The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-07-26
FORSYTH COUNTY TOPICS.
DAsHEs HERE AND THERE BY OUR
REPORTER.

Tuesday night to work on the Wilkesboro
Extension.
The Main Street NJ. E. Sunday School
of Durham will excurt to Winston-Salem
on August 10Th.
The Second Street Baptist Sunday
place next Thursday.
About 500 was realized from the re-
cent excursion run to Winston by the Bap-
tist Sunday School of Durham.
q Mrs. +. R. Durham, mother of our
townsman, Mr. l. W. Durham, died at her
home in Charlotte last Friday afternoon.
-SiIas "Bud'') Riggs who was sentenced
to the penitentiary from Forsyth a few year.
ago has served out his time andSreturned to
Winston.
The Winston Normal, which has been
an unusually interesting session, closes to-
day. Over 800 normalites were enrolled
this term.
Sheriff Boyer left Monday morning
with John McAden, a white boy about II
or Is years of age, for the Insane Asylum
at Morganton.
The Salem Female Academy invited
the Normal School 10 partake of delight
full supper in the Academy Pleasure Grounds
yesterday evening.
Our Moravian friends contemplate the
erection of handsome church edifce on
the Reservation grounds Camp Pender)
some tims in the near future.
Rev w. C. Norman, of the Centenary
M. E. Church, has accepted the invitation
to deliver the address at the Masonic Pic
ME at Mocksville, on Thursday, August 23d.
The Salem Fire Company will give
Promenade Concert in the Salem Square
Saturday night. Refreshments of all kinds
will be served. You are invited to patron
ize the boys.
The District Conference of the Nj. E..
Church convened at Summerield, Guilford
county, yesterday, and will hold until to-
this city, is in attendance.
The contract for the section of the Ro-
anoke & Southern Railroad between Wins
ton and the C. F. & Y. V. r. r. has been
pleted by December 18th.
-Anotller heavy blast was made in the
big ut ON the Wilkeshoro extension Tues
day morning. Twenty five kegs of powder
were used. The company hope to get
through the cut By the latter part of August
Our Methodist friends hope to hold the
first service i'll their new church in the
northern part OF Winston next Sunday
week. The building is a handsome wooden
structure and reflects credit upon the people
who had it erected.
On returning from the hanging last
Thursday evening, colored woman was
run over by a horse near the colored Meth
odist Church. At first, it was thought that
her injuries would prove fatal, but at last
accounts she had about recovered.
Me W. Hinshaw returned Monday
from Chatham eo,nty. where he had been
to attend the burial OF his aged mother who
died in her I'D year The funeral services
were held at Flint Ridge Church Sunday
conducted by Rev. W. W. Amick.
MIR. Luther Reynolds who has beer
conducting boarding house in Winston fol
several months past has grown tired of the
"hash-house'' business and in consequences
thereof will move with his family back to
his farm next week.
The Centenary NJ. E. Sunday Schoo
are talking of an excursion to Pilot Noun
tain. A committee has been appointed te
secure rates and if the Railroad Compan,
furnish these reasonably and the friends o
the school give the enterprise the prope
support the excursion will he a certainty
Dalton Institute is acknowledged TO b
one OF the finest preparatory schools in III,
State The present principal, Prof. w. A
Flyni, land clever gentleman he is too
has had charge for Is years. The scIoo
is prosperous and we invite every reader
attention tn AN advertisement of the schoc
which appears elsewhere in this issue
"A reader OF THE SENTINEL writes j,
that there is another boy in Forsyth count
who has five fathers and mothers Twin,
John and Patty Sprinkle, Jesse and Luc
Long are great-grand parents; John an
Mary Long and John and Caroline Dou
are grand parents. Fetch and Matt Dou
are its father and mother and the child
name is Jasper. The most remarkable fea
ure is that all the given names of the me
begin with J.
The grandest Shooting Tournaner
ever held in the South will take place a
Morehead City ON the 31st inst. The al
nial meeting of the North Carolina Tobacco
Association also meets at Morehead on A,
gust 18th. From August 18th to the clio:
of the season special rates will be given
the Atlantic Hotel to all parties visitir
this fine summer resort. An advertisemeI
elsewhere in this issiie gives fuller partic,
lars Of the Atlantic.
"A number Of our people were up SUI
day night Witnessing the total eclipse of III
moon at midnight. About IL o'clock Il
shadow was seen TO begin creeping upon Il
northern edge of the moons disc and the
il gradually moved over its face till at
1t was totally obseured, only dark spot
blood red color being discerniable in i
heavens. The surface of the moon was /
tally obscured for an hour or more
"A white man by the name of w !
Cooper was arrested Saturday night charg,
with stealing broom from Messrs. Hinshs
& Aeiearis anl a pair of shoes and twel'
pocket knives from The Bee Hive Ca