Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-08-19
A RIVER PHENOMENON.
THE WATERIN LITTLE RIVER
UNACCOUNTABLY GREEN.
Much Sickness Along it's Course:
A Wholesome Paragraph to
Young Men ON the Farm:
G0ldsb0r0 as a Tobacco Mar
ket,
WALTER. n. c.. AUG. l.

DEAR ARGUS-1he farmers OF
our community are almost done
curing tobacco, and pulling fod-
der will be next in order.
The tobacco growers in this
section are speaking in high praise
of Goldsboro as a market. The
prices paid there suggest the idea
of an advent of prosperity.
We have never seen the water
in Little River IN the condition
it is now. and can fnd no one
who has ever noticed a similar
condition. It is q dark green,
and its very looks is suggestive
OF sickness. We cannot account
for it, unless it is due to the fact
that within it the germs Of MAJ
laria are holding high carnival.
Sickness IN the Fork, especially
lust across the river, is on an in
crease, and we think if it continues
long we will get a "corner" on
chills.
Miss Agnes Gurley has suffered
a relapse, and was very sick this
week, but is some better now, we
r glad to say,
Mrs, Ed. Gurley is again on the
sick list, we are sorry to say. We
wish she may con be her former
self.
Miss Carrie Crawford was con
fined to her bed last week by sick
ness, but is out again, though still
lndisposed,
Miss Bessie Swinson has been
quite sick for several days, but
we learn she is some better.
Our genial friend Mr.. Tobey
Howell was taken suddenly sick
at Dr.. Crawford's tobacco barn
one day last week and vas in a
critical condition for some time.
Toby says he thought he was fast
approaching a dissolution, but is
improving now.
We are glad to learn that our
friend, the only original Raf Rose,
has recovered from his recent i'll
ness, and says he feels better than
in some time, and is as young as
ever, but not old enough to get
married.
Miss Maggie Lynch, of Colds
boro, was adding her charms to
the pleasant home of the Misses
Dixon last week.
Misses Kate Sasser and Daisy
CHM, of Goldsboro, were in the
nelghborhood last week attending
the meeting at Ebenezer.
Miss Lizzie Kennedy, of Dup
lin, is visiting her sister, the good
wife of Rev. Charles Peterson.
Mr.. Geo. Sasser, who pulls the
throttle on the Southern Railway,
is homo on a vacation, spending
part OF the time with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Sasser.
Mr.. Lewis Hastings and wife
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Cox,
on South Side" last week.
Rev. MIR. Bristowe OF st.
Johns church attended. the meet
ing at Ebenezer last week, and
preached two stirring sermons
on Wednesday.
The meeting at Ebenezar closed
Friday evening, very abundant
ly. There were several peni>
tents, and a number of reclalma.
tions, and we hope much good was
dOne in enthusing the members
with renewed earnestneSs and
zeal in good works.
Mr.. jim Edwards and wife
narrowly escaped a serious. &C
cident on their way to town last
Friday. AS they approached Mr..
Tom Parker's there were some
loose horses that frightened a
pair of mules which were hitched
to a cutaway harrow. In their
excitement and effort to give the
mules the right of way, Mrs.
Edwards was thrown from the
buggy, with her baby in her
arms. and received a painful,
though not serious fall. The
baby was not in the least in
jured.
W. attended a sale of tobacco
last Thursday, and it is wonders
full how a man can get his mouth
to go off so rapidly, as a tobacco
auctioneer. If it had been a wos
man we would not have though
it out of the usual line, for we
saw one on the street indulging
her lingual propensity, and we
come to the conclusion she had
set her mouth going and had gone
eff and left it, and it was guar
anteed to run eight days or
money refunded.
We think it one of the most
unfortunate things in mans
makeup, that restless, unsettled
and dissatisfied condition which
gets hold of not a few farmers al
this season. They are undecided
what to do, aud remain SO til
nearly time to begin anouher
crop. Not satisfied with letting
well enough alone" they cas-
about to try to find something
else to do besides farm, that will
pay them better, when in many
cases it is this state of unrest
and indecision which units them
fer the active duties Of farm life.
We can nninh Won 10 moro thar