Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-10-01

Mrs. JnO. II. Smith Is spending a
few days with DIR. and Mrs. Will
Crawford this week.
Mr.. Alex Edgerton, of your city
filed another appointment in our
community last Sunday.
Miss Annie Y~elverton, of Stantons-
burg, is on a visit this week to her
sister, Mrs. Geo. Becton.
Miss Moore from below Gnldsboro
was visiting the family of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. S. Edwards last week.
Misses AIlean Hooks from Salem
and Annie Pearson, of your city,
were visiting Miss Sallie Smith last
Sunday.
Mr.. Alden YeIverton, of Fremont,
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with his parents Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Yelverton.
Misses Lula Vail, of Pikeville, and
Lizzie and Bette Kennedy from
near Mt. Olive were visiting the
Misses SWinson last Sunday.
Rev. H. E. Tripp preached at
Forest in the afternoon, and will
continue a meeting at the latter place
this week.
The farmers are very busy stacking
hay, and the weather his been as ia
vorabIe as was desired. On every
road can be heard the hum Of the
moving machines, and large stacks
of bright hay dot the fields OF every
hand.
Mr.. Isaac Smith and daughter,
Miss Lula, attended Little River
Baptist Association last week, above
Smithfeld, and visited Mr.. Smiths
daughter, Mrs. Chester Bundy, near
Raleigh. Miss Lula will remain on
a visit there and at S~mithfeid.
Squire Geo. Mitchell showed US a
piece of petrified hickory, last Sun
day, the wood of which he buried
in the sand on the river, while fish
ing, about Is years ago, and dug it
up last Spring. It is the shape of a
three cornered rail, about 10 inches
long, and is just one quarter of a
hickory tree. The heart is a dark
slate color, the sap almost white, and
the bark a mahogany showing where
the bark was knocked off on one
end. It is all as solid as a rock and
shows the grain of the wood distinct
ly.
We are having a sweet old time
now, "N1e and my folks, my son
John and his folks, etc." Cor words
to that effect are busy peeling pears,
and we have been up to the chin in
pear preserves, sweet pickles ETC.,
for the past few days. If we don't
have a sweet disposition after this,
it will not be for the want of both
external and internal applications.
They keep us sampling and tasting,
and the consequence is, we think
they are short at least two or three
jars. In fact, we know more about
it than they think we do.
.sThe frost is on the pumpkin''
almost-so near there is no fun in it,
and we are still nearer pumpkin pie.
We are kinder getting tired of sop
and later, and anything to relieve
the monotony will be appreciated,
and especially pumpkin pie, for it
has been a long time since we had
any and we are right smart behind
on it. If we could get a fat 'possum
to GO with our taters, and sandwich
this with peas and hard cider, with
a top dressing of pumpkin pie-well.
we would go right off and announce
our candidacy for Gubernatorial
hOnOrS.
The law for carrying concealed
weapons should either be repealed,
or the penalty should be greater.
But so long as Judgment suspended
on payment Of COSTS" is the record
of the courts in cases of pistol toting,
ETC., it places the law abiding, citizen
entirely at the mercy of the lawless,
disarms those who have too much
respect for themselves to violate the
laws of the State, and affords no pro-
lection from the razor, knucks, or
gun from that class who care no
more for law than they do for the