Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-06-27
NEWS FROM WALTER.
Interesting News Items From
That Prosperous
NeighbOrhOOG.
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WALTER, N. G.. ,
June %. 1877.
ARGUS
WALTER, N. G..
June %. 1897.

~Smithfield, are in OUR community visit
ing Mrs. Ba1ley's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac Smith, and her brother Mr..
William Smith.
Mr. Oscar Pipkin and Miss Mary
Howell were visitors here Sunday the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. W. F. Rose.
Rev. J. M. Carraway filed his regu-
lar appointments at Pine Forest, in the
morning and Ebenezer in the afternoon,
n last Sunday, and preached to good
sized congregations. His discourse at
Ebenezer was very fine, one of the
best m heard here in sometime.
home Sunday from near Selma, where
they have been on a few days visit to
Mrs. Bass mother, Mrs. Joe Brown.
Mr.. Geo. w. Pipkin went to Smith
field Saturday on Capt. Jacks Limited,
and returned Monday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. l.. Hooks spent Sun
day at Myrtle Springs, in company
with Messrs. Ed. and Daily Gurley INC
their families from your city.
In the following lines there is as
much food for thought as we have ever
read in the same space, and we append
them hoping they may cause some one
to pause, and consider we'll, and to rea-
lize that by far the most important
thing in this life is to prepare for the
lite to come:
Ibid you ever think, as the hearse
drives by,
That it won't be long, until you and 1
Go riding out in that big plumed hack,
And never remember of coming back?
Do you ever think, as you strive for
gold
That a dead mans hand can't a dollar
hold?
You can pinch and tug, strive and save
But you'll lose it all, when you reach
the grave"
The thought of what we will have to
give up when we reach the terminal
station, and shuttle off this mortal coil,
will never cause us much regret, but
the thought of how abundant our en-
trance into everlasting life. gives us
more concern each day, and we cannot
his whole soul wrapped up in his eff
forts to accumulate money, and soon
he is cut down by the grim reaper,
leaving perhaps thousands of dollars
behind him-and not one cent in front
of him.
Mr.. w. III. Neal, one of our best farm
ers, and a close observer of all pertain
ing to agriculture, tells us that he is OF
the opinion that the root lice on cotton
which has been SO destructive, and has
played havoc with his field, is a black
ant, when fully matured, and upon
close examination he has found the ant,
and louise as it is called, all together on
the same stalk, and he thinks the louise
an immature ant, as it crawls if put in
the hand. He says if you pull up the
stalk of cotton, they fall off like terra
pins off a log, but to dig it up on a hoe
and carefully separate the dirt you can
see both, and neither seems to be an
enemy to the other; that they start al
the bottom of the root, and as they ma.
ture, they crawl up the stalk till they
reach the surface and disappear. His
theory seems reasonable for if the louise
is destroyed by the ant, what is it thai
deposits the egg that produces lice, if i
is not the ant that does it? He has
studied it carefully, and says he has
not found a single instance where the
ant fed on the louise, but on the othel
hand he is convinced that the louise i,
only an immature ant.
We would be glad, yes, even delight
ed, to see our rural mail carriers will
nice mail wagons such as go out from
our sister town of Princeton, a mic,
white wagon properly 1ettered will
number of route, etc., speaks well fol
the progressive spirit of the section i
serves. We have as clean a set of car
riers as any section, but not one VIII
goes out from the "Best Town in tn,
State,'' getting his mail from our hand
some p~ostoffice building and servin,
the prosperous farmers contiguous t.
the "Gem City of the Plains" can com
, pare in up-to-dateness of appearance
along his route with the carriers tina
r go out from the small town of Prince
ton.
We are glad to see that the Higl
L School is to be located at such a desira
E BILE place, and as you say, with theUniol
Depot at the western terminus of Wal
0 nut street, will add considerable to tn
city's appearance. But what of t b
a depot? If they do not make bette