Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-07-16
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WALTER, N. c
July Is, 1898.

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July Is, 1898.
Miss Elizabeth Becton left last week
en- a visit to relatives in Raleigh ard
Lemon Springs.
Mr.. Milford Aycoek. from neal Pink
ney, spent Sunday here at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Lon DAHL.
Miss Annie Johnson. OF your city,
was visiting the family OF her uncle,
Mr.. Phil Johnson, last Sunday.
Mr.. Jethro Howell and Miss Ellie
Swinson spent Saturday night and
Sunday visiting Miss Vivian May, OF
Boston.
Miss Annie Belle Howell returned
to her home in your city Sunday after
noon after a visit to her aunt, Mrs. w.
4. Rose, near Ebernszer. & u N3C @ @
Mrs. P. c. Caldwell and neice, Miss
Lois Cochran, spent part of last week
in Princeton, where they were guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Perry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Howell attend
cd church at Oakland last Sunday, and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Worley after SER
vices.
Misses Rachel Howell and Beulah
Pate, OF you're city, spent Sunday in
ourcommunity, where they were guests
of thsahome of Mr.. and Mrs. W. 7.
Rose.
Mr.. Clarence Peacock, of your city,
was visiting in Jul community last
week, where his friends are always
glad to see him. He was the guess of
Mr.. Bill Thompson.
Mr.. George Yelverton spent Sunday
in Fremont, on a visit to his sons,
Messrs. Frank, Alden and Will yell
%verton, and to see his little grandson,
Geo. A. Yelverton, Jr.
Miss Ada Coor, who has been OH an
ford Aycoek, returned home Sunday,
accompanied by her friend, Miss Rena
Peels, who will spend the week here.
Mrs. Angel, from Guilford, preached
at Oakland last Sunday and delighted
her hearers with her DISCOURSE, which
was said to be exceptionally fine.
There was q large congregation pres
ent.
Mr.. JuneShine and daughters, Misses
Edna and Margaret, of Faison, came
up last week on a visit to Mr.. and
Mrs. John M. Mitchell, where the
young ladies are spending the week,
Mr.. Shine having returned Saturday.
With watermelons, apples, cante-
loupes, cider and SIGH, continually on
tap, the farmers now have lots to be
thankful for, ever if rations should be-
come "skace." And now that peas
have come in to go along be-cider, we
will try and be "calm and SERENE"
Miss Essie Sasser, from over the
river, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Sasser, is teaching an entered school
at Ebenezer, which opened Monday
with a goodly numbe of pupils. She
is a most excellent young woman COM
petent for the duties of the school
room, and we wish for her a liberal
patronage.
The farmers are still busy this week
finishing 'laying by crops. After a
few more hot and hard days work they
will then have a little resting spell be-
fore timeto sa We fodder. Fodder pull
ing is as hot work as the farmers have
to do, and the day is not tar distant
when the corn harvester and shredder
will take the place OF it, as it should.
The baseball fever has struck our
community, and as a result there is a
game played en- the grounds at Rose
wood Academy every Saturday after
noon. We understand there is a nine
being gotten up of married men. to
play the boys. Well, we are moi crazy
on the subject of ball, but would rath-
er see an old fashioned game played
than a regular professional one. Long
years ago we played with the Wayne
baseball club, and the grounds were
on the spot whore now stands one Of
your city's handsomest and most at
tractive residential homes, owned and
occupied by one of our very earliest
schoolmates-the genial and courteous
w. T. Ye1verton. There were two
players among those boys that always
interested US with their stunts (butit
wasn't called that in those days.) Tbey
were Dan Galloway and your worthy
~townsman, George Royal. The home
base was in the extreme corner Of the
lot, near a large persimmon tree, and
when Dan would go to the bat, if he