Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-09-19
WAITER LETTER.
\ ghronfeling Of Il Weeks Events
ia That Thriving Neigh
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FRS. Angelina Peacock was Wait
ing Mrs. Susan Hooks LAST week.
Mr.. Don Lewis, from your city,
was visiting near Ebenezar last Sun
day. |
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Grady and
Mrs. Tew, from your city, spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. J. Q.
Howell.
Misses Beatrice Massey and Julia
Gurley, from near Smithfeld, spent
Sunday with Miss Eugenia Coor,
near here.
Misses Maggie Wells and Lula
Edwards, from your city, were dis
pensing their charms in the home of
the Misses Neal, and Smith last
week.
Nr. Henry Miller, of the firm OF
Miller aud Uzzell, of Raleigh, was
out here last week, talking pianos
and organs.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Neal, from
Wilson county. was visiting MIR.
Meals parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. FL.
Neal, last Saturday and Sunday.
Capt. Ernest Hollingsworth, from
-
Tarboro, and sister Miss Mittie, have
| been adding pleasure to the home of
| Miss Bessie Swinson, the past week.
The hardest rain we have had in
some time fell here Monday SITTER
noon, which will interfere with hay
making and cotton picking for sew
eral days.
Mrs. Ophelia Crawford, and
daughters, Misses Berta and Carrie
returned last week from an extended
visit TO Lenoir county, and the chest
town in the State"
Mr.. ". J. Gibson, of the firm of
Humphrey and Gibson, in your city,
was out here n day last week,
looking after A1r. Lotte Humphreys
farm, securing tenants for it for the
looming year.
There are various estimates on the
cotton crop in this community, but
we don't believe it will reach 40 pei
cen3.as several have picked over their
entire crop, getting from a half te
two bales from 10 toI20 acres. Corr
is, if anything, poorer than cotton
Toby Howell says he was very
f; sick, for a short while last Tuesday
BE ate barbecue for dinner, and
says, he is satisfied the germs O.
cholera infested that pig prior te
death, for it made him sick, and he
feared dissolution, at one time. II
fact he says he never did get any
better till be took two spoonsful o:
Pratt's food, which satisfies him that
there was cholera in it some where
Rev. Mr.. Benson preached a gooc
sermon at Ebenezer last Sunday
and laid stress particularly on church
worldliness. He hit some pretty
Isquare lieks from the shoulder, es
pecially when he said members O
the church would complain ST Ions
sermons, bat go to a political meet
ing and sit on a three cornered fence
rail for two hours and not tire. This
is all so, in fact all he said was true
and I trust did all OF US good, ane
will, if we do not think he intended
it for some else.
A protraoted meeting is in prog
ress at Ebenezer conducted by tin
pastor, Mr.. Benson, assisted by tn
pastor from Mt. Olive circuit. "
would like to see a genuine old fash
Toned revival of old time religion
such as Revs. Ransom Rose, ant
Jno. n. Andrews used to have there
when the entire community from
centre to circumference, would b
, aroused. It will require just such
lone, in this day of '1sms," "scisms,
creeds and dogmas, to cause the pee
Iple to awake from their lethargy an.
seek salvation while it may be found
:. kILLICKINICK.
SOAK Glenn,
Walter, N. c.. Sept. 10. 1901.
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