Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-09-03
WALTER LETTER.
&hronicling Of a Weeks Events IN
That Thriving Neigh
bOrhOOd.

Mr. Will Edwards, from Lemon
Springs was on a visit to her sister
Mrs. Geo. Becton Last week.
Misses Lille Aycock and HDora
Dees, from the Fremont section,
were visiting Miss Lizzie Becton last
Tuesday.
The average man does not possess
sufficient amount of will power to
discontinue a habit they have jim
dulged for years.
Mr.. TobeStevens was out here last
Thursday night for the purpose of
organizing this section into the
Farmers Association.
MI. Will Smith, f1om near Smith
field, and Miss Annie Martin, from
Duplin county, were visiting in our
community last week.
Our young friend Mr. Leland Bee
ton left Monday to enter Guilford
College. His many friends here
wish him the fullest measure of sue
cess.
Mr.. R. P. Raiford and sister, Miss
Ruth, from near Mt. Olive, spent
Saturday night with DR.. and Mrs.
Will Crawford, where we were glad
to see them.
Mrs. Mary Mimms and daughter
Miss Grace Edwards, from Latta, 8.
c., have been visiting Mrs. Mimms'
sisters, Mesdames FL. T. Jones and
John S. Edwards, returning home
last week.
MI. Milford Aycock, from Great
Swamp, was visiting in our COM
munity last Sunday. When here a
week ago, his horse got frightened
near chapel church and ran away
throwing Mr.. Aycock out and hurt
ing him pretty bad.
Mrs. II. F. Yelverton, from over
the river, wos visiting relatives here
last Tuesday, and was taken sick,
at Mr.. Geo Becton's with heat ex-
haustion. By prompt attention, she
was relieved so as to return home
late that evening. We are glad to
learn she is herself again.
Watermelons have about played
out, but scuppernong grapes are
with us in abundance, and by the
time they are gone, and even before,
we will be ''grabling" taters, and
maybe catch us a possum, and have
A'possum and tater,'' and after all,
we have a whole pile to be thankful
for, surely" The Lord will pro-
vide" So let us give thanks, and
not grumble and complain.
Several days and nights for the
past week have been regular ''wheeI
greesers." The mercury has beer
playing around 100 in the shade, anC
if a fellow had shuffled off this NOR
tai coil, and landed in that country
where cold drinks, electric fans, anC
manufactured ice are unknown, w
do not think the change would have
been sufficiently appreciable to hav'
caused him to change his underWare
In other words it has been as hot a
-- particular.
Talk about boycotting the Tobacco
Trust! The only way this can b.
done, is for the tanners TO stop rails
ing tobacco. It would do no good 70
them to refuse to use tobacco mad
by Trust, for they are not the onl.
consumers, as they were in fighting
the Cotton Bagging Trust. Besides
nine-tenths of the farmers who ar
accustomed to using a certain brant
of tobacco would continue TODD sc
regardless of the fact that it was
product of the Trust, or that the,
could save a few cents in the poun
by using some other brand.
The dusky dining at Hamlet is bu
another evidence of the fact tina
some people. think they are just q
good as a respectable darkey, an
they can wine, dine, and "gwine
with him without compromizin
their self respect? But when a negl
persists in thrusting himself upo
the social rights of his superior
he then loses the respect of the BET
ter class of his white friends, and
butsowing seeds of discord and strif
which will bring a harvest of woe
his race. But he is not 80 much
blame as the white people who q