The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-07-14
BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS.

BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS.
The Davis School will open Sep
TENDER Sth.
-Jailor Stockton reports only
fourteen boarders.
Miss Josie Rierson, of Walnut
Cove, rs visiting in the city.
The new Presbyterian church
in North Winston will soon be COM
pleted.
Mrs. Bette Gibson and children
passed throuuh the city Tuesday to
visit relatives in Yadkin county.
The Red Elephant tobacco works
shipped over eight thousand pounds
of the "Red Elephant" brand Thurs
day.
The foundation is being laid for
the Hospital building on Shallow
Ford street. Messrs. Miller Bros
have the contract.
"A Winston youth says that he
wants to remain small enough to
keep from work and large enough
not to get a whipping.
The market house proper is now
being covered with slate. Novem-
Der first is the date now fixed for the
completion of the building.
The members of the Forsyth Ri
femen are beginning to get interested
in the State encampment which
opens at Wrightsyille on August
9Th.
THE SENTINEL sympathizes with
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Crews in the
death of their little son which oc-
Cured Monday night; aged L year and
thirteen..days.
"A Miss Crater died in SalemMon-
day afternoon at the age of six
teen years. Her remains were in
tered at the Union Grove graveyard
Tuesday afternoon.
dot Zelno, the little aronaut
who made her first ascension in Win
ston, has returned to her home in
Charlotte. Whether she has return
ed to stay is not learned.
-Messrs Sink and Kannouse, mer-
chants of Salem. are erecting a very
store room south of
Salem at the junction of the South
Side and Main street car lines.
Mr.. g. W. Hinshaw finished
wheat Thursday. His crop
averaged "a bushels per acre. His
best yield was from three acres
which averaged 35 bushels.
The Elm Street Sunday School
will run an excursion to Mocksville
on Thursday, July 21st. The masonic
pic mic grounds have been secured for
the school to hold a pic mic on that
day.
The State Prohibit on conven.
ton will be held in Greensboro on
the Goth instant to nominate State
officers ard appoint electors for the
national ticket. This was learned
today.
Hon. F. NJ. Simmons, the new
chairman of the Democratic State
Committee is now in Raj
eigh making arrangements for the
of his headquarters in
that city.
The rededication of the Moravian
church in Kernersville Sunday was
attended by a large congregation.
Those who attended say that the
services were both interesting and
impressive.
Chairman Lindsay, of the State
Executive Committee of the Third
party, has called State convention
of the party to be held in Raleigh on
the 10Th instant for the purpose of
nominating State officers and cleo
tors.
The plans for the new Methodist
church to be Ell ected in East Winston
are now in the hands of the contrac-
tors who are making bids on same.
The building is to be handsome
structure and work will be common
ced on it at an early date.
Prof. J. A. Holmes, State Cecil
ogist, has just completed the organi-
cation of a party to make a tour
beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains to
continue the geological survey which
has been heretofore inaugurated in
that section of the State.
Rev. John M. Franklin, colored,
tells us that his denomination has
purchased a lot on<Old Town street
upon which they propose to erect a
church. They wish hecitizeDs of the
city to assist them in the amount OF
about $50 in doing same.
The ball game Saturday between
the color ed Winston and Kerners-
vile teams resulted in victory for
Kernersville, the score standing Ii
to 8. The Kernersville nine say
they propose to play Wlnston's best
club, the Giants, shortly.
The committee appointed by the
First Baptist church to secure q site
for the erection of a new house OF
worship have decided that the loca-
ton of the present building is as
good as can be selected, hence ar.
engagements will be made for the cree
ton of new church on the present
site.
Rev. Mr.. Albea was in our office
last week and tells us that the
Fourth of July of this year was the
coolest he had known since 1926. Il
might be thought from the fact thai
Brother Albea's memory goes bach
SO far that he was an old man. VIZ
have only to add that he has beer
old enough to vote for 81 years anG
has q very clear meaning now.