Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-02-04
NETGHBORHOOD NOTES.
ITEMS or NEWS FROM NEAR BIZ
NOOKS.

EaversacR ofHappenings Contributed by
Our Correspondents and Clipped
from Our Exchanges.
Reidsvsl!e has sixteen bar-rooins.
Greensboro is to have another bank.
High Point is signing for new county.
The stock law in Guilford went into effect
Monday.
The Executive Committee of the Prohiki-
ton party will meet in Greensboro on the
9th inst
The Enterprise is the name of a new pa
per to be started at Germanton.
The Neaos learns that Rev. C. L. Rights
of the Moravian Church at Kerneriville,
has resigned his PASTORAL charge.
The Ne,rs says that the assignment made
by R. B. Watkins & Co., last week, was the
first ever made in Kernersville.
The annual meeting of the Stockholders
of the Fayetteville and Winston Railroad
The High Point Enterprise tell us that
the amount Of money necessary to start
bank there has nearly all been subscribed
and the movement only needs little push
| ing to make it fact.
Rev R. T. Vann OF Wake Forest church,
and who assisted Pastor Brown of the Bap-
| fist Church at this place, in series of meet
ings last Spring, is conducting meeting in
| Reidsyiile this week.
One IF the editors of the Salisbury Herald
retired the other night with q piece of we'd
ding cake under his pillow, and dreamed
that every delinquent came into his Office
| and paid up. We trust your dream may
| be fully realized, brother.
Mr.. JOS. NJ. Scales, former citizen of
| Winston, but now of Reidsvile, and Miss
| Mollie Burton, were united in marriage at
| the residence Of the brides father, MFR. Jas.
| Burton, near Ruffin, On Jan. 27, by Rev.
| W. L. Wright. A large number of relatives
and friends Witnessed the ceremony.
The Statesville Landmark says that Miss
Mullie Watt, daughter of Mr.. II. ?. Watt,
of Chambersberg township, was IL years old
last Saturday, and Monday her father weigh
ed her She pulled down the scales at 226
pounds. When weighed last, in August or
! Sept. of last year, she pulled down 1877 lbs.
| So she made gain Of % lbs. in about five
months.
The Davidson Dispatch says there is a
lady living in Forsyth county by the name
| Of Chloe Stewart. who is over 100 years Of
age and for many years has had the family
to piaut her cotton patch which yields
from % to 20 pounds of lint cotton. She
picks the seed Out of this cotton with her
hands, then cards and spins it; finishing the
task during the wiuter.
DIR. E kerner, OF Kernersvills, informs
the Meas man of novel as well as a useful
invention at Conrad's Ferrv for tranporting
persons across the Yadl1in River. lie says
it consists Of stroug wire stretched across
the river and a grooved wheel on top from
which car hangs suspended There is a
pulley on one side of the river and wind
lass on the other around which an endes.
rope works and to which the car is fastened
4 gentleman living in Boone Township
Davidson county, last year raised $1,000
pounds of seed cotton on twelve acres o
land, without The use of pound Of com
meIcial fertilizer. He made his own fsrtiI
izers. This, We think, is worthy the consid
Grafton Of oar farmers, who, we're they te
make their own manu-es, would find it :
mnch better plan. The fact is when oul
farmers raise = crop Of tobacco it takes yer,
near all their hard years earnings to pa,
foy fertilizers.