Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-08
/. WALTER NOTES.

QOLl6r, JANE %SdluWtlI, W1Cl
Ter many friends are glad to see her. {
Mrs. Jane Caldwell, whose contin-
red illness has confined her to her
-oom for several weeks, is somewhat
we are glad to know, and
hope to see her soon fully restored
to health.
Mr. Phil Crawford, of Kinston,
spent part of last week at Oak Glenl
visiting DIR. and Mrs. Will Crawford,
and Phil, Jr., and took in the COM
mencement at Rosewood Academy. He
left Saturday morning for Goldsboro,
on his return home.
Miss Viva May, of Becton, who has
been the guest of the Misses Swinson
during commencement, went to her
sisters, Mrs. Ed. Peele, near Pinkney,
on Sunday.
Mr. Lonnie Smith and Miss Lula
Vail, of Pikeville, who have been Wis
Iitors at Mrs. NJ c. Swinson's, returned
home Saturday morning.
Misses Alice Carey Yelverton, and
Jarvis Harris, of Fremont, were
guests of Miss Elizabeth Becton last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Forest Smith and Miss
Matte Tatum, of Wilson, were here
last week, the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jas. R. Hooks. and Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac
Smith
Miss Cora Dixon has returned home
from Seven Springs, where she filled
a position as teacher in the High
tSchoo1 and will spend vacation with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Seth Dixon.
| Miss Minnie Pearson, of Bellevue,
was a visitor here last week at the
home of her brother-in-law and sis
tier, Mr.. and Mrs. Luby Edwards.
Prof e. N. Thorn spent Sunday in
Wilson, where he filled the pulpit of
1.-The Baptist Church in that progressive
city.
Mr. Mack Hornaday and little
daughter, Annie Elizabeth, of Colds
boro, were visitors at Oak Glen last
Sunday.
II Misses Sallie Williams and Annie l.
) Thomson returned to their respective
| homes, at Newton Grove and Faison's s
on Monday after completing their du-
my They made many friends here
8 who regretted to see them leave.
Miss Annie L. Thomson lost 9
brooch on the grounds at Rosewood
Friday, the finder of which will be
Inberally rewarded by returning to Mr.
5 John NJ Mitchell.
Prof E. T. Atkinson, of Goldsbero
0 attended commencement here, where
he has many warm friends, and wa.
b the guest Of Mr.. James Edwards OF
Friday night.
0 Mrs. John R. Smith, Of Goldsboro
spent several days here last week
0 where she contributed this degree o
pleasure to our home, which only
2 mother can. She attended the clos
ing exercises of Rosewood Academy
5 which she highly enjoyed, as the pass
ing years fail to dampen her interes
5 in the school room, where she spen
years as a teacher, and while her
0 met many of her former pupils, VIII
are now parents with children attend
5 ing school. May God bless her an
spare her many years yet to gladdel
5 our hearts with more frequent visits.
The storm which struck this sectiol
O last Friday and was prevalent over
vast area of our land, was violen
5 here, and was more destructive t.
crops than any in many years. Will
5 the velocity of the wind did not reacl
the height of the one two months age
O it lasted so much longer and was &C
companied by such occasional down
5 Ipours of rain that the damage is in
tcalculab1e. Numbers of farmers ar
5 plowing up cotton and replanting a
result of it.
oil To our minds there is something
badly wrong with our country; t.
O have two such storms in less than tw'
months, leaving death and devastation
O in their paths. 1t surely must be
warming to this nation, and a vista
5 tion of Gods anger upon us. Whethe
1T be because we rob Him in tithe
10 and offerings, or desecrate His hol
iSabbath, or have the form of godl
DUI u0SS UuI u0uy lie power tu0I0Ol, Y
ARE serving Mammon instead of Him
so or what it is-we cannot say. But,
is evident we are falling short of OF
DO duty to Him, or these destructil
forces, such as He visited upon h
90 people for disobedience in the earle
history of the world would not be
90 frequent and universal, and it is tin
for US to turn from the error of OF
90 way. One thing we know, these thin
are not mere barometrical coint
so dences, but are for a purpose, and o.
thing we believe that they are b
90 the foreYarnings of more serious c
currences, unless we, as a social
90 Christian nation, live more in accoT
he ance to the Divine requirements.
The closing exercises of Rosewo
Academy, which took place here Il
Thursday night, Friday and Frid
NOTICE.