The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-08-23
THE PIEDMONT SECTION.
ITEM OF NEWS FROM NEAR by
COIINTI IS.
a Ia. ersaek of Happenings Gathered
From various sections In Piedmont
North Caroline.


Oak Ridge institute e,pessi with 100 stu
dents.
Next session of Trinity College opens on
September 9th.
A new Methodist Protestant hnrch is
going up at Oak Ridge
Guilford Superior court convenes next
Monday, Judge Ship presiding.
Greensboro Female College opened yes
terday with heitering prospects for afull
school.
The next meeting OF the Baptist Beulah
Association wall be held at Madison in Au-
gust, 1889.
Thirty one hundred dollars was raised in
aid of Trinity College at the Shelby Dis.
frict Conference.
Pilot Mountain has five stores, Il school
house, postoffice, telegraph office. to-
bacco factory, a large tobacco warehouse and
printing office.
Mrs. j r. Dwiggins, living near Stokes
dale, Guilford county, has hen twelve
years old that is still doing active duty by
raising three broods of chicks year.
Hon. A. N. Waddell will address the
people Of East Bend and surrounding couu-
try at East Benz on Friday, Sept 2lst, 1888.
Hon ". s. Glenn will also be present and
speak.
Surveys are TO be made soon for the High
Point, Randleman, Asheboro & Southern
Railroad, and contracts are reported to be
forwarded shortly Mr.. R. p. Dicks is presi-
dent of the road.
The Reporter says that Northern capital
lists are negotiating Tor the purchase OF a site
near Danbnry for the establishment Of Il
manufacturing town. They want from five
to ten thousand acres of land.
The Patriot learns that Col. J. D. Glenn,
of Greensboro drew the prize lot at the
Piedmont Springs few days since, in the
distribution OF property recently purchased
by the Piedmont Hotel Company.
The Chronicle says that Wiikescounty has
the finest corn crops known for years. III
the administration is responsible for crops,
as the Republicans would have people be-
Commissioner Robinson ofthe State Agri
cultural Department, has appointed Mr.. J
Van Lindley, of Guilford. delegate to the
Farmers Congress Of the United States to be
held at Topeka, Kansas, November next.
The Prohihitionists of Yadkin county
viii hold their convention on Thursday
August Both, at YadkingIlle. An elocution-
AIRY contest for Demorest silver medal will
be held in connection with the convention.
Oak Ridge is soon to have communication
with the outside world 10y telegraph Il
will he run from Stokesdaie, four miles, and
is to be built by private enterprise, Stokes
dale paying one half and Oak Ridge the
other
Gov Scales has issued requisiiion to the
Governor of Virginia for Jesse Phillips and
Lindsay Green. two fugitives from Justice,
| charger with burglary the Bird inst. II
Davidson county They now in Jail in
DanvitIe, Va
The report of the secretary shows The
number of Sunday Schools in Rowan coln
ty as follows: Officers of schools, l42
teachers, 1868; scholars, 1876 addition o
scholars to church, POS; amount contribut
el by schools ss2l.7o, volumes in library
1856.
A correspondent of the Madison LeGde,
is in favor Of dividing Rockingham intc
two counties, having the county seat o
Rockingham at Reidsville and t,.e county
seat of Reid-whicll he proposes naming
the new county at Madison