The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-06-04
HOME AND NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

The internal revenue collections
for May foots up SOL .S90.70.
Winston shipped 664,S45 net
pounds of manufactured tobacco
during May.
The average length of the days
this week is fourteen hours and
twentysix minutes.
The street sprinkler is on deck.
1t made its appearance Tuesday,
and 1t is doing good service as far as
it goes.
The Baptist Sunday school of
Raleigh has decided to run their
excursion to Winston-Salem on June
9th next.
The street committee is arrang-
ing to have Belgian blocks put down
on Third street, between Main and
Church streets.
The surveyors on the extension
of the Roanoke and Southern road
South from Winston-Salem, are now
at work near Concord.
The Madison News says that
considerable quantity of fine straw
berries have been shipped from that
place to Winston by the Misses Car
ter.
W. T. Spencer, of New Berne, has
rented store room in the Tise
block, Main street, and will open up
stock of notions, ETC., there In
few days.
The remains of Mrs. Virginia
Chambers, who died in Norfolk, Va,
Monday, passed through here Tues
day enroute for Wilkesboro, the old
home of the deceased, for interment.
Architect II. C. Linthicum is get
ting up the plans for some handsome
buildings to be erected at North
Wilkesboro by the Winston Develop
ment Company. An opera house,
bank and two stores are included in
the plans.
The Greensboro Record says that
Hon. James r. Bulla, of Lexington,
has in course of publication a rare
literary production which he styles
1.-THE Life and Adventures Of Jesse
Holmes, the FoolKiller''
The Baptist Sunday Schools of
Winston have appointed committees
to make the necessary arrangements
for the entertainment of the First
Baptist Sunday School OF Raleigh,
which will arrive here on the 9th
inst.
The Postoffie Department at
Washington has issued an order to
establish a railway mail service on
the Roanoke and Southern Railroad
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Mail is already being handled be-
tween Winston and Madison.
We are pleased to learn that
Col. Galloway, of Madison, who re-
ceived painful injuries a few weeks
ago by runaway horse, is improv-
ing rapidly, and expects to be
able to deliver the Alumni address
al the University next week.
Cards are out announcing the
marriage Of Mr.. Isaac Rosenstock,
of Danville, Va, to Miss Dora Rose,
of this city, the ceremony to be per-
formed by DR.. Kaiser, of Petersburg,
Va, at the residence of Mr.. S. Rosen-
bacher on the afternoon of June 10th.
The Graded School commission
ers held meeting last week and re-
elected all of the teachers for an
other term, with the exception of
Miss Ruth Lanier, who resigned her
position some time ago for the pur-
pose of taking thorough course at
the Boston Conservatory of Music
this fall.
The Asheville Citizen in speak
ing of those who attended the medi-
cal convention this week has the fol-
lowing to say of DIR. Bahnson: "Dr.
81. T. Bahnson, of Salem, is presi-
dent of the State Board of Health,
and an ex-president of the society,
and stands high in the profession
He is about 45 years Of age"
Mr.. Brown, of the firm of Glenn
Brown & Co., architects of Washing.
ton, D. c., is here with plans and
specifications for our new Market
House, which we learn have beer
adopted by the Board of Aldermen
with some modification. The plans
will be completed in the course of g
month and then as soon as material
can be gotten together work will be
commenced on the building.
The closing exercises of the Ker.
nersviile High School took place
Wednesday, 81. Quite large crowG
was present and the exercises wer,
very interesting. Mr.. Clement Man
ley delivered the annual address be
fore the graduating class, and it i.
said that he made most excellent
talk. Prof. A. II. White, principa
of the school, is to be congratulated
upon his excellent years work jus
come to a close.
Mr.. S. A. Ogburn, one of GU
successful tobacco manufacturers
has a novel advertisement for hi
''cannon ball' tobacco, which. b,
the way, is a very popular brand
Upon the top of his factory he ha
placed a cannon about five feet il
length; into this exhaust pipes fror
his engine passes, and at each ez
haust of the engine the steam pass
ing out of the cannon mouth, havin
the appearance of its being fred off
Part of a Bridge Washed Away,