Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-06-23
WALTER LETTER
A Condensed Chronicling Of a
Weeks Happenings.

MI. A. j. Woodland went to
Smithfeld Friday to attend the
commencement exercises.
Col. NJ. K. Crawford spent a
few days with his daughter, Mrs.
Ed. Gurley, last week.
Mr.. Osmon Coor returned home
last week from Smithfeld, where
he has been attending burlington
Institute.
Misses Mollie Howell and
Lula Rose, of Johnston county,
were visiting the Misses Smith
last Sunday, near Ebenezer.
Mrs. [. S. D. Sauls, from Nor
folk, Va, has been visiting her
sister Mrs. D. A. Sasser, near
here, returning home Monday.
Rev. Mr.. Mcfarland filled his
appointment at Ebenezer last
Sunday evening, and preached a
fine sermon to an appreciative
congregation.
There is considerable sickness
in our neighborhood at present,
as is generally the case when
there is an abundance of fruit, as
we have this year.
Messrs. Charlie Brown, Rich
ard Merritt and George Wells, of
your city, attended church at
Eibenezer last Sunday afternoon.
They all came on their bicycles.
Mr.. Ed Gurley caught a large
'possum on the road one day last
week as he was going to Stevens
mill. He is fattening him, and
viii have early "'possum and Ia
ter"
Messrs. Jno. Edwards and
Clarence Woodland, of your city,
were in our community Sunday.
We do not know whether they
wanted to get their wheat thresh-
led or what.
Mrs. Ophelia Crawford and
daughters, Misses Bertha and
Carrie, visited Mrs. A. l.. Or
|mond last week, and attended the
commencement Of burlington In
Istitute, returning Sunday.
The crops are getting a move
on them since the recent rains,
and "Gen. Green" has modified
his troops and has already bonn
barded several fields, but he can
mot hold them, as his supplies will
be cut off.
Some scoundrel entered Mr..
Wiley Eason's house last Sunday,
while the family were away, and
ransacked everything, evidently
looking for money. This is get
ting to be a serious thing, and
some one will get hurt yet.
The crop of spring chickens is
abundant, bnt are rather back
ward in ripening, due, we sup
pose, to a late spring. But this
does not Inconvenience us, as our
propensity as an epicure is not
sufficiently developed in this line
as to fit US for the itineracy.
The sound of the thresher is
heard in the land, and soon bis
cult will be made plentiful; and
blackberry roll nor numerous.
The blackberry crop is finer than
we have seen it in years, and with
no unforeseen event, we hope to
be carried over till .shog and hon.
my" r ripe.
Mr.. A. L. Sasser has quite a
novelty on his excellent farm
near here. He has a hound which
is SO endowed with maternal in
stinct that she has adopted a lit
ter of pigs, which had lost their
mother. She seems to lavish
upon them the same motherly
care she would her own offspring,
and they, in turn, regard her with
a devotion which requires only
developing to be hoggish.
How much better we would
feel, and how much better the
world would be if we were care
lful what we said of our ~neighbor!
But SO many of us r not. Kind
words cost no one anything, and
often lift us from the vale of de-
~lspondency and flood our lives with
beauty and gladness, when with
iont them. all Wauld be sadness