Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-03-28
NEWS FROM WALTER.
Interesting News Items From
That Prosperous
NeighbOrhOOd.
ARGUS BUREAU
WALTER, N. C.
March q 1907.

ARGUS BUREAU
WALTER, N. C.
March q 1907.
Misses Julia Gurley and Maud Bow
den, of your city. were lending their
charms to the home of Miss Annie Bell
Rose Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Jno. r. Smith and Miss Pauline
Smith, Of your city, came out Friday
afternoon on a visit to "Oak Glen,' -
Miss auline returning this morning.
Mrs. Smith will remain on an extend
ed visit. and we trust be fully restored
to health soon, being already very
much improved. \
Mr.. Will Yelverton, of Fremont,
spent Sunday here with his father Mr..
Geo. Yelverton, where his many friends
were glad to see him.
Mr.. Jno. Sasser spent Sunday in
Smithfield on a visit to his brother
Mr.. Fred Sasser, who had the misfor-
tune to cut his foot severely with a foot
adze, and is confined to his bed with a
very painful wound.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Gurley, from your
city, were out here Sunday, and at
tended church at Ebenezer. :
Messrs. Mac Hornaday and Edgar
Gurley, of your city, were guests of
DR.. and Mrs. Will Crawford last Sun
day.
MI. and Mrs. George Perry. from
Princeton, spent Sunday here, the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Becton.
MI. Clearance Peacock, of your city,
spent Friday night with Mr.. Bill
Thompson.
His many friends are glad to see Mr..
Cove Grantham out again, after a
severe illness of two months.
Notwithstanding the cold weather
this morning, spring has opened the
inevitable sign has been in evidence
since yesterday, and now we can plant
corn. Toby has sacrificed his Van
Dyke beard.
His hosts OF friends regret to know
of the accident that happened to Mr..
Leland Bectou, in which he lost the
ends of three fingers, at the A. & M.
College recently, while operating
machinery in persuing his studies OF
civil engineering.
Rev. J. M. Carraway filled his reg
ular appointments at Pine Forest and
Ebenezer last Sunday and preached to
q large congregation at both places.
Our faithful horse Tom" died on the
road last Monday, while returning from
q visit to Princeton. His sudden death
was not only a shock to our feelings,
but to our purse also, having lost q
good farm horse only ten days pre-.
vious.
We are glad to see thst perhaps the
Union Depot will soon begin to ma
terialize. We were going to suggest
that if your city did not get one soon
and extensions of Walnut Street Yves,
continued, it would not be very long
before we would be in the corporate
limits. and we would let the city hav,
our depot, which is superior to the ONT
it now has. A now depot, city electric
car lines, extended to Seven Springs
AMI then truly we would have the Gen
| City.
Owing to pressure of duties, and un
usual amount of work, I have no
found time for the past few weeks t
send in my weekly letters, but do no
from the Importance or demand Q
your excellent paper. However, I vii
endeavor to sur my regularit.
hereafter, and should your readers tir
of my illusions, if you will intimat
the fact, I will retire from the field, bu
will ever retain my high personal re
gard for both editor and paper. Tin
deed, our readers, including the edito1
have missed your always i%nterestin
letters, which we all read with res
pleasure and look forward to fror
week to week with assurance of q
} ways finding in them something {
abiding profit. Many enquiries hav
to come to this office ~ to tho cause
your silence, and even some have tall
ed of stopping their paper" Bu
now that you ave Explained" an
promised to be more "riglar'' fine man
readers Of the ARGUS will again IS
} up and take notice" with their oil
time Interest in its coiumns-Editor.
Toby's aversion to tho loot adze II
increases with years. He says his ez
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