Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-03-12
NEWS FROM WALTER.
Interesting News Items From
that Prosperous
NeighbOrhoOd
ARGUS BUREAU.
WALTER, N. c
March IL, 1908
Mr.. Jim Everett Stevens. from Genoa,
was a visitor in our community last
ARGUS BUREAU.
N. c
March IL, 1908.

Mr.. jim Everett stevens from Genoa
was a visitor il our community last
Sunday.
Mr.. Jethro Howell and Miss Fife
Swinson visited Miss Lula Vail at
Pikeville last Sunday.
Bass, from the Mt. Olive section. were
visitors at Mr.. John Smiths last Sun
day.
Her many friends regret to know of
the illness of Miss Cora Rose and hope
she may soon be restored to perfect
health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell. of Bellevue.
spent Sunday in our community, the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John Cotton,
near Grassmere.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jno. r. Smith, of your
city, spent Sunday night at Oak Glen,
where we are always glad to have
them, returning Monday afternoon.
DIR. and Mrs. Will Crawford spent
last Thursday in Kinston, where they
went to take Phil, Jr., to see his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah Loftin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rufdn Bailey and chill
dren, of S~mithfeld, were here1ast week
on a visit to Mrs. Bailey's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Isaac Smith, and other rela-
tives.
Mrs. Wright Lynch, from your city,
was on a visit to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Smith last week. Her many friends
are glad to know that she is fully re-
stored to health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Howell, of your
city, spent last Wednesday in our COM
! munity looking after their farms and
planting fruit trees near the place, on
which they contemplate building.
Mr.. Henry Hood,of Mount Olive, ar
rived here Friday on a visit to Mrs. NJ.
visiting for the past week, returning
home Saturday afternoon, accompa-
MED by Mrs. Hood.
Mr.. Paul Swinson has fitted up a re-
pair shop at his home, the two
railroads, and will soon be ready to do
any kind of work needed in his line.
Such an enterprise is ne eded in the com
| munity and we wish him success.
Mr.. Lon Dali is catching redhorse
fish in his trap, which is another evil
dence of spring, though they are not
running" much yet, but from outside
evidence it look as If they will have
more water to come in by the last of
the week.
Ex-Gov. Aycock's speech at Rose
wood last Friday night, on the subject
of Loca Tax, was thoroughly enjoyed
by a large crowd, and it seems to us his
arguments in favor of the measure
ware simply unanswerable. It was q
plain, practical, and convincing, heart
to heart talk, and no doubt did good
for the cause, as was evidenced by the
fine majority in Tuesdays election.
There. has been more blowing done
with two horse plows in this COM
munity this season than in many We
do not mean more acres broken, but
more people using the plows, and we
have noticed that when a two horse
pillow is once used, it is used again, as
the good accomplished is so evident.
The farmers are fast learning that two
horses or more, are much better to
farm with than one, and in a few years
a one horse farmer will be hard to
find. and the labor question will not
then be such a vexed question to south
ern farmers.
We thought yesterday and this
morning that ''springtime gentle An
ME-" Tor words to thai effect had
aside, the flying ants were busy, COM
ing out of winter quarters, gardens
being planted and the good neighbor
women, in sun bonnets and white
aprons, going visiting (which Toby says
is in~fallible,) but tonight as the wind
whistles throughout ventilated gar
ments, and h rains patter upon the
Ieaky roof, and our winter crook again
is not conspicuous by it's absence, we
are thinking of the instructive judg-
ment of the ground hog and. as Mrs.
Darlington would a. our ''intorma-
ton" of his truthfulness as a weather
prognosticator has been increased ex-
tensively. He is naturally and liter
ally out of sight on his specially. How
ever, the limit will b. reached next
Sunday. the Is, and when Re starts
up again, he will run on full time for
the term of three seasons, and there