The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-05-17
THE PIEDMONT SECTION.
ITEMS OF NEWS FROM NEAR by
COUNTIES.
Hsversack OF Happnings Gathered
From Various Sections In Piedmont
North aroIiua


Germ anton is to have Baptist Church
at an early date. 1t is to cost 81 500.
The Reidsville Rifles are on trade for
an armory to be built.
The completion of the G. F. & Y. V.
Railroad to Mt. Airy will be celebrated on
Wednesday, June Goth.
The Methodist Sunday School of Mt. Airy
will run excursion train to Greensboro
on or bout the 9TH of June.
Sheriff Daltsn, of Stokes, has made his
annual settlement with the State Treasurer
for the year 1887, paying in s3,O7s.45.
Col. James E. Boyd of the Greensboro
North State has been endorsed by the Gull
ford county Republicans for Governor.
1t is rumored that Hannibal Simpson,
Esq, will be a candidate for the Office of
sheriff of Rockingham county this year.
News comes from Rockingham county
that nearly all of the tobacco is sold, yet
there are some farmers who are still hold
ing their fine grades.
A correspondent says that 275 of Trinity
Colleges graduates have become orda inea
ministers of the gospel, while only 40 have
entered the profession of law and 20 of
medicine.
A Stokes county disttller uses SO much
concentrated I've in the manufacture of his
whiskey that he is afraid to drink it him
self, and he says one pint of it would kill
any man.
Several persons from the Northern part of
Stokes county attended the Guilford Battle
Ground celebration who had never ridden in
a railroad coach before, some of them old
gray-headed men.
An old lady was hauled to Stokesdale a
few days ago, in wagon, to see the cars.
She was 70-odd years of age and had never
seen train. She was a cripple and had to
walk on clutches.
The following municipal ticket was
elected in Mt. Airy last week. Mayor, Fl.
c. Brown; CONFERENCE.-The. H. Spar
ger, w. E. Patterson, R. T. Mutt, John L.
Worth and Anderson Creed.
The following persons compose the mu-
nicipal ticket elected at Germanton last
week: Mayor. E. Crews; Commission
ers-Dr. L. H. Hill, D c. Slate and Thos.
Leak; Constable-Jack Hill.
says the Davie Times "was dead thing.
The old rad-i-kill mayor and commissioners
were reelected. Only sixteen Democrats
voted, each one voting different ticket"
The south bound passenger train on the
r. sd. Saturday struck and killed an old
gentleman by the name of Smell, near High
Point. He was walking on the track when
struck, and was thrown as high as the tele-
graph poles.
The Grand Lodge 1. 0. o. F. of North
Carolina, which was in session at Greensboro
last week decide! TO build an Orphanage at
some point in this State to be known and
under the supervision of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.
The General Conference of the Metho-
dist Protestant Church is in session this
week at Adrian, Mich. President T. J.
Ogburn, of the North Carolina Conference,
together with thirteen other diyines from
this State are in attendance as delegates.
The commissioners of Rockingham have
ordered an election to be helo in Mayo
township and the town of Madison to vots
on subscription to the r. & S. R. r. The
election is ordered for the goth of June.
Stoneville will vote $4,000 and Madison
SIS, 900.
The matter of endowing Braxton era
ven professorship is now well in hand The
greater portion of the money will be given
by the Alumni. The amount to be raised
is S15,0 900 and the friends of the movement
claim that they will be able to do it before
next fall.
The county commissioners of Stokes
have ordered elections to be held in the
following townships for the people to say
whether or not Stokes shall have the Roam
oke & Southern Railroad: Beaver Island,
Sauratown, Snow Creek, and the town of
Walnut Cove.
The following were appointed list takers
for the several townships in Stokes county
for 1888. Beaver Island, NJ. T. Mitchell
Sauratown, Jacob Fulton; Meadows, J. F.
Hill; Quaker Gap, janet A. Leak; Peters
Creek, w. F. Campbell; Snow Creek, A. J.
Brown; Yadkin, J. c. Newsom
Rev. J. w. Pinnix has been on pleas
ant visit to his many friends in Caswell
county. He reports the fruit In that section
unhurt and crops looking well. He says
Caswell is favorable, SO far as he could
Judge. to the nomination of Mr.. J. c. Bux-
ton for Congress in this district. -Kerners-
rille News.
The radical ring bosses from Shady
Grove and Pennington townships held a
caucus Saturday in the counting room of
Squire P. NJ. Bailey's store and appoi nted
delegates to the State and Congressional
convention. 1t is reported that the bosses
want Sheriff Bailey to run for the Senate,
while three of them are red-hot for the
sherif's place.-Davie Times
The Davie Times means to be heard
Hear what its editor says: "The echoes
from the spring term of Davie court has
been heard. 1t says $500 cost for the tax
payers. There is something radically
wrong, and the taxpayers should look into
the matter and find out, if possible, why
Davie county under Republican officers
should cost more than under Democrats"
Railroad Matters.
A SENTINEL reporter drove out to the
railroad camp of the Wilkeshoro oytapa;or,