Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-04-25
NEWS FROM WALTER.
News Items From
That Prosperous
NeighbOrh0Od.

KinstoD, spent Sunday and Monday
here, visiting relatives.
Little Miss Sallie Snipes, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. p. D. Snipes, who was
critically ill last week, is better today
we are glad to know.
MIR. Chester Smith, who is holding
down a position in you city, was here
Sunday visiting homefolks.
Sickness continues in our commun-
ity, though very few cases of serious
nature, and we shall be glad to see
ness of the n~eighborhood become again
established.
.Mr. A. o. Clement, of your city, was
out here last Wednesday and "struck
the beauty of Rosewood Academy,
and school, to be sem to the James,
town Exposition. 1--WE proceed fore
most"
We do not think all the fruit killed.
A close examination of our orchard
pleased us very much to find both
peaches and apples, a sufficient quaint
ity to make fine fruit, if not an abund-
ance. No doubt some will fall off, but
there will be plenty of fruit, if not in
terfered with from now.
a few years ago, at this time of the
year, we could purchase an elegant
shad at the river, or brought to our
home, for a quarter. In these days of
rapid progress along all lines, if Mr..
Shad is billed to hold the boards, the
prices are anything but popular, and
the consequence is, if we see him, we
have to do SO from the peanut gallery.
Regardless of the weather some few
have finished planting cotton, and
Others are busy planting every day,
and after this rain, as oon as the soil
is suitable, many more will soon fin
ish, and in a few weeks, when the old
May rain ONES "possum ear will be
in evidence in many fields, and the
goslins will be busy and you can hear
them, as they enter a field, saying,
"you take this row, and I'll take this
one."
If we would spend half the time in
heartfelt t~hankfu1ness and that
we give to complaining and finding
fault, our lives would conform more to
the order of Gods law, our hearts
would be kindIed anew with Divine
love, each day; our homes would glow
with the sunshine ofjoy and happiness,
the world would be infinitely better by
our having lived in it, and the pearly
gates would swing wide, when we
heard h glad welcome, ENTER thou
into the joy of thy Lord"
the feelings Of our truckers, many of
them lac hoped to somewhat reimburse
themselves, out Of their truck, for the
short crop of cotton last fall, and now
the truck only promises a dismal fail
ure. n the only thing left for them to
do is to try to make two bolls of cotton
where one grew before, in order to pay
them for the truck they have lost.
Taken all together the farmers are the
most ~sanguine class of men in the
world, but they should be so as they
live nearest nature, and natures God.
A car on the public road crossing at
Rose last week, gave us visions of
broken limbs, suit for damages, etc.,
thicker than the hairs on a backing
brush, as we were trying to get a
frightened horse to pass during the
night. Neighbor Geo. Becton informs
us that he passed the same place, and
one was half way the road, necessita-,
ting his good wife getting out and
walking, and he drove on the track up
the railroad and down on the other
side. Such things aught not to be al
lowed, and the proper authorities
should put a stop to it. This is the case
during nearly every guano season.
The McIver Literary Society, at
Ebenezer, of which Mr.. Ben H. Sasser
is President, and Miss Lala Smith Sec
rotary, has done good work, and been
a source of great profit and pleasure to
the young people, and a goodly num-
Der of the older ones since its organiza-
ton. At a largely attended meeting
last Thursday night, the President
made quite a nice speech, and an
nounced that owing to the approach of
the busy season and short nights, the
Society would adjourn till the first
Thursday night in October, when it is
hoped it may resume work under still
greater prospects for good.
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