The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-03-26
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
HAPPENINGS WITHIN HER BORDERS
SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE.
Newsy Notes Carefully Clipped, Quilted
and geographically Packed Into Col

factory at Reidsville.
Wilmington votes on improvement
bond issues the 26th.
Colored candidates for Wilmington
collectorship multiplying.
Morganton insists upon making
her fair a big success this fall.
Railroad Commission has office in
Agricultural Building, Raleigh.
Webster blue back speller, only
book used in a Stanly county school.
Stanly boasts of a teacher who
never went to school a dayi in his lite.
Moore county aspires to the lead
ing fruit growing county of the South.
Standard Oil head officials inspect
ed their Charlotte depot and offices.
Pitt county formers still hold a
large portion of last years cotton
crop.
Many cases of pneumonia reported
in the neighhorhood of Zeb, Cabar-
rus.
Managing board wants to rebuild
White Hall Seminary, Cabarrus, OF
brick.
Melvin Marsh, Salisbury, has a
frog that has been in captivity 10
years.
Wilmington occupies her magnifi-
cent new post-office, the middle OF
April.
There are more than fifty appli-
cants for clerk to the railroad COM
mission.
Rowan county roads are said to be
in better condition than the streets
of Salisbury.
Alliance lecturer Ben Terrell is en-
Enthusiastically received in the Pee
Dee country.
Arrangemt nts completed for a
medical department at Durham
Trinity College.
Col. John C. Upton has now edito-
rial management of the Kings
Mountain News.
A plug of tobacco goes as a pre-
MUM with each pint of Stokes oil of
corn, at Germanton.
Richmond and Danville r. R. Co.
pays out $4,000 monthly to en-
ployees at Salisbury.
Large mail boxes for merchandise
packages are to be put up in various
districts of Wilmington.
Ernest Bender, a fish buyer, was
upset in his boat, outside, near New
River Inlet and drowned.
Dunavant Cotton Mills, Morgan
ton, have put in a new hundred lamp
Edison electric light plant.
General complaint throughout the
State that railroads are not deliver
ing mails on schedule time.
Concord is taking a running pri-
mary vote to ascertain choice for
mayor, polls open two weeks.
Contract for painting Davidson
county court house has been awarded
by the county commissioners.
Carpet baggers say North Carolina
will send q Harrison delegation to
the next national convention.
Mrs. ]. C. Clark, wife of Richmond
and Danville official, Charlotte, died
from an overdose of morphine
j. Van Lindley buys 100 acres OF
land in Moore county and will set
out $4,000 fruit trees this year.
Vanderbilt will spend a million q
year building his Asheville castle,
taking ten years to complete it.
w. R. Odell, Concord, elected hon.
orary member Academy Political
and Social Science, Philadelphia.
La Grange, Lenoir. experienced ef
fects of the fag end of a cyclone Sat
urday night, but no fatal damage.
A. Y. Rash and Alice Templeton
imprisoned in Wilkes Jail for 8 and
months respectively, have married
Little if any damage by the cold
thus far to early vegetables and fruit
along the coast regions of our State
The Haw Bud Farmers Allianc,
cornet band will play for the public
Easter Monday on Sauratown noun
tain.
Knitting mills at various eastern
points in che State are pronounced
among the most profitable indus
tries.
Mrs. M. A. Smith, Montgomery
sold her old Nall gold mine for $13,
600 to the Moratock Mining Com
pany.
New Hanover, the smallest count,
of the State. has a population of 81
O26, and increased only 1850 in tel
years.
| Union School, Wilmington. recent,
burned out, resumes in building
temporarily secured, pending the re
building.
i Farmers organized a district al
lance at Fayetteville embracing al
the counties of the third congress
iional district.
! Wilmingtonis epldemically bicyc
led, and they wheel it over the shell
road to Wrightsville in four minutes
seven miles.
Charlotte is not q slow town, bu
she won't have fast driving on tn
streets. Reckless spinners pay 8
for their fun.
4 Cabarrus Fair Association AZ pric
of admission to next exhibitions q
las cents; and time 18th, 10th an
17tn Semptember.