The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-09-08
STATE NEWS,
odds and Ends of News from all Over
the Tar Heel State.

A. f. King died in Oxford Friday.
Orange Presbytcry meets at Mel
bane Presbyterian church, September
18th.
Evangelist j. w. Lee is conducting
a revival at Harlowe in Eastern North
Carolina.
Alex. Ellington, of Panther Creek,
Gadkin county, has been nominated
for the Legislature.
Rev. Jas. Rennic has left oxford to
accept the pastorate of Il Louisville,
Ky, Presbyterian church.
John Crowell and Miss Fannie How
ell both from Albcrmarle, Stanly
county, were married Thursday.
Mrs, Elizabeth Long, widow of the
late Mr.. j. *. Long, died at Hender-
son Thursday after an illness of two
months.
At Wilmington Thursday evening
Mr.. Leopold Simon and Miss Carrie
Levy were married by Rabbi S. Mem
delsSohn.
Miss Susan, daughter of Frank
Mitchell, and Elisha, son of j. NJ.
Smith, were elarried last Thursday
at Harmony, n. &.
Rev. r. S. Arrowood, of Elmwood,
sent the Statesville Landmark an
Irish potato that weighs one pound
| and fifteen ounces.
Mrs. Nancy Witherspoon. wife of
Hiram Witherspoon, died Thursday
near Nelson. Durham county. She
was 10 years of age.
George T. Bowen, of Durham. and
| Miss Lula u. Reade, of Mt. TirZah,
were married at the latter place by
Rev. ID. L. Earnhardt.
Mrs. Lucy n. Hall, died at Flea
| Hill township, Cumberland county,
| Aug. 26, at the age Of 81 years. She
was for 10 years member of the Bap-
| tist church.
c. II Blackley, Il member of the Ok
| ford Lodge /. O. @. f., who had Just
| gone from that place to become an
| auctioneer in warehouse at Green
Vile, died Thursday.
DR.. A. G. McMannaway, late pastor
| of the Charlotte Baptist church, has
| gone to Hot Springs and Little Rock.
1t is understood that he has received
call to Little Rock.
III. M. Thompson, of Statesville, has
| gone to Chapel Hill to enter the Uni
vcrsity. He will assist Dr. Battle
with his history class and at the same
time take Il course in the University.
| In Edgecombe and Halifax counties
there is a prospect for a fair cotton
crop, a good peanut crop, and Il good
| corn crop. There will be more wheat
| Sowed this season there than usual.
One farmer in Edgecombe has lost
500 on his rice crop by reason of the
dry weather.
Some months ago DR.. Annie l.
Alexander in attempting to drive
| across the Richmond & DanvilIe Rail
road tracks at the Trade street pas
senger station in Charlotte was struck
by an engine and severely hurt. Her
right arm was permanently injured
She brought suit for 900 and yester-
day in the Superior Court she got
ST 800.
Rev. James Davidson Hall died at
his home near Belmont, CASTOR coun-
ty, on August "a. He was the oldest
member of the synod of the Presbyte-
rian church in North Carolina. being
nearly 90 years old. He graduated AT
Chapel Hill in 1923. He was the
father of Rev. DR.. w. L. Hall, OF
Lynchburg, Va.
The Oxford Day tells the story OF q
boy, Hayes, who finding an old man
named Dement, in his watermeloi
patch threw stone at the old man
hitting him on the back of the neck
Dement, died few days after from
his injuries. The boy first hallooed
at Dement, who was deaf and so didn't
hear the warning. Both parties lived
in Fishing Creek township, Granville
county.