The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-02-09
IvILKESBORO WAITS.
AIderman-Booms Whiskey Wickedne
The Debating Club, SC.

AIderman-Booms whiskey wickedness
The Debating Club, SC.
EDITOR SENTINEL: Wilkesboro is
said to be incorporated, at least the
town elected a ms yor and aldermen
last May. Whereupon the patres con-
script assessed and collected taxes for
the year '87, and the citizens not see-
ing any beneficial results flowing from
said collection are becoming uneasy.
The only Issue is Doodle alderman, or
surplus in the Treasury? If Doodle
alderman the town has no money to
prosecute them, and if a surplus how
are we to reduce it? The dilemma
is too complex to solve at once.
Verify this is day of Boon,s, worse
than Pelham's artillery. Why here's
Statesville, Salisbury, Winston, Dur
ham, Charlotte, and Wilkesboro, all
on a boom! Wilkes is not to be. left
behind either, but has good chances to
win the game, for she is making a
combination shot on finance and re
ligion. But some of our citizens got
into boom On the 9th of january,
that proved quite fatal, One Joe
Greene, a citizen of Watauga county,
shot one Martin Triplett, who died in
eighteen hours. There SEEING to be
conflict of testimony at the coroner's
inquest as to whether Greene killed
Tripplett in self defense or in cold
blood. Triplett's dying declaration
would convict Greene Of murder. But
the testimony of Greene's wife and
brother make it a justifiable homicide
Oh Greene's part. Whiskey and
jealousy are alleged to be the cause.
Either one is bad medicine in itself,
but mix thoroughly and shake up and
they are sure death.
Wilkesboro has had flourishing
debating society for the last four or
five months, and our sister town,
Statesville. wishing to keep abreast of
the times, has organized one. too. Now
the Wilkesboro society takes that as a
star, for it claims the privilege of dis
eussing and setting all great quest
ions like the jury system, capital pun
ishment, immigration, tariff &c, by
the right of priority And since the
| Statesville society has decided ques-
ton different from the Wilkes society,
and that so unceremoniously reversing
the decision of the contrary to
the Parliamentary Rules in such cases
made aud provided and against the
peace ami digoty of the State f
Wilkes; now Therefore, nine of
Wilkes best men have challenged
| Statesville's picked nine to meet them
on the Brushy mountains to decide the
cham pionship.
What has become of the w. & w. :?
How about the right OF way? You
tell your people that these Wilkes
men are lean hungry looking men,
".uch men are dangerous so if you
were to wake up some morning and
find half of your folks grinning at the
rising sun, you need not wonder.
Wilkes hasn't lynched anything late
ly and is kinder hungry. Bob Glenn
will be the first man too, for an old
fellow was telling me the other day
how he was going to get rich selling
chickens when the railroad reached
here. He said F.: q was posed to the
road till just the day fore the LEGION,
when Bob Glenn, at that ar spekin'
up at - took me cut an tole me
privately that in his town whar they
had railroad, he had paid 20 cents
apiece for chickens afore they got
clean outen the shell-an' he meant it
too" Fix up that right of way and
let her come United we stand di-
vided we ia'l WILKES.
WnkesboTo, Feb. 9th.