The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-09-15
SALEM AND VICINITY.
"reminiscences of the Town From
1928 to the Present Time.

The following is a portion of the |
fourth paper which appeared in the
Salem Press today on the 'Reminis- |
censes of Salem and Vicinity" from
the pen of Augustus Fogle:
The next house is likewise noted.
Here Mr.. Christian Blum resided. In
1927 he founded the Weekly Cleaner, a
Peoples Press, and is the only paper
published in the place. The widely
popular Blums' Almanac, also begun
by him, and like the paper, carried on
later by his sons, L.. V. and E. Il.
Blum, has been published regularly
for 81 years, and both paper and AL
manac are so ermly grounded in the
affections of the people of the place,
that they could scarcely do without
them. In 1892 Messrs. Crist &
Keehln, employees of the establish
ment, purchased the whole business
and while removing it to the Belo
House, still carry it on in the good
old way.
Mr.. Samuel Shultz, a shoemaker,
lived next door. Then came the
Charles Bagge house built originally
son of Traugott Bagge, and removed
from Salem because he refused to con-
suit the lot in his marriage. He
| erected dwelling and storehOuse in
CharlestOwn, as the place south of
Salem was named after him. When
he later came back to town, the name
| was change dto Waughtown. To the
| known as Daddy Bagge." Being
| wealthy and kind-hearted, he took
upon himself the duty of conducting
| visitors to the school and about the
town, notifying the Principal when
| patrons arrived at the hotel, escort
| ing girls to and from the hotel when
| visited by parents and friends. His
! daughter, Miss Lucinda Bagge, had
all her fathers love for the school,
and after her teaching days were over,
| in spite of her crippled hands, she as
| sisted wherever she could. Mr.. Ru-
| dolph Crist occupied the house after
Mr.. Bagge, and later, Francis Meller,
confectioner and baker.
The John Vogler premises stand
next: He was a good man, active in
Sunday-school work, and in home
Virginia was founded by him and Mr..
V. n. Zevely. Mr.. Vogler was a jew
| eller, and had prosperous business.
| One of his daughters married Mr..
| Francis Fries, and the other Rev. e.
1 Senseman, who went as minister to
West Salem, Ill. There his wife died
in 1856, and in 1858 her remains were
| DIOuSut ny n. EOSle, ny private COL-
veyance and inferred in the Salem
graveyard.
Mr.. Vogler's son, E. A. Vogler, was
also a prominent man in church work.
He owned a store and later a shoe
factory. He also Quilt the large brick
store house, occupied this summer by
Lassiters Racket Store. The house
just south of this large brick store,
was originally the church store, OF
| SnOlyp iS
now kept there by d. r. Brendle.
A two-story frame building was
erected north of this one by the
Church, and used as temperance hall,
for the museum, ETC., and later DIR.
| Zevely kept the pOStOtfice and a drug
store on the first floor. The town
commissioners met up stairs for many
years. The house is now used for ten
ants, mostly widows.
The Widows House is another
Church institution, and was original
ly-built for Brothers House, in 1860
years after the founding of Salem
1t was also used for the Boys School
till they had regular establishment
An addition was built to the house in
1856. The dormitOry of this Brothers
House was in the south end of the
third floor, and one of them, walking
in his sleep, fell out of third story
window, and strange to say, he wa:
not injured. In digging cellar fol
their house the caylng in of the sol
killed one of the workmen, Kremser
; from his death a local ghost stor!
! arose, that of the ''little red man." al
he was called from the cap and rec
blouse which he wore. Like all ghost
ly legends they vanish before electric
lights and street railways.
.. The chapel of the Brothers occupied
, | the second floor of the south end; thi
; was later used as a Concert Hall, tn
only one which the place had for
long while. Here, too, the Salen
, Museum originated under the activ
: hands of Rev. f. r. Holland, J. w
: Friebele and others. They stuffe'
: birds, collected and exchanged curios
= tiles with missionaries, &c, and thu
= collected fair amount of treasures
The Museum, like Noah's weary dove
+ wandering up and down, till it a
), length found rest in it's present loca
tion. For a time it was in the oil
o parsonage, then in the house belo'
= the Home, then in the house abov
= the racket store, and lastly in tn
- Music Hall and Museum combined.
: The Brothers owned number {
2 useful industries:-a dairy, whic
. stood in the meadow just back of th
4 garden, was theirs; so, too, a slaugl
| Ter mouse, WHICH is SUll1 Ill eAlSUduC'
4 the old rock house where the Pete
\ son brothers have their cabinet sho]
h on ShallowfOrd street, while the
: Brewery was the the old yellow hous
= beyond Mr.. Edward Peterson's ne
20 residence. Besides this they had
;;S farm which lay farther west. III
10 Brothers house with its peculiar re;
ulationS ceased its separate eXiStenc
the brethren married as fast as the
could, and the house was used for sue
"a a variety of purposes that it became
- veritable allerhand's haus. Retire
misisters dwelt there; an infaI
1T school was kept within it's walls; I'll
r 7th room of Academy girls lived the
% in 1888 for a time. Gradually I'll
u widows of ministers and laymen pr
lG dominated. About 1S4S the last
u mates from the Widows House at tt
u corner of Main and Bank Street
III were moved down, and of late years
has become the Widows House.
s. Matthew Rights lived at the soul
ne west corner of Old Shallowford stree
9e in house until recently occupied
le his grandson George. Mr.. Rights h;
III two sons, ZachariaS and ConStantin
the latter talented scholarly ma
for some time teacher of the Boy
School. Old Mr.. Rights kept a cant
ly his widow after his death. The
)n daughter is Mrs. DR.. Keehln,
u Church street.
IN Then followed the houses befo
IN named as belonging to the Brother
OF viz: the Dairy, Slaughter-hOuSe al
er Brewery; the latter was occupied fOl
= time by old Mr.. Burkhead, who CO