Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-07-02
news FROM WALTER.
Interesting News Items From
that Prosperous
NeighbofhOOd
ARGUS BUREAU.
WALTER, N. G
June 80, 1903.

Miss Leila Benton, OF princeton, was
| visiting Misses. Annie Belle AID Cora
| Rose last week.
Messrs. Eschie Edgerton and Her
man Parker, of ysur city were visitors
in eur community Saturday night and
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bizzell and chill
dren, ,of your city were visitors here
Sunday, the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. M. Rose.
Mr.. Mack Hornaday and DIR. L. 4.
Monk, OF your city Miss Susie Pulley,
ofLaGrangs, and little Annie Hornaday
spent Sunday at Oak Glen, whore we
were glad to see them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Hood, from
the Falling Creek section were visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Jude Hines, nssr Ebe-
nezsr, last week, where their many
friends here were glad to see them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Howell, and Mrs
Cen Wilmington, OF ysur city and Miss
Lillian Howell, spent Moaday at their
La III hOSI h0Ies hOS,
of which there is an abundant crop.
Quite a crowd of young people as
ssmbled at Mr.. J. w. Roses last Sat-
urday night, the occasion being ia the
nature of a surprise sociable, Gem
plimentary to Misses Roses visitor,
Miss Leila Benton.
We have been wanting a genuine
Panama hat for some time, and after
waiting two months for one to arrive
that struck our fancy, it was too small
for cur Uranium. So we compromised
and instead OF a Panama we gotta Pan
apa, and it answers every purpose, be-
sides leaving our exchequer %replenish-
ed to the amount of about foul dollars
and a quarter difference in the price OF
q Panama and a Panapa. Whats in
a name,' anyway?
Smoked glasses were in evidence all
over our community last Sunday
watching the eclipse. When the dim
ness of the sun was1 first noticed we
thought our glasses were a little
cloudsd, but after finding our mistake
and consulting Turner's almanac, we
took in the situation at once. Some
who did not have an almanac and did
not know of the eclipse, were very
much alarmed when it began to grow
dark. 1t was calculated to make one
feel a little peculiar, anyway. Truly
the armament showeth Gods hand
work.
We were glad to meet on Monday
Mr.. Nathan Lester Snipes, who is at
home on a visit to his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John VIM. Snipss. He ID
assistant chief mailing ofdivision Girls
tsrsstingly of the big ditch Uncle Sam
IL cutting. From the fact that Mr..
Snfpes has gained considerably in
flesh, one would naturally infer that
he was in a healthy country-which he
Says he is, and he likes the country
weeks furlough and will return about
August LIST. His friends here are glad
to see him.
Speaking of the nomination fer gsv-
ernor, Tsby says new We have got the
K1tchin, for the lands sake keep the
bantam out. That a short time since
he shut up the bantom roostor in his
kitchen by mistake and when he re-
turned from church, he lost all the re-
ligisn he over had. The slop bucket
was turned over, the brsaaiItray had
all the dough scratched out and he
t never saw such a sight, and it took
/ him two hours to rearrangs things, land
!, clean up. And now he rays if you
don't want to get in trouble up to your
centre of gravity, and have the big.
gest mess you ever saw, and a let o.
hard work, cleaning up, Miss Demo.
cracy better keep her Kitohin clear OF
bantams. That he speaks from OK
psriencs and knows what he is talk.
ing about.
Well, we'll, we feel very much reliev.
I ed that the convention il over, and
; are satisfied hat they put the Kitchir
: in the Great House, fer the same thina
was done whom the war ended, and i
has proved to be the best thing thai
: ever happened to the South, and IT, too
followed . long and memorable fight
: just ~ In this case, and what's tn,
matter with history repeating itself
While the other candidates had tn,
money and maehinery, it 10 eviden
that Mr.. Kitchin had the people. and
~ We are willing always to lot the mi
jority rule, We feel satisfied that al
Though the State il gein9 to put tn