Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-06-20
FROM WALTER.
Interesting News Items From
That Prosperous
NeighbOFhOOd.
Aizt5li~ BUREAU !.
WALTER, ~. G. !
June IS 1867. /

WALTER, y. G.
June IS 1867.
Miss Pearl Woodland, who has been
in Whitakers attending school, return
ed home Saturday, where her many
friends are glad to see her.
Mr.. Lawson Neal, who has a position
as engineer on the road of the lumber
company at Princeton, spent Sunday
here with his family.
Mr.. Henry Hood, of the Mt. Olive
section, spent Saturday night and Sun
day in our community on business of
special interest.
The slump in prices of beans has
caused our trucker to wear longer
faces than usual. But our limited ex-
perlence in trucking has brought us to
the conclusion that when one enters
the field of trucking he had as well pre-
pare for anything that comes. He
may make on a few shipments and
then lose more than he ever made by the
market going to pieces, when he has the
most goods to deliver.
Among the visitors at Ebenezer last
Sunday afternoon were Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Johnson, Of Goldsboro, and
Mr.. III Mrs. George Johnson, of
Macon, Ca, shaking hands with old
friends and relatives in their home
neighborhood.
Since the weather has cotton to be
more spring-like, although it is the
good old summe time, all but the
weather, the crops are looking better
and the farmers seem encouraged and
are hard at work just as if they were
guaranteed a big crop. and a bigger
price. They are the most hopeful class
of men in the world, anyway, and
mostly optimistic i'll the full sense OF
the term.
The Children's Day exercises at Eb-
ernezer last Sunday afternoon were at
tended by the largest gathering of peo-
pie seen there in some time. The ex-
e%rcises were highly entertaining, some
Of the Rotations being of a class that
would reflect credit on older heads, land
more carefully trained minds. The
singing was, as usual, very good, and
the entire programme was one of inter.
est, calculated to make us feel proud o.
our community, and stimulate US te
still higher and more earnest endeavo1
in promoting the moral and religious
welfare of the hearts of the children
-,h;4I, I'LL ;,e-.o +I>~o lo+.
and eternal reward.
Capt. J. E. Peterson and son Henry
Sunday, where the genial Capt. in his
usual happy style, addressed the vas
throng, after the children's exercises
were over, which contributed very
much to the enjoyment of the occasion
He is an entertaining speaker, with 3
heart always in accord with any meas
ure which has for its purpose the bet
terment of his felIowman, and especial
Iy in the advancement of church and
Sunday school work. We were glad to
have hime with US, and feel assured
that his remarks were not only enjoy
Co NY oil p1OoOhb5 Oot WOlO Sooog odN
sown upon good ground.
Mr.. Norman Hood, one of Bill
Thompson's neighbors tells it on him
that the hail and continued unfavor.
able weather had given Bill a pretty
t bad case of the blues. So much so tina
he had lost part Of his usual jovial and
happy disposition. But, on last Friday
when the sun shone out, and the wealth
er warmed up, so as to make cotto1
look a little greasy, in blowing neal
, by, he heard something, and upon in
vestigation found that the gentle ray
of the summer sun, so long delayed
had not only had the desired effec
upon growing crops, but also had at
tuned Bills lips to sweetest song.
Messrs. w. III. Higgins and Geo
Baker, of your city, were out here fish
ing last Friday, and when they left h
, river about three miles above here
their horse walked off and left them
and when he found he was out of thei
reach, he ran away and was not stopped
till he reached Oak Glenn. Mr.. Her
II @
: bert Howell headed him off, ane
strange to say, he had not broken thu
buggy, though running a cart path
y good part of the way and having turned
2 the buggy over in a gulley, and drag
ging it some distance. Herbert say
v the horse was not hard to stop, in fact
+ he thinks he was mighty glad some
+ hody stopped him, as he was nearl,
run down.
There are numerous hooking bird
around our humble home, and every
day their sweet notes can be heard from