Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-11-22
WALTER LET ER.
"A ChrOnicling of a Weeks Events
In That Thriving Neigh
hOrhO0G
bOrhOod.

Mr.. James Fl. Edgerton, from
Pinkney, spent Sunday with his sis
ter, Mrs. L. K. Howell.
Mr.. Phil Crawford came up Fri
day, accompanied by his little neice,
Elvis Sutton, returning home on
Sunday.
Our tax collector, Mr.. Ben Sasser,
requests US to say that he has been
called on for taxes, and he is com
PEELED to collect before he can COM
ply. "a word to the wise," SC.
Mr.. W. Fl. Lane has his store near
the junction almost neadyto occupy.
He contemplates building a nice
cottage also, which will add much to
the little village of "Grassmere."
Mrs. Ophelia Crawford and Miss
Berta are spending this week at
coax Glen" with DIR. and Mrs. Will
Crawford, while somo necessary i'm
provements are being added to their
home.
Her many friends regret to know
that Miss Eugenia Coor, one Of our
most popular young ladies, has been
confined to her bed for several days
with chills. We are glad to know she
is improving.
Our young friend Mr.. Jethro How
ell, who has been confined to his
bed for several days, is able to be
out again, we are very glad to know.
He was very much out on Sunday,
but not sufficient to threaten a e.
lapse.
Messrs. Ham Caldwell, Toby
Howell, Ruff Rose, Seth Dixon and
DIR. Crawford attended the East
. Carolina Fair last Thursday at New
bern, and some of the crowd eat so
many fish thay have not been able
to get off their billed" shirts since.
Miss Minnie Raiford, from Mt.
Olive, who has many friends in this
community, has been secured to
teach the school near Coor's Mill,
and will enter upon her duties next
Monday. She is a most estimable
young lady and an efficient teacher,
and we are glad to have her near.
Some Of the finest sweet potatoes
we have ever seen were raised out
here, after a crop of friend Bob Pip
kin's Irish potatoes. They were
grown by our neighbor Mr.. Toby
Howell. But don't tell Bob, or he
will be trying to claim half of them,
too. He may not be aware of the
fact, but he is furnishing caters
for this Immediate section still; and
we have enough sweet potatoes to
last till he sends more seed Irish
potatoes. So we are taking things
easy, and trying to be "calm and
serene"
We had just succeeded in getting
on the outside of an immense din
ner and frescoed our bread basket
WILL dudAUum 6UllS1l w Sa11y Ia
over to the next week, when a pitch
er of delightful perslmmon beer WAS
brought IN. We could not resist, but
added to our interior decorations
about two glasses. Just at that time
we were reminded that we had over
looked an old-fashioned huckleberry
pie. and as we assumed a CLOSING
out" attitude to make room for
about half of it, we remarked, "Evi-
IDENTIFY this is a huckleberry over my
persimmon."
Very few of us in the country ap-
preciate the many things for which
we should be thankful. And as win
ter approaches what a luxury it is
to have bright cheerful fires, and
not have to borrow some ones GUS
sing apparatus, or use one gallon of
oil to get one fire of green wood to
burn, or tear down barn and stable
and everything in reach which prom
ised to be more combustibIe,i in order
to be comfortable, and then have
your teeth chatter so hard that you
can't keep your hat IN. It is mighty
hard to be scalm and serene" under
such circumstances We have tried it,
and any one SO afflicted has our
warmest sympathy, but sympathy
is not a s'cold knocker."
kILLICKINICK
SOAK Glenn,