The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-08-27
HOME AND NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

large number of tobacco fues to the
farmers.
Miss Bette C.Norman, of Brink
leyvllle, n. c., is visiting Miss Flora
Ellis in Salem.
The evening passenger train now
leaves here for Greensboro at. $40
instead of $50.
There is talk now of fitting up
Winston's base ball boys with Tip
top, lligh-toneG, beavers.
Blind Tom, the celebrated negro
musician, will appear at the Opera
House here next Tuesday night.
-Messrs. Styers & Loman have
contracted with Robt. Hitchcock for
the erection of q dwellingnear Shady
Mount.
A Stockholders meeting of the
Roanoke and Southern Railroad will
be held in Roanoke, Va, on Septem-
Der Sth.
A license was issued Saturday
Charles and Miss Mary Shoaf, of
Broadbay township.
Mr.. Calvin Woodland, of Wilson,
\. c., is in the city and will open up
a line of general merchandise in the
Tise block next week
Mrs. J. NJ. Dennis and sister, Miss
Horn, of Richmond, were here Satur-
day enroute..for Wilkesboro to spend
few days with relatives.
The Camp-meeting at Muirs'
Chapel closed Monday. During the
ten days services over fifty persons
made a profession of religion.
W A Whitaker. Esq, has deferred
the erection of his handsome tobacco
factory until next year on account
of thescarcity and high price ofbrick.
Father Julius, of st. Mary's School,
Belmont, n. c.. filed his appoint
ment at the Catholic Church here
Sunday sand returned home Monday
night.
d. D. Shelton has purchased the
two houses and lots of w. F. Keith,
on Fifth street, occupied by Wand
L. n. Keith. The consideration was
$1,000
--Messrs. P. II. Hanes & Co., are
considering the question of giving
their six hundred employees q free eek
cursion over the r. & S. road to
Martinsvillc.
Editor FL. E. Harmon, of the
Southern Tobacco Journal, has con-
tracted with 81. E. McIver for the
erection of ZOO residence on his
lot south OF Salem,
-Messrs. W. G.. and p. E. Hine, of
Indiana, after spending three weeks
among relatives and friends in the
county, left for their respective
homes Monday morning.
&C. r. Shultz, chief clerk B. NJ. S.,
examined the following postal clerks
here Saturday: H. A. Kelsey, COL.
on Observation-Disclosures road; ID. l..
Gray and W. E. Stultz on c. F. & Y.
V. road.
Mr.. ". b. Goodwin, of Ports
mouth, Va, has rented of Messrs.
Amis & Scott, the corner store in
the First National Bank building
and will open a wholesale grocery
and commission establishment.
Mrs. J. o. Hall has gone to Green's
horo to take charge of the Kings
Daughters Hospital. The Workman
says that she will inaugurate work
as soon as the furniture can be put
in place and other preliminaries adj
justed.
Mrs. Parrish, an experienced la
dy of Virginia, has been elected
matron at the Twin-City Hospital to
succeed Mrs. j. o. Hall, resigned.
Mrs. P. is expected to arrive here in
few days and take charge of her
work.
"A Mr.. Jackson, of Pennsylvania,
we learned to-day has charge of the
drilling at the coal mines at Walnut
Cove. The diamond drill was put to
work Tuesday. They expect to reach
depth of four or five hundred feet
in their experiment..
A very heavy rain storm passed
oyer the nothern portion of the coun-
ty Friday afternoon. We are in
formed that lightning struck tree
in the yard of Mr.. VIM. Grubbs in
Salem Chapel township which stun
ned the entire family.
September 18th is the date decid-
ed upon definitely for the open
ing of the Winston Graded Schools.
The teachers have been appointed
for both schools and will be announc-
ed in a day or two by Superintend-
ent Blair in these columns.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Jones died Friday
night at the residence of her daugh-
ter Mrs. j. A. Warner, on Cherry
street. aged 81 years. The funeral
took place Saturday afternoon from
the residence at $50 O'Clock, and
was conducted by Rev. w. C. Nor
man.
Mr.. Marshal D. Murray, who has
figured as the polite and genial clerk
at the Piedmont Springs Hotel thus
far in the season, passed through the
city this week en- route to Charleston,
S. c., where he assumes similar
position in a newly equipped hotel in
that city.
"A citizen of Forsyth named
Jones, who resides only a few miles
from the city, was in. Winston last
week. The only thing remarkable
about the man was his statement to
a friend that he was forty years of
age and had never been in the court
house but one time in his life.
Work on the new Hotel Zinzen-
derf is still progressing finely. Ono
IF the contractors informs us that
there are now about one hundred
and forty men at work on the build
ing. He is of the opinion that he