Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-09-28
WALTER LETTER.

The Doings and Sayings of a Week
In and Around Our Thriv-
ing Neighborhood.
ARGUS BUREAU
WALTER, N. G.
Sept. II, 1905. J
Mesdames A. P. Howell and Jno.
R. Smith, of your city spent last
Thursday at Oak Glen.
OF your city, were here last Friday
afternoon.
Capt. r P. Howell and little
grand daughter, Rachel Weldon,
spent Sunday here with DIR. and
Mrs. Will Crawford.
DIR. J. II. Hall, Of Dayton, Va,
and J. J. Hooper, of the Atlantic
Christian College, OF Wilson, were
here Sunday attending the Sunday
School Convention.
Miss sallie Woodard, of your city,
is on visit to relatives in our COM
munity.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. G. Howell, have
two children very sick with fever,
and we trust they may soon be on
the road to r. covery.
We have wondered if the musqui-
tos fleas, seed ticks, or some unfore-
seen cause is not also responsible for
so much Typhoid Fever, and not all
| of it attributable to water. 1t is
stated that there has been over 5000
cases in Philadelphia this year, with
mortality of 10 per cent. Yellow
| fever has only caused about 13 per
| cent. deaths and this being the case,
the chances of the two are in favor
of Yellow Jack, for he ceases with
frost while typhoid has all seasons
for its own.
Perkins Bros. had the .misfort tune
to lose their saw mill by fire or
| FrlGay night. 1t IS supposed tC
have caught from the fire box il
some way as when the timbers fell
1T hlew the whistle and aroused them
Il was near Mr.. Jim MItchelPs, anC
their loss is rearly $rOOO,OO with nc
INSURANCE. They were doing d gooC
business and the loss falls heavily Oh
them.
The pday School Convention
which convened at Pine Forest Sat
urday and Sunday was the most en-
thusiastic and largely attended 0
any ever held in the county. Th'
crowd as immense on Sunday, az
the Exercises, especially the singing
eclil sed any thing tver heard in ihi
S ction. Our community was full Q
visitors and AL enjoyed the occasion
and from the interest manifested
and the increasing progress of Sun
day School work, no doubt much
and last ny gooi' will be accomplish
ed.
A day or two after the pilot snak
was found in Mr.. VIM. Smith
kitch.p, which tried to bite his llltl
girl, Mrs. Smith was at the wood
pile and one tried to bite her an,
when Mr.. Smith dispatched him h
instituted search for more, and foun
two very large ones which mad
four killed by him in one week
Our people should look out for then
as they seem to be pient fui here
They will bite, sure, if they get i
reach Of you and they are not in an
hurry to get away.
= Our little ten year old Mildred
was bitten on the instep last Tuesda
evening by rattle snake pilot, q
r Nhite oak snake and suffered inten
l,sely fer "A hou's. But for the fac
1--WE weIe at, home and gave it i'm
mediate attention, sucked cut al
the poison We could and applied an
Il tidotes at once, we fear it woul'
haYe been fatal. The foot was gree
, in half an hour and the limb to he
body nearly twice its natural size i
, "A hours. We are glad to say sh
is etter, the swelling having subsid
ed all but in the foot.
The sound of The sickle blade
heaf1 in the laud, and the evenin
breeze is laden with the ordor of ne,
moWn. hay. The continual clatte
of machinery and the busy hum O
labor will continue till all is saved
or the weather puts an end to oper
ton, ss our farmers sre now maxim
hay while the sun shines.
There is no prettier work on th
farm than making hay, or a NOR
beautiful scene than clean NOV
field, with big broad stacks of ha
dotted here and there all over il
But the crop is short this year, a
though more attention is being glv
en- it than in former years.
\ According to the Washinpto
Post, Secretary ShaW's son has bee
srw0rkiugas a writer. We congratuiat
the secretary on this evidence {
enterprise, but We are of opinio
;. that there must be several quick