Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-09-15
WALTER LETTER.
A Condensed ChrOnicling of a

eehS happenings,
The singing school at Ebene-
zer closes next Saturday with an
Entertainment.
Miss Berta Crawford is on a
visit to her sister Mrs. A. l..
Ormond at Smithfeld.
Miss Indiana Woodland, from
near Priceton, is on a visit to her
sister Mrs. Isaac Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Yelverton,
from near Eureka, visited their
daughter, Mrs. D. A. Sasser last
week.
The meeting at Oakland closed
Sunday night, resulting in many
conversions and much good to
the community,
Miss Eugenia Coor visited
Misses Laura and Lula Lynch in
Johnston county last Saturday.
returning Sunday evening.
Mr.. Dallie Hines spent last Sat-
urday and Sunday with his sis
ter, Mrs. Fred Cox, on "South
Side'' of Neuse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rufin Bailey, from
near Selma, were visiting Mrs.
Bailey's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Smith, last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Gurley and
Mrs. DR.. Crawford attended the
meeting at Oakland last Sunday.
and were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilson Hodges at dinner.
The yearly meeting Of the
Primitive Baptists convened at
Chapel church last Saturday and
ISunday, and was attended by a
large crowd, especially on Suns
day.
Mr.. David Smith, an Industrious
farmer, near Priceton, who has re-
Gently purchased a portion of land
from L., B. Holt, Esq, lost a walls
liable horse on Sunday.
Rev. A. L.. Ormond and wife,
spent last Tuesday night with
Mrs. Ormond's parents, Col. and
Mrs. Crawford, on their return
home from visiting relatives in
Greene county.
Mrs. Bessie Cochran, who has
been visiting her brother and sis
ters, Mr.. j. G. and Misses. Mary
and Gertrude Thompson, returned
to her home near Charlotte last
Tuesday.
Mr.. Phil Crawford went to
Morehead on the Stockholders
excursion last week, returning
home Thursday evening. Says
the train left him at Kinston, but,
we will not tell on him.
The many friends of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. A. Sasser, of near Ere
mont, in this section, will learn
with sorrow, that they are very
sick, the former seriously so, he
having been critically i'll for two
weeks.
There will be speaking at Pine
Forest next Thursday night by
Hon. W. r. Allen and Hon. W.
II. Dortch, and we would like to
sec every voter in this township
present. The present state of az
fairs is sufficient to arouse every
man who considers his welfare
and that of his family and State.
Mr.. John A. Sasser came near
having a serious, if not fatal acs
cident last Wednesday. He was
4drawing water when the we'll
sweep broke, and would have
fallen on his head, but for its be-
ing fastened to the hand pole by
a chain which caught the fall
enough to throw the sweep just
back enough to miss him before
looming to the ground.
When we consider what the
Democratic party has done and
is doing for the colored race.
building asylums for their af11ict-
ed, schools for their children,
normal schools for their teachers.
and being taxed to educate them,
helping build their churches and.
in fact, doing all possible to ems
tighten, elevate and christianize
them, and see how little gratitude
the majority of them manifest.
We are reminded of what some
one says: s'He who expects grats
itude is like the weary traveller
who sits on the rivers bank