The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-01-25
AROUND THE TWIN-CITY
CURRENT LOCAL EVENTS OF THE
DAY BRIEFLY TOLD.
Bits of Facts and Gossip Gathered
by Sentinel Representatives. Social
and General News.

Mr.. Theo kimmel has been ap-
! pointed postmaster at Huion, this
county.
Mrs Jane Sutherland. mother of
| Mrs Walter Jones, Of Salem, died in
Henderson.
Postmaster Davis, of Walnut
Cove, is cOnvalcscing from serious
attack of pneumonia.
A license has been issued for the
marriage of Miss Sallie E. Stauber, of
/ Bethania, to Mr.. S. S. Flynt, of Rural
Hall.
Geo P. Pell, late of the Mt. Airy
News, has accepted the position of
prOof-reader in the Government Print
ing Office.
News reaches here of the serious
illness of Col. David Bower, of Cald-
well county, father Of Congressman
W. III. Bower.
/ &C A Hege shipped three of his
coffee hullers to New Mexico last
week. He will ship one to South
America this week.
The Gypsies who were exhibiting
| their three bears on the streets today,
| had their license taken from them
/ and made to leave town.
1t comes direct to The SENTINEL
| that Col KeOgh, father of Mrs E L
Gilmer, of Greensboro, endorses the
action Of Mr. Gilmer in shooting Hol-
: land.
| 1T is understood that Capt. Gill
+, mer, Of Greensboro, has instituted a
| suit for divorce from his wife, and
| that counsel has been retained on
! both sides.
Mrs. Rev. J. T.. Michaux, died in
| Greensboro Jan. 18th, after an illness
of ON tIn ua6 hII. har nd
has the sympathy of his many friends
| in Winston.
Licenses have been issued for the
| following marriages.: E Brinkley to
Addie E Bolen, of Panther Creek; VIM
Crews, of Winston, to Hennie Gillem,
of Joliet, n G.
The marriage of Mr. F A McCul-
lock. of RadfOrd, Va, and Miss Laura
A Martin, of Dcllaplane, Wilkes
county, was celebrated at the home of
the brides parents.
"A postal card to THE SENTINEL
from Madison says that a feed barn,
tool house and granary, belonging to
Mr. Fleming Goolsby, were destroyed
by fire few nights ago.
The City Editor is the recipient
of something better than a dead
beat 1t is red beet and weighs
over four pounds 1t was grown by
Mr. James johnson, Of Winston.
-Messrs. Pitts & Mcknight have
been awarded tie contract to erect
the new building at the home for the
aged and int1rm. 1t will be 90X2O
feet.
Mr. G A McGalliard, of this city,
has been awarded the contract to
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grave OF Mrs Crawford, wife of Mr. d
Crawford, at Friedburg, Davidson
county
The Winston tobacco manufact-
urers did a hustling business last week.
Their shipments aggregated 266, 9583
pounds. The manufacturers of Dan
vile during the same week shipped
l61 952 pounds.
AS an Indication new of life in
business or as an evidence of an antici-
pated revival, the drummer trade has
greatly Increased the past few weeks.
Winston-Salem is swarming with
knights of the grip.
The large new flour mills at Glib
sonville, GuIlford county, were burned
few nights ago. There was about
81 900 worth of grain burned in the
building. There was about So, 900 in
SuraLce on the DullQlng.
THE SENTINEL is in receipt of a
communication from Salem Chapel
regarding Winston's municipal cleo
tiOn. 1t is signed Justice" Ii the
writer will send his name to this Office
his letter will be published.
Mr. A B Paul was, on Saturday,
reelected by the directors of the Y III
G A to serve as General Secretary of
the Association for a period of six
months-to Sept LIST, the Board ac-
cepting his own proposition.
Licenses have been issued for the
following marriages.: A L Swain, of
White Cloud, Kansas, to Miss +
league, of Abbott's Creek township;
John I'll Blackwell, of Reidsville, TO
Miss S A Shipwash, of Cutler.
A thief lifted a pet turkey from
the front yard of Mr.. Jesse Riggs
several days ago. One Of the neigh
bors saw negro running up street
with the fowl under one arm but did
not suspect that he was thief.
Mrs W f Snipes while overseeing
the cutting of some sausage, got
her hand too close to the knives, and
received a severe cut, nearly taking
her fingers off. 1t is thought, how
ever, that the fingers can be saved.
The Knight OF Pythias Lodge No.
6, of Salem, has just instituted a sec
tion of the insurance endowment rank
with G. A. BooZer- as secretary and
treasurer. About SIT, 900 in policies
| has already been taken by members.
John Beard, Leroy Tise and Jack
| Hill went hunting up in Stokes coun
ty Thursday. They bagged fine COB
Ter weighing II pounds and 10 ounces.
| They say that John crippled him
while Leroy and Jack ran him down.
The Standard Music Company has
| just issued list of parties in Win
ston-Salem to whom they have sold
| pianos and organs during the past
four years. The list comprises about
POS names of prominent citizens of
the two towns.
| The body of Early Wall, the other
one of the young men drowned in the
| Yadkin river, was found last
| week by party of searchers.
Wallis body was about Is feet from
! the place where the body of Broadway
was recoyered.
The West End Methodist Sunday
School was inaugurated Sunday
with good attendance. The build
ing, which is at the corner of Shallow
Ford street and BIookstown avenue,
has been painted and fitted up foI
religious services.
Mr.. Charlie Steiner died Sunday
| afternoon of pneumonia at his home
on Cherry street. The deceased was
go years OF age and has been for sever
| a lad 1utf nj