Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-01-21
NOTES ABOUT WIN.

Last Saturday WAS uay Iuii Oh ups
and downs.
DO not fail to give our advertising col
umns a careful perusaf this week.
Our policemen have new caps, which
present very handsome appearance.
A school for teaching shorthand will
be opened in Winston at an early day.
A fre-alarm bell has recently been
placed at c. A. Hege's foundry in Salem.
Sheriff Boyer is now making his last
call for taxes. This means for you to pay
up.
p. II. Hanes & Co. made shipment of
tobacco on Monday, amounting to $4,000
pounds.
A new tailor-shop is being opened in
the Biting block by Mr.. Elliott, of No.-
folk, Va.
Mr.. Hough, the artist, has just finished
very fine crayon portrait of Mr.. w. A.
Whitaker.
The public roads are said to be in
very rough condition. This is hard on the
weary tramp.
Two thousand old deeds were flied for
record at the Register of Deed s office during
the month of December.
Colonel Frank Fries is improving his
lot on the corner of Summit Avenue and
Fifth street. in the Wect End
The report that Messrs. n. T. Wat
kins & Son would open branch store at
Kernersvile shortly is incorrect.
The interior of the old Wilson Hotel has
been re-modelled and much improved in
looks by Mr.. John Petree, the painter.
Two hundred and sixty-four marriage
licenses were issued during the year 1885.
This was not a good year for MARI ying,
either.
Mr.. I. L. Vaughn, the tobacco manu-
facturer, has gotten out very handsome
calendar. THE SENTINEL returns thanks
for copy.
There are now about 800 convicts at
] work on the C.AF. & Y. V. r. r. near Dali
ton OF this number only seven or eight
are not able to work.
Mr. J. c. Miller has formed a co-part-
nership with Messrs. Spaugh & Miller, con-
tractors and builders. The firm hereafter
will be styled Miller, Spaugh & Miller.
Mr.. CAL Conrad has in contemplation
the erection of fine residence on Summit
avenue, near Fifth street, during the coming
spring or summer. This part of town is rap
idly building up.
I--On TIE SENrIN Els first page will be
found the professional card ofNDrs. Wat
ktns & Conrad, dentists. They are skilled
experts in their profession and have been
recently increasing the facilities of their
| Office
We learn that Mr. Neal Hail. proprie-
tor of Halls Ferry, on the Yadkin river,
near Clemmonsville, came very near being
drowned one day the past week while cut
| ting Ice on the river so as to run his fiat
across. He sank twice before help reached
/ him.
-Messrs. Ryttenburg, of the Trade Pal
ace announce in the advertising columns
of The SENTINEI. this week a clearing out
room for their sp.ing stock. They offer a
fine opportunity to buy goods for lit lie
money.
-On last Tuesday night, the. 18th inst.
another attempt was made by some person
or persons to break into the s:loke-honse OF
Mr.J. G. Miller, on Liberty street, but as
nothing was found to be missing they were
supposed to have been frightened away b,
some cause or other.
George II. Glenn, who is well and fay
orably knewp to many of our eolore1 read
ers here, writes us frepl indianapolis, Ind.
that the negroes are pouring in from thu
South, and if the race here would take hi.
advice, he'd tell hem they had better stay
in the South, GepEge i. d warm friend o
The SENTINEL and says he is getting up
club which. will number twenty or more.
1.-THE tax-paying residents in the Yves
End respectfully call the attention of tn,
City Fathers 70 the impossible eonditi 0
the sidewalk on ihe Serfh side Of FIFTH
street, near Broad, AT this time il is sub
merged in mud and water and tlIe pedestrian
is foleed to take the middle Of the road,
where walking is equally as bad Such al
leye-sore is certainly no credit to the city.