The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-04-26
THE PIEDMONT SECTION.
ITEMS OF NEWS FROM NEAR by
COUNTIES.

| A 1sver..ck at .f4p,bnink< Git'isred
| From Various Sections In Piedmont
Forth Car olina.
Wilkes Superior Court next week
The hotels in Danbury will open in
June for pleasure seekers.
The Reporter thinks Stokes should have
an organized Board of Health.
There is not mile of grading to be
done before the railroad will reach Mt.
Airy.
A flock of ravens visited Danbury few
days ago and were source of considerable
attraction.
A bald eagle was killed near Reidsville
a few days ago which measured five feet
from tip to tip.
The annual meeting of the Cape Fear
& Yadkln Valley Railroad will be held in
Fayetteville, May 3rd.
The Democrats of Rockingham county
| will hold their county convention at Went
worth IN the 7th of May.
"A large beaver weighing sixty pounds,
was trapped on Mayo river, about four
| miles from Madison, last week.
A post-ofice has been established
| about four miles north of Wilkesboro, at
Brooks store, called Fair Plain.
The Stokes county Democratic Conven-
ton will be held in Danbury LIST Monday
in May, Joel Hill, Esq, chairman.
The South Yadkin Baptist Association
will hold its next meeting with Society
Church, Davie county, beginning to-mor-
| row.
The Enterprise says that it has taken
over $4,000 2-cent postage stamps to supply
| the citizens of High Point for the past
three months.
1t is reported that two Mormon evan
| gelists passed through Trinity few days
ago, on their way to Montg emery county
! to PROFOUND their doctrine
| The dwelling house of Ex- Sheriff VIM.
Gentry was destroyed by fire at Sauratown,
] Surry county, Monday The loss is estima-
| ted at So, 900 with no insurance.
Senator Daniel w. VOORHEES,, of In
| diana, will attend the celebration at the
Guiiford G. FL. Battle Ground on May 9Th .
He is one of the most eloquent men in the
| Senate.
"A Salisbury merchant took in a u S.
| five dollar bill few days ago, across the
back of which was written with ink: "This
is the last of 900; beware of wine and
| women"
The following municipal ticket has
been nominated by the citizens of High
Point: For mayor, Capt. w. H. Snow for
commissioners, J. I'll. Mills, E. H. C.
Field, John Fl. Tate and J. J. WEIGH.
The convention of the Women's Homo
and Foreign Missionary Society of the N.
G. Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church,
will meet in st. Johns Church, Salisbury
on the 1st and End of May Hext.
Gid WEIGH, the negro who assaulted
| Mr.. Frank Trogdon at the railroad celebra-
| tion at Germanton some time ago, was tried
at the Superior Court in Danbury lat week,
| and sentenced to FIVE months imprison-
ment.
The farmers aud mechanics of Surry
| county are called to meet at the Pilot ware
house, in Mt. Airy on Wednesday, May 9th,
for the purpose of organizing Fair a.soci-
| alton to hold County Fair at that place
some time during the month of September.
The commissioners Of Yadkin county
| have ordered the court house at Yadkinville
| to be rearranged and seated, much needed
| improvement. Mr.. J. J. Taylor has been
awarded the contract, and will receive 1915
| for the work.
There are two children, boy and
girl, living in Westfeld township, Surry
county, who have eight grand parents iv-
ing-three great-grandmothers and one
great-grandfather, two grandmothers and
| two grandfathers. They are the children of
James s. and V. V. Collins.
/ 1t is stated that man by the name of
Rigby walks'an carries the mail from Mt.
Airy to Fancy Gap and back again every
day except Sunday. The distance walked
the last four years, having travelled in that
time 26, 208 miles.
The following are the tax listers for
Davie county for the present year, in their
respective townships: Pennington, J. NJ.
johnson; Mocksville, W. F. McMahan
GAINESVILLE, m. Hendricks; Callahan,
| Scott Smoot; Fulton, J. Il. Williams; Sha-
! dy Grove, Fl. E. Robertson Jerusalem
| Amos Daniel.
-Fhe Rev. DR.. Smith informs the
Greensboro Workman that he has succeeded
in collecting funds from the Presbyterians
of that city to the amount of $3.50 for the
Union Theological Seminary, and that DR.
F. H. johnson collected while there about
$500 for the Evangei1stic fund of Orange
Presbytery.
The Greensbor, Morning NcDs is the
typographical won .er of the nineteenth cen
: fury. Mr.. N. 81. Callur, its editor
got int trouble last Saturday by drawing 1
pistol on one of the policemen of Greens
boro for which offence he was jailed. Mon
day he gave bail and at once pulled ~
stakes and moved himself and paper t.
Reidsv lille.
Sunday school Conference.
The District Sunday School Couferenc
! for the Mt. Airy District, NJ. E. Churcl
: South will convene in Wilkesboro Thurs
day. Nav 10th. and hold 8 DAYS. Their