The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-04-18
AS SEEN BY OTHERS.
A Sentinel Man Hears Folks on the Out
side Talk of Winston.

side Talk of Winston.
The editor of Tue SENTINEL this
week met on the train two of the
most genial members of the State
press One was Mr. w G. Burkhead,
OF the n. G. Prohibitionist, the other
Col. L. L. Polk. of the progressive
Progressive Farmer.
We were talking of newspapers,
towns and industrial subjects and
The SENTINEL man was pleased at
the way they spoke of our town
Just as pretty girl likes to be told
that she is pretty, a loyal Winston
man likes to hear other people say
that his town is progressive one.
Bro. Burkhead said that Winston
was going to be a big town, probably
the biggest in the State.
Col. Polk said: You have got the
most go-ahead place in the State
What Winston needs is to fix her eye
on becoming q great manufacturing
centre. She should adopt that policy
and steadily pursueit. She ought to
encourage and aid not only factories
within her limits, but in the adjacent
section. What she wants to do is to
become the centre of great manu-.
featuring district. She has the eli
mate to attract settlers, the enter
prise, money and location and she
can easily, within the next five years
become the largest and the leading
town in North Carolina l look for
her to do it,
These things pleased THE SENTINEL
scribe. He knew these things were so
but he did not know they were so
widely known and acknowledged.
Coming on to Greensboro we over
heard Il stranger at the supper table
remark to another: "Winstonis the
most progressive and pushing town
III the State" We after wards found
out that the speaker was southern
manager for the Davis sewing ma
Chine, with headquarters both at
Greensboro and Charlotte.
Now these remarks are small things
in themselves, but they show that
che git" of this town is becoming
widely known and that people from
other towns have their eyes fixed on
her progress.
Fellow-citizens: We have done well
in the past. Let US increase our eff
forts and make the Winston of five
five years hence one of the greatest
commercial and manufacturing cen
tres in the whole South.
WHAT A MISSOURI HAS TO SAY OF WIN
STON.
4 correspondent of the Clinton
( Missouri Democrat, writing from
Winston, says:
81 am now in Winston, Forsyth
county, Il very business-like place.
and contains about 1000 inhabit-
ants, and there are about thirty-ive
or forty factories putting up tobacco,
and the proceeds amount to about
S3,500,00O. Beside, there is a large
cotton factory, which is doing an ex-
tensive business. There are also agri-
cultural works, Flaming mills, wagon
factories, iron works, and n good
many other industries; and taking it
all in all it is the liveliest town have
been in since | have been here. The
country around is very broken, but
is better country than l have been
in since | arrived. The land is better:
there is more enterprise among the
people; there is more taste in the get
up OF the houses and the roads are
better, and more interest taken in
the schools and school-houses. In
Salem stands the old female college
that was in existence before left the
State forty years ago and it is sup
piled with scholars from all parts of
the United States, and is now man
aged by the Moravians In connec
with the college they have a Sis
tiers and Widows home for the bene-
fit of those who belong to that sect.
The manufacture of tobacco is
brought to a very fine point, from
the fact that Il great deal more of it
is done by machinery than used to
be. Steam power is now used by
most of the manufactures and the
hydraulic press is used to prize the
tobacco.
Winston is great market for leaf
tobacco. | expect there is more of it
sold in this market than in any other
place in the State. 1t is brought here
packed in hogsheads and shipped all
over the country by the manufac
tories
l am drawing this letter out pretty
long; | will stop. We have set the
18th Of this month to turn our faces
to the setting sun, and if nothing
happens we will land home on the fol-
lowing Friday or Saturday.
r. 2. FEwEL