The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-10-08
HONE AND NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS

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There are thirty-fve prisoners in
Jail.
There were twenty-eight mar
riage Licensees issued in Forsyth dur
ing September.
Principal Clewell reports an at
tendance now of nearly three hun
bred pupils at the Salem Female
Academy.
Work has been commenced on
section B Of the sewerage system on
Third street, near the r. & D pas
senger depot.
join w. Hayes, who has been
in the U. S. Surveying Corps for ten
wears, has located in the city and
opened Office.
1t is reported that Robinson's
circus will pitch it's tents South OF
Salem The show, it is understood,
will give Greensboro the go-by.
Three marriage licenses have
been issued since our last report !:
Peter Cotton to Chaine Thomas A.
G.. Newsome to Lille Lloyd; j. l..
Swain to Laura Snider.
Several of the Burk lots in West
Winston were sold at public auc-
ton at the court house Saturday
afternoon. They brought from five
to eight hundred dollars each.
Mr.. J. c. Conrad, who has just re-
turned from business trip to Yad-
kin county, reports the corn and to-
bacco crops in the sections he travel
ed as looking fine.
Chief of Police Thompson of Mt.
Airy brought white man named
John Sprinkle to Winston last week,
Sprinkle is wanted here upon the
charge of larceny.
H. 81 Harmon, editor Tobacco
Journal, has returned from Florence
s. c., where he purchased the first
pound of leaf tobacco sold on that
: market, Friday, for two dollars.
A few of our tobacco manufac-
lures are arranging to close opera
ton for the year. A number of them
will continue to work the weed until
the close of the year.
The Isrealites of Winston met at
o'clock Friday night at NJ. Lewis, resi-
dence and took up q collection for the
purpose of building Hebrew house of
worship. Moses Shapiro the Hebrew
Rabi is here.
j. E. Mickey has contracted to
furnish Robinson's circus with beef
during their stay in our city and
preparatory to filling the contract
has ordered large drove of fat cat
tie from Wilkes cOunty
Mrs. Irving Miller, of Salem, cele-
brated her fiftieth birthday Satur-
day. 4 number of relatives and
friends called. Mrs Miller was the
recipient of several useful and valua-
BILE presents.
MIR. W. F. Keith has purchased
large LOT at the southend of Spring
street. West Winston, upon which
he expects to have erected two resi-
dences at once. They will be occu
pied by himself and Mr.. T. N. Keith.
Sheriff IS. Gambell, of Allegheny
county, passed through Winston
last week with Willis Hendricks, u
prisoner who was convicted last week
at Allegheny court for burglary and
sentenced to three years and six
months in the State penitentiary.
Rev J. T. jenkins has returned
from Wilmington, where he has
been assisting the pastor of Brook
Ign Street Baptist church in a series
of meetings. He reports over one
hundred professions and fifty-thres
accessions to the church.
Mr.. W. F. Keith has about COM
pleted his part of the contract in
plastering the handsome new First
National Bank building. The walls
are hard finish and the contractors
and all who have seen the work pro-
nounce it very creditable indeed.
When a man is nosing around
seeking some excuse to find fault or
kick against some improvement, it
is never difficult for him to find
something. To be little more plain
we would say that just now we refer
to the few who want some excuse to
kick against new court house. If q
man is born cross-ways in this
world it is awful hard for him to get
straight, in fact if he ever does, he
puts on green goggles with cracked
glass in them.