 dollars. Goldsboro handles annually thirty thousand iales 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 a twenty thousand 'lollar 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 recently voted one hundred thousand of good roads bonds for twenty six miles of road; and forty thousand dollars for a new high school building. 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 the property 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. Goldsboro 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 the four loops are completed, we will have seven rnd a quarter miles of street railway over which will be rur a minimum of four cars; and it is ex pected that the cars will be running by the 24th of this month. Goldsboro has two of the most com plete and up-to-date Hospitals in North Carolina and one of them is owned and managed by the city and county. Goldsboro is a city .ree from cor rupt government. Tbo present City Clerk, who has held office for fifteen years, autnorizea tne statement max during his term of fifteen years as City Clerk he had never heard a sug gestion of graft or corruption. seven hundred and eighteen dollars The actual value of property in Golds boro is fifteen million dollars. The bonded debt of the City of Goldsboro is three hundred and eight thousand dollars; and the value of the City's holdings is three hundred eighty one thousand six hundred and 26-100 dollars. The City of Goldsboro recently pur chased thirty thousand dollars of its school bonds and eighteen thousand dollars of its funding bonds and it has money left in bank. It is so prosper ous that i even loans money to its citizens. It has recently loaned tc citizens of Goldsboro fifty-two thous and five hundred seventeen and 10-100 dollars, secured by real estate, and has left in bank thirty seven thousand six hundred ninety-seven and 70-100 Dollars for those who need it and can secure the loan. We are looking upon City adminis tration as 2 science. We have put our 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 is 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." 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 a 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 entity with purposes and plans, with fore sight and dreams, with humanity and generosity; in abolishing poverty 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 industr'ous, thrifty and honest and it is the location and environment that furnishes the foundation for the great est city in Eastern North Carolina. R003IS Suite of unfurnished rooms with bath, lights and gas suitable i for light house keeping convenient ly located and in desirable neigh borhood. Apply at corner of Mul berry and Virginia streets or phone 417-J. WAYNE COUNTY TEACHERS MONTHLY MEETING Of THIS CITY LAST SATURDAY WAS RIFE WITH ABSORBING INTEREST. 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 g viewed 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, helpful 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 was teach ing arithmetic in the 5th and 6th errades. conducted by Miss Stover, of the Fremont High school. Miss Stover says the teachers must ographies. 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 teaching the multiplication table, di vision and the analysis of problems Miss Stover put much stress on using 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 examples. A supplement to Milne's Progressive Arithmetic prepared by E. C. Brooks 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. Miss Susie Fulghum now talked on the Betterment work. She asked the Question: What is a Betterment As sociation? and gave the answer: Anj. association that helps or benefits a community is a Betterment Associa tion. She made the following sugges tions for Betterment work: Helping children to go to school, helping them to find their life work, and making the sphool a social center. p;j6he gave the following programs tc be used by the teachers at Betterment meetings : Local History Evening: Suggestions: 1. 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. The first settler and his time. 4. The oldest church in the com munity. 5. Our first school house. 6. How we have grown education. ally. 7. Song led by school choir. 8. 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. Try to make the program as practical as possible. 2. Emphasize the losses to the com munity that poor roads make neces sary. 3. Make special effort to get a large attendance. 4. Get some expression, as by vote of what ought to be done now, and how to proceed. The Program : 1. Song led by school choir. 2. Devotional exercises. 3. 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. Health Night 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 in health and sanitation. 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 hi 3. See that the pupils who take test. The best Loy declaimer and thr part know something worth while to best girl reciter at the township con the township a I tell about the characters selected The Program: 1. Song led by schcol choir. 2. Devotional exercises. ' 3. An incident in the 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 Lee (by a citizen). 8. A story about my favorite hero in history (by pupil). 9. Debate: Resolved,; that Washing ton was a greater genefal 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 help in the Betterment work could be ob tained from the following books: School and Home Gardens" published 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 the 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 aM 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. Tw5 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. li 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, jiureKa. 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 RuthfMalone, 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 talke on school problems. Let one teacher Break on county commencement, ex plaining all about it and urging all the teachers and children and patron? to attend. , As stated above each school is ex pected to send one boy declaimer and one girl reciter to' the township con- te,t will represent ! County Commencement to contest foi the gold medals. The teachers enter 'is s, eakers lor the township contes .ill agree on juiges and have th judges to aUend the congest. This plan will give e ery boy and girl in me county a cuance lo contes' for the meduis and will reduce the : number of speakers at the County : Commencement to twenty-four. School Exhibits. Yv7e want to urge each teacher in the county to make an exhibit ol school work at the County Commence ment in drawing, map drawing, writ- j ten work, construction work, handi- j work, sewing, bread-making, wood j work, etc. We are anxious that our j exhibit this year shall be the best ever offered heretofore. Suitable cash j prizes will be given for first and sec j ond best exhibits. j We know that the teacehrs will dr I all they can to make our commence ment this year a great success. In vite every patron and committeemar 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 parade. Every family will be expected to bring a well filled basket so that wr may have a picnic dinner. Each town ship is asked to manage its own din ner. Twelve tables will be r.renared 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 of Mr. Proctor all com position and written work must be on paper 8xll 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. s 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. - ' A, . ' " ft'?. :ffira::::?:-:-: " ' " i S&; " 1 ; , ,, . llll MR. OKn:ST ZiSMMER AS ROBERT STRAFFORD IN "nniTfiHT 4-n PAID FOR" AT MESSENGER OPE RA HOUSE, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18. MiMi X Have you ever though t oil the many ad vantages you have in doing your Banking with us. THINK THIS OVER Interest" Paid on Savings Accounts Careful Attention given Checking Ac counts -NTo Exchange Charged on Checks given us for Deposit Courteous treatment accorded verv one WE ARE OPEN OX MX 0 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. ays Eveninurs, T to D:()0. WITH Peoples Bank 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 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. 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