Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-02-10
WALTER LETTER.
A Condensed Chronicling of the
Happenings of a Week

waiter, IN. VI, FSOs Is 30.
The little six year old boy OF
Mrs. Eleanora Pearce fell off 6
grind rock last Thursday and
broke his arm. DR.. Crawford
rendered the necessary attention
and the little fellow is doing
well.
AS our jovial friend MIR. Arted
Brewer was going to town one
day last week, he discovered
Mr.. VIM. Smiths house to be On
fire. He gave the alarm, and by
hard work it was saved. 1t is
supposed to have caught from a
spark, as it was burning on top.
Mr.. Whitford Edgerton came
near losing his house also. His
wife left for a few minutes and
when she returned the bed was
burning, and the ceiling above
caught soon after Mrs Edgerton
got there, but they extinguished
the flames before any serious
damage was done.
Our enterprising neighDor Mr..
Lewis Hastings has pulled his
old house away and is erecting a
nice cottage in its stead. We are
glad to note evidences of his
prosperity.
Mr.. Luther Grantham visited
his sister Mrs, Beverly Sasser.
last Sunday.
The wedding bells will ring
again this week. One of our
cleyerest young men will wed one
of Wilson couuty's fair daughter.
The matrimonial fever had about
subsidized, but we see evidences of
its outbreak again, and from pres
ent prospects, we predict a mum
Der of cases. We will SAY, (by
way of parenthesis) for the benefit
of our handsome young friend,
that the best and surest way to get
a "Coor" is to squeeze it quietly,
when opportunity ripens-We
speak from experience.
Aunt" Cindy Howell, a wor>
thy old colored woman, killed a
pig last week, ID months old, that
weighed Ala pounds. Her exam
pie is worthy of emulation. Sill
you fnd men you cannot con-
vince that it is cheaper to Keep
hogs in close pens: It is the best
way for the average farmer to-
raise them probably.
The extreme
cold weather for the past week
has stopped farming operations
in cur midst, but the truckers are
still busy planting peas when
ever the ground is in condition
A severe cold spell of weather a.
ways arouses our nobler feelings,
when we realize how many poor
fellow beings suffer thereby It
is a good time for a man to mani
fest his fellow feeling, as cold
and hunger generally are closely !
associated.
We have been ''ruminating"
over the past, and we were
carried back more than d quarter
of a century to the time when we
were the proud possessor of our
first breeches, and how cur dear
mother would make US lay down
on the floor and mark around US
with a piece of chalk, to get our
measure then, when our breeches
were finished, there was no North
nor South to then, no Mason
and Dixon line, and Wheel we
put them on, and beheld our
lovely form, we could not tell, by
them whether we were coming
home, or going to school. But
times are different now. It is a
very short period DOW, from the
boy in dresses, and the sgoslin"
in long pants. It took boys
twenty odd years then to become
men, now most of them are
grown" by the time they are
twelve, and old mep, correspond
ingly, in experience, if not in
years. IT'S sadly true.
Miss Lula Yelverton, who has
a host Of friends in our commu>
nifty, accompanied by her brother
Mr.. bred Yelverton, were wis.,