Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-09-08
WALTER LETTER.
A Condensed ChrOnicling of a
Weeks Happenings,

MISS Bette Butts, from SauI
ston, is visiting her aunt, Mr.
r Seth Dixon.
Messrs. Dewitt Sherrard an
5 Herbert Howell YER visiting nea
here last Sunday.
Miss Ella Vail, from the Salen
+ section, was owe Sunday v%isitin,
| the Misses Smiths.
Mr.. Bob Raiford, from nea
| Mt. Olive, is in the community OIL
, a visit to relatives.
Misses Hattie and Pearl Thomp
son, from near Salem were visit
ing near here Sunday.
Messrs. Bob Grow and Wright
Lynch, from your city we're in the
neighborhood Sunday.
One of our incest young ladies,
Miss Mamie Hines, was visiting
relatives and friends in your city
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Mayo,
from Eureka, we're visiting Mr..
aud Mrs. Geo. L. Becton last Sun
day.
Fodder pulling is still the or
der Of the day with our farmers,
and in some localities it has been
badly damaged by the rains.
The fields around here are
white with cotton, but the pres
ent price offers poor inducement
to prepare it for market.
Mrs. Jack Yelverton, from near
Stantonsburg, has been visiting her
daughter, the estimable wife of
our friend and neighbor, Mr.. Geo.
L.. Becton.
There is a protracted meeting
in progress at Oakland conducted
by Revs. Perkins and Peterson
There is great interest manifest
ed aud we trust much good may
be accomplished.
There is more sickness in his
section now than at any time this
year. The weather has been fa~
vorable for the production Of
malaria, and there is an abund>
ance Of chills and fever.
The ST. John Sunday School
held their annual picnic at Eoen-
ezer last Thursday. Everything
passed off pleasantly. aud the
number of participants from this
section do not hesitate to say
it was the incest picnic aud best
dinner they ever attended.
The fox hunting season has
come. and the woods around here
are full Of music ever and anon.
Mr.. r. L Hooks has already
caught several, and with his fine
pack OF dogs affords much excit-
sport and pleasure for sew
eral of our citizens, among them.
some of our gray-haired fathers,
At the picnic given by St. John
Sunday school at Ebenezer last
Thursday, while enjoying the
many pleasures of the occasion,
Mrs. Ophelia Crawford had the
to lose her spectacles.
r gold trimmed, il a leather
case, and the finder Will be suita-
bly, rewarded by restoring them,
to the owner, or leaving
them with DR.. Crawford. She is
very much grieved over her loss,
and we trust may have the pleas
are OF recovering them.
There are some sections around
here in which the worms are
playing havoc with the tobacco.
We were informed that there is a
6eld near here in which their de-
have gone to such exs
tent as to leave nothing but the
stalks, and the old had
gone to a near by blacksmith
shop to have their bills pointed
so as to enable them to tackle
the stalk; and the small worms
sit in numberless groups on the
fence corners, begging every one
that passes for a "chaw terbac.
GER" They say some of the old
ones are the size of a mans leg.
and a consume more pounds of
tobacco in a day, than there we're
items in the Penitentiary report.
we will not vouch for
these statements as our inform
ant was not on his oath.
KILLICKINNICK.
Walter, N. c., Sept. Z.