Goldsboro weekly argus., 1902-10-16
WAYNE COUNTY CORRESPONDENT
WALTER LETTER
ChrOnici]ng OF a Weeks Ev nts
III That Thriving Nigh
bOrhOod.
ARGUS BUREAU
WALTER, N. G,
OCT. 15, 1902.


Capt. R. P. Howell, from your
city, spent Sunday at Oak Glenn
where we are always glad to see
him.
Mr.. Richard Hines has turned his
dwelling around and will erect a
larger one in front which will give
him cozy, comfortable home.
Rev. A. L. Ormond, Of Cary, and
Mr.. Jarvis Sugg, of Washington, n
c., were here short while last
Thursday morning, where we were
all glad TO see them.
Several Of our farmers are busy
housing corn, and soon the moon
light nights will witness the old
fashioned husking with taters and
'simmon beer in evidence.
This reminds us that the season
for possum and tater is at our door,
or at least the latter is, and we want
to get Henry Grady to furnish the
possum and we will do the rest.
The man who wrote "The melan-
cholly days have come," surely
must not live in the country, for
they are anything but melancholy
if fresh beef and kid, sweet potatoes
and persimmon beer, hog and hom-
my, turnip sallet and sich cut any
figure as antidotes for melanchoIia.
We have been on the sick list for
the past week, and two days of that
time we were running our anatOmi-
cal barn at 104 in the shade. Our col
ors were all right, but we are thank
full we did not go high enough to
kill out. We are now coming in Or
der, and VIII soon be o. X, though
little frog-eyed.
Mrs. A. L. Ormond, who has been
visiting at coax Glenn,' went to
Wilson Sanitorium last Thursday
for treatment. We hope that her
stay there may be beneficial, and
trust that she may soon be fully re-
stored. Mr.. Ormond accompanied
her to Wilson, returning to his
charge at Cary Saturday.
We want TO say in all kindness, as
the season approaches for people to
let stock at large, that it is misde-
meanOr for a man to turn out his
stock, and heretofore we have been
very much annoyed, and have made
up our mind to abide by the stock
law, and any stock found on our
place will be penned. Wetru3t every
man will do the same, and not have
the fields full of stock till corn is
planted, as generally is the case.
The best way to break chills is to
get some other fellow in your place.
We had one Friday lying on a cot
On Sunday we were III our room in
bed looking for another. In the mean
time Mr.. n J. Ncrtllam lay down
ON the cot, and Mr.. Chill pounced on
him. SO we fooled that chill, but we
were sorry for the patient. However,
both Of us are better and he has
caught on to my racket, and will be
careful how he gets in a chill's way
hereafter.
Hogs and milch cows are scarcer
in our section than they have been
in sOmk time. The barbecue stands
have bought the pigs, and the butch
ers have gotten the calves, (as they
are too much trouble to raise?) and
then the COW soon as she failed in
milk, so the consequence is that in a
few years a No. 1 COW will be worth
as much as a first class mule, and the
farmers will be the ones to suffer
most, for they are not going to have
any to sell.
One Of our neighbOrs traded mules
last Friday and upon reaching home
found that he had more collie than
mule. His peaceful slumbers were so
much disturbed by the gyrations of
that mule and his fears so aroused
that he would turn his barn over;
and satisfying himself that his mule
ship had a corner on the maIady, he
left early and returned with his same
old mule, a wiser man. 'Tis best
not to forsake old friends for new
ones.
Administrators S Notice.
Having qualified as administratrix of the
estate Of d. c. Hood deceased notice is