Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-09-24
news FROM WALTER.

that Prosperous
NeighbOFhOOd
Mrs. Henry Hood, of Mount Olive,
is on a visit to her mother Mrs. w. G..
Swinson.
Messrs. Jack Copeland and John
Hooks, of Fremont, were the guests of
Miss Fannie Hooks Sunday.
Miss Bessie Swinson returned home
last week, from an extended visit to
relatives at Magnolia and Whining
ton.
Mr.. Leland Becton left Friday for
Wilmington, in response to a tele-
gram, where he is engaged to do some
special work in civil engineering.
Mrs.John Watson,o of Lemon Springs,
is here, on a visit to her mother Mrs.
Jane Caldwell, and brothers, Messrs.
P. G. and Wade Caldwell, at Southern
Oaks.
NIX anu Nib " WAY W
your city, Misses Annie Dali, from be-
low your city, and Estella Game, OF
Latta, S. c., were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lon Dsil, last Friday night.
There was q bapt1zing at Hooks
bridge last Sunday morning, lat which
the sacred ordinance was administered
to several applicants, by Rev. Howell
| wilkins, of Spring Hill Free Will
Baptist church. There will be another
| baptising there next Sunday, when Ia
applicants will b. Immersed, from
Stoney Greek church.
Mrs. Sarah Johnson died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. John Jones, last
Friday. She had been a great sufferer
for several months with a cancer and
her death had been expected for some
weeks. She was a good woman kind
and obliging. and had been a careful
and faithful nurse in this community
for several years, where she had num-
bers OF friends, who regret to hear OF
her death. She leaves several chill
foASLs oil S1o"hs
We have been asked several times
recently what "Polly Podum" said
about the weather. Well, with all the
heavy fogs, and other indications OF
tenor of her way, and persists still in
maintaining her apparently dead con
dition, and consequently, we shave come
to the conclusion, that she strictly
knows her business-the weather mar
to the contrary, Notwithstanding
Whenever we go out and notice hel
robed in her rich, green costume, i
will then be time to get the hay in tn.
barn, and, as Toby says, bring in thu
ttbed. She may ool Is yet, and that
bad, but until she does, the moving
machine on our ranch wiilfrun accord
ing to her dictations, :as-she beats thu
weather man all re hallow. withou
i any effort on her part to be more &C
curate. She just "nacherly" kno
her business, and knows she knows
and don't fool aboGa 1T.
The account of the aerial navigate
suffering a fall last week, vas as tho
old said whea tire cow ate h.
grindstone, Jus what I expected
Before we ever start onaa trip through
the air to overcosffefbhe force of gravi
tation, hen we want first (while we
are in the fesh9 a Hnachine that i.
guaranteed not rip, ravel, or run down
at the heel, nor turn aurtle. Then W.
want about a dozen cox eys of educated
I'D contract froaaa Them that they arr
TO go no higher from the ground uh a1
we can reach stxmding.on tiptoe- amt
not to exceed tine Emit *f -four aL'iles
3 per hour, no mattPe mere the opJeeflNt
point, nor how many the inducements
for more rapid transit. Then, when
we get ready to make 4 test of oui
~aeroplane, we will get them in readi
ness and Just before they aDe liberated
we will walk on ahead and watch thu
performance from a safe poiRt. Flying
!, through air may be accomplished sue
, cessfully, out we douha it. The beau
3 titul butterfly we see hslting over thu
!, yard bedecked in colors of richest hue
which no artists brush can paint
would have made poor Roadway try
: ing to fly while ne was a worm, crawl
!. ing on the ground. Man occupies
:. similar position while on this earth
, and the development of golden pin
ions, or snowy wings, at any time, de
: ponds upon adoption of divine law t,
the government OF his life here, ant
also requires of him, what is not re
quired of the worm, namely that priO
l to his ability to spread out his whit.
5 wings 'tthat never grow weary" b.