Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-10-11
WALTER LETTER.
A Chronicling of a Weeks Events
In That Thriving Neigh
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Mr.. Winston Wells, from Prince
was visiting in u community
last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seth Dixon returned
Sunday from a visit to relatives IN
Greene county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos MCGEE, from
your city, were visiting relatives
here Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglass Hastings
from Princeton, spent Sunday with
MI. and Mrs VIM. Smith.
Miss Gertrude Thompson spent
several days in your city last week,
visiting Miss Clyde Peacock.
Mr.. Wright Lynch was s%ojourning
among US last Sunday, where his
many friends were glad to see him.
Rev. H. M. Jackson, assisted by
Rev. Mr.. Moyle, from your city, is
conducting a meeting at Pine Forest
this week.
Miss Lula Yelverton, from Stan
tonsburg, is on @ visit to her sister,
Mrs. Geo. Z. Becton, to the delight
of her many friends here.
Mr.. Jethro Howell, from your city,
spent Saturday night and Sunday
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
@. Howell, and "others"-principally
~others."
Miss Dixie Lee Caldwell. while
attending the Sunday School Asso-
citation in your city, was taken sick,
and returned home on the 'tshoony"
Sunday morning.
Mrs. Ed. Gurley and Miss Pearl
Hornaday spent Saturday and Sun
day in "the Gem City of the Plains,
visiting relatives and attending the
Sunday School Convention.
The season for 'tpossum and tater''
is now at hand, but the nearest we
have come to it yet, we have pota-
toes every day and saw n lean,
lank 'possum for sale last Saturday.
Ruff Richardson, a very worthy
old darkey, who has been a familiar
figure in this community ever since
the war, a quiet, ~unofensive old fell
low, died suddenly last Monday
morning.
If the crab grass in our county
was all saved and marketed at sc
cents per hundred, we dare say If
would be q source Of more revenue
than the crop of cotton at 10 cents
per pound.
Making syrup is now the order O:
the day. or at least with those wht
are fortunate enough to get a mill
There is quite a lot of cane in thu
community, and from present pros
poets, we are going to have a swee
time, and old fashioned ginger cakes
by the cupboard full.
The Star Minstrel Company, from
your uity, gave an entertainment a
Apple Jack school house last Tues
day night, but owing to the inclem
ent weather, there was not a yer.
large crowd present. They will re
peat their performance Thursda,
night, Oct 18th. when we hope the
will oot q ooo6 crowd
IF there is one thing in your cit
which surpasses her magnificent e
Union Depot, as to space occupie
and the need OF an accident polio
to pedestrians, or those driving, it
the vast e1panse Of her yard fl
marketing cotton. It IS calculated
jar ones equilibrium to get off tt
noon train and drive, or ride a whe
down Walnut street on q busy da
Her many friends here were dee
ly panied to hear of the death of Mr.
Emma Raiford Carter, which occu
red at Mt. Olive last Friday. She W
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. B.
Raiford. She leaves a husband al
a baby only a few months old al
hosts of friends to mourn her seer
ingly untimely death. Our emit
community tender to the bereav
family it's tenderest sympathy.
It is an indisputable fact, that t
business men realize more fully t
profit in agriculture than the far