Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-06
news FROM WALTER.
Interesting News Items From
that Prosperous
NeighbOrhOOd
ARGUS BUREAU.
WALTER, N. G
Feb. 4, 1907.
ARGUS BUREAU. /,
WALTER, N. G
Feb. 4, 1907.

MI. Hn1l Ora W1OIOs Va 0AAeGOAs1R~
several days here last week. on 8 visit
to his son.
Mr.. N. J.. Northsa, Of wrightsville.
was q visitor here Last week, the guest
OF DR.. and Mrs. Will Crawford.
Msssrs. N. r. Northam and Phil
Crawford, DIR. and Mrs. Will Crawford.
and p. H. Jr.. spent last Wsdne1d ay
in Kenly, where they enjoyed the hos
pitality of Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Or
mond.
Mrs. DR.. Crawford and Phil Jr., Wis
Ited in your city Friday and Saturday,
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John r.
Smith, where they went to see Mrs.
Max Ripley, an aunt OF our boy, on
her return to her home in Roanoke,
Va, from a visit to her parents at Kin
ston.
Our respect for Mr.. Ground Hog in
-creases with years and continued OBJ
%servation. From the fact that Sunday
was his day and h sign not being
right for him to rfedict a cessation OF
barometer and thermometer stunts, We
shall proceed forthwith to lay in an e1-
ira supply Of wood. He knows his
business.
The death Of Rev. Frank Andrews
at whiteville, u. c.. whose 1sn aims
were brought to ysur city foF burial
sunday, was heard with regret BY his
friends here. He was q brother Of h
late Rev. Jno. u. AaArsws ana at .
time was a resident Of tAis IA
1ty. He was q gesd maA. fall Of yssrs,
being nearly teurseors. and NO doubt
has gone to shat reward DrepaRsd for
them whose rebes are washed i'm tho
blood of the Lamb.
In driving through b country from
here to Kenly, q distance Of about 10
miles, we noticed more than two dozen
new houses, most OF them built. on cot
tage style, with tin roofs. that need
nothing now but the painters brush.
If the passimist or croaker OF hard
times could but see this direct evidence
of prosperity he would think. as we,
that somebody is prospecting and the
country seems to be keeping up with
the city, il proportion to ability, or
even ahead of it. It will not be many
years before nice homes in the country,
wire lenses around he fields, fine
stock of all kinds in the barnyard, and
a happy prosperous households will be
the rule and not the exception as has
long been.
The question of an early election IN
this community to vote a special tax ,
to maintain a six months school at
Rosewood Academy, instead of four ut
present, is being agitated, and we hope
that the matter will be carried. There
il nothing that SO uplifts q community
az a good school. They are paramount
to all else. Even the churches are
more or less dependent upon them and
In proportion to the influence and de-
velopment of the schools, b churches
increase in membership and great
usefulness. Give a community good
schools, and good churches, and
everything else pertaining to the up
building of communities, of charact-
ers, will follow as a natural conse-
quence.
We met an old friend in your city
last week that we have not seer in
many years. It was an old blue-baek
spelling book, and as we turned the
leaves and read "Ann can spin flax
"She ted the old hen,'' ga shad can
SWIM" we were carried back to the
long ago, when the pride of our school
day life was to line up, clear across
the red school house. the last of the
days exercises, and spell Shy heart
from this old book and ''cut down.
those above, whose propensity for
spelling was not as acute as ours and
gain "head marks'' by going ~'foot"]
and "cutting" back. Those were hap
py days and it is not from ~partiality or
prejudice, but we have yet to see books
superior to Webster's Blue Back Spell
Ter, Smiths Gra1nmer. Davies Arith- |
metic etc., such ~ was taught in
those days.
Our community was saddened last
week when the news spread over the
neighborhood last Thursday that John |
ME Smith was dead. He had been
sick several weeks with Typhoid fever,
and it was hoped nat his vigorous
young manhood, his careful nursing,
n all that medical skill could do,
would enable him to pass the crisis.
He was the son of Mrs. John S. Ed
wards, and was a young man of fine
character, with many friends who are
deeply grieved at his DEATH. The flu