Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-12-18
NEWS FROM WALTER
Personal Mentions and Cur
rent Events Chfon-
icIed.
An Attractive Literary Program at
Rosewood Academy Friday Night,
December %, Benefit Of
School Building.

School Building.
Mrs. Ruf1n Bailey and children, OF
Smithf1eld, are visiting here at the
home of Mrs. Bailey's parents, Mr. and
Mrs Isaac Smith.
The rain which has been falling to-
day (Monday) was getting to be badly
needed; the roads were exceedingly
dusty, the wells were getting low,
and water in the pastures was being
needed. A rainbow arched the east
ern sky, after the clouds broke away,
and the atmosphere was more sug-
gestive of spring than near Christmas.
A good stand of small grain. and con-
siderably more acreage. will be great
ly benefited by the rain.
The infant child of Mr.. Dave How
ell, which has been tenderly cared
for since Mrs. Howell's death few
weeks since, by her sister, Mrs. Jim
Mitchell, died at the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Jim Mitchell on Sunday night,
and was buried by the side of Its
mother on Monday afternoon.
Miss Sallie Peck Hines. Of Faisons,
will give a recital at Rosewood Acad-
emy on Thursday night, December 23,
An admission fee of Is and 25 cent:
will be Charged, the proceeds to be
applied to the benefit of improvements
of the school building. This will be
a literary treat of unusual merit. and
we hope large crowd will show their
appreciation of the occasion.
| Her many friends regret to knew Of
the illness of Mrs. Amanda Mitchell,
at her home near Pine Forest Church,
and hope to see her soon restored to
former health.
| Elder Frank Farmer. Of Wilson, N.
c., preached at Chapel Primitive Bap-
tist Church last Sunday. He will fill
another appointment there at the reg
ular service in March.
There was joint debate at Ebene-
zer school house last Thursday night
! between Greenleaf and EbeneZer,
which was attended by good crowd
The query, Resolved, That the next
legislature should enact a~law requir-
ing all children to attend school six
teen weeks in the year, to take effect
January 1, 1872" was debated. Messrs.
Edgerton and Mozingo, of Greenleaf,
represented the negative side of the
question, and Messrs. Lemly Smith
and Sidney Fail, of Ebenezer, the af-
frmative. The judges, Messrs. George
Hooks, Charles e. Coor. and L. e.
| fo nF
though both sides were well upheld,
all the young debaters acquitting
themselves creditably.
Madam Rumor is whispering the
early ringing of wedding bells, and
| from the amount of building being
done and the special attention given
/ to numerous worthy and attractive
Il interests, it really looks as if our COM
munity will be scarcer of lovely mai
dens and gallant swains next year
than it has been in some time. We
are watching developments carefully,
with our eye specially skinned in
more than one direction.
A few weeks since. we referred to
| INeighbor George Becton's cotton
yield, but we were a little too early.
Since then Mr.. Becton has gotten an
other bale, in "scrapping" his field
and this makes nineteen bales, av-
eraging 468 pounds. which he has
gathered off of eleven acres Of meas
ured land. He used 800 pounds o1
homemade fertilizer per acre, with
fifty pounds each of nitrate of soda
: and muriate of potash as side dress
ing at the last plowing. Mr.. Bector
4 has actually beaten himself farming
y this year, an dhis success should b,
an object lesson to the farmers, es
II pecially of this section, which will
be of incalculable benefit to them
Making two bales grow where onl
one grew before is the type Of hene
y, factors the South needs.
Another case Of smallpox has bee
reported, the victim being one Of rh
children of the colored man who wa
released from quarantine last wee;
1t was promptly reported to our eff
!. cient county physician and the hous
will be again quarantined, and ever
effort will be made to prevent turtle
n spread. The eolored people, anon
p whom the disease is confined. Al
ID very much concerned in regard to
and their school having been stoppe
ID on account of it, has been source
lie regret to many Of them.
N Mr.. George L. Becton in building
I'd comfortable tenant house on his plae
ne not far from Mr.. W. L. Ezzell's, al
us Mr.. J.P. Cox is building two alol
the Smithfield railroad on his far
: near here.
10 A new modern barn adds to {
- convenience Of the place occupied
Mr.. Ben Sasser. and cozy cottage
of the road near Mr.. Timmie Perkil
almiu attracts the passer by. This