Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-23
news FROM WALTER.
ARGUS BUREAU.
WALTER, N. c
| April %, 1908.


ping will be in full blast.
Mr.. Norman Rackley, OF your city
spent Saturday and Sunday here will
his parents, being called by the sac
ley.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Davis, iron
your city, and Mr.. and Mrs. Sell
Dixon, of the Spring Hill community
spent Sunday with MI. and Mrs. VIM
Smith.
Mrs. M. G. Swinson served an ele
giant Easter dinner in which quite I
number Of friends of the family partic
ipated. It was an elegant spread ane
thoroughly enjoyed by every one pres
emit.
Toby says when he hears Of q far
mer raising from seventy-fve to one
hundred bushels OF corn per acre anC
two to three bales Of cotton, that it i,
a severe test upon his credulity, and he
such a statement even if he was 1t
kelch it in his fish trap.
The closing exercises of the school a,
Rosewood will take place Thursday
and Friday nights of this week. April
23rd and oath. An elegant and enter
tanning programme for both nights has
been arranged, and those who attend
will enjoy evenings OF real pleasure,
besides seeing evidence OF the work OF
the school, which is creditable to the
com munity, and a source of pride to
both patrons and children. The pub
lie is cordially invited to attend.
We had just COTTON on our feet to re-
mark that autorsts whosuseeourcounty
roads 10 speed their machines had no
more right to the road than the farmers
have to drive on the railroads. when q
friend from your city came along at a
lively clip in his ran over
"Ginger." the highly priced pug of ou'
numerous ~posterity. However, it was
not the drivers fault, and the dog WIS
not very much hurt. But the country
folks are i'll constant dread of meeting
one, anl Inc ia!shful old horse is no
longer safe for the women and chill
dren. Bur The day is coming when
autrs will g as much used as bicycles
aud then nce'ing one will cause no
fear. to man or horse.
The d,.t'h or Miss Ethel Rackley,
which oc .Irrt:d at the home of her pa
rents, M. aud Mis-. L. Rackley. near
Ebenezer '" Saturday morning, cast a
gloom ovtI the community where she
was universally loved and esteemed,
and Carried sadness to many hearts.
was a most excellent young wo-
mar, with q lovely disposition, and
held the esteem OF all with. whom she
game in contact, both in social and
religious circles. Being an earnest and
faithful church and Sunday School
Norker and possessing the many
traces Of heart and manners, which by
their magnetism draw friends to her,
the light Of her young life reflected he
beauty of a most noble character, car
rying sunshine and gladness wherever
she went. But it was in her home life
that her noblsr attributes were more
clearly portrayed, and by her quiet,
gentle and kindly consideration of her
devoted parents, brothers and sisters,
ever threw q halo of brightness and
chez rfulness around the family circle,
causing each one TO love and esteem
her with an ever increasing degree of
Sondest devotion. Her death is pecu-
aiarly and touchingly sad, from the
TACT that her young heart was made to
bleed with the anguish, of an u%nrecon-
cilable sorrow, when Mr.. Charlie5Hines
to whom she had plighted her sacred
vows, was killed by the train at Rocky
Mount just a year ago., while in. the
discharge Of his duties, just q few
months before she vas to be his happy
bride. She carried the burden of he1
grief with the same degree of Christian
her daily life but this, coupled with
delicate constitution, o made i
evident that her life was ebbing away
and when she realized that declining
heath Tor several months was sappin,
her vitality and, when the end wa
NEAR, it was her request to be buried
by him whom she had loved in lite
She gave explicit directions as to he
burial, selecting the text, B tho,
faithful unto death, and 1 will Civ
thee a crown of fe. This being tn
text under which h was cOnverte'
about twelve years ago; she also Sc
1ected the songs to be sung. She wa
q patient sufferer, and when the en-
came her face beamed with the smil